Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

Mike Wazowsky

Will be VERY interesting how the current administration responds to this news. My guess is silence, but they are also unhinged so who knows.

BREAKING: City of Atlanta voters can vote until 8 PM on Election Day But Atlantans who arrive at polls after 7 PM can’t vote in the Georgia PSC elections and must use provisional ballots.

#Atlanta: Don’t forget to VOTE tomorrow! We’re electing city council offices as well as positions on the Public Services Commission, among others. All are important. Check your voter registration registration here: mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/. 🗳️

Some interesting, bug-related translinguistic discoveries today 🇨🇻 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 In Spanish and both main dialects of Portuguese, “dragonfly” is LIBÉLULA. The term I learned in Cabo Verde (Kriolu) is CAVALO-DE-FEITICEIRA (“witch’s horse” 😮). In Kriolu, “praying mantis” is SAÚDE (literally “health”)…

It’s not AI, okay?! Some people just have nine fingers on one hand. JEEZ.

Oh good that should settle it then

Thoroughly enjoying this short and very autumnal trip to Madison, WI. Tomorrow I’ll venture deeper into my alma mater, @uwmadison.bsky.social and @wsum.bsky.social. 🍂 🦡

My book’s LOC call number. Having this made the whole publication process feel truly final last year. Incidentally, “GR” seems appropriate for a book about dragons 🐉

According to legend, the emo-punk trio I drummed for circa 1997, Sixty Second Skill, won “Worst to Ever Perform Here” at Voodoo Jive Records in Bannockburn, IL. I literally did not know any of our songs. Just general beats the bassist/simger would cue me on. I think about this sometimes. 🥁 🖤

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

😢 RIP to a legend.

Gonna miss the #WTFPod. But I know @marcmaron.bsky.social himself isn’t going anywhere. He’s a man fueled by productive anxiety, nosy yet respectful curiosity, and ancestral oddness that cannot be destroyed by conventional weapons. In other words, a true kindred spirit, and why I love him.

Brown University apparently needs input before (possibly) showing the spine that MIT did in not kowtowing to Trump. Please let them know your thoughts and share this widely. Especially alum, students, staff, and faculty. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Trump did not win 2025 Nobel Peace Prize https://www.axios.com/2025/10/10/nobel-peace-prize-winner-machado-venezuela-trump #axios #news #usnews

“36 Hours in Madison, Wis.” by my old friend @petercameronwi.bsky.social 🧀 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Okay. It’s true that I have a master’s in Portuguese and Brazilian studies. But at no point during my degree program did it come up that there is still a distinct Germanic language spoken in southern Brazil called Hunsrik. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunsrik... 🇩🇪 🇧🇷

Georgians can now get updated Covid shots at pharmacies without a prescription Georgians should now be able to get the updated Covid vaccines at pharmacies without a prescription after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved the latest federal guidelines. The same goes for access…

So I guess this means he really has died?

25% off my book (and all mythology titles) via @mcfarland.bsky.social until Oct 15 🐉 mcfarlandbooks.com/shop/literat...

This primate is very sad to learn this news. What a life and legacy!

Support this great initiative! My friend Joe Karg is a big part of it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/874...

Had a lovely time this past Saturday at the annual Strut in East Atlanta Village with my newspaper crew. We raised almost $500 in sales of raffle tickets, T-shirt, and even the odd direct donation. Festival season in Atlanta is long and glorious! We’ll be back at Ormewood Park Makers Fest on 10/18.

@hogansalley.bsky.social look what the mail brung in

Is “Scholar of Eldritch Tomes and Lore” too over the top to put in my bio?

It’s live! I’m really proud of this. theporchpress.com/print-editio...

I’m not saying that I’m more popular than Trump and Reagan combined, but

The “free speech absolutist” has spoken. You really ought to get off X if you haven’t by now.

My little neighborhood newspaper will be 24 pages in its next issue, out next week. This volume hasn’t been achieved in *at least* a decade. #printsnotdead

In honor of #DragonCon I’m selling my book for $15 off the cover price ($25 plus shipping, total). DM to order.

Did you know that Webster, Baxter, and Brewster, now only surnames, were once the feminine forms of weaver, baker, brewer (the professions)? www.etymonline.com/word/-ster

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RIP. This happened right by my house. Saw him play with his other band, West End Motel, at a bar in Brooklyn in 2010 and it was amazing.

My book is currently #6 in @mcfarland.bsky.social’s Literature category (out of 1,675) mcfarlandbooks.com/shop/literat...

Now that I have a kid, I’m finding myself sympathizing more and more with the character of T.S. Garp (his dad era, at least)

September 2025 issue OUT NOW theporchpress.com/print-editio...

It’s like, how much more orange can he be? And the answer is none. None more orange.

LOL, so KISS are conservative now? The famously chaste and demure KISS? Anyway, they better go full regalia for the awards ceremony or they are total cowards.

Well, at least my dinky little newspaper comes out this week.

Tomorrow!

If you don’t know this about American universities, you probably should

Does this song lowkey rule? youtube.com/watch?v=B6Lh...

I am less embarrassed by this after a second listen, so perhaps someone else might like it? You never know!

TIL Terry Gilliam was American? He renounced his citizenship in 2006 but was very much born and raised in Minnesota. I had no idea. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m trying to better internalize what George Carlin said about religion and academia being two sides of the same highly potentially problematic coin. Pretty much just the latter in my case, but you get me.

I'm attending Rohit Malhotra's event, “Grant Park Meet & Greet” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/rohitforatla...