widely regarded as a bad move

Scary Story Challenge — nycmidnight The Scary Story Challenge is a creative writing competition that challenges writers worldwide to create scary short stories based on assigned prompts in 48 hours.

Up for a scary writing challenge? Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Scary Story Challenge on October 31st! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/scary

Artwork of an anthropomorphic character with yellow fur and red hair, wearing a pair of goggles and brown and beige clothes, waving and leaning her arm against a confetti-decorated banner that reads: “Kaylune - work in progress!”

We’re so excited to announce that Kaylune is officially in development! 🎉

Kaylune is a virtual pet site that aims to create a fun and engaging experience for its players, blending gameplay with a captivating story that focuses on exploration and building connections.

🌎 kaylune.com

Photo of the screen of a parking validation machine that says "please pay displayed amount: five dollars", and underneath that, "change is possible."

I appreciate the optimism of this parking validation machine

A person sitting in front of a wall of books. The caption reads, "reading can seriously damage your ignorance."

Resistance will take many forms in the days and months ahead.

Image with text "Secrets of Strixhaven."

From there, another set coming in 2026: Secrets of Strixhaven!

🤫

We're still too early for more than an announcement, class is not back in session... yet.

Landscape art featuring a merging of an idyllic field and a foreboding dark forest.

The legendary Mark Poole created this new landscape for #MTGLorwyn, brilliantly showing the clashing of the dark and light themes.

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"I have a flashlight on my phone."

That's for when it's 1:30AM and you're 9 episodes in with 2% battery and you realize you unplugged your charger so you're leaning over the bed looking for the power strip trying not to fall to your doom.

Please buy a real flashlight.

Please.

We're at the "we cannot build bananas in America" stage of our societal collapse. God help us.

after having witnessed the birth of the internet and existing online for 3 decades I can confidently say no feedback is more validating than tumblr reblog tags

Target gave $1M to Trump inauguration fund, a first for the company President Donald Trump raised a record amount of cash for his inauguration, including donations from several companies with operations in Minnesota.

there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...

can we take a moment to celebrate the magnificent economy of the phrase "dipshit sex pest failsons asking chatgpt to regurgitate a trade policy for them"

it’s very fun to have been 18 for the 2007-8 global financial crisis, 30 for Covid, 35 now. just really interesting times throughout adulthood

anyways happy april

Breaking News 3m ago Randy Fine, a state senator, easily won a House seat in Florida, adding to the G.O.P. majority.

This was a choice. Fine won by 8 pts in the district Mike Waltz won by 30 pts just 5 months ago.

That the NYT frames it as “easily won” is a leading reason we are where we are.

Headlines matter. Framing matters.

Introducing ProPublica’s 527 Explorer Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these…

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending.

As a reminder, we've got a database that allows journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances:

illustration of dragons based on gemstones featured by month are January - Garnet February - Amethyst March - Aquamarine April - Diamond May - Emerald June - Pearl July - Ruby August - Peridot September - Saphire October - Opal November - Topaz December - Turquoise

little dragons based on birthstones 💎

😥 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is one of my favorite movies, but when I was a kid I spent like a month obsessed with The Saint remake.

Helpful to remember: sometimes news can be good

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

vote in the wisconsin state supreme court election today so that elon musk has the worst night imaginable

Wow this is the coolest website EVER

The CDC Has Been Gutted Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

If true, this is *incredibly disturbing.* Agencies cannot avoid #FOIA by just laying off everyone who processes requests.

me at connections today:

I know what you're doing

It's trans day of visibility! Transness has been made very scarily visible over the last few years but through a warped and harmful filter of politics and media. Today, I hope that visibility might be more human and that cis allies might be inspired to do something about it.

Today is Trans Day of Visibility, when we remind the world that we exist and we are beautiful.

Get ready to get 🐉⚡DRAGONSTORMED! 🐉⚡

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