We need NICE agents!

Brilliant!

This is why we will persist in using that place to amplify our anti-oligarchy messages at #TeslaTakedown
“Tesla board Chair Robyn Denholm said in an interview with CNBC on Monday that the outside perception of Musk spending time in the U.S. government had diminished.”

Thanks for sharing this! We will persist!

Tell me what autocracy looks like.

Fun fact: if you go late the donuts are two for one!

Thank you, goodnight.

A very excessive display in Del Ray

Chocolate-iced donut and my very effective Sleepytime Team with House of the Seven Gables puzzle. (Might be hardest puzzle ever.)

Puzzling by the light of the mysterious-object window.

Sunday: VERY slow cleanup; hand over arch so TT team can install it today; clean up more; make chili; clean up more; drive to Del Ray ISO hallow-displays, not find much lit but do find Just Fine Donuts open(!); tea and treat over Hallow puzzle; literally pass out while drafting this; wake up; post.

The Hoodoo Voodoo Barroom of Doom

Foggy WoN, literally and figuratively.

You don’t know these surprise guests warming themselves by the fire.

Special order of moonlight for the fiesta.

Party pics.

Saturday: get that November promo out; bake cookies; party prep; drive to and install “arch,” wave signs at the most ambitious #TeslaTakedown yet; race home and frantically party prep more; transform again and party until way too late and too much stout…

Wizard’s eye view.

Arch parts loaded

Purple light-festooned arbor welcomes Halloween denizens to the Wizard of N’il’s abode.

The WoN conjures treats from his dragon cauldron—but only when the special words are spoken by the visitors. If not, or if they’re jerks, they are sent to the back of the line. Or get bugs instead of treats.

Misty ambience magically manifested. Maybe there was a fog machine involved.

Rockin weekend review:
Friday: prep cemetery arch sign for #TeslaTakedown ; reset yard due to wind’s wickedness and set effects; transform into the WoN and only Wizard of N’il to receive guests on All-Hallows Eve until treats ran out; firepit (not shown) at neighbor’s…

Ahhh, I wondered if that was you. Shoulda had more words with you and maybe your identity would have need revealed. Thanks for joining us!

Our #TeslaTakedown team is killin’ it!
;-)

Great video of our Graveyard of Democracy at yesterday’s #TeslaTakedown

Willfully ignorant and/or cruel

Wow! You took advantage of the time change. Or not.

From Arlington VA Tesla Takedown. Still fighting to keep the dream alive. @teslatakedown.com @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social @everyonehateselon.bsky.social

Ugh

You were there?
Damn, wish I had known and met you IRL.
Thanks for covering our big day!

Cardboard November directing you up a sunlight-brightened fall-colorful pathway here in Arlington.

My protest sign reading “what will you tell your grandchildren,” used where I march back and forth at #TeslaTakedown a couple times per week.

So choose your paths wisely, just say NO to the cold and dark, and find the positive in November! Perhaps we can persuade you to even join a peaceful protest or march? There are still plenty in November, including on 11/11! Every action—public or private— matters in this time of #Fauxkings.

...for VOTEvember, and perambulate or pedal to the polls! (Drive if you must.) Consider the consequences of elections small and large if you allow reactionaries to erase the rights and planet-sustaining policies that have been so hard won through centuries of progress. BTW: Complacency = complicity.

Say yes to sustainable feasting and festing, please! Plant-based eating and buying less stuff is good for you and the planet.

But it’s also election time, so rearrange the letters...

Our penultimate pathways post leads us in a few directions in one go. The 11th month is still named for the ninth—“nove” prefixes this ember. (Thanks, Julius and Augustus.) But our panoply of paths are supposed to be positive, and NO-vember just sounds kinda negative…
#vote
#sustainability
#onearth

Now do that here with our “king.”

The view from herea

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And if you did use those environmentally hazardous polyester “spider web” abominations in your yard, clean it all up—don’t leave bits to contaminate the planet and confuse critters! Don’t ever buy it again. And don’t get me started on those lame, resource-sucking inflatables!

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Oh, and make a plan to vote next Tuesday if you haven’t already! There are far worse real-life ghouls who we need to exorcise right now than the wandering souls of the past. …

Stick creatures! All natural except for some fastenings.

Close up of the “walking stick” with acorn eyes.

The 8’ stick (non-gender-specific) entity in the moonlight.

This crow (not natural) has been in use for almost 20 years and is showing its age.

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However you celebrate this eve, and/or whatever form of day of the dead this weekend, we send you our best wishes and kindly salute our dearly departed. (So they don’t haunt us tonight!)…

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Co-opted and twisted by the Catholic Church who moved All Saints/Hallows Day to late fall to thwart pagan traditions, All Hallows Eve was contracted to Hallow’een in 1836, but vestiges of ancient ways still haunt us, evolving into what we see today. Or rather, tonight...
(bonus pics of our haunt)