Diana Wade

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

New Mexico is now officially the first state to offer free child care to all residents.

Under the program all families, regardless of income, can get their child care fees covered.

Proponents say the program will help the economy, improve education, and boost child welfare.

I’m still learning the nba but I thought I understood a FEW things. WRONG!

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween

Beverly Crusher: I did fall asleep reading a particularly erotic chapter in my grandmother's journal.

Happy Halloween from Star Trek and the haunted horny candle that makes you have sex with the ghost who had sex with your grandmother

What a fancy autumnal gentleman!

🎃 Trick or treat!

💀 We're handing out chills with THE SKELETON DANCE (1929), the bone-rattling classic where skeletons swing & sway till dawn! 🦴

Get it & more #PublicDomain goodies in our #SpookySeason Collection ⤵️
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#Halloween

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

happy birthday Weird Al 🥳

A man, pikachu and Cartman

A gentleman holds up a “no dictators” sign next to Pikachu and Cartman

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

GUYS

GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC

GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU

OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

Pa. House approves bill opening unemployment benefits to striking workers - Pittsburgh Union Progress The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would make unemployment compensation benefits available to workers who go on strike in the commonwealth. The sponsors of the leg...

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a bill that would make unemployment benefits available to workers who are on strike.

www.unionprogress.com/2025/10/09/p...

I’m not holding my breath to ever see something like this in our country, but I’d love to be proven wrong.

That (NPR!) journalists think AI is a creative engine that can finesse iconic productions is not just context for the crap quality of writing in media but alarmingly the inability among a class of supposedly professional scrutinizers to distinguish between art and slop, good and bad, truth and lie

If only.

but what do you think about the Riyadh *Opera* Festival

RIP Renato Casaro, an Italian artist known for his film posters.
He passed away yesterday at the age of 89.

Last night at a rehearsal a singer friend hugged me and whispered very seriously into my ear “you have better diction than so many singers.” I’ve never felt more elite than I did in that moment.

ISAAC CHOTINER: you've said you're sitting in a room

ALVIN LUCIER: [gesturing around] of course

CHOTINER: and that it's different from the one I'm in now

LUCIER: well, but

CHOTINER: which, sitting here together, I'm just wondering if you see a contradiction there

LUCIER: let me start again

BREAKING: Starbucks just announced a $1 billion restructuring and will close 59 unionized stores — nearly 10% of union locations.

It includes the Roastery in Seattle, one of its busiest shops.

CEO Brian Niccol made $100 million in four months last year.

Why Restoring Cult Movies Is A Public Service, According To Legendary Horror Director Joe Dante [Exclusive] - SlashFilm Joe Dante, the filmmaker behind movies like Gremlins, Piranha, The Howling, and The 'Burbs, has strong feelings about the restoration of cult films.

I got a chance to chat with @bjcolangelo.bsky.social of @slashfilm.bsky.social during @screamfactory.bsky.social's special Piranha screening at @vidiots.bsky.social last week about cult cinema restoration & preservation!

www.slashfilm.com/1976924/cult...

CHOTINER: you view music as an extension of your faith

ANTON BRUCKNER: oh, very much so

C: and your use of the orchestra to mimic a church organ

B: devotional, absolutely

C: and your regard for other composers?

B: second only to my regard for the Lord

C: let's talk about Beethoven's skull

B:

A back and forth between Isaac Chotiner and Captain Janeway made to look like a screenshot from The New Yorker.

Chotiner interviews Janeway

A teenager turning into a bird, Animorphs cover style "Getting raptured? No thanks I'm getting raptored"

Stolen from an Animorphs Facebook group.

Ugh, this was my concern about Soup Cubes: idea is good, size not for real humans eating food. My condolences.

Jimmy Kimmel’s show will return tomorrow.

“We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday” — Disney

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

Ooo EXCELLENT!