Nathaniel Beardsley

I write stories and books and I also have a YouTube channel. Despite this, I have no idea what I'm doing in general.

(he/him)

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

Super excited that my story "Heroes" made it into @CosmicHorrorMo this month! I've been wanting to write this one for a long time, and I'm so thrilled to have found someone else who believed in it. Lots of other great stories by other authors in there, too!

[Cosmic Horror Monthly @CosmicHorrorMo]

Have you gotten a chance to check out the new issue yet? What’s your favorite story?

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

I think it would be pretty reasonable to approach a geology textbook with skepticism if said textbook was written 2,000 years ago.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

This is why classicists learn nothing from the classics. Guys like this would see a geology textbook and say “Somebody deliberately wrote this to teach me about rocks. Nice try!”

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

Every time I think of leaving this site, I see a masterpiece like this and realize what I'd be missing out on if I did.

[Oliver Traldi @olivertraldi]

To settle a troublesome discourse, I have provided here the most faithful and poetic possible translation of the beginning of the Odyssey.

We male sex. We
complex. We

fake horse. We
off course. We

sail long. We
hear song. We

pig crew. We
home soon.

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

Why does it look kind of like opabinia? Romans were paleo enthusiasts, I guess.

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

With every film, we're getting closer to the Minions Napoleonic Wars movie.

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

‘MINIONS & MONSTERS’ is set in the 1920s and is described as a “celebration of the birth of cinema.”

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

Everything always feels boring and routine in the moment; only in retrospect, when you have the luxury of cutting out the dull intervening hours from your memory, can you recall a period of time as grand and romantic.

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

These types of memes ignore how people have always been dealing with menial tasks and boring bureaucracy. Microsoft tools just provide a more efficient way to do the same administrative work Roman officers had to do to keep an army running.

[Daily Roman Updates @UpdatingOnRome]

That’s life.

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

Could honestly be a good thing: making space exploration MAGA-coded would probably be one of the worst things that could happen to it in the long run.

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

White House Proposes 23% Cut to NASA Budget for 2027 to Fund Hike in Defense Spending

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

If there's anything that should revitalize environmentalism as a concept, it ought to be this.

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

@Rimmi_Johnson Let's hope not. But I don't think he has the guts to go down the Golden Path anyhow.

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

Bro is now claiming to be the Kwisatz Haderach.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "I knew the Strait would be a weapon. I predicted it a long time ago. I predicted all of this stuff. I predicted Osama bin Laden would knock out the World Trade Center. I wrote it in a book."

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

@trygraptor I really, really hope we get to see Villeneuve's version of a space-folding sequence.

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

Honestly a devastating blow for the whole "Video games don't cause violence" debate.

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

I love that the entire future of humanity is going to be dictated by the dumbest culture war debates of the mid-2010s.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Stephen Miller: "What you're seeing right now is a military under President Trump's leadership that's not fighting politically correct"

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

@JenResistedAGN Yeah, it's just not a good rhetorical strategy. It cedes ground to them, and it only serves to point out their hypocrisy, which neither they nor their supporters care about.

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

@metroadlib It's just so disheartening that the world doesn't reward, and in fact actively punishes, wisdom and kindness.

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

I genuinely think part of the reason why anti-intellectualism is on the rise is because social media is inundated with these confusing sensationalist headlines that give most people the impression that scientists are all insane.

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Scientists propose consciousness isn't strictly linear ─ it can jump through time, suggesting 'gut feelings' are information from the future.

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

The slowly building yet never-articulated realization that he's never going to make it out of there alive, culminating with this moment where he glimpses an enormous city outside the window, is what makes this episode so peak. Top-tier cosmic horror.

[mia︎ ⋆˚࿔ @cinevoidz]

in honor of the trailer release here’s my favorite clip of the backrooms series

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

I don't care if it's not as culturally relevant as it used to be: the Backrooms, in its purest form, is one of my favorite horror concepts to have come out of the internet. The YouTube series is insanely good, so really hoping this lives up!

[A24 @A24]

You are not supposed to be here. BACKROOMS, a Kane Parsons film starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve. In theaters 05.29.26

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

"Nature's greatest empire"

[Netflix @netflix]

Take an epic journey into a lost world in THE DINOSAURS, a new documentary series narrated by Morgan Freeman, premiering March 6.

From executive producer Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment, and the award-winning team behind Life on Our Planet.

[Nathaniel Beardsley @NathBeardsley]

However much you hate these thugs, you don't hate them enough.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: NEW Video shows moments before ICE/Border Patrol agents executed the man in Minneapolis, as he lay motionless on the ground.

In the video, a 51 year old the man was filming agents when they come over and push him, with only his phone in his hand.

No gun, no threat. Just a man exercising his first amendment right.