Stephen Ist

Seasonal migration provides real estate opportunities. #sixwordstory #WritingCommunity #cats

Not on the New York Times home page apparently, but it is on the People home page.

Nihilism and despair should never be an option if you're not fighting for survival. Any bit of power you've still got, you use it.

🎵 Whatcha gonna do about the High Price o’ Gas? I’ll TELL ya what I’ll do, I’ll HEY—Look at that Ass! 👀

Actor Michael Gray passed away yesterday. I knew him best as Billy Batson on the SHAZAM! Saturday morning TV show in the early 70s. As a four year old kid, SHAZAM! was one of my gateways into fandom. Because of his show, my parents bought me comics. I will forever be thankful to him for that. 🙏

“A Popular Information analysis of campaign finance records reveals that the [Ramaswamy] ad was funded, in part, with contributions from the PACs and executives of major American corporations, including Bank of America, Deloitte, DraftKings, Kroger, and Nationwide.” popular.info/p/the-corpor...

GET READY! Saturday’s No Kings Day aims to spur massive voter turnout for the midterms www.headsupnews.org/p/saturdays-... #nokingsvoteearly

I'm crushed to hear that @helenbranswell.bsky.social has died from complications of cancer. She was one of my favorite science writers, and I've followed her online for year.

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But partial truths only from the Observer, who fails to report WHO revealed the Arron Banks/Leave EU emails (me and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social ) and that she, unlike me, suffered years of legal threats, online abuse (including Andrew Neil) and then was peremptorily sacked by the Observer

Poland’s Interior Ministry has reported a possible assassination plot targeting Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. A meeting of the country’s security officials is scheduled for today.

If you read the Walmart's patents, it's pretty wild. For example US11687872B2, granted in 2023: "The price for other items the customer purchases may be varied based on what items are already in the cart, e.g. if a customer has tuna fish, they may be offered a different price for mayonnaise."

It's just been announced at NYCC so I guess I can tell you that I'm writing The Regulators for Marvel. My five issue comic series will be out in 2027. Mutants, magic and monsters woven into the very fabric of Jim Crow America.

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on December 8th on limited edition #4K in the US from @kinolorber.com: #Begotten (1989)! When it debuted in 1989, E. Elias Merhige’s Begotten fascinated and shocked those who witnessed it. Never before had the screen depicted such a primal, existential drama,

Oh it's these people www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Utter barbarism. Like watching the reverse evolution of man into beast.

Thanks for the reminder to stop following @vanityfair.com

National Democrats are rethinking their campaign strategy in North Carolina as Republican groups — and even the GOP candidate — pause spending in the state’s open U.S. Senate race. ncnewsline.com/2026/10/08/d... @christinezhu.bsky.social #ncpol

Literally all these dudes

This was a pretty small protest, but it honestly seemed incredibly effective. I don’t think that they’ve done this before, the only time I’ve been to a protest at this building was on a weekend. I really don’t think these workers liked being shamed!

Raleigh will temporarily halt approvals for certain large-scale data centers after the City Council voted 7-1 Tuesday night to impose a six-month moratorium in an effort to give city officials time to study the industry's potential negative effects www.wunc.org/politics/202...

If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

What do writers do when their book proposals are rejected? Of course, they WRITE about it! www.confrontthehate.com/p/top-new-yo...

We still don't talk enough about Elon Musk going in and forcing Grok to adhere to his warped worldview. Seems relevant to all of these smoke and mirror discussions.

The techno-dystopia I actually fear is a future where most people think truth is whatever Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok say, and the very small number of people who control those systems use that to manipulate for their own ends, making our current epistemic crisis seem small in comparison.

Cities across the country have gotten the message that residents hate Flock cameras. But one growing response is to replace them with *other* license plate readers (like from Axon, makers of the Taser), as if the brand name is the concern. @thorbenson.bsky.social has the story.

Consider decimation, in the classical sense.

Walking up behind the guy with Meta Raybans on the train and whispering, "Okay, Muse, transfer my entire holdings to Doctors Without Borders."

Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.

The headlines on the SCOTUS SAVE ruling are doing Trump's PR for him. 2 things they skip No mass voter purges before the midterms. The law bars them 90 days out & we're in that window Noncitizen voting? FL, IN, IA & OH ran voters through SAVE & found almost NOTHING -TN

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Vice President Vance is speaking in town right now but my local paper says a new grocery store in annoying city is more important

…jfgdic. Like, I've talked about how bad an idea it is to place "AI" in administrative positions, and air traffic especially. Where was the review period on this? How is every congresscritter currently clamoring for "AI Pacing" still letting THIS go through?? (Original image reposted w/ alt text)

This deal's getting worse all the time! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpE_...

What if Idiocracy had Skynet.

A lot of people suspect he just was told about old agreements and bases but he is saying he will "immediately begin the process of developing a large Military presence." Let's see what the Danes have to say.