Bram STOKED!!!! Happy Halloween to all the ecstatic vampires out there! #grickledoodle #vampire #happy #halloween #horror #cartoon #art #funny #laughter

A long play video of ALL the Halloween-themed Grickle cartoons from the past decade! PLUS a special 'intermission'! Enjoy and happy Halloween, everyone! The Grickle Halloween Collection

A lot of folks who follow my work on here don't necessarily know that I've also created animated shorts for nearly two decades. Here's a link to a selection of special HALLOWEEN cartoons I've made: youtu.be/F2VzydQoAls?... #grickledoodle #horror #animation #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

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Found on Reddit today:

"The secrets of evolution, are time and death.

There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Mark Twain's War Prayer: www.americanyawp.com/reader/19-am...

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World review – a narrow view of beauty from a borderline stalker The ‘King of Vogue’ was a desperate social climber and the world on view here seems constricted and parochial. Still, his backdrops are fabulous – usually more interesting than his subjects

Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World review – a narrow view of beauty from a borderline stalker

"Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain."

-Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

The image is an X post by user Joshua Reed Eakle from 20 hours ago, stating: "The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens. Few understand this." The post includes a profile picture and a verified badge.

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

A cartoon illustration of Plague doctors in a change room staring at one fellow with an perfectly elongated nose that fits his mask. Caption reads "What?"

Born for the job. #grickledoodle #horror #plaguedoctor #nose #horror #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

‘Protect Empathy at All Costs. And Live Groovy Lives.’ Jim Jarmusch on what’s paying his bills these days and the words he lives by.

Adopting this quote as my personal mantra
www.vulture.com/article/jim-...

"If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?"

-Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Top: gator wears a cozy scarf, drinks coffee with hamster. Gator says “It’s the first day of Fall! We should watch something scary.” Hamster replies “Like the news?” Bottom: Gator says “No, that’s too scary. Ooh, what about The Exorcist?”

"If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us."
- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Thank you for coming to my Teddy talk.

"There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question."

- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Trump and his cultists have copied another page from the Hitler Handbook. What do you think is going to happen once he controls the media?

"Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic."

- Carl Sagan, Cosmos

ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers CORNUDAS, TX—In response to growing issues with its population of juvenile detainees, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency reportedly announced on Tuesday the opening of a new supermax ...

ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers

Somaliland has tortoises!

Pssst- you up?

Baboons got into the faculty dining room this morning. I had to clean up baboon poop.

The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S. ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no…

The FDA never released a comprehensive list of the drugs it allowed into the U.S. even though they were made by banned factories.

This week, we published that list.

Bluesky's algorithm seems to be, "Oh, you don't like this? Let me show you another hundred things just like it." :P

The cave paintings at Las Geel in Somaliland are around 5000 years old and I was lucky enough to go and see them.

The atoms within you once burned in the heart of stars, chaotic and lifeless, and yet here you are, after half a dozen or so billion years, arranging them into love, questions, and hope. You are a miracle, a thermodynamic miracle.

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up SYDNEY—Saying the ruse began as a harmless prank about the continent’s mammals having pouches, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese admitted Tuesday that all those animals like wallabies, numbats, quokkas, and bandicoots were completely made up. “We just assumed everyone would have caught on by now, because these creatures are clearly imaginary,” said Albanese, adding that […]

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up
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Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have

Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have theonion.com/watchdo...

The role of intellectuals is to challenge authority, not serve it.