Woodcut showing skeleton rising up from graves and dancing.

Party time for skeletons! ☠️🎉Here is a woodcut from Liber Chronicarum (commonly known as the Nuremberg Chronicle), published 1493. It's a Latin chronicle of Christian world history from Creation until 1493, divided into seven ages, with the concluding section on the anticipated end of days.

An illustration of a crucifix and a hearse, with a quote attributed to Adrian Dannatt: "A gravestone can be an entire novel, a mystery, a stone poem in itself—so much to be detected from so few words and numbers."

Whatever your plans tonight — cemetery stroll, movie marathon, or just snacking on your kid’s candy — we hope you have a safe and happy Halloween!

We’ll be cozying up with Adrian Dannatt's selected obituaries celebrating the obscure and eccentric, "Doomed and Famous," published by Sequence Press.

Opinion | Democrats are winning the shutdown. Now comes the hard part. In Washington, being the only adult in the room is never easy.

OPINION by @speechboy71.bsky.social:

“Trump’s complete indifference to the suffering of others has made the situation worse.”

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No one is illegal on stolen land!!!

SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.

SCOOP: The decorated rear admiral who was heading the critically important Office of Naval Research, and who brought lengthy experience in Navy tech-leadership to the job, "is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience."

www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

My hands hurt from the rain and cold a souvenir from breaking my fingers years ago. My ankles and knees crack despite the braces from old dance/theater injuries that never healed right.
You know what injury never bothers me? My ribs from where I was body checked by a horse

White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects The move comes as President Donald Trump pursues efforts to build a White House ballroom and a triumphal arch in Washington.

Exclusive: The White House fired all of the members on the independent federal agency that had expected to review some of President Trump’s construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch and White House ballroom.

Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218.

Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.

These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐

Russia attacks children's hospital in Kherson, injuring children and medics Russian artillery attacked a children's hospital in the city of Kherson on the morning of 29 October, injuring nine people.

🤬 Russia attacks children's hospital in Kherson, injuring children and medics

Cursed timeline

Vietnam Prevents BBC Journalist From Leaving the Country The reporter’s passport has been held by the authorities since August. Rights advocates want British officials to raise the issue with Vietnam’s visiting leader.

The Vietnamese authorities are preventing a BBC journalist from leaving the country, holding her passport after prolonged interrogation and drawing sharp criticism from human rights advocates during a high-profile trip to Britain by Vietnam’s top leader.

Manchester synagogue attack victim died after being shot in the chest by armed police Adrian Daulby, 53, died from a single gunshot wound to the chest fired by an armed police officer during the terror attack on a synagogue by Jihad Al-Shamie, Manchester Coroner’s Court has been told.

Manchester synagogue attack victim died after being shot in the chest by armed police

Pressure builds on Congress to end the shutdown, but a quick breakthrough appears unlikely The pressure to end the second-longest federal government shutdown is taking on new urgency this week. Millions of Americans face the prospect of losing food...

At this point MAGA/Republicans are simply checking their list to see if they have overlooked any innocent people to hurt. Senate GOP can open government today by blowing up the filibuster & taking a vote.

They have that power.

Mike Johnson has spent more time on Grindr than in House sessions.

Hegseth refuses to meet US troops with beards during South Korea trip: report Hegseth refuses to meet US troops with beards during South Korea trip: report

Hegseth refuses to meet US troops with beards during South Korea trip: report

Every mention of SNAP being frozen should include this simple fact:

TRUMP is CHOOSING TO CANCEL FOOD ASSISTANCE. There are literally emergency dollars available to keep SNAP funded.

Attorney General Rob Bonta says California will have its own observers on Trump's election monitors As the Trump administration's Department of Justice prepares to send election monitors to California for next week's election, California's attorney general on Monday said the state will have its own ...

Thank you! California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced today that the state will send its own observers to keep an eye on federal election monitors sent out by the Trump administration before the upcoming election.

Hurricane Melissa was churning near Jamaica Monday morning, hours after it rapidly intensified into a powerful Category 5 storm in the Caribbean. It is forecast to bring as much as 30 inches of rain to parts of Jamaica over the next few days. See its path and follow updates. nyti.ms/4ofocgM

Macro photograph of two elongate moths, sitting end-to-end on a purple flower spire, against a brilliant blue sky. The moths' wings are orange interrupted with black-margined white bubble markings.

Apparently this weekend's rain really put the Ailanthus webworm moths in the mood. Photo from the new UT Hill Country Field Station.

**At work**
I'm just sitting casually in the break room at my job while a child screams out on the floor and honestly me too kid me too

For no particular reason I've been thinking a lot about The Damned (Götterdämmerung) (Italian: La caduta degli dei, lit. 'The Fall of the Gods') a 1969 film by Luchino Visconti.
If Visconti were still alive today he'd be having a field day

This is giving Pedro Almodóvar vibes because now all I can think about is his film Talk To Her

Illustration of a woman in a big building Victorian dress sitting and looking down at a boy Victorian boys clothing each of them has a pumpkin head the woman is holding a big kitchen knife

Let Mother Carve Your Face — Liz Mamont

Illustration Of two pumpkin headed women dressed in frilly Victorian undergarments are such corsets and Ruffles and things one pumpkin head has two triangle eyes but no mouth the other has a big smiling mouth but no eyes each of them is holding a big knife in cutting away at the other's head with abandon to produce faces

Liz Mamont

Hilda is stuffing a scarecrow in her little vegetable garden and she is looking quite irate at all the little songbirds that have decided her scarecrow makes a perfect perch

Hilda — Duane Bryers

Two white lambs standing on green grass outside a barn. The right lamb is nuzzling into the left lamb, who is looking at the camera.

🐑 Happy Hug a Sheep Day 🫂💓

Illustration of a pretty young woman in a black nightie wearing red mules with little puff balls on them she is dancing around with a little black cat who's got a red bow around its neck up at the top it says after the husband gets on the train add it down at the bottom it says contrary to the proverb, when the rat's away the cats will play

Chéri Hérouard

Scary Outfit

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Scary Outfit

Priorities.

Christian churches should lose tax exempt status if they refuse to act Christlike