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For the cat owners out there, a #Halloween artwork by Peter de Sève called "Something Familiar" - a witch looking in a pet shop window and a black kitten with its paws on the glass looking out. Both are smiling.

If exercise helps your medical conditions, I am truly happy for you, but holy crap, you really shouldn’t be insisting everyone do whatever routine you do. For a ton of reasons, really, largely revolving around “every body is different”, with occasional stops by “you’re making them feel awful”ville.

Don't stop searching for joy. Track it down if you can. Look in cluttered bookstores, haunted antique shops, and mossy old forests. Take joy out for tea, adventure, and gentle mischief across the land.

What do you like most about Autumn? 1. colors & flavors 2. sweater season 3. strong gravy 4. darkness, my old friend

Come to my book signing at Rose City Comics! 10/30 at 5PM, free to attend

Just bleppin

One of the things you realize when you read a lot of research is that academics like to use a lot of weird words to describe things (to sound more accurate). Current example: kids don't "hang out"; they do "offline unstructured socializing".

Cat line > car line

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

It's 4 days until Halloween... 🦇 Let's fill Bsky with spooky art. QRP with a spooky piece!

Today marks 1 week from the General Election and the last day to mail your ballot worry-free. W/ recent changes to the USPS, we recommend using a drop box. If you need to use the mail, go into the Post Office and ask for a hand postmark. Find a drop box near you at OregonVotes.gov/Dropbox.

Some evergreen advice, but always worth sharing in tumultuous political times. youtu.be/nWEpW6KOZDs?...

What would you say if I told you there was a way to buy audiobooks through your indie bookshop? 👀

One week until the monsters arrive. Have you pre-ordered your copy yet? If not, why not? DO YOU WANT THE MONSTERS TO GET YOU (Note: The monsters will not come get you if you do not pre-order the book. They will just be very very very very very sad. Look what you've done! Who's the monster now?!?)

I think of this every time people get real huffy about "mall trick or treat" or "trunk or treat" parking lot events, or any other attempt to make Halloween safer for kids in costumes

The blocklist that doesn't miss

perfect, no notes

Realtalk, because I'm too damn petty, I'd write them an executive order that reads: Since you want to be children and have forgotten that *nothing* in this city belongs to you and *all* of it begins to the City of New York, starting today and for the rest of the fiscal year, I will be opening your

here it is: the biggest single piece of art I’ve ever made 😳 Inspired by eyewitness book ecosystem cutaways, it’s sort of uh a psychological ecosystem of metaphorfish as one does

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

NO YOUR MENU OPTIONS HAVE NOT CHANGED

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Our new book, The Best Science Stories and How They Work, is available wherever you buy books! Order through @uchicagopress.bsky.social to get your copy for 30% off with code UCPNEW. www.theopennotebook.com/the-best-sci...

BUY SOME STICKERS! I particularly love slapping the "Stop putting A.i. into fucking everything" sticker all over the place. Gives me the warm fuzzies.

Teardrop moon above the neighborhood ...

Election Officials Warn That Ballots Tied To Stray Cat Unlikely To Arrive In Time https://theonion.com/election-officials-warn-that-ballots-tied-to-stray-cat-unlikely-to-arrive-in-time/

ALT: Oregon officials say Tuesday is the last recommended day to mail your ballot.

Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine Issue 73 Table of Contents and cover by Alyssa Winans! buff.ly/rmqKkVi

This was published in the Beaumont Journal (Texas) on 27 October 1978, reporting on an incident which had taken place the day before, so happy impolite cat causes death day to all who celebrate

I’m blocking File770 and will not be sharing anything from that site or visiting anymore. I support Paul. JDA is a known harasser and I will not give my time or attention to a place that platforms him.

hidden away in the closet, his portrait slowly becomes gayer and gayer

It's that special time of year when they give the danger-kitties pumpkins to play with at The Wildcat Sanctuary in Sandstone, Minnesota. A much-needed timeline cleanse. 🐯🎃 (📷: wildcatsanctuary.org)

#BirdOfTheDay: #OnOneLeg - birds seen balancing on one leg! Alt: #SpottySpeckled - any bird with spotted or speckled plumage. Steller's Jay ought to have a little clutch in their elegantly raised leg as they peruse the fresh produce section. #birds #becurious

Sturgeon or DRAGON? Cool shot by @garlab.bsky.social PhD student Griffin Blegen of characteristic protective bony plates (scutes) on a juvenile Lake Sturgeon 🐉

A wee visit with my friends at @wgntv.com in Chicago today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lICW...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

It does the dishes, laundry, and grabs the groceries while researchers read and analyze the papers? That's what would help them focus, right? Cutting out other distractions so scientists can do the work of peer review, right?