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Mamdani patting a cat in a store and asking in Arabic “How are you chief?”

He just like me fr fr

Another successful Halloween Night for the books at our dual-yard neon skeleton graveyard (collab with our rad next-door neighbors), with plenty of trick-or-treaters coming out despite the relentless rain. Hope everyone is having a great Halloweekend!

The newest season of the Simpsons...

Another host, Eugene Daniels, asked Mr. Cuomo what he meant by diversity being a “weakness.” “Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan,” Mr. Cuomo said, mistaking Mr. Daniels for his co-host Jonathan Capehart, both of whom are Black.

You can't make this up.

As someone whose nieces were obsessed with Elsa, this is awesome.

Stephen Miller's wife had a big old meltdown, calling everyone who disagreed with her "antisemitic"

Transphobes are fucking dumb

if you can't refuse, can't opt out (let alone any notion of opt in), can't inform a "more human-centered" blah blah blah, can't escape... then what options do we all have, except to destroy systems that target and harm people?

A grey cockatiel wearing a tiny black witch hat and a cape

Happy Halloween.

The future of Hollywood is sexy, expensive slop Cheaply produced, highly shareable, and designed to make you pay.

the future of the commercial internet is cheap, badly-automated, gamified, and enshittified slop at impossible scale, targeted relentlessly at the lowest common denominator by the sorts of people who despise labor and don't have a creative bone in their bodies

Reminder that trump is a rapist.

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

Quoted here about the increasing intersection of right-wing Christianity & Tech. Had a very much longer conversation than there was space for, touching on mutations of Christian-inflected belief & eschatology in re: the Singularity hype & pushes toward, e.g., "consciousness uploading" & now "AGI"…

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

Trump/GOP leaders in Congress are about to cut off federal food assistance for millions of low-income people, and millions of people's health care costs are about to skyrocket, but don't worry -- someone is focused on the gunzzzz

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

My favorite thing as a writer is when I start ranting about something on Bluesky, get it all out of my system, and then turn it into a real piece of writing.

On that note: hey, it’s me, heckling centrist Dems in the New Republic!

newrepublic.com/article/2023...

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Feels like the kind of stupid name change Microsoft is famous for when they buy something out

YouTube video by Matt Rose Grammarly being Goodn't

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6hV...

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

we live in dystopia

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

"the “Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” soundtrack’s vinyl release is a test case for future releases in the U.S. market."

variety.com/2025/gaming/...

I finally tortured myself by looking into the 'controversy' over Mamdani and it's even stupider than I thought: his "aunt" isn't just a female family friend of an older generation, it's his father's cousin.

100% of white people understand that person being called an "aunt." Most would say the same.

The triumph of bullshit Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy.

"We are awash in bullshit. And while Bannon famously advocated a 'flood the zone with shit' strategy, it was supposed to be a way to overwhelm the opposition, not a prelude to diving in headfirst. The shit was supposed to be a weapon … but today it’s the stream that carries the GOP forward."

People not understanding what made by committee is and Appeal to general audience/everyone and just pointing at shit and going “woke!” Kills me internally it really does

I was right about her 10 years ago.

The triumph of bullshit Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy.

New in PN: The triumph of bullshit

"We’re a long way from 'covfefe' and tumescent hurricanes Sharpied on a weather map. This is an era of lies as policy, where government priorities are based on right-wing conspiracy theories and fear-mongering."