Anna Hanks/Annainaustin/Woozie

Feel like, as a society, we might consider moving Halloween to the last Friday in October (observed.) Vibes truly immaculate tonight.

My friends:
“Not everyone understands his genius, but it’s real” 🔥

Zero line and plenty of parking spots for the last day of early voting in Travis County!
Yes, you can vote in your Halloween costume.

Them: “SNAP should only be used for whole foods. No treats! No junk!”

Also them: “You can buy lobster with SNAP? Shut it down!”

I don’t know who needs to hear it but lobster is a whole food. It’s a healthy lean protein.

It’s almost like it’s not actually about the food…

Someone should give the Pope a Chicago basketball uniform that says Papal Bulls.

I don’t understand why dating is so hard, all I’m looking for is a new best friend from scratch who I’m willing to die for that must get along with all my family and friends and have comparable ambition and identical values and wild sexual chemistry with me and no else forever

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

A little mending and you’ll be good for another few decades!

Also—hang to dry. The dryer eats things!

George I need you to do to these companies what you could never do to your books and finish them.

hi all, the awaited day has come: I'm looking for freelance writers to pitch Inverse Gaming for end-of-year coverage! namely, I'm looking for someone to contribute our best of RPGs this year list ($350), and pitch us on some year-end lookback essays ($500+). please pitch me: shannon@inverse.com

I use this all the time. We always have bagels in the freezer cause you can get a dozen for $3.99. You can get a whole vegan dinner from a place around the corner from me for $5. When I travel, I order hotel breakfast leftovers that were $25 for a couple bucks. It's a great app.

trump got really mad about the reagan ad because reagan was the 80s president and trump is stuck in the 80s so it was basically an ad saying the president disagreed with him, the other president

Bluesky: the website to be on if you’re the exact right age to remember when buying a ringtone was a thing, and thought it was really cool when it was.

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One thing that will be especially spooky this Halloween?

Candy prices 👻

They’re up more than 10% since last year as tariffs increase the cost of everything from chocolate to packaging.

Festival season brings real-life connections Outdoor festivals foster in-person connections with new people. ACL is a good example.

This weekend's @dallasnews.com column on fest life, unicorns, the Austin City Limits Music Festival, etc www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Wrote an essay a couple of years back about how things were shaping up in such a way that Black people would be barred by law and policy from discussing our own oppression in educational and other venues. Ran into weird roadblocks trying to get it published and moved on to something else.

Now look

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Also i had no idea you were in
Austin!

I donate to the one behind Pearl Street Coop (because they also have a pantry for clothing & household goods). It’s amazing to see how quickly things move!

SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.

that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.

but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.

I had not thought of this - a free fridge for perishables. What a great idea! Here's the one for Denver:
denvercommunityfridges.com

Black and Brown people. PLEASE, PLEASE for the love of us all do not allow yourself to be interviewed if SNAP benefits don't come on November 1. Make the white folks do the interviews. They love getting Black folks to do these interviews so that people think we are the only ones hurt.

At the food pantry I volunteer at we were absolutely swamped today and by many first timers. We ran out of whole categories of food. Please donate cash to your local organization if you at all can.

Take a lesson from the Black Panthers who understood how to feed people

In a year full of bonkers weeks this week was the most bonkers yet.

Every day, it seems like we tick a little bit closer to midnight.

Would be great if the GOP Congress would quit sleepwalking through this.