https://www.metafilter.com/ The past 24 hours of MetaFilter Sat, 31 Oct 2026 02:48:48 GMT Sat, 31 Oct 2026 02:48:48 GMT en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Laszlovania (trailer). Join Laszlo Cravensworth as he meets old friends, conquers evil forces, and attempts to skirt responsibility at every turn! Help Cravensworth fight one final time through the vampire-iest place on earth: Staten Island!]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215012/Thats-soliloquy-you-pile tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215012 Sat, 31 Oct 2026 02:48:48 GMT BungaDunga game laszlo whatWeDoInTheShadows https://www.metafilter.com/215012/Thats-soliloquy-you-pile/rss Our Wars Have Ended by the team that brought us I Am in Eskew and The Silt Verses.

Stories with LGBTQ characters and elements are identified when possible. Podcasts with frequent or severe content warnings are noted as are those which provide transcripts. All the podcasts are accessible via most podcast apps and aggregators. Shows are identified as: • audio drama – stories with continuing plots and casts, either open- or closed-ended • anthology – stand-alone stories with no continuity • anthology with frame – stand-alone stories with some kind of continuity that ties the series together but (usually) does not affect the stories The Accursed (Anthology with Frame) Someone begins leaving ghost stories for me inside of my little library. These creepy tales come together to tell of the accursed and haunted life of a woman named Hazel. However, when the stories begin to hit a little to close to home, I know it's time to figure out who is leaving and why. Frequency: Weekly when releasing Length: 20-30 minutes Tone: Ghosts, folk magic, and curses LGBTQ: little to none One season (15 episodes; ongoing) Website Anoraks (Audio Drama) Hywel and Rhian are regulars on a forgotten rural train platform. They bring tea, biscuits, and an agreement never to interfere. Whatever happens, they watch. A woman digs beside the tracks. A chase ends in silence. A handbag contains the wrong thing. The signal box wakes up. The crows gather. And still, Hywel and Rhian stay put.As incidents repeat and patterns emerge, the station begins to feel less like a place and more like a system — one that knows who is watching. Rhian's calm hints at understanding. Hywel's certainty unravels. And when a timetable appears listing events that haven't happened yet, it becomes clear that observation may come at a cost. Note: The entire run is about an hour, and, unfortunately, the RSS feed does not put the episodes in the right order, so you are constantly selecting the next episode. Also, there's is a children's podcast called Anorak, so don't get that one by mistake. Length: 2-5 minutes Tone: A bit of ghostliness, a bit of Beckett LGBTQ: none Three seasons (18 episodes; completed) Apparently, no website Back of Bourke (Audio Drama) Siblings Michael and Alice investigate a mystery: a vintage Australian television show called Back of Bourke that many remember, but no one can prove existed. With only a VHS tape containing the show's opening sequence and fragmented childhood memories, they dive into online forums, cryptic web archives, and testimonies from amnesiac fans. Join as they search for evidence of their great aunt's involvement with the show, uncover threatening emails, and a spooky conspiracy that seems to reach from the outback town of Bourke. The story reaches a conclusion of sorts, but it may continue. Frequency: Weekly when releasing Length: 15-50 minutes Tone: Analog horror LGBTQ: a lesbian relationship is central to the history One season (7 episodes + supplements; ongoing?) Website Black Sheep Shipping (Anthology) Warning, If you're reading this label, this was meant for you. Black Sheep Shipping is a weekly horror anthology audio drama podcast releasing Fridays. The show is made with a diverse multinational cast of voice actors. No part of this production holds any place for hate. It is a true anthology podcast with each episode having a different setting and tone. While they claim to be weekly, they have slowed down dramatically. Frequency: Irregular; mostly monthly Length: 20-40 minutes Tone: Varied, tends to be a little gory LGBTQ: a lesbian relationship is central to the history One season (23 episodes; ongoing?) Website Brittlebone (Audio Drama) This show has a somewhat odd set up. It is being released by PQRL Studios, who received a cryptic package containing a thumb drive with 25 audio episodes of "Brittlebone, OH," a podcast mysteriously removed from the internet in 2021. In the podcast, Chase Sinclair, a