puts the punk in punctuation

a semicolon in every pot

[zillanovikov]

Surviving under late stage capitalism is hard, especially when you're out of spoons and you're lucky if you have a plastic knife. We're here to help. 

The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die is a community-built, vegetarian/vegan guide to getting food in your facehole when you're suffering from depression. Or other mental illnesses or physical illnesses or *waves hand generally at the state of the world* anything else. 

We've made it free on our website because life sucks enough without having to give Jeff Bezos money, but we also do have a paperback copy available for sale over there too, since we also need to eat.

https://nightbeatseu.ca/the-sad-bastard-cookbook/

[zillanovikov]

"This hell on earth killed the women and broke the men."

Book Report Corner

[zillanovikov]

Raised in the flat prairie province of Alberta, when I saw the vast mountain ranges from high above, it made me wonder what could be hidden inside, lost in time.

Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview

[zillanovikov]

After that cooling-off time, remind yourself of your original inspiration. Write a love letter to your draft.

Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview

[zillanovikov]

Cold Blooded is a Self-Published Science Fiction Competition semi-finalist!

Cold Blooded by Rohan O’Duill has made it into the Semi-finals (last 10) of the Self Publishing Science Fiction Competition for 2026. This year’s event is adjudicated by 5 groups of volunteer judges and the winners will be announced in September. The full list of books still in contention can be found here.

Cold Blooded is a Self-Published Science Fiction Competition semi-finalist!

[zillanovikov]

Not all houses are haunted by the dead.

Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview

[zillanovikov]

Song of Achilles as a “cheesy mantitty romance cover” was suggested by Magpie.

Wrong Genre Covers

[zillanovikov]

Found’s collection of eight short stories brings a twist to retelling fairytales from different points of view, such as the witch that kept Rapunzel in a tower, the titular Juniper Tree, and the hunter that refused to kill Snow White.

Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview

[zillanovikov]

Book Report Corner

by Rachel A. Rosen The release of a new Nick Mamatas book is always cause for celebration in my little corner of the world—his cynical, scathing, and brutally funny works always bring some new genre-bending surprises to the table. Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest is no exception. A clever cyberpunk reimagining of The Tempest (yes, that one) for our age of oligarchy, Kalivas! leans hard into the…

Book Report Corner

[zillanovikov]

When she’s around, soups boil over and flowers catch fire, and one night in her sleep she unwittingly turns her house around.

Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview

[zillanovikov]

Rachel reads at the Canadian Fiction Fest!

Come hear Rachel read as part of Canada Fiction Fest—whether you’re in Canada or not! To register for this or any of the other great panels, click here!

Rachel reads at the Canadian Fiction Fest!

[zillanovikov]

My characters lived through three wars, the influenza pandemic, the Winnipeg General Strike and, later, the Winnipeg flood, they lived through the untimely deaths of family members, including the death by suicide of a favourite sister. All this and they still kept their religion.  I expect they would ask me why I lost mine.

Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview

[oliviawebsite]

you have to be able to defend people who are receiving unjust treatment even if they annoy you even if you personally find them extremely annoying you still have to be able to stand up and say "well thats fucked up"

[pusheenthenerdcat]

the moral willpower required for "i hate their guts but my personal ethical standard is no xyz and i cannot set the precedent of making an exception for them" is imennse but important work

[ashenmind]

there’s definitely a gulf between someone who knows how to play chess and someone who plays chess, but it’s nothing compared to scrabble

[ashenmind]

[ashenmind]

specifically, “uwu” is being added to the international english scrabble dictionary, which is apparently a big deal because uuw is a terrible tile combination otherwise

[thedankmemes]

[thespacesay]

ID: a tweet by @bovibaee. to this day my mom is like “i dont think u have adhd, i think u just gotta focus a little.” i understand your honda civic brain can start on command mother, but i have a unicycle for a frontal lobe, and the devil rides its pedals / end ID

[the-east-art]

Useful image for when your internet friends have rain in their cities and you don’t

[the-east-art]

This is one of the best posts I’ve ever made. It’s just people talking about wanting rain. Or who have too much rain and want other to have their rain.

[joshuaorrizonte]

NGL if this hellsite is required to take my government-issued ID to let me use it, I'll be giving out my cell number and wishing those who stick with it well. I've had my identity stolen and I'm not doing it again, amongst the other rancid issues that such a thing results in.

[manorofshepard]

every social media site looks like its gonna be doing it

[pb-dot]

If that's how it turns out, I want to congratulate Social Media for finally getting me to stop being on social media. Congratulations, you gormless corpo fucks, you did what therapy and self-respect could not.

[manorofshepard]

When I was in Turkey, to access the internet over there you have to give your govermnment ID/ e.g passport for anything and everything, to access the entire thing. it was scary

and now the uk is following in their footsteps

[pb-dot]

Yeah. Norway too is inching in that direction. Well, it's still contained to talk about restricting SoMe access for Under 16s for now, but I do not trust them to not start creeping towards full access control. It's just a too tempting thing to legislate towards for politicians with authoritarian leanings and no real technical understanding to speak of.