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Hey. I’m on here now. I wrote a book about a woman building a library during the zombie apocalypse. Perhaps you’d like to read it. www.lulu.com/shop/eric-pi...

This is horrific. And unsurprisingly the work of a "conservative" multimillionaire. Other adjectives might include creepy, prurient, dictatorial and abusive, not to mention, of course, transphobic. Once more with feeling: we need to get the money out of politics. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Just because we’re no longer shocked by this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be complacent or inactive. Keep destroying hatred with love and organizing. In Islamophobic Rant, Trump Seeks to Stir Republican Base in Michigan www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/u...

If you — like me — have a fixation on The Theranos Saga, then you should check out this fascinating discussion from a public defender and a law professor. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

“Hey, remember when I was a racist piece of shit? … That was cool.”

Favorite film in haiku (using only lines from the film): Let me hug this guy! I’LL SHOW YOU LIFE OF THE MIND!!!! What is in the box?

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

In 1934, we added a gender-neutral pronoun for a single third person. ‘Thon’ was short for “that one.” It didn’t catch on.

Autism came up in the morning meeting so I prepared to make a joke about how we’re being guided by the HHS data on autism. To my surprise, the CDC page says there’s no link between vaccines and autism! Sleeping on the job, Rob?

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Kill Bill For Tax Purposes

Umm

For a minute I thought this meant they were voicing support FOR GILLIS. I was like “Why are Viola Davis and Elizabeth Banks and Flavor Flav showing love for that dingus!?” 🤣🤪

How to defeat tech billionaire power? Look at Solano County. When billionaires invaded their community with plans to build a "tech utopia," Democrats AND Republicans banded together to fight back. In a triumph of local democracy, they stopped the project...for now. 🎁 www.wsj.com/us-news/sili...

“Where is the bottom! Where is the real honest-to-God bottom so he can't go any farther!” — Lorraine Hansberry: “A Raisin in the Sun” — Homeland Security Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

Drop some BOATS 🛥️ 🚤 🛶

Does anyone else get angry when they watch a movie that everybody else loves and you do not? For some reason it makes me FFUURRIIOOUUSS. Like I’m too stupid to understand why that film is a masterpiece. Like there’s something wrong with me, or there’s something wrong with everybody else.

12 Words and Phrases from The Simpsons -taps sign -d'oh -say the quiet part out loud -old man yells at cloud And more! www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/wor...

King of Synecdoche New York

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...

A documentary about @mariabamford.bsky.social ?? YES PLEASE! <3 youtu.be/36ZEt48kU7k?...

Some reminders from Cornel West on optimism vs. hope

Watched Snatch again last night and decided to look up the etymology of “pikey”. Fascinating stuff. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikey

MAKE IT STOP

October is the 10th month. ‘October’ means “8th month.” In the first calendar used in ancient Rome, the year had only ten months, starting in March and ending in December. The extra period between December and March was not considered part of the series of months.

He’s a tin, but he can’t spell.