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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween

From fast food to beverage giants, brands see rising income inequality among customers Consumer brands are adjusting to a two-tiered economy as the new normal. Yet there are signs that even high-income customers are under pressure.

“It’s not as simple as income being the differentiator here — it’s wealth being more the driver”

www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!

A Crash Course in the 3 Controversial Housing Ballot Proposals Do they represent YIMBY "Abundance" magic or an anti-democratic "power grab"?

If you are a voter in NYC, make sure to read this @hellgatenyc.com piece on the ballot proposals hellgatenyc.com/nyc-housing-...

If you're in nyc and can afford to do so, please consider giving to City Harvest, who are already scaling up to feed people if SNAP benefits don't go out in four days.

The Hunger Games Begin 40 million Americans are about to lose food stamps

Remember when Paul Krugman’s columns were soooo wonky.

“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” - Paul Krugman

God I can’t wait until the buses are fast and free

It’s fun to look at this ai slop nazi propaganda and then remember what these guys actually look like. This isn’t what they (or america) looks like and far from loving america, this is an expression of severe self loathing bsky.app/profile/geof...

Saying that someone doesn’t deserve to be a senator isn’t canceling them, that is the public opinion candidates are subject to in a democracy.

a wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower more like no thoughts to declare

still thinking about this article today. so many societal ills are caused by people white-washing what actually happens. it's awful to see games do it too.

can't wait for cozy domestic violence simulator or cozy kkk simulator

NYC polls are open! Happy voting!

Recent experience—with Sinema/Fetterman, but also outside of literal Politics—has shown there's an infinite money glitch available to anyone willing to build up a backing and then sell them down the river. Pig Butcher politics. And I think that goes a long way to explaining the Platner skepticism.

Mamdani: "And while I appreciate all who have rushed to my defense over the past few days, I think of those Muslims in this city who do not have the luxury of being the Democratic nominee, who do not have the luxury of being deemed worthy of solidarity."

The only acceptable thing to do if you discover you have a nazi tattoo is get it covered up.

"it's women's fault that we're losing, and if we lose harder it will be Jewish people's fault" wow okay!

"how do you expect to win back men if they can't be Nazis??" in the year of our Mamdani 2025 is a bonkers thing to say. give them male candidates to get excited about that don't suck??? maybe??

the maine senate primary is not until June 9th of next year that gives you over 7 months to find a guy without a totenkopf tattoo to run

like you can jettison the current guy now pretty easily there's loads of time to go you don't have to try to defend this

I think an underrated part of living in a city is hearing your neighbors throw rooftop parties.

I think the key is that the sounds of people talking and laughing have to be louder than the music.

Sometimes it’s too much, but most of the time it’s one of my favorite sounds to fall asleep to

much to appreciate here tonally but the main thing is that I did guffaw

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Worrying that shit like this is happening to antifascism scholars right now.

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

An older Black femme, laying in a hospital bed. She's smiling and holding a pink, lavender and yellow dragon stuffie.

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot. She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor

Hell Gate 2025 Annual Report As Hell Gate enters our fourth year, here’s how things are going. (Spoiler: Very nicely.)

If you are interested in worker-owned journalism, or in the future of sustainable and independent journalism in these grim times, or in what it takes to build a thriving workplace without dumb bosses, you might want to read @hellgatenyc.com's latest annual report.

hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-20...

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

Ok. So there's A LOT of misinformation about the government shutdown, the continuing resolution and gender-affirming care. There was one article in PinkNews that was VERY shoddy about what Trump said. So let's breakdown what's true and what's BS. 1/
www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/t...

I'm suspending my campaign so I can do some ascending with my brain. That's right New Yalk, I am getting out of politics so I can get more into doing hallucinogenic drugs. I've always said universal consciousness is the New York of mindstates. I will also be serving as ambassador to Saudi Arabia,

The Quakers issued this reply to a GC attack on their trans inclusion policy.

It’s incredible in its care and certainty. Its examples of transphobia are spot on. And >98% of Quakers surveyed agree with the policy.

Anyone implementing trans inclusion policies should take note. This is how to do it.

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?

ME: Slay the Spire.

CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?

ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.

CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?

ME: Now hold on a second,