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I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Lula Goes HARD

For those following the Brazilian elections, hold your nerve. Some excellent resources to see projected vote share: www.poliwave.com/br/live/pres... apuracao.dalmolin.dev

Lead change in Tocatins: With 65% counted, Bolsonaro up by 0.4%. (Was Bol +7% in R1.) Distrito Federal has now counted 74%, with Bolsonaro up 9%. (Was Bol +13% in R1.) Only other state that has counted majority of precincts: Paraíba. Lula leads 68% to 32%, so by +36%. (Was Lula +28% in R1.)

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

The DeSantis regime will even propagandize a driver's license. These people are demented (and historically illiterate): floridaphoenix.com/2026/10/19/t...

No ISBNs in Canada for AI writing. This is a fantastic policy, and every country should do the same. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

The bald eagle flew away with the rat and proceeded to tear it apart on the roof of a house nearby. We’re two weeks from the election!

Metaphor Watch: My wife and I almost ran into a bald eagle sitting directly in the road on the way to work this morning. The bald eagle picked up a rat and flew away—in the middle of Baltimore.

Does it make sense to deport a man who overstayed a visa but otherwise has no criminal record when his deportation means shutting down a food pantry that serves meals to 7,000-8,000 needy people a month? Does choosing not to exercise discretion in his case make America greater?

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

Checking the alumni group chat with friends from the panhandle. One buddy asks our friend who's an electrician how things are going restoring power east of Pensacola. "Not even close," he says, "there's no poles to connect it to."

"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"

If that Devo cover had impregnated the last Habsburg monarch...

increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

“We’re losing billions and we’re making a product that’s an existential threat to humanity” is a hell of sales pitch www.ft.com/content/c768...

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

So literally "Allahu akbar," only in English

Our Lady Peas

As always

we're gonna get Hurricane Dolly but no Hurricane Frank-N-Furter 😔

"a tool no different than a hammer" exactly! remember when the Amazon hammer manufacturing center came online and became the single worst source of pollution in the United States?

displaying passion mate concern about the systems at a university is often met by fence-sitters as an overreaction at best, mental instability at worst. I expressed concern to my director about how deeply our university is entrenching itself with corporate genAI and he told me to go to therapy

Cover songs I want to hear: "I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself" by those two assholes from Good Charlotte

did Faine write this before or after news came out that Harry Potter adults forced the relocation of a planned undersea cable—whose new route now endangers Bronze Age human remains—simply to save Dobby's grave

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.

The year is 2039. Humanity has reduced fossil fuel consumption by 77%; mycelia eats through PFAS in the soil. Hope. But upon discovering upwards of 92% cows are evil, beef and dairy consumption immediately skyrockets, and the climate is doomed to bake under a pillowy film of bovine methane

apparently @hankgreen.bsky.social you can't do it without relying generative slop and getting it wrong because you're "so busy" so maybe it's best you don't do it at all

has anyone asked Armand Assante yet about his take on Nolan's Odyssey

getting into Kabbalah

I watched the video. It was an execution. The officer cannot claim negligence or an accident because he fired three rounds into the man's head. Incidentally, the officer almost shoots his partner (and may have), as you can see the other officer suddenly jerk back after the first shot is fired.

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

most cursed skeet in the history of Bluesky, calling it now

The state bird of Alabama is the 1995 Ford Thunderbird.

What would be super cool is if people stopped inventing apps and training robots to ruin our lives and instead invented a type of cat food that doesn't squirt ungodly gravy all over my wrist when I open the package it comes in.

ICE shot and killed a man in Houston with no criminal record who was not even their target. They pushed him off the road. And now he is gone forever. ICE is a domestic terrorist organization. We need to abolish ICE now and stop Trump’s murderous thugs.

This has been the most spiritually bankrupt celebration of anything I've ever seen and that's it, that's our 250th. We don't get to go back and redo it, this one's in the books: Temu Arch, cheesy architecture, horrible displays, AI everywhere. Far right propaganda. Jokes at our expense