With ICE offering student loan forgiveness, maybe we’ll finally unravel the mystery of where Dean Cain went to college.

[halloweening intensifies]

Years ago I met a woman who claimed to have nannied Thomas Pynchon’s kid. We were of course incredulous, so she showed various sorts of proof, and one of the things she showed us had his phone number on it. I quickly added it to my contacts, and it has been there ever since. I have never called it.

Dave Cockrum, who penciled arguably the most important run of X-Men comics, was the nicest guy you could hope to meet. When I was 11 he let me sit at his con table and draw with him for the afternoon.

Man somebody should really do something.

Our neighborhood pizza place, which is as great a Chicago pizza spot as you can find, had their 75th birthday party today. We all dressed up in 50s outfits. The drop-ship greaser wig that I ordered made me look like dirtbag Liza Manelli, but it was still a blast.

summoning circle hope this works 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ Noah Hawley’s 🕯️ “A Night in the 🕯️ Lonesome October” 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

[explaining Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” lyrics to the 13yo] Yeah, no, that’s right, she says “mucho mistrust”

Came up on shuffle again

“Modern Love” came up on shuffle, so I have to share the flow chart. Image: pinstripehourglass on tumblr

In 2022, we were very excited to see 3.6sigma evidence of Cosmic Birefringence in Planck+WMAP. We've been waiting for confirmation from other experiments since, and now we are slowly getting it! New paper is finding 2.9sigma evidence in ACT DR6. This is getting serious! arxiv.org/abs/2509.13654

The kid fished an old iPod touch out of the device graveyard in the basement. Not only does it work, it still has a copy of Eucalyptus with a bunch of ebooks. Had to take a photo of the screen because no airdrop and it’s too old to connect to any email providers.

International Vegan Foundation having second thoughts about fundraiser at Dahmer household.

I don’t want to interrupt a thread I was just reading, so I will post this here: Ben Franklin nearly electrocuted himself testing his theory that killing a turkey with electricity, rather than by decapitation, would result in a juicer, more succulent bird.

[nodding] Deepwater entities.

lol. Lmao, even

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

The person being quoted is shitty but he is not wrong; I did not work in tv for 45 years, but I’ve worked news/mag advertising and/or digital marketing for 25 or so - and if you want to grab a media company’s attention by the short hairs, yes: bitch to their advertisers, not their inboxes.

[walking around the neighborhood] It’s happening

It’s not the Center for Disease Control anymore. With RFK Jr in charge it’s the Center for the Spread of Disease, the Center for Forcing you to Endure Avoidable Illnesses.

Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.

Hard to believe this math genius bankrupted a casino

“You’re paying $100 for your prescription? Eighteen months from now the drug companies will be paying YOU $900.”

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” It doesn’t work, Tim.

Perfect time to release the Epstein files.

Cool space news: one of the biggest black holes in the universe is doing something WEIRD! You probably remember this picture, the first ever image of a black hole, in the galaxy M87. What you’re really seeing here is the disk of gas around the black hole. (1/n) 📸: EHT Collab.🧪🔭

A cool and surprising fact is that this jet was first seen over 100 years ago, *optically* In 1918, Heber Curtis observed a a "curious straight ray" connected to the nucleus of M87 — the jet generated by its black hole. 🔭 🧪 Image: Linda Hall Library; NASA / Hubble Heritage; Event Horizon Telescope

RIP

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

They will keep doing it until something terrible happens, to assure themselves they can make something terrible happen, and then they are going to say it was called for and whatever non-right wing politician or group had it coming and brought it on themselves, and then they’ll do it again.

The Cassini Saturn mission ended with its "Grand Finale" #OTD in 2017. To avoid the possibility of colliding with and possibly contaminating one of Saturn’s moons, the probe incinerated itself by plunging into the planet's atmosphere. 🧪 🔭 Video: Artist's conception, from a NASA/JPL-Caltech video

I think you'll find that this isn't true.

If you've been stressed about fascism in the US (and who the hell isn't?), I literally cannot recommend more strongly getting OUT and going to REAL EVENTS like this with people in your community who are DOING SOMETHING. An absolute balm for the soul - and it's HOW WE WIN.

[Army helicopter lands at the remote Alaskan cabin where I am chopping wood. My 13yo hops out of the chopper] Her: Dad there’s a centipede in my room Me: I don’t do that any more Her: You have to kill it, dad. I can’t have it in here Me: I left that life behind Her: Come on dad one last job

Are you kidding me

The Cassini Saturn probe swept its cameras around #OTD in 2017 to collect some of its last images. A few days later it would end its twenty year mission by plunging into Saturn's atmosphere, a fireball flashing across the sky at over 70,000 mph. 🧪 🔭 Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Why do the characters in JAWS not simply defeat the shark in the marketplace of ideas?

┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in ┃╱╱╲╲ this ╱╱╭╮╲╲house ▔▏┗┛▕▔ we ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ make tiny extra pancakes ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔ specifically for the dog

What has Friedman seen that makes him believe the President cares about this, even a little? This Boomer belief that one can appeal to the *idea* of the President, that even though the man himself does not care, the office can somehow be invoked to do something. No. He ate the office. It’s gone.

Illinois friends, am I right that the state is headed towards allowing anyone to get COVID boosters later this month, but has not yet done so? I know Pritzker signed his order, but the criteria for getting a booster does not change until after the IAC meets and makes a recommendation, right?

Anyway, about time to release those Epstein Files.

fuck yeah we are

You can get them as prints here: 20x200.com/blogs/news/1... I got both and then had them custom-framed to spot colors in the images. They're gorgeous.

First of all, anything painted by John Berkey is unfiltered imagination gasoline.

Rick Guidice's painting of an O'Neill Cylinder is public domain and can of course be used here, but it's a 70s classic that deserves better than the association with Musk and Bezos.

It’s Friday night and I’ve got the place to myself, you know what that means… [clicks tongue, points finger guns] …time to watch this series of short documentaries about East Tennessee.

Terriers, Better Off Ted, Freaks and Geeks, Flight of the Conchords,

This is Firefly slander

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