last hours!

All of Us Murderers Wildly inventive, twisty tour de force - BookPageThe lush Gothic drama of Crimson Peak meets the murderous intrigue of Knives Out with an LGBTQIA+ love story to die for from award-winning author KJ Ch...

A lot of fun.

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"[A]nything that causes [measles] vaccination levels to fall means more children are vulnerable. Ideally, schools try to keep their vaccination levels at 95% to help protect ... children with compromised immune systems or medical conditions that keep them from being vaccinated."

I'm quoted in this. 🏴‍☠️

The only one of these I’ve watched is ‘With You and the Rain’ - I’d just got out of hospital, I was very stressed and exhausted, and it was just perfect TV for me at that time.

It's always a huge sigh of relief waking up to see the Americans all upset about something and it turns out to be a sports thing, rather than their president.

A book cover with three comics images horizontal, a boy and Betty Boop, a girl and boy looking scared, and an adult man being harassed by an old-fashioned telephone.

Today is publication day for MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY in North America! It's available at bookstores large and small. ahorbinski.com/books/

If you've already read the book, please consider leaving a review online! It helps. And if your budget is tight, requesting the book at the library is great too!

This book on the history of manga is out now, and you can attend an AMA this Wednesday Oct 29 (see info)

But like I was trying to say earlier, I really prefer the Irish Times World punchier writing to what American newspapers do these days.

Orban's Hungary third worst rule of law decliner in the world in 2024/25 & indeed the worst backsliding country in the past decade

EU's reaction: @ec.europa.eu rewarded Orban with €10.2bn in Dec 2023, no a single 💶 was clawed back/frozen & @consilium.europa.eu has kept doing nothing on Art 7 etc...

Screenshot of the Mass.gov webpage titled “SNAP benefits (formerly food stamps)” under the Department of Transitional Assistance. The page header is blue and white with the official Mass.gov logo and navigation menu. Below the title, there’s a yellow “Notices & Alerts” box with a warning icon and bold text that reads: “President Trump is currently choosing to not issue November SNAP benefits that help you and many families put food on the table.” The notice is followed by a timestamp that says “Updated Oct. 24, 2025, 10:00 am.” This section is circled in red. Beneath the notice, the page lists SNAP benefit details such as monthly EBT funds for food, extra fruits and vegetables via HIP farms, SNAP Path to Work education, nutrition classes, and cultural institution discounts.

That's how it's done.

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The Trump administration won't tap $5 billion in contingency funds to keep food aid flowing, so no SNAP payments will go out next weekend | Fortune “At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01. We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats.”

I knew a lot of folks relied on SNAP, but I didn't realize it's literally 1 in 8 Americans.

Meanwhile: Billionaires.

(Even Fortune is like WTF.)

^flight footage

Tropical Cowboy of Danger on X: "Third pass through Melissa. GoPro in side window as different camera looking forward shooting in ultra high res 8k. Not sure when that might get processed as the file turned out ridiculous. Barely had HD space for it and MacBook Pro promptly chocked when I tried to edit it https://t.co/3p430gPvZv" / X Third pass through Melissa. GoPro in side window as different camera looking forward shooting in ultra high res 8k. Not sure when that might get processed as the file turned out ridiculous. Barely had HD space for it and MacBook Pro promptly chocked when I tried to edit it https://t.co/3p430gPvZv

Tropical Cowboy of Danger (@/flynonymousWX) has got some amazing footage of Hurricane Melissa up. You should go look at it.

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Sorry about the alt-text but bsky ate the first — the good — post and my commentary so this is what you get, sorry. :/

Indiana joins redrawing of congressional maps Governor has called back lawmakers for session Kayla Dwyer, Brittany Carloni, Hayleigh Colombo and Marissa Meador Indianapolis Star USA TODAY NETWORK Indiana Gov. Mike Braun has official ly called lawmakers back to the State house for a special session to redraw the Hoosier State's congressional maps mid-decade, as requested by President Donald Trump's administration. It's expected to start Nov. 3, accord-ing to the proclamation Braun plans to sign Oct. 27. "I am calling a special legislative ses-sion to protect Hoosiers from efforts in other states that seek to diminish their voice in Washington and ensure their representation in Congress is fair," Braun said in a news release Oct. 27. Indiana follows other red states, in-cluding Texas and Missouri, which al-ready have made changes to their maps to make more favorable maps for Re-publicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Republicans already hold seven of the state's nine congressional districts, or 77%. Less than 60% of Indiana voters chose a Republican at the top of the ticket in the 2024 presidential election. Special session follows White House pressure campaign The decision follows a monthslong pressure campaign from the White House and allies, including two visits from Vice President JD Vance to Indian apolis on Aug. 7 and Oct. 10 to discuss redrawing Indiana's congressional maps with state lawmakers. In late Au-gust, several dozen state lawmakers heard the pitch directly from Vance dur-ing a prearranged visit to Washington, DC. While Republican lawmakers in oth-er states appeared eager to redraw maps to help Trump, Indiana's lawmakers have seemed more cautious and reti-cent, with several members telling IndyStar recently that they were either still weighing the idea or outright op-posed to it. A spokesperson for Indiana Senate Republicans said the votes weren't there to redistrict on Oct. 22. However, Politico reported a majority of the caucus su…

USA Today (via Indianapolis Star) clipping: Indiana joins redrawing of congressional maps

a funny thing about scuba diving is how lost remoras will occasionally, hopefully, follow you for a while

bro, i'm afraid i'm not your vehicle

People's style is really much better suited to reporting on Trump, isn't it.

It's interesting.

The 'inside line'-access journalism doesn't seem to have the chops to make money off Trump without scraping his content instead of doing their own reaction pieces. So to speak.

Update on rare earth/tariff/China-US trade war thing. (Article is a bit awkwardly written.)

Tiny mammoth also goes to bed. 🦣💤

Goodnight Stitch. (There will still be baseball tomorrow.)

Tiny spider goes to bed.

VOICEOVER: legend says that if you put your ear to a baseball glove, you can still hear the Dodgers and Blue Jays playing that one fucking game

genius plan by the blue jays to run the game so long ohtani is tired tomorrow. four dimensional chess.

Remarkable, really.

It was fun! Everybody stayed up past their bedtime so it was very crowded and silly! The internet equivalent of rubbing cheeks!

ACTION: Sign the petition and tell the UK government to protect our pollinators. The UK’s pollinator numbers are dropping heavily - we need the UK government to step in and protect them.

Pollinator numbers dropping is partly due to how much pesticides we use. Even though insects are so small, they have a huge impact and we need to protect them. Join me and tell the UK government to protect our pollinators: act.gp/42Y1Ubx

baseball on my TV screen with TWO score graphics on it: one for the first 12 innings and one for the 13th-17th innings

NHK graphics department forced to improvise in order to keep up with this marathon World Series game

I have seldom seen such brawn in a man.