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Image: three figures in protective suits watch from behind a screen as a child approaches a door-like mechanical structure in which stands a man. Between them is an amorphous glowing shape. Caption: Scientists at the institute of halloween studies have succeeded in creating "The treak": a quantum state that is simultaneously trick and treat. It is stable for a millionth of a second before decaying into a half-hearted prank and a mediocre candy bar.

A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com

+ Happy Birthday

Looks like Mike Johnson wants Americans to starve so the house will not be back in session next week. Find a food bank in your area below:

They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd) An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore

So close to £5k: www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

Please share this as widely as possible. ICE kidnapped a 7th grader in Everett, Massachusetts and sent him to Virginia. Help bring him home now!

There's never enough time...

I miss you. I'm sorry.

Teachers and librarians, don't miss this “Storytelling for Advocacy” webinar from @uabookbans.bsky.social during #BannedBooksWeek. You'll learn strategies to drive change, confront book bans, and more.

Learn more & register here: uniteagainstbookbans.org/educators-vo...

Photo shows a group of individuals holding protest signs against book bans in front of a brick building. Headline reads: "As book bans, get normalized, the resistance gets organized." readers are invited to visit: pen.org/action. PEN America logo appears at bottom.

We also highlight what can be done — and how individuals, groups, and local communities can take action to fight censorship. To make your voice heard in the book ban debate, go to: pen.org/action. #CensorshipIsSo1984

A collection of children's books on a surface, each featuring diverse illustrations and titles. Notable books include 'Jacob's New Dress', 'Born Ready', 'Pride Puppy!', and others. There's a heading below the image emphasizing a Supreme Court case, 'Mahmoud v. Taylor,' which challenges book bans on LGBTQ+ themes in schools. PEN America logo appears at bottom.

Never before has access to so many stories been stolen from so many children. #bannedbooks

"There is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. It’s a very blurry line, and it’s getting more blurry all the time."

A tremendous loss. 💔

KOSA is now in red alert priority.

Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA

We need to turn out in numbers against this!

Woopsie pie ?

Omggggg cutieeeee

I explained all this to my mom last night, as well as all the other horrors queer people were subjected to during WWII, and she was horrified. She didn't know. This knowledge has been hidden from most people.

I Have One of the U.S.’s Most Controversial Jobs. Moments Like This Make It All Worth It. I’m a librarian, which means I’m also a therapist, personal assistant, and first responder.

Oh, how I love librarians.

Highly recommend taking a few minutes to read this balm of an essay by Katie Walsh. ❤️ slate.com/life/2025/09...

“I don’t care if they ban porn. I don’t watch porn.”
They’re not interested in banning porn. They’re interested in banning PEOPLE, from existing.

They call it a porn ban because they know everybody in polite society will be too embarrassed to be "pro porn," and thus nobody will defend us.

Three mimir #KPOPDEMONHUNTERS #kpdh #polytrix

tiny watercolor paintings of Venus holding her Love Me Chain and Mars doing Mars Flame Sniper

tiny watercolor paintings of Jupiter doing Jupiter Oak Evolution and Mercury doing Mercury Water Rhapsody

Sailor Senshi attacks!

Mars Mercury and Jupiter are inspired by their SuperS attacks. I had a ton of fun looking through stills of the attack poses, trying to capture a moment that would read as a battle pose.

#sailormoon #fanart #watercolor

The Within The Wires logo: A stick drawing of a damselfly with blue wings and a green body on a mustard yellow background. At the top in white letters: Within The Wires

An immersive fiction podcast in the guise of found audio. Each season is a standalone story that unfurls entirely through these recordings. Season 10, "Research Island", comes out in October 2025.

Binge the first nine seasons here: buff.ly/m5cDMFQ

There's no other fiction podcast like it.

Know how when someone is explaining something very complicated and you say "explain it to me like I'm a 5th grader" so you get a simpler explanation?

This is why you learned in 5th grade that there are only 2 sexes. Simple explanations are given to unintelligent people. Doesn't mean it IS simple.

Often felt this way living in VT and later MI

Heads up, #Philadelphia area readers! I'll be at @cbwhaverford.bsky.social in one week to meet young readers and celebrate my new #mglit novel, POCKET BEAR. 💛🧸

Bring your stuffies! Event details here: childrensbookworld.net/applegate-at...

@mackidsbooks.bsky.social

promotional sketch of myself in front of a map snippet of where my table is in the artist alley at rose city comic con

Hi all!

Reminder that I'll be in the artist alley this weekend at Rose City Comic Con, table J16. It's my favorite show of the year and I'm amped!

#RCCC #RoseCityComicCon

Excellent news!

An anti-ICE flyer hanging in the window of the bookstore.

Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