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Illustration of a witch in a pink hat, heart glasses and sweater dragging a mouse cursor magically across a desktop. There's multiple files overlaid across the desktop. Drawn by gdbeeart, Oct 2025

*Drag n Drop*
RIP Win10. I'm never upgrading 😭

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

My M'VP + 🐐
This photo is so 🔥

Updated COVID shot led to less severe illness, fewer hospitalizations last year, US study finds Last year's updated COVID-19 vaccines helped prevent severe outcomes including hospitalizations and deaths, according to data from a large study of U.S. military veterans published on Wednesday.

Updated COVID shot led to less severe illness, fewer hospitalizations last year, US study finds reut.rs/3KEOvOE

full body illustration of a vampire and werewolf couple. the vampire has red eyes and short, dark gray hair. the werewolf has yellow eyes and long brown hair, and she wears a fancy ball gown. the vampire bares her fangs over her lover's throat as the werewolf grips her arm with one hand, the other coming around her neck to reveal pointed claws. a fuller image of their portraits are shown in the background: the vampire glances at her lover with a small smile, a bit of blood smeared on her lips. there are faded scratch marks on her chest. the werewolf smiles back at her. the teeth marks in her neck are slightly bloody.

butch vampire x femme werewolf 🖤

find your local anti fascists cause people only survive things like this with community

The cover of Baltimore Beat. It is a photo of an older Black man holding a pigeon.

Issue 70 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover is a photograph of Isaac “Coach Coop” Evans taken by Christian Thomas.

Trump with Yankees

Yankees fans

Fix your hearts or die

The one and only.
Commission for @smiley.bgay.social

Relatable, Trevor

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

another year forgetting to make something for blacktober :)

NEW: Our very own @liaholland.bsky.social digs in with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social about the political campaign against VPNs + how to fight back.

a sliding scale of fictional bassists ranging from "coolest girl you'll ever meet" to "sopping wet paper towel", featuring, from right to left: roxie from pokemon, marceline from adventure time, shiho from project sekai, shiraya from rock is a lady's modesty, rupa from girls band cry, rin from girl meets rock, mio from k-on, ryo from bocchi the rock, soyo from bandori, umiri from bandori, rimi from bandori, and kikuri from bocchi the rock.

upon further deliberation i have created a non-exhaustive sliding scale of girlbassists.

ok it’s time

its blacktober!!!

The best grapefruit soda to ever do it!

Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the Department's operational status. Thank you.

Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:

[Here lies a child who was made into a monster and a mother]

#1000xresist

PBS and NPR funding cuts are hitting home as government shutdown looms | CNN Business Cuts to NPR, PBS and other public media outlets have been in the news all year long, but now the federal funds have actually run out.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS, is closing after a $1.1B federal cut. PBS cut 15% of staff, over 100 jobs lost. NPR plans $8M in cuts to support stations but no major layoffs. Many local public stations face closures amid funding loss edition.cnn.com/2025/09/30/m...

If you are an immigrant, you learn the asymmetrical balance of power when it comes to mistakes.
You make a mistake - you pay for it. The bureaucracy makes mistakes - you might pay for that too.
This is getting worse. More administrative mistakes and zero tolerance for immigrant errors.

some of my Gwen rough animation for the first sequence in the #KnightsofGuinevere pilot! I had a lot of fun with the hair hehe 💙 many thanks again to Dana and Kofi for letting me have fun with these! 💙🤸

#animation #officialwork

The Ezra Klein style of caring about political “strategy” over consistent moral principles and values of your own reminds me of how a lot of pop culture consumers obsessively track box office and chart performance rather than just evaluating based on whether things are good or if they like them

MY GOD CHELSEA!!!!

ICE officer drops, then points gun toward bystanders during Hyattsville arrest An Immigration and Enforcement Customs (ICE) Officer was captured fumbling and then pointing a gun toward bystanders during an arrest on Wednesday morning in a busy Hyattsville intersection.

ICE officer drops and then points gun toward bystanders during arrest in Hyattsville

A wizard ponders five blue crystal orbs labeled WIP

Them: So what have y'all been up to?
Me: Haha, you know. The usual.

The Usual:

it's always so funny who the big names are in articles like this. like oh no not Cuddy from House. not the lady who almost hosted Jeopardy. not Gene Simmons