resident of the small city of Brittlebone, OH, discusses the legends and paranormal rumors of his small town, centering on a murder-suicide that Chance happened to overhear as a child. The studio crew eventually decided to release it as a work of fiction, since they can find no evidence that Chase or Brittlebone exist. The RSS feed is a little messed up, and the episodes are posted in reverse order, which I guess is appropriate for a ghost podcast. The first 10 episodes are available on RSS, 3 more can be listened to on YouTube; it is unclear if it is continuing. Frequency: The first 10 episodes were released in late September and early October. Length: 25-35 minutes Tone: true crime and creepy pasta LGBTQ: none One season (10 episodes; ongoing?) Website (although it's only a link to their other social media and YouTube. Buckaroos of the Old West (Audio Drama) It's gay cowboys fighting monsters in the old west. Welcome to the American west, and it's wilder than you've been told. Out here, beyond the edge of civilization, things don't like to follow the rules. But there's a group of people doing their best to make the place safe for the simple, law abiding folk that are coming from the east in droves. Archibald and JT meet by chance in a small town and quickly find themselves fighting for their lives. The tone is fairly light and hammy but the show doesn't outstay its welcome. Length: 10-20 minutes Tone: Weird West LGBTQ: Gay main characters One season (5 episodes) Website Conversations with Ghosts (Anthology with Frame) Conversations with Ghosts is a new fiction podcast from the creators of Archive 81. Each episode is an interview with a different spirit, in which a cemetery's mausoleum attendant attempts to convince the ghost to pass on. As the season goes on, the framing story develops, although they are clearly in no hurry to get there. Frequency: Weekly when releasing Length: 20-30 minutes Tone: Gentle and mournful conversations about a ghost's life and afterlife LGBTQ: some queer characters One season (17 episodes; ongoing) Website Dead Archology (Audio Drama) This is more of a serial novel read by the author than an audio drama. The setting is a collapsing earth where technologically advanced cities are separated by wasteland full of desperate communities trying to survive. The setting is science fiction (if you don't look too hard at the science) with a lot of horror-adjacent imagery. The narrative mostly follows two people on the run – a researcher who has stolen a possible self-aware AI and a criminal fleeing a genetically-advanced society pursued by an appalling assassin. The future is mostly pretty grubby and unsafe. The series is weirdly numbered, alternating episode, 1, 1.5, 2, etc for no evident reason. Season 2 is planned but is overdue. Frequency: Every 2-3 weeks when releasing Length: 25-35 minutes Tone: Mid-apocalypse science fantasy LGBTQ: none One season (10 episodes; ongoing) Website Eerie Street (Anthology) Prepare yourself for Eerie Street, a new six-episode podcast by Matriark and Queensland Theatre. Join young writers from across regional Queensland for a series of uniquely Australian horror stories. All the stories are based on real locations and tap into the horror that exists on the fringes of our ordinary lives; old hospitals, industrial beaches, suburban swimming pools and abandoned bowling alleys are just some of the places we'll be visiting. Each episode has several short stories, read by their young authors. Frequency: Every 2-3 weerks when releasing Length: 10-20 minutes Tone: Varied LGBTQ: none specific Two seasons (6 episodes; ongoing?) Website The Ferry (Audio Drama) 62 people boarded the Shenandoah ferry bound for Block Island, RI. Only one returned. Told through recovered recordings, witness accounts, and the last broadcasts of a small-town radio host, The Ferry is part supernatural mystery, part sci-fi audio thriller, and 100% committed to making you second-guess the water. Length: 20-40 minutes Tone: Marine horror and eerie happenings; conspiracy LGBTQ: none Complete story (10 episodes) Apparently, no website, episodes are also on YouTube Hollow Disciple (Audio Drama) In the vast abyss of dying stars lurks a forsaken vessel. Silent and still. Stumbling upon it, the scavenger crew of The Elpis think they've hit the jackpot, but when the scouting party stops responding, crew member Lars, with Rosa on back up, are forced to follow into a ship that grows stranger the longer they explore. CW: lots of panicked back and forth over the radio (I find it anxiety-inducing). Transcripts available. Frequency: monthly Length: 20-35 minutes Tone: Space