the lehr witch project

One of the major fruits of research is delight. Think of how often you’ve read about a discovery and really enjoyed it. Often the most pleasurable kind of news. Public delight isn’t discussed enough as one of the major outputs of funding research.

so, the costume of the year last night clearly goes to the kid who came dressed as municipal scaffolding

Honey, I Don’t Think Our Haunted House Is Elevated INTERVIEWER: People usually use [the term “elevated horror”] to refer to A24’s movies, horror that’s very heavy on the metaphorical. Hereditary, Mi...

happy Halloween from me and @mcsweeneys.net!

(let it be understood that my agenda is being a Silly Goose)

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they are trying to kill every trans kid in America

when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink

unconscionable evil

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

this is closer to the actual film than i expected

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

(hey — thank you so much! :)

L’affaire Thomas Crown

It is deeply immoral that cashiers in the US are not allowed to sit.

my spouse, 5 min into WOLF CREEK: Australia looks like a nice place to visit

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military.

They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

Paying $653 to See if I Had the Disease That Killed My Mother Written by Mara Wilson / Illustrated by Emily Flake

Thanks to @marawilson.bsky.social for this week’s story on the Out-Of-Network Network, illustrated by Emily Flake.

Read the whole thing here!

(Have an anecdote about navigating the healthcare system that you’d like to share? Reach out to us.)

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reminder:

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

not to be confused with my other goth dads, Clive Barker and David Cronenberg

happy birthday + belated birthday to my two goth dads

@brucespringsteen.net & @stephenking.bsky.social

How to Make Strudel Like Magda Goebbels “My grandfather used to say ‘and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel’ and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained s...

latest in @mcsweeneys.net — the crust has never been thinner

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you are one of our finest Googlers

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

If you're a university president insisting that you need to invite more people like Charlie Kirk to your campus, you should first be required to make a speech to all your students, staff and faculty that reads off all the verbatim quotes from Charlie Kirk in this piece.

my body is broken. i go to my fathers, in whose mighty company i shall not now feel ashamed

Black and white photo of the enormous SS President Grant Steamship gliding parallel to crowd of people watching with great interest. Seattle, 6/12/1926.

whenever someone walks by with a Great Dane, i feel compelled to watch it pass like this:

blasting “born in the u.s.a.” (derogatory)

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

standing on our balcony yelling down to each boy and asking him “what news”

I’m very sorry for your loss.

Image of beloved red-headed can-stacking baby from Wikipedia page for autism. Boy is wearing a red sweatshirt and white sweatpants, facing away from the camera as he stacks cans almost to his own height. In the background, an open cabinet of cans is visible. A red circle has been drawn around a cluster of Campbell’s Soups.

the broth thickens

WEAPONS 2 starts with the same scary parent meeting, but they’re debating whether Campbell’s Soup causes autism

FLORENCE & THE MACHINE’S NEW ALBUM COMES OUT ON HALLOWEEN, omg omg!!!!

WE’RE SAVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!