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Many of you know I maintain a list of 32 Democrats who have embraced anti-trans policy or run ads against us. I am not even asking my readers to abstain from all 32. Some have improved, and some may not meet your line. But I ask my readers to draw a line and refuse to elect the worst among them.

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

this might rank as one of the most important outcomes of the night if it happens. would give dems the ability to begin to make north carolina a democracy

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

Halloween is Saturday, but the kids’ school Halloween parade is Friday, which means I have to have their costumes parade-ready by Friday morning. Commence the panicked sewing 😵‍💫

Eric Lipton. below, has led an effort over the past two years to document the destruction of environmental protections under Trump II. It has gone for the most part unnoticed compared to, well, many other things, probably because it’s happening far from the Oval Office. But it’s very important.

I guess since she doesn’t know her own daughter well enough to say what makes her special, it makes sense she’s excited by the most generic, pathetic slop nonsense. God I hope that daughter has someone in her life that actually cares about her 😵‍💫

I wouldn’t even confess this to myself

Did you know that three out of three small creatures in my house agree that it is illegal for me to get a full, uninterrupted nights’ sleep?

Wish I was this guy 🖌

Daily bunny no.3483 sees something in the road

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

A potential new data center in West Virginia is “almost certain to kill” 1.2 acres of American Chestnuts that have thus far managed to survive the chestnut blight and produce chestnuts, according to the American Chestnut Foundation. wvpublic.org/story/energy...

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Great coverage of the annual @freedomhouse.bsky.social Freedom on the Net report by @techpolicypress.bsky.social! 🌐 😔 “Global internet freedom declined for the 16th consecutive year.” 🪪 🤖 Age checks and AI are new threats 🙌 🟢 For the first time in a decade, Bangladesh had no Internet shutdowns.

Read: Serbia's long-serving strongman leader conceded defeat to a diverse, student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government

The Justice Department's last-second letters about noncitizen voting contain people with no history of voting whatsoever, and they're moving so fast they sloppily sent one county the wrong list of names.

if the navy was really only 9% gay it would be a world historical low

Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

The air force used extensive study of quail before perfecting their pilot ejection tech.

After some customer requests and improvements in our production process, we are happy to share the Enigma #Inkvent pre-orders have been extended to November 1st at 9pm Pacific! www.enigmastationery.com/product/enig...

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...

Happy Weekend!🐺👃

punkin dunkin

Beautiful. Let's do this from sea to shining sea.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

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/...

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

genuinely it feels like the only people who think “coming up with great ideas” is the difficulty are folks who have never attempted to make their own art i have *so* many ideas for projects right now, the challenge is time and equipment and gaining the necessary skill to execute

“please give us money so we can keep spamming your phone with unsolicited texts” is the worst deal I’ve ever seen

this is why you don't comply in the first place because nothing is ever enough for this dipshit of a human. pretty soon he's going to want to rename earth "planet trump"

A good demonstration of how absurdly small insects can get. I was looking at a relatively small (2.5 mm) pteromalid wasp and noticed something stuck to its wing. It was an even smaller wasp.

I am so tired of this cartoon supervillain garbage -_-

Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/

Evening of doodling