horror; haunted house, but it's a starship LGBTQ: none significant One season (14 episodes; ongoing) Website The Lion and the Adder (Audio Drama) This new offering from the group that created Monstrous Agonies follows Robin Sylvester, gadabout demonologist, and consulting psychic, and Evelyn "Bash" Sebastian, as they find time between gin martinis to help DI Nicholas Hawthorn of Scotland Yard to solve the most magical crimes 1920s London has to offer. The episodes have gorgeous artwork. Transcripts available. Frequency: Weekly Length: 30-35 minutes Tone: Early 20th C demonology police procedural LGBTQ: queer main characters One season (5 episodes + supplements; ongoing) Website Monarch (Audio Drama) When Hallie Halprin - trail name Monarch - sets off to hike the Continental Divide Trail, she's doggedly determined to go alone. While the people who know her best express concern, Monarch is unfazed. She has a plan to interview people for an audio project about supernatural encounters, a catalogue of campfire stories (no reason! she's just interested!). The perils Monarch encounters on her five-month journey, real and imagined, mirror her complicated, optimistic, and doomed attempt to use adventure as a way to be reborn. CW: this is the story of a solitary woman hiking; the threat of sexual violence comes up often. Length: 30-35 minutes Tone: Ghost stories, memories, and a lot of walking LGBTQ: none Complete story (13 episodes + supplements) Website My Grandfather's Ghosts (Anthology with Frame) My grandfather told me these stories when I was a child—stories about the place near the river where he grew up. He never wrote them down. He warned me not to repeat them. Some ghosts leave. Some stay. Some are only recognized too late. Listen with the lights low. These stories were never meant to be rushed. A nameless narrator tells stories about the house he has inherited. There is some progression and development, but it's mostly the stories. No transcripts, but it appears to be available as a print book. Length: 20-30 minutes Tone: Dreamy haunted house LGBTQ: none Complete story (10 episodes) Apparently, no website Our Wars Have Ended (Audio Drama) Twenty years ago, the Kindly Ancestors rose from their graves to reconquer the lands of Old Cyshane. Today, an endless multitude of ancient kings and queens squabble and bicker for cultural supremacy. Labouring corpse-technology has swallowed up agriculture and industry. Dead-divers descend into the netherworld, searching for answers. Even as progress rolls relentlessly onwards, all of us remain helplessly bound to the past. What will it take to stop looking back? An epic, rotten-hearted weird-fantasy series from the creators of The Silt Verses and I Am In Eskew. Transcripts available. Frequency: Approximately every 3 weeks Length: 50-60 minutes Tone: Living people conspiring in a country ruled by the squabbling dead LGBTQ: offhand references One season (8 episodes; ongoing) Website Subterraneans Podcast (Anthology) Subterraneans is a podcast about London's hidden history. It's about the forgotten spaces and the monsters which live beneath the capital. It's about smuggling and kind spirits and apocalypse bunkers and the Roman empire and buried rivers and evil and drowning alone in a secret tunnel beneath Aldgate. It's a personal story. The schedule is weird; the creator mostly makes music, but releases 5 fiction episodes once a year, starting in the late fall. Frequency: Biweekly when releasing Length: 20-55 minutes Tone: Varied, but always about London LGBTQ: rarely Nine seasons (45 episodes; ongoing) Apparently, no website Tonight's Terror (Anthology) Settle in and let these tales of horror and unease keep you company as you listen in the dark. Each episode is written and narrated by C.S. Austin, blending real-life terrors drawn from history and legend with original gothic stories born of imagination. This is not as assured as Knifepoint Horror, but is trying to mine the same territory of standalone stories of people whose lives have gone terribly wrong. Frequency: Variable, but usually monthly Length: 40-60 minutes Tone: Varied LGBTQ: queer main characters Three seasons (46 episodes; ongoing) Website WKGF Presents: The Witching Hour (Audio Drama) Max Thorne wanted to be a Heavy Metal DJ, but a miraculous break landed him a scoop on a paranormal story, and now he does a late-night call-in show where people tell him about their strange experiences. The narrative weaves in and out through the episodes, as Max watches the 80s draw to a close and discovers that the weird things do not always stay comfortably at the end of a phone line. The