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Not to mention that American votes influence electoral dynamics in other countries. We would prefer it not to be the case, but this country sets the tone.

And the tone up until today was that we cannot escape the far right and its billionaire allies.

The trope in an IP revival where the beloved couple are now estranged but get back together in the end is so overdone.

And I DEMAND they do it again anyway here.

I will fall for it like a cartoon coyote.

Scientists Changed the Blood Type of a Kidney. That’s Extraordinary. Transforming organs from any blood type into the universal donor Type O could help patients receive transplants faster.

The world seems like we are going backwards at the moment, so it is important to take the time to spread awareness of advances.

Scientists have developed an enzyme that converts organs into universal 'O' type. This is huge.

www.popularmechanics.com/science/heal...

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Not a very good shot, but I think this is a Grey wagtail wandering around the garages, possibly male with a grey top, black edged wings and yellowish Brest…? #birdsky #birdwatching

A close up of a European garden spider, hanging upside down in a web with wooden fencing and ivy in the background.

One my least favourite creatures as a test for my phones camera, didn’t come out too bad I didn’t think. But no phone, I’m NOT moving any closer.

What he said: 💯 🎯

The lovely Pleiades star cluster shines in Earth's night sky, a compact group of stars some 400 light-years distant toward the constellation Taurus and the Orion Arm of our Milky Way galaxy. Recognized since ancient times, the remarkable celestial gathering is visible to the unaided eye. The Pleiades cluster is also well-placed for viewing from both northern and southern hemispheres, and over the centuries has become connected to many cultural traditions and celebrations, including the cross-quarter day celebration Halloween. In Greek myth, the Pleiades were seven daughters of the astronomical titan Atlas and sea-nymph Pleione. Galileo first sketched the star cluster viewed through his telescope with stars too faint to be seen by eye and Charles Messier recorded the position of the cluster as the 45th entry in his well-known catalog of things which are not comets. In this dramatic night skyscape from planet Earth, the stars of the Pleiades appear embedded in dusty blue reflection nebulae, poised above Mt Sefton, one of the tallest peaks in New Zealand. There known as Matariki, the star cluster is associated with the celebration of the Maori new year.

🔭 Pleiades from Planet Earth

Image Credit & Copyright: Max Inwood

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New York knows how to do Halloween!

This photo by Jack Greenwood shows lunara seed pods glowing in the morning sun with a spiders web lit up against the hedges in the background.

#blueskyartshow #autumn

A pumpkin Queen holding a pumpkin head

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Artwork in a graphic style of three people dressed in scary masks walking through a wood at night. In the trees are numerous scary glowing eyes watching them.

"Autumn's turned the leaves to rust
The trees have fallen bare
Silver clouds enshroud the moon
A chill is in the air
Shadows of a thousand years
Rise again unseen
Voices whisper in the trees
'Tonight is #Halloween'"

~Dexter Kozen #BookchatWeekly

🎨 'Halloween: Scare and Be Scared' by Charley Harper

A road winds through a dark foggy forest with tall trees. Hints of yellow fall foliage and green evergreen limbs can be seen. The scene gives a mysterious feel to everything. Happy Halloween!

Halloween vibes! 👻🎃💀
#ForestFriday #Halloween #Spooktober #spookyfirest #foggyforest #foggy #fall #autumn #photography

Cute digital illustration of a spooky mailbox in a night forest. In the mailbox it says "batty mail" and it has a bat hanging from it and a raven with a witches hat sitting on top of it. In the background there are bunny ghosts, bats and full moon.

Caw caw! Happy Halloween! 🐦‍⬛🦇💜
[ #art #Halloween ]

Cross section of a haunted house. A werewolf on the roof with a pack of neighbourhood dogs. In the attic on the left a vampire listens to music,a body hiding behind some boxes. to the right a girl summons some ghosts. In a music room a man dances with a corpse as a harpsichord plays by itself. In the bedroom a woman is tortured by a demon sitting on her chest. In the library a man reads while a lard shadow creature creeps up on him. In the carpeted bathroom a monster lives in the toilet. In the living room an alien speaks to a little boy through the tv. In the kitchen a witch prepare food with very large knives. In the background to the left an alien abducts a cow and to the bottom right a ghostly woman roams the grounds.

🎃Happy Halloween🎃

This kind of illustration has been on my to do list for years but i always got to overwhelmed to do it but I finally did it! And I think it came out pretty darn good
(Close ups below)

#halloween #art #illustration

"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it."

A bunny on a gray, rainy day looks down a storm drain, where a clown bunny with a red nose and ears looks out at him from below. It is a bunny Pennywise, from the Stephen King novel, and it offers the other bunny a red balloon through the grate on the drain

Daily bunny no.3124 offers you a balloon

Fungi growing in a woodland, it looks remarkably like zombie fingers reaching up from the ground

When in the woods, best beware of dead man's fingers lurking there.
Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found.

Happy Halloween everyone.

Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman

[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS] 1 NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]: Hello there 2 [A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk]. DAD: Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids? 3 NT EMPLOYEE: Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail! 4 MUM: That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids? 5 NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]: Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot! 6 NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]: Listen - that's their call [Calls emanating from the landscape]: tut-tut woke-woke 7 NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]: They are extremely sensitive and fragile... But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery. 8 KIDS [pointing]: There they are! [Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure]. [Little people noises]: woke-woke tut-tut woke-woke 9 [Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]: Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house. [Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]: tut-tut woke-woke 10 MUM [pointing]: What's that one doing there? NT EMPLOYEE: Oh, that's so sweet… 11 [We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away]. NT EMPLOYEE: I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph… 12 [We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]: Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE? [ends]

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Cartoon of two pumpkins screaming in terror beside the traditional Irish Samhain carved turnip #Art #Samhain #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

A gargoyle on Paisley Abbey that looks suspiciously like a Xenomorph

A gargoyle on Paisley Abbey that looks suspiciously like a Xenomorph

On this Halloween, a reminder that a sculptor included a Xenomorph gargoyle during the 1990s restoration of Paisley Abbey

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

A pac-man type character saying Feed me nappies, wipes, sanitary products & litter

Pac-Man has hit hard times 😪

A digital colored sketch of two characters, Ezra and Lief, standing side-by-side and looking to the left. Ezra (he/they), a bioshifter with large faun ears and 3 pairs of horns, stands tall with a stoic expression. Lief (they/them), a green and brown feathered ansar, looks nervous while gently holding on to Ezra's arm.

Finally put Lief to paper 🌿 Ezra's anxious little housemate friend ♡

[ #art #ocs #ocsky #wildflowers&ivory ]

I wasn't going to say anything about the biggest TTRPG convention in the UK promoting AI slop, but then the slop makers said "everyone uses gen AI, we're just honest about it", and I fucking saw red.

Make your own art. Even if it's rancid garbage, it's still better than a machine's hallucination.

A Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test Subject What? You didn’t know that Grokipedia exists? Well, it does, and it’s Elon Musk’s attempt to run Wikipedia out of town on a rail: An “AI”-generated compendium of infor…

Over on Whatever, I offer some thoughts on the new "Grokipedia," through the lens of the article it has up about... me.

(Spoiler, it's not great, for the reasons you probably suspect)

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a...

Thought I might try to apply for a passport, but I'm confused by the list of people who can countersign an application. I don't know anyone who works in a 'recognised profession'? And certainly don't know anyone included in the list who's known me 2 years.

Clearly I'm missing something.

Private Eye excellence…

Remember:
No matter where you are in life or what twisted trail you've traveled down, there are always ancient creatures of fangs, talons, antlers, & moss nearby, murmering softly in the shadows.
Take comfort in that.