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Spotify customer service is immediately ending conversations if you ask about them airing ICE advertisements on the platform.

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More Manley Wade Wellman, please!

Here’s the link where you can request a download of your data (in JSON format) before you cancel your Spotify account… www.spotify.com/us/account/p...

This is Extremely Relevant to me, as I am currently confronted with four purchased Bosc pears and thinking, “how TF do I know when these are ripe??” Answer is apparently “you don’t, just cook ‘em”

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Colorful illustration of a hand holding a megaphone with text reading Submissions open, November 1 - 31, Theme: Revolutions.

📢 Announcing our theme for the November submission period: Revolutions!

We're looking for daring, subversive, and strange fiction that explores this theme!

⏰ Submissions will open on November 1. Read the full theme description and submission details: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

PDF version also available, if you’re avoiding substack: drive.google.com/file/d/1fWQL...

I say this having previously lived in Kansas for 19 years and witnessed a LOT of KS GOP showing themselves for who they are.

“So if the U.S. is not in an authorized military conflict with these targets under either domestic or international law, what is it? Well, colloquially, we call it murder.”

The President is announcing more extrajudicial killings today.

A reminder that the administration has provided no limiting principles and these killings are completely untethered from the law (there was no "armed attack," there's no "armed conflict," and these aren't "unlawful combatants").

I was fascinated that Kansas GOP pols, including Kris Kobach, were so quick to denounce and distance themselves. I don’t think it’s ethics or morals on their part, I think they are accurately reading the public’s mood.

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

YouTube video by MrChristmasClips Scrooge - Thank You Very Much

Just thinking about this clip lately for no particular reason. Also, perennial reminder that this story was supposed to be a WARNING to MEND YOUR WAYS if you find yourself on a similar trajectory. youtu.be/Dkq7WZTzkLQ?...

Best plague of frogs ever

YouTube video by Shirley Horn - Topic Green (It's Not Easy Being Green)

This song is on my mind for some reason, and Shirley Horn’s version is absolutely stunning youtu.be/UQI5IfCaoG8?...

We Are All Frog #Portland

Look at that sweetie!!!!

(Rage-wrote this at 6 a.m. when I was supposed to be revising a novel.)

Street theatre from war-torn #Portland! Put on a play with your friends! Works best if you have 2-3 inflatable animal costumes and a bag of submarine sandwiches. riverkanning.com/2025/10/08/a...

Higher Magic propped up against a white gnarly pumpkin and a big orange pumpkin on a bed of fall leaves.

It’s book day!!!

HIGHER MAGIC is out in the US today! UK readers, it’s coming your way November 20th. I’m so excited for you all to meet Bartleby, Anne, and the rest of the gang. ✨

The JADE CITY ebook is an Amazon Prime Day deal today (Tuesday) for a ludicrously low $2.99 which is much less than what I paid for boba tea yesterday so if you still haven't jumped on the Green Bone Saga bandwagon, this is your sign👇

a bumper sticker which reads "Proud Parent of the Omelas Child"

Short Poem Winners

First Place: Lost Ark • F. J. Bergmann • Space & Time Magazine 146

Second Place: A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • @pedroiniguez.bsky.social • Star*Line 47.1

Third Place: The Witch Recalls Her Craft • @angelvleal.bsky.social • Uncanny 60

HI I GOT SO EXCITED ABOUT OUR KICKSTARTER THAT I FORGOT TO SHARE OUR KICKSTARTER!!!

I’m just waiting for the grift: “To sign up, enter your full name, DOB, SSN, and bank account/routing numbers on this non-secure, non-governmental web site!” Also noticing the audio sounds like it was spliced word by word.

screenshot of the wall of flame that devours all your open browser tabs when you click Close Tabs and Clear Data in the Duck Duck Go browser

screenshot 2 of the wall of flame that devours all your open browser tabs when you click Close Tabs and Clear Data in the Duck Duck Go browser

Anybody else love the Duck Duck Go browser just for the flames animation when you clear all open browser tabs?

Abstraction Is When I Design Giant Death Creatures and Attraction Is When I Do It for You by Claire Jia-Wen Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

Abstraction Is When I Design Giant Death Creatures and Attraction Is When I Do It For a you, by Claire Jia-Wen in Clarkesworld. I'm not gonna lie, I expected something light and funny with that title, and instead it ripped my heart out. Outstanding.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_09_25/

Stopped clock.