show is a little clunky, but amiable meathead Max develops an oddly deep well of compassion for his distraught callers. Frequency: Weekly Length: 40-60 minutes Tone: Late night radio creepypasta from the 80s LGBTQ: none Two seasons (20 episodes; ongoing) Website]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215011/Its-Still-Spooky-Season-and-There-Are-Still-Spooky-Podcasts tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215011 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 22:04:37 GMT GenjiandProust Anoraks AudioDrama BackofBourke BlackSheepShipping Brittlebone BuckaroosOfTheOldWest ConversationsWithGhosts DeadArchology Eerie HollowDisciple Horror Monarch MyGrandfathersGhosts OurWarsHaveEnded Paranormal Podcasts Street SubterraneansPodcast TheAccursed TheFerry TheLionAndTheAdder TonightsTerror Weird WKGFPresentsTheWitchingHour https://www.metafilter.com/215011/Its-Still-Spooky-Season-and-There-Are-Still-Spooky-Podcasts/rss Michael Jackson (with some Rammstein and Rockwell.) There's also a look behind the scenes.

I missed last year, when they covered Metallica (with Talking Heads.) That one also has a behind the scenes, split into part one and part two. Previous entries from 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021 (and earlier.)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215010/Cause-this-is-Thriller-night tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215010 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:52:02 GMT ChurchHatesTucker BrokenPeach DuHast EnterSandman Halloween MusicVideo PsychoKiller SomebodysWatchingMe Thriller https://www.metafilter.com/215010/Cause-this-is-Thriller-night/rss "Continuum" was released as "beer-ware" (as opposed to share-ware). You control a spaceship through a mazes, dodging bullets, getting fuel (use space bar), and dealing with gravity pulling you different ways. There is the original C source code, and it is possible to play it in using an early Macintosh emulator, but it's been converted to Javascript, allowing you to play it on continuumjs.com

(I and some other recent college graduates, spent too much time playing this instead of writing software in 1987.)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215009/Mac-game-Continuum tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215009 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:19:02 GMT ShooBoo asteroids computergames continuum macintosh https://www.metafilter.com/215009/Mac-game-Continuum/rss In-depth interview with the guy who yanked Fox News' chain with a Jonestown reference at a Trump rally, complete with Death (the metal band, not the punk band) and Primus references.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215008/Theres-nothing-like-seeing-a-cult-right-up-front tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215008 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:03:48 GMT larrybob Cult Death JimJones Jonestown Koolaid mediahack Metalhead Primus TDS Trump https://www.metafilter.com/215008/Theres-nothing-like-seeing-a-cult-right-up-front/rss The creator of possibly the biggest horror movie of the year posted a new short horror film for Halloween.

That horror movie is, of course, Obsession.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215007/Mama-Bear tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215007 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:49:53 GMT Kitteh currybarker horrorfilmshort mamabear https://www.metafilter.com/215007/Mama-Bear/rss Crypto firm Binance finds multiple 'points of breach' in $6.3bn hack thought to be largest ever

Bitcoin Stolen in Binance Hack Is Likely 'Gone,' Ballet Says Binance says $6.3 billion impacted, assets frozen in what analysts call the largest crypto hack on record]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215005/Whose-keys-whose-coins tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215005 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:57:25 GMT chavenet Binance Bitcoin Defi Hack https://www.metafilter.com/215005/Whose-keys-whose-coins/rss Ugly milkshake duck: Rafe Meager writes about "Elon, X and twitter, fascism and myself" and gives a defence of hatred.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/215004/I-have-been-trying-to-write-this-blog-post-for-3-full-years tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.215004 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:05:23 GMT rory CharlieKirk Doge ElonMusk fascism Maga Musk nonbinary RafeMeager SocialMedia trans Trump Twitter X https://www.metafilter.com/215004/I-have-been-trying-to-write-this-blog-post-for-3-full-years/rss