Heads up to anyone who uses Stripe, in case you didn't hear/need the reminder: Starting Dec 2025, ALL accounts will be auto opted-in to their AI dispute feature, which will auto fight disputes for you, and take 30% if it wins for you. If you do NOT want this feature, turn it off via your dashboard.

Why take this deal, at this exact moment? The shutdown is backfiring on Trump; he's getting booed at football games; his party's losing elections; he's losing legal fights on SNAP and firing of Federal workers. Why *help* him, right now, unless you get something in return? Is this the explanation?

The sun itself was hidden, but there was a glitter on the horizon, almost like the dazzle of the crystal walls of the Undertomb, a kind of joyous shimmering off on the edge of the world. “What is that?” the girl said, and he: “The sea.”

I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that

Chicago folks: If any of y'all are impacted by the food stamps "pause" (or know someone who is), these Albany Park restaurants are giving out food www.instagram.com/p/DQw8ugij7b...

Question for the nerds: in Chrono Trigger, 600 AD is an obvious Dragon Quest homage, 65,000,00 BC is cartoon cavemen-vs.-dinosaurs a la "the Thagomizer", and 2300 AD is clearly drawing from Terminator-style SF futures in American movies. But what is Zeal inspired by? It's gotta be something, right?

A thing I've noticed with two different streaming companies is trans rights failures are a good canary for much worse things to come. I ditched Spotify and I ditched Netflix over giving money to transphobia…and now 5 years later everyone's like "AI! War profiteering!" and I'm like huh not my problem

Reminds me of how someone just four years younger than me had completely missed the brief period in the 80s when American adults had this huge complex about how many days per year Japanese kids went to school. How may different ways to be weird about Japan has the US cycled through in our lifetime?

If you offer the option to book an appointment by text, please at least try to do the whole interaction that way. Or, like, ask before switching to a phone call. I promise that no one who's drawn in by the possibility of handling this by text will enjoy getting (and likely missing) a surprise call.

Hanging, swaying, pulsing, the most vulnerable and insubstantial creature, it has for its defense the violence and power of the whole ocean, to which it has entrusted its being, its going, and its will.

Vyvanse recall lot numbers

Probably many of them? Maybe most of them? All but a few artists are unlikely to enjoy my company. Why would they? The one that stings the most is Octavia E. Butler, as her stories have stabbed me through the heart _so_ hard, but it is also _so_ clear that she wouldn't have the time of day for me.

Also worth noting that "well, I guess I just can't leave the country right now because the government's fucking with me" is a situation green card holders have been used for a long time—another demonstration any indiginity the government pushes on immigrants will eventually be turned on citizens too

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

In the last month at O’Hare International Airport, federal agents have repeatedly abducted rideshare drivers with legal work permits from their cars and disappeared them to immigration jails or fast-track deportation flights.

I'm seeing reports that "rude" is one of the labels that defaults not just to "warn" but to "hide", which is bonkers. Be sure to go through the immediately visible labels, the ones where you have to click the "Bluesky moderation" labeler, _and_ the special "adult content" checkbox.

Oh my GOD lmao

I haven't seen @stechlab-labels.bsky.social identify any likely bots yet, but I appreciate the little labels on people who have been posting just way too hard. Like, it's true, I might reconsider clicking through to the profile of someone who made >100 posts yesterday. Appropriate content warning.

BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting. If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.

In a lot of ways, we've spent the last twenty years living in the world that Dick Cheney built. Maybe today is the first day of a better world.

Hey, do I have any mutuals in Chicago who I haven't met in person yet and who still mask / otherwise practice some sort of Covid-avoidance strategy, whatever it is? If so, I'd love to get a hot drink with you and sip it outside while we chat, before the weather turns too inconvenient for this.

good labeler to tag the real freaks here bsky.app/profile/stec...

New awareness campaign

species that give good hugs

Venture capital poisons societies and it was a mistake to allow it into the operation of libraries cloudisland.nz/@heyrochelle...

OH: from a category theory perspective, napping is co-working

The sea spoke forever, but its language was foreign to her. She did not understand.

World where curses are real so if you go down to the drugstore there's a witch on staff who once a year will cast a mild curse on you so that your body builds up its natural defenses against stronger curses

Source: 9to5google.com/2025/10/29/y... *End users* can opt out, and will be able to check in the player whether they are watching a real or upscaled video. But I am very curious, if you could put an exact cost on this decision in terms of kWh/atmospheric CO2, what the total would come to.

Please come to my events this week!

Okay, cool, I successfully diagnosed this crushing tiredness as "I need to eat all the cheese and crackers" and not "time for another mug of tea". I was also up way too late last night, so it really could've gone either way.

#TTRPG folks: how do you price your games on itch, drive through RPG, etc.? Does the platform or page count change how you price it?

This almost makes me wish I still went to cons. Like, the big sort of cons I went to in my 20s and late teens, where you could find people in the dealers' room with just all sorts of imported CDs. And yes, some of them were bootlegs. But you just couldn't find physical copies of these anywhere else

I trained the tiny neural net on the latest set of reader-submitted Halloween costumes and do I have some costume suggestions for you! www.aiweirdness.com/tiny-neural-...

This always makes me think of Octavia Butler's unfinished third Earthseed book, Parable of the Trickster. I hope there's even one other person out there who gets why. [Image is a smear frame of Homer Simpson, with three eyes / two noses, in front of Dogs Playing Poker, from Treehouse of Horror IV.]

get in everybody let's unfuck google drive by shooting gemini drive.google.com/drive/u/0/se... (if you're signed into google this goes right to settings. may go without saying, but if you're not already signed in and see a login please don't enter a password into a link you click on social media 😂)

Look. At. Him. Look at him!!!!

Hey, do I have any mutuals in Chicago who I haven't met in person yet and who still mask / otherwise practice some sort of Covid-avoidance strategy, whatever it is? If so, I'd love to get a hot drink with you and sip it outside while we chat, before the weather turns too inconvenient for this.

Well-dressed Lady With Purple Hair Only One At Tech Meetup Not Trying To Create Robot God

“What I need you to know is we are organized. What I need you to know is that you need to get organized. What I need you to know is they are coming. What I need you to know is you can stop them.“ dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

I can't believe topatoco.com/collections/... is still a real physical book that is apparently in stock and purchasable. Based on www.qwantz.com/index.php?co... in case you're nor familiar with it. So, like, you _can_ get it for your friends' and relatives' kids, but maybe just for the older kids?

we protect ourselves from a reliable schedule

Make a movie food: Dessert Hearts

Thanks to you lovely people, I'm now at $65 out of the $925 I need for November rent. It's both helpful and heartening. 💜 paypal.me/aislinndelyon

If you're using Windows 11, Microsoft is now surveilling you in a new way. This may already be turned on on your computer, and you would not be notified; it activates whenever they detect you are in a "game", which in my experience Microsoft often false-positives on doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...