RE: Lawmakers, SCOTUS, and bemoaning the state of science education in the US. Human biology at birth quiz: Which, if any, of the following 5 statements are true: (1) Everyone born with an XY chromosome pair is male and everyone born with a uterus, fallopian tubes, and vagina is female. 1/4

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

We were voters 127 and 128 at our precinct for its uncontested city council race, just making the 4:00 count.

Some fall color in our yard by the big bend in the road.

The fall rolls along...

Happy Halloween from all of us at Norman Rockwell Museum! 👻🎃 Image credit: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978). The Fiddler, 1921. Cover illustration for The Country Gentleman, October 1921. Oil on canvas. Brandywine River Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Sordoni III, 2019

The 2025 SC-Habing Pumpkin Family portrait. (From Left to Right: Sunflower, Dad, Sunshine, Mom, K)

UPDATE — CHARGES DROPPED against Larry Bushart, a liberal ex-cop who was in jail for 30+ days for a Trump meme post in a Charlie Kirk vigil group (Gotta think the @philinvestigates.com piece helped)

MUST WATCH: Tennessee sheriff defends jailing liberal activist for posting Trump meme about school shooting www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Share a TV show you love from the 2010's.

Frankie and the Cat took up their two week stint as door guardians, and Goosey has her costume on.

The reason gullible people believe all protesters are paid is because they can't conceive of anyone giving a shit about anyone other than themselves.

"There will be no safe spaces on this campus! You will hear things that upset and offend!" "Finally! It is past time that we as a people should be honest about the genocide in--" "Please wait here while I call security to have you removed."

I don’t think ChatGPT can teach college courses effectively, but I am confident it could write articles like this just fine.

I’m in a room where a whole ass faculty member said “Chat GPT 5 would be able to write a better NSF proposal than me” and… well… My inside thoughts got the best of me BC I said loud as fuck “that’s unfortunate, because there’s not a machine on earth that writes better than me.”

Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The new Supreme Court term starts today, meaning that -- in a novel twist -- the justices will hear oral arguments in some cases before they issue rulings that actually explain what they are doing.

ICE abducts people and then immediately moves them around to prevent access to lawyers and habeas corpus petitions. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social has the story on this consistent game being played to frustrate due process. prospect.org/justice/2025...

“There’s a baby!” Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.

I'm pondering the benefits of a state law cutting off power to mega-using data centers first before brown-outs can occur for anyone else in times of extreme usage.

The first of our end of year door guardians takes his place today. Will be there until Thanksgiving, except a two week break for Frankie for Halloween .

Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!

@amartinezla.bsky.social I was kind of hoping that pocket rescissions and POTUS unilaterally cutting agencies would have come up in the interview this morning with Rep. Dusty Johnson. Feels more than a little relevant to "trust"...

If you think of every Power Rangers Theme Song stitched together as a 45 minute+ movie... ...tracking the story of Bulk & Skull is pretty epic. There's a lot of growth there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Yj...

Yay!!!! Shakespeare and Hathaway and Seb are coming back. www.bbc.com/news/article...

There is a third option... 1/2

Reasons to use alt text for art: -Helps blind people (YAY) -Boosts your post. Feeds that pick up "Mermaid" will include a post that says "A mermaid lays on a rock" in alt even if actual post caption doesn't mention the word -alt says 'art', it counts as #art -Some ppl only repost art w/ alt text

“In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump’s DOJ deleted a study from its site stating right-wing violence ‘continues to outpace all other types of terrorism & domestic violent extremism’ in 🇺🇸 — The study was available online until Friday.” newrepublic.com/post/200537/...

On campus we have lawn mowing robots on the grass and food delivery robots on the paths. As they become more AI'ified, will they be allies (both robots), enemies (grass vs. sidewalk, especially if the AI is trained on people), or just ignore each other (like two different species of songbird)?

I hope you all read this from me.

Battle doomscrolling by posting five small pleasures in life: 1. Playing cards with family 2. Breakfast at the local bagel place 3. Our cockatiels sitting on my shoulders 4. Watching the birds in our yard 5. A cozy mystery on Britbox

"I think that it is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation." - Senator Margaret Chase Smith levin-center.org/joe-mccarthy...

People with mental illness, even severe, or who are poor, do in fact experience a full range of human emotions, including the capacity to love and be loved.

Love designing for ttRPGs & also love (or hate) pumpkin spice? It's time for the community voted on, 3rd annual Pumpkin Spice RPG Contest over on ENWorld!! Entries due before 12:00am PST October 1st. Links to past entries in post #10 in that thread. www.enworld.org/threads/the-... #ttRPG

Spotted on campus. I know it was actually Flavor Aid and not Kool-Aid, but still... Hard core irony? Or another cultural reference lost to time?

"I don't know if our suspect is even old enough to drive." abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-...

If Texas A&M wants to review the syllabi of any course, maybe it should be their required POLS 206. Because apparently some of their students don't understand key things about American National Government and the constitution.

This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison. But... /1

In which the Gamecocks try to make Clemson not feel quite as bad about their struggles against Troy. :-/

OK, hear me out — a Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor

Without saying the name, what is your favorite videogame?

Want to join a free study of potential relationships between the sense of smell and Parkinson's? Go here and click on the link. www.michaeljfox.org

Great weekend of college football results! South Carolina and Illinois won. Clemson, Notre Dame, and Texas lost. And even NIU, Nebraska, and USF won for some family and friends. Perfect 8-0 on the scores I check.

For #LittleBookTunes #MusicChallenge August • 30 | 31 (see the quoted post for the challenge and join in) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIni...