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A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

BTW if you live in New York you can check to see which streets are closed to cars for trick or treating here www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm...

Don't remember where I got this image four years ago—sorry.

oof.

What if you see ICE at the polls? (Don't worry! Read on for the plan!) @indivisible.org roped me in to design and illustrate a new zine! Check it out in this 🧵 - and visit linktr.ee/wewillvote to sign up for the Election Protection Program and find all the resources you need!

“So it appears that the ‘Tommy’ who questioned El-Sayed was no ordinary citizen of small-town Caro, Michigan, but a long-serving right-wing operative…. It appears he went to Caro looking not for real answers from the candidate, but a viral moment—which he got, just not in the way he expected.”

This answer is fantastic and I’m glad to see the reference to Kennedy.

"An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes." —not really Sun Tzu, but still a powerful thought

Hey, @moryan.bsky.social. The link you provided won't resolve. Try this one instead: bookshop.org/p/books/burn...

Staying healthy this flu season begins with knowing how to protect ourselves and one another. Grateful to join @npr.org this morning for a conversation about the simple steps that can make a meaningful difference. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

OPINION: Preparing for a Constitutional Crisis in Case the Trump Administration Attempts to Thwart the Midterm Election Results | To our fellow Americans: This is not the time to look away.

Stupor Intelligence: "Christian was part of a team behind a landmark study that found that spending just 10 minutes relying on an AI tool significantly impairs our ability to focus and persist with difficult tasks." news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

Here's the YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=akjr...

"On Oct. 1, John Hudson of the WP reported that the Trump administration has taken $52 million Congress appropriated for countries impacted by Russia’s war on Ukraine and rerouted it to right-wing governments in Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru." Does the term "Iran-Contra" ring a bell?

Love that T-shirt and the humble smile on his face. Just a guy at a concert. . . .

I know why Trump was in a foul mood🤣 20,000 attended Power to the People Concert with Bruce Springsteen Dave Grohl, Dave Matthew,Tom Morello, Flavor Fav,Public Enemy and more in Maryland today (Special sighting Jack Smith)

Some of you will read this and think it's funny. It's not funny.

🤡 Sen. Eric Schmitt, who made a fool of himself today wrongfully attacking Jack Smith, still pushed unwarranted attacks against him. Republicans are disgraceful crooks. @TMZ

There is a regional U-17 girls' club ultimate frisbee team in North Carolina called the Kitty Hawks, sponsored by Triangle Ultimate and USA Ultimate, though it is a club travel team rather than a high school varsity team.

To recap: There are the Hawks, Hawkeyes, Seahawks, Blackhawks, RedHawks and Jayhawks. All different teams. In case it comes up, there are Cardinals in both Arizona and St. Louis. Not to be confused with the Stanford Cardinal, which is in California. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

CIDRAP: 'More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds' www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...

A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939.

"All the while he loved the People just as much as he feared and detested Persons, and he planned to do something historic. Certainly! He would give each family that five thousand dollars a year just as soon now as he could arrange it". [Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen Here]

“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.

This is such a good idea. It's an app that can tell you when pervert glasses are nearby. They can't tell you if they're recording but they make you aware of the creeps around you.

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

Now watch Captain Kirk read the same words after they degenerated into the “E plebnista.” Do not let the Constitution be forgotten.

My attempt to feed the ravens has been interrupted By an INTRUDER.

I dropped in very quickly to my Instagram stories with the first draft of my thoughts. Tl;dr is there multiple forms of grief. I’ll be on MSNBC at about 8 o’clock tonight, if you’re into that kind of thing.

🧵if you don’t have instagram, you can (and should) watch all seven clips here from the wise @tressiemcphd.bsky.social about what we’ve lost.

“The echoes in Saturday's speech are no coincidence, mate. That's a premier's street-fight instincts filtered through a central banker's vocabulary, and the combination is exactly as dangerous as it sounds.”

“The United States isn’t Canada’s customer so much as Canada’s dependent, a bloke who’s wired his entire house into next door’s meter box and then starts a fence dispute.”

NEWSFLASH/FUCK IT. I am giving away 5 signed copies of the paperback of my latest novel, Everything Will Swallow You. To enter, simply repost this & pop a reply below. You might like it if you like any of these things: Community Knitting Folklore The sea Dorset Silliness Old records CONTINUED...

Anthropic's new AI "watermark": legitimate advance or malicious compliance? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/has-americ...

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Interesting conversation with Tom Hiddleston!

"On Monday, the Red Cross declared a national blood crisis for the second time ever in its history."

For anyone who ever wants to read (or re-read) @trungles.com's Pride & Prejudice readthrough commentary w/o having to slog through needing to constantly expand the original thread, I put it all together on a google doc! 135 glorious pages! 💙📚 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

... a voice is what a human being has when that human being also has rights and membership in society, the voice with which to participate in society and to determine who she is and what she does or does not consent to." lithub.com/penelope-spe...