Kate “Figuring Out How To Migrate Everyone Over From TwiX” Flynn

A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.

a Western Michigan football player with his name written in Arabic on the back of his jersey

love when college football players get to wear non-Latin lettering on the back of their jerseys, here's Western Michigan defensive tackle Mustafi al-Garawi

Yvette Cooper: In Sudan and beyond, women are paying a devastating price As conflict rages around the world, the plight of women has been seen as peripheral and progress has stalled — but we must not look away, Britain’s foreign secretary writes.

COMMENTARY: Evidence of sexual violence in conflict is rising at the same time as international attention wanes. 

With more of the world at war than at any time since World War II, women are paying a devastating price.

Chicago pope sings

Brandy you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See

nothing like a saturday of labor day weekend newsdump, but no time like the present: I wrote a book, and it’s available for pre-purchase! linktr.ee/artbutmakeit...

Turns out the war on Christmas is real

Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)

Feed cleanser.

It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.

Fellow bitter southerners,

North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia all elected Democratic Governors. Georgia in 2020 wasn’t a fluke. South Carolina, Florida, Texas, All y’all of the y’allternative persuasion. Keep being loud. Keep getting into good trouble. Protect black folks and trans people. Vote

James Watson, the sexist racist who stole Rosalind Franklin’s ground breaking research on DNA, created his own (sadly widely believed) genius mythology with a popular book, is dead.

As SNAP benefits run dry, 'grocery buddies' are footing their neighbors' food bills With federal food aid frozen during the government shutdown, there has been a wave of people rushing to help — sending gift cards or buying groceries for SNAP recipients in their community.

Stories like this around people rising to meet the SNAP crisis are easy to frame as inspirational and I appreciate the reporting here that stresses that this is a crisis of the government's making with long-term consequences that individuals alone cannot fix.

WWJD about SNAP

John 6:10-12
Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.
When they had all had enough to eat, He said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.”

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

That's the stuff Duke.

Clemson just lost to Duke, so… #YouLoveToSeeIt #GoDuke

America 2025:

Where Free Little Libraries have to do double duty as Free Little Pantries because so many of our neighbors are about to go hungry.

Reasons to visit your local haunted bookshop: Open Until Very Late (image: moonlit bookshop) Staff with nine hundred years experience (image: skeleton bookseller) Home delivery by Headless Hoseman or flying fiend (image: deliveries being made) Readings from famous authors (Image: Shakespeare zombie) Stay and browse forever (Image ghost in a bookshop)

Three @theguardian.com books cartoons from previous halloweens: 1. Haunted Bookshop

Are mushrooms the future of insulation? Scientists in Alaska are working to develop a sustainable and affordable fungus-based solution for insulation.

Scientists are using mushrooms to create sustainable insulation for housing in Alaska’s extreme climate, which sees parts of the state swing from minus-78 degrees Fahrenheit to 100 degrees throughout the year.

It’s funny to think that the masked ICE Agents terrorizing communities are the same folks that spent two years saying they couldn’t breathe with a mask on.

Cartoon of person dressed as a ghost, speaking to another person What are you supposed to be? “An unfinished course of antibiotics. I can lead to antibiotic resistance Aren't I terrifying?” And Beatrice was never invited to a Halloween party ever again. By Beatrice the Biologist

In honor of Halloween, one of my all-time favorite cartoons by @katiemckissick.bsky.social

#MedSky #IDSky #HappyHalloween 💊👻🎃

I was at a hotel recently that had a cutout in the glass shower pane so you could reach in and turn it on without being in the shower proper. It felt like the first real societal progress in decades.

An early morning thought🗽🇺🇸⚖️🥺🇺🇸🎃💙🩷🍀

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up.

"But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

They literally ruin everything they touch

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

A new art show at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Brick in Los Angeles features 11 decommissioned Confederate statues. It's a pointed reminder that U.S. history is constantly being made and remade, despite attempts to freeze it in place. nyti.ms/47An3cq

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