This thread is amazing and great job on the alt-text too.

Happy #Halloween 🎃Since this fellow was so popular we are once again sharing spooktacular illustrations of Vampyroteuthis. The 'vampire squid from hell' is neither squid nor vampire, using sticky filaments to feed on marine snow

📖 Reports from the German Deep-Sea Expedition 'Valdivia' 1898-1899

Please share this message. #ClimateCrisis

A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE,
now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

Not only is Young Frankenstein a great movie, but it’s also a wonderful snapshot of a bunch of hugely talented people at the absolute peak of their powers. Wilder talked about not wanting to go home, such was the pleasure of making this film, and that energy runs through every scene.

will kim is still in ICE detention

Has anyone ever attempted a Mandarin transcription system alignment chart? 🍿

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Robot from the 1960s tv show, Lost in Space. It has a look that evokes a human, but is not really trying to look like a real human. The head are has a circular glass or plastic top that looks like a clear light fixture at the top and a one that is translucent and ribbed above the “shoulder” area that is like a collar. It has two arms that end in red pinchers, and a group of lights or buttons centered on what would be the chest. On the part that in a human would correspond to hips and legs there is gray rubber, ribbed. The “feet” are boxes on caterpillar tracks.

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked Soyinka, 91, who recently compared US president to Idi Amin, says ‘I have no visa – I am banned’

They fear speech.
Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

A new Hong Kong police plan to expand its AI-enabled SmartView CCTV system to places managed by other departments – including at 10 public housing estates – has provoked privacy concerns among residents.

HKFP spoke to a few: hongkongfp.com/2025/10/27/n...

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

National security trial of Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil group delayed again to January | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP The national security trial of the now-disbanded group that organised vigils for the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has been delayed again, with the first trial date scheduled in January next year. According...

The national security trial of the now-disbanded group that organised vigils for the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has been delayed again. In full: buff.ly/cVTWhXW

A recently unearthed history of a select group of 24 Chinese naval officers who took part in the D-Day Landings and Operation Dragoon in the liberation of Southern France library.hkust.edu.hk/exhibitions/...

Learn how to use it Wim Vanrie: “You can only critically assess the output of an AI chatbot if you have the skills to do so, and you don’t develop these skills by using AI” University guidelines on how to use AI as a student or teacher are invariably very positively formulated. “The advice is ingrained with the optimism that this technology will only get better. It’s the same story the AI companies are telling: with more computers and more data, all will be fine. That’s bullshit. This is and will always be a statistical, associative machine.” “Guidelines now focus on early adoption of the technology by students and schoolchildren. But what does it mean to ‘learn how to use ChatGPT’? What are you teaching them? Copying and pasting the output of a chatbot? My advice would be to teach them how computers work, how to code, how to think about the processes behind all this”, says Steels. Nicky Dries takes issue with the idea that AI use would prepare students for the labour market. “Are we just going along with the marketing pitch that AI will be inevitable in the workplace? Academic education has always implied a broader, intellectual education. You can’t view this tendency to prioritise education and research with an immediate economic purpose separately from the planned cuts in higher education by the current government.”

“The advice is ingrained with the optimism that this technology will only get better. It’s the same story the AI companies are telling: with more computers and more data, all will be fine. That’s bullshit. This is and will always be a statistical, associative machine.”

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Spirit possession! 👻 What to do when a dybbuks, zārs and other Jewish spirits turn up unexpectedly

Dybbuks and zārs and jnun, oh my! 👻

On Jewish spirit possession:

the friendly, and not-so-friendly, what to do when they show up,

and how a Jewish psychiatrist explains the difference between spirit possession and actual mental illness for other professionals in her field.

Read on:

It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.

Otherwise, I suppose it would just mainly be pease porridge (hot, cold, 9 days old…)

Yes, 7th grade social studies

But, at the same time, hope that many captives were set free and can return to their homes or journey to a safe place to heal.

But, using this operation as a “an important demonstration of China's judicial sovereignty” is also frightening.

Approved/ignored by the powers that be for so long?

Concerned this is the pedo-con grifters vision for the world : abused slaves imprisoned in private camps, forced to do scams & worse.

57,000 Chinese scam suspects arrested in Myanmar - RTHK China recently prosecuted two criminal gangs based in northern Myanmar over telecom fraud and other crimes targeting civ...

57,000 Chinese nationals in Myanmar arrested, scores of armed compounds where people were violently abused, billions of dollars.

Going on for more than a decade

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“.. Journalists from the undersigned defense trade publications will not sign this new policy.”

Military Times
Defense News
Aviation Week
Breaking Defense
Defense Daily
Defense One
Inside Defense
USNI News.

@militarytimes.bsky.social
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Librarians are banding together for the CDC library and its staff. Consider signing, sharing, and call your reps.

🧵🏆

Yes, the rights of the readers, including the right not to defend your taste - Daniel Pennac’s Readers Bill of Rights, I first came across via this 2008 blog posting - www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2008/09...

My great-grandfather learned to write his (and now my) family name one way, some of his brothers a different way. They had different primary school teachers in the West End of Boston in the 1890s.

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.