Edmund Schweppe

YIKES!!! So very glad you're recovering.
(Health isn't like Pokemon; you don't gotta catch 'em all!)

Continuing to boo Covid and cheer resting LIKE A POTATO (which really needs the caps-lock for the full effect).

Mmmmm. Cave time.

Arrgh. Much sympathy, along with hoping for rapid conclusion of current meatsack-upfuckery.

I want to see them arrest the Eucharistic Procession and log the monstrance into evidence so badly because that would be such a propaganda gift

Happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping Day to all who celebrate. I hope you make a Four Seasons Total Landscake.

SNAP UPDATE: I’m directing SNAP benefits to be processed today — and paid IN FULL starting tomorrow.

Americans are going hungry because President Trump chose to play politics with their lives.

People need to eat. We’re making sure they do.

And you wanted five seasons at a minimum, so the syndicators would pick you up afterwards.

The thing I want to stress to people: Authors (and other artists you admire) don't *expect* you to be scintillating when you meet us, so don't worry about being clever. What *is* appreciated is if you're nice. Just be nice! Nice is good!

cartoon: A long sandwich coils around and up like a rattlesnake Caption: Don't bread on me

Editorial cartoon: Don't bread on me. Enjoy :)

Saja the kitten looking very very serious and maybe a little bit groggy

"When I woke this up this afternoon I could tell that a couple of very important things of mine were missing. And when I find out who took them... I SHALL HAVE MY VENGEANCE."

(Get your pets fixed, folks)

An Antarctica story.

Once upon a time in Club 90 South, an inebriated apprentice from Wyoming revealed a family fact. One that, at other times, might be an amusing "degrees of separation" bon mot. However the key to wit and humor is not just timing, but reading the room.

He did not.

A screenshot of the accessibility options in the Bluesky iOS client in dark mode. There's an option titled "alt text" with a slider for the option to "require alt text before posting". This should be turned ON.

I'm seeing so many excellent memes and screencaps today missing their alt text!

Please include *everyone* in your joy! Go to Settings > Accessibility, and turning on "Require alt text before posting." This way a reminder will pop up if you try to post an inaccessible image

Thoughts From an Off-Off-Year Election, 2025 Well, that was an evening, wasn’t it. Zohran Mamdani won decisively in NYC, of course, and that was the headline event in terms of optics, but then there was everything else, that went the De…

Good morning, Bluesky. Over on Whatever I have a wrap-up of my thoughts on last night's election results, mostly focused on Mamdani's win and Proposition 50 out in California, but touching on other stuff as well. It was a good night! We need more of them!

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/05/t...

posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch

Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway:

"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."

Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.

Needs a repost (with alt-text, this time!)

Literal LOL

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
(also, many supportive *hugs* and hopeful good thoughts)

The unicorn listened intently. Somewhere in the forest, someone innocent was singing.

The unicorn followed the sound, found the singer, and laid down with their head in the singer's lap.

"bottles of-"

The young orc fell silent, smiled shyly, then resumed singing.

"Beer on the wall..."

Cover: Mushroom Mother of Us All by Paul Lewin. In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The text "Uncanny," "November/December 2025," "Issue Sixty-Seven," and the credits are in white.

ICYMI, Something to be thankful for, Space Unicorns! Uncanny Magazine Issue 67 Part 1 is LIVE ON YOUR INTERNET! So begins YEAR 12!!! buff.ly/yEqnVQ3

No, you’re fine. I sorta think that’s a feature of most social media where you interact with people you admire though—I mean, I felt like that in blog comments twenty years ago! “Oh please God, let me not say something so stupid that John M. Ford is disappointed in me.”

In an interview
Tom Hanks explained
his mask wearing
by noting “I’ve had Covid
enough in my life,
I don’t need to do that again,”
and he is right, for he knows
“life is like a box of chocolates
you never know
what you’re going to get”
so you should try
not to keep getting Covid.

Every year, the king would dress up as a merchant and walk around the streets of the capital, listening to what his people were saying.

When the revolutionary army arrived, he was shocked.

"But all my subjects are happy!"

"No! Remote provinces are bled dry, all profits go to the capital!"

I just saw someone refer to JD Vance as Vladimir Futon and I may never stop laughing

I'm not a Nobel winning economist, but it seems to me the world's largest retailer and the worlds largest delivery services laying off hundreds of thousands right before the busiest retail and delivery season of the year is perhaps not an optimistic indicator of Trump's promised "Golden Age"

Mmmm. Bacon.

YouTube video by Skies and stuff Swing

Since it’s Halloween… Here’s Mike Jittlov’s “Swing Shift”…

youtu.be/scV2fSmE75M?...

A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated. A strange-looking alien with artificial antennae made from tin foil emerged.

"Greetings, Earthlings!! We come in..." It consulted a device. "In trick or treat?"