Hemidemiscaryferal

I learn something every day, and it's usually a useless fact that pushes a better fact out of my brain.

MAHA!

Happy National Black Cat Day!

Okay but hear me out: A book club that meets by candlelight in an ominous Victorian mansion during every full moon.

Very much not feeling up for choir tonight, but I need to save my absence for the possibility that some other week I'm even less up for it.

There's an interesting and dismaying timeline here, in which the company, the FDA and USDA identified the problem weeks ago but no public recall of the tainted chicken wraps was ordered by the government. The information they've shared appears to be due to excellent reporting by @usatoday.com.

"amplify your people" is 100% the best strategy

Calling the vet today.

This one is pretty funny because it was trained on writing that was both (a) supported by Georgetown grants and (b) stolen from me and many other GU colleagues to make the model. A beautiful circle 👏

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Brazil's 80-year-old left-wing leader President Lula defeats Flávio Bolsonaro in a bitterly contested runoff. n.pr/48eAvU9

Upside: Out of the 36 US cities with populations >500k, Dallas, Fort Worth, OKC, Fresno and Mesa are the only 4 cities with Republican mayors.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: Even on 100% gas power, heat pumps cut emissions by ~48% and EVs by about half. The authors of an “electrification doesn’t cut emissions” paper made a series of compounding mistakes and used misleading assumptions. Here's why. janrosenow.substack.com/p/heat-pumps...

Will you please help Buddy fill the treat jar by donating? We are off to a great start thanks to some very generous donors, but we need YOU to help us reach our goal! Please help us reach our $1,500,000 dollar goal! Here’s how you can help: bit.ly/4fAqB4m

I wanna thank @kindofstrange.com for bringing this beauty to my attention - "Art Nouveau style spider web necklace, made of gold, turquoise and pearl. Made by Murrle Bennett & Co. circa 1900-1910. via Tadema Galleries"

There’s also a class action exclusion for clients and an arbitration clause. Plus an unproven approach to copyright actions.

Scientists deploy a 24-armed secret weapon to save California’s kelp forests

The return of my blog. The plan is to move it to Ghost, but for now, please appreciate Tim Curry with me at its original location.

"With baited breath" is how a cat waits for a mouse.

I once tried to read a book written by his daughter, not realizing who she was, and abandoned it halfway through the first chapter because it was devoid of even the slightest sense of reality for people outside the 1%.

The U.S. Postal Service has reduced mail pickup at some local facilities, which could affect when your ballot is postmarked. To find out whether your ZIP code is affected, use our lookup tool: www.propublica.org/article/mail...

Three days after the August primary, election workers in one Washington county went to check for late mail-in ballots. They expected no more than a few dozen. Instead, there were more than 500 — each a vote that wouldn’t count.

I'm at my best when I'm just a little out of my comfort zone. That said, I've been out of my comfort zone this entire month and it's wearing out its welcome.

I'm fine going to my workout, but currently the thought of spending all afternoon in my choir sectional is dismal.

Fuck it! This year I'll just dress up as a 17th century witch...at least back then, having bags under your eyes and talking to cats was considered a threat to local government.

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

Give me 4 versions of you

What are you made of? 1. coffee & sad songs 2. fried foods & stubbornness 3. tea & nostalgia 4. chocolate & darkness

"AI will destroy humanity" has always and only been an attempt to distract from "AI will leak your login credentials to the internet"

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

San Diego and Los Angeles could experience record high tides next week. Model guidance predicts Monday’s tide in San Diego being 2.5ft above a typical high tide. Tuesday will probably come in around 2.6ft, which would be the highest in San Diego history. Record tides are also possible in L.A.

I visited MLK Community Hospital in South LA, the only safety-net hospital serving poor patients in the area. The ER was built for 25,000 patients a year; it gets 120,000. I saw patients getting treated in the gift shop, the chapel, in tents, even outdoors. And this is before the Medicaid cuts.

🚨BREAKING: In a win for Utah voters, a Trump-appointed federal judge dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit seeking to obtain the state's unredacted voter registration list. The ruling puts the department at 0-27 in its sweeping legal effort for access to states' voter data.

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I'm hearing talks about increases of 25-30% in health insurance next year. Our rates have basically doubled in three years because the GOP took a wrecking ball to insurance. Never let them claim they're the party of small business again.

The last waltz for Dallas' Granada will be April 17, give or take. The last supper at Sundown will come next week. The Granada has long been one of my favorite live-music venues; yours, too, likely. But in the end, I guess, we're all just temporary custodians. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

The Australian government is introducing legislation to allow AI companies to use authors’ work to build their models. This would apply to authors from anywhere in the world. Authors: To sign the US Author's Guild petition against (you don't need to be a member): authorsguild.org/news/austral...

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

NEW, from Bloomberg News: “Elon Musk has now given more than $445 million in the current election cycle.”

Scoop from @brettlogiurato.bsky.social: CBS has sold its local election night coverage to DraftKings, stirring more controversy inside the David Ellison-owned company. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...

'Hegseth breaks Eisenhower's globe' is a little too on-the-nose tbh