Another Damned (AD) Medievalist

In Trump's dustup with Canada, Americans are strongly pro-Canada and anti-Trump. They do not feel Trump is representing the country's interests.

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.

Space Unicorns! Behold, the Uncanny Magazine Issue 67 Table of Contents and Paul Lewin cover! buff.ly/D7a2nXG

A core feature of our unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis is that the Speaker of the House is permitted to performatively lie in public with impunity from the podium every day & the assembled media in front of him offer approximately no pushback at all on the lies.

Yes. Hands down, although some of us still need to see the originals. They are super useful for creating prosopographical databases, too!

Yeah, this is *bananas*. I think it’s approximately _double_ the usual monthly churn? For subscription service, that’s a sky-is-falling change in metrics. People get fired for .5% increases in churn at that scale.

Ooh

It’s not like they’re at all historically related or anything.

it’s an innovative new strategy called irreparable harm and it’s the one weird trick judges just can’t beat

So… how are the NG being paid? Are they kept on to at least 30 days, so they get full pay and benefits?

What about their civilian employers and their bottom line? Go

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He thinks he’ll be President one day.

Have you seen the original Speak No Evil? I never bothered to see the remake, because I can’t imagine any possible improvement

Body horror is … sometimes I can deal with it, sometimes I can’t. Some of it is mood, some is just visceral squick that I only know when it happens. Saw something recently that made me cover my ears and eyes. Can’t remember what, though.

You could go further, right? Where’s the demand for a new Speaker? If Johnson is going to refuse to do his job, why aren’t we calling for him to be replaced, the House sent back to work, the shutdown ended, and the Epstein files to be released.

Let’s hope that their fans figure it out before it’s too late

Dante has a specific section of Hell for people who commit crimes on behalf of a monarch (the pope) knowing the monarch has promised in advance to pardon them.

If the hell these so-called Christians exists, I hope every last one of them ends up there.

“the president got mad at a television commercial so now your maple syrup is more expensive” is no way to run a country

One more for Heretic. I couldn’t sleep after.
Also, the original (Danish?) Speak No Evil

For people who know, is Late Night with the Devil worth seeing? Or Lamb? The previews for that scared me. Any scary Ari Aster.

Thank you! I was trying to remember the name!!

Strange Darling is soooo good

@washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com

What the actual hell??

@taldragon.bsky.social @ellenkushner.bsky.social @effjayem.bsky.social @homophonous.bsky.social

I'm starting to see multiple threads where bluesky folks are trying to raise money for their local food banks because of the shutdown of SNAP starting November 1... can we get a thread going for people to find each other? Drop your link and put your city in front, let's coordinate city by city!

Hey, @cnn-news.bsky.social @davidmuir-abc.bsky.social @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social

Valid question for all y’all

Rough math: 12.3% of Americans (41.7 mil) are about to lose SNAP. Many food banks produce 3 meals per $1, so a November worth of meals for one costs $30. Round it up to $35 for asst. costs & hygiene products. If 13% of us donate $35 each to food banks, we can get everyone through Nov! #EndHunger 🥙💪

Could not love this more

When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.

That’s definitely descended to the level of Trump “truth” and Trump “logic.” Oh, and obviously Trump misogyny