Thank you, @podsaveamerica.crooked.com @jonlovett.bsky.social & @crooked.com for speaking with me about the ridiculous and dystopian reality we’re all being forced to exist in.

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.

YouTube KidZuko clips of the first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow. Both of the clips have over 400,000 views each

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯

Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚

And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋

youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

Hello, it is me, Technology Broseph. I will now dictate what the future of humanity looks like. My qualifications are that I once tripped balls with a billionaire who then funded my abstract eternal life research venture

Anyway, first thing we gotta do is install cameras in everyone's assholes

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders Eleven Days Into a Shutdown. This Is Where We Are | Sen. Bernie Sanders

11 days into a government shutdown.

This is where we are:

Quote with your yellow art! 💛
#bunny

Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶

I feel attacked.

This is all true btw

A Windows method I've found super useful but never seen others employ: using Win+R as a quick temporary notepad. It lets me do quick text editing before re-pasting, while stripping formatting
CC @jenmsft.bsky.social

Well there goes my weekend vibe coding project

Sometimes I’ll replay a game and think “I’ll do an evil playthrough, that’ll be new and fun” and then I’ll do one evil thing and be like no…it’s wrong to do that to these pixels.

New Death With Indignity Law Lets Terminally Ill Be Crushed By Falling Vending Machines theonion.com/new-dea...

Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

Happy Quock Walker Day, Massachusetts!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quock_W...

What Are My Rights During an ICE Raid? Immigration law can be tricky, but here's what you should know.

Dealing with law enforcement can be stressful, so it’s important to know your rights before you’re face-to-face with ICE agents.

While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law, here’s what they can and can’t legally do to you and what you can legally demand. ⤵️

Instead of livetweeting we should call it thumberizing

social media is a pvp experience which is why i’m the npc that sits in a tavern and just says random advice like “i heard slimes are weak to fire” and “there’s a monster guarding the cave outside town”

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

ok now we got entering *and* leaving the room all covered

How to cross thin ice, #polar #bear edition: spread out wide to distribute weight and reduce pressure. This clever move helps avoid breaking the fragile surface.
A survival tactic perfected in the Arctic
#physics

Tell Lawmakers: Protect Us All From Data Brokers.

With extremism on the rise and personal data increasingly exploited to attack people online and in person, we need to safeguard our sensitive data.

Tell your lawmakers to protect us all by banning the sale of location data: action.aclu.org/send-message...

four panel comic, real rough sketches 1. car driving through town, birds is air. toddler in back kicking the shit out of the seat says “too many buhds mama!” 2. me in drivers seat: “too… too many birds?” toddler still kicking the shit out of the backseat: “yah” 3. me, unsure: “how… many birds SHOULD there be?” 4. kid looking out window, facial expression one of squinting disdain: “ONE buhd”

there can be only one

#comic

@crooked.com HOORAY FOR MORE AD-FREE FEEDS

'We Are in an Emergency': Progressive TikTok Star Launches Bid to Unseat Old Guard Dem The progressive TikTok star is running for Congress in a Democratic district that hasn’t had a competitive primary in decades.

“Right now, the answer to authoritarianism isn’t to be quiet." - @katmabu.bsky.social

Exclusive interview ⤵️

This is the first of what I think are going to be A LOT of primary challenges along these lines.

Achol Deng, an 8-year-old girl, was also infected with H.I.V. at birth and likewise remained alive because of American assistance. Then in January, Achol lost her ID card, and there was no longer a case worker to help get her a new card and medicines; she too became sick and died, said Labani. Yes, this may eventually save money for United States taxpayers. How much? The cost of first-line H.I.V. medications to keep a person alive is less than 12 cents a day. I asked Labani if he had ever heard of Musk. He had not, so I explained that Musk is the world’s wealthiest man and has said that no one is dying because of U.S.A.I.D. cuts. “That is wrong,” Labani said, sounding surprised that anyone could be so oblivious. “He should come to grass roots.” Another household kept alive by American aid was that of Jennifer Inyaa, a 35-year-old single mom, and her 5-year-old son, Evan Anzoo, both of them H.I.V.-positive. Last month, after the aid shutdown, Inyaa became sick and died, and a week later Evan died as well, according to David Iraa Simon, a community health worker who assisted them. Decisions by billionaires in Washington quickly cost the lives of a mother and her son.

Generally not a fan of Nicholas Kristof but he's a sound person to track the deaths that Elon claims haven't occurred on his watch.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR