Alison

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

A map of the over 2,700 events planned across the US for No Kings Day on Saturday, October 18.

No matter where you live or if you’ve never protested before, there’s a local No Kings Day event for you. Join a peaceful protest to make it clear that We The People will never bow down to a wannabe king: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Hundreds of volunteers lined up at S.F.'s Ocean Beach to appear in a banner spelling out “NO KING!”

The event was organized by travel writer Brad Newsham and architectural designer Travis Van Brasch, local activists who assembled human banners at Ocean Beach during nationwide protests in April.

Today I learned that my dog hates drones

And if you didn’t know: it’s internet law that you must watch and share this whenever it is posted, to share the life-giving joy. It’s the opposite of The Ring.

www.avclub.com/it-s-tom-hol...

Internet rules apply to Blue sky, must repost

It's the end of the quarter, and you know what that means… your inbox is flooded with dozens — or even hundreds — of political fundraising emails and texts.

It's unsustainable.

Secret Phone Surveillance Tech Was Likely Deployed at 2024 DNC Data WIRED collected during the 2024 Democratic National Convention strongly suggests the use of a cell-site simulator, a controversial spy device that intercepts sensitive data from every phone in…

𝙏𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙚. This is no longer a paranoid theory, but today's objective reality.

Wired article on phone surveillance:
https://buff.ly/4jcAqEY

My case for encrypting all the things:
https://buff.ly/4iA9i25

This picture says it all. ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

2M SEIU Members 🤝 13M AFL-CIO Members

SEIU just joined America’s biggest federation of labor unions, the @aflcio.org. Together, we’re taking on corporate union busters and changing the rules so every worker who wants a union can have one. Let’s do this!

Donate to Support the DNC Staff Union Layoff Relief Fund, organized by Jill Brownfield Last week, 2/3 of DNC staff was laid off with little notice and no seve… Jill Brownfield needs your support for Support the DNC Staff Union Layoff Relief Fund

Howdy! A beautiful person anonymously donated a thousand bucks to our Relief Fund today. Good karma is heading your way!

We're still short and have several former employees to distribute funds to - please chip in if you can! XOXO, thanks for your support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

Tax the rich

The ERA, which will update the US Constitution to protect the equality of rights under the law regardless of sex, can be added to the Constitution with one action. With just months left in office, LWV is urging Pres. Biden to act to ensure that the ERA is published.
www.lwv.org/take-action/...

Donate to Support the DNC Staff Union Layoff Relief Fund, organized by Jill Brownfield Last week, 2/3 of DNC staff was laid off with little notice and no seve… Jill Brownfield needs your support for Support the DNC Staff Union Layoff Relief Fund

Many of our workers were laid off on short notice with no severance last week. To help provide some financial relief to those affected, the DNC Staff Union has started a relief fund via GoFundMe.

As we continue to fight for them, please share and donate if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

One day’s notice, no severance—the DNC fights for workers, just not their own.

Full statement below:

Dog peeking out from underneath bed

Coming out of social media hiatus. Hopefully it'll be better over here.