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I was numbed-out after coming within a whisker of being whacked by a tornado on the night this originally aired & couldn't fully appreciate it. Just watched again & wow.

Cats and I are safe in bathroom. Lots of funky noises happening not sure what's going on.

We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, D.C. for the Land of Hope And Dreams American Tour.

Can vouch for this person. Help out if you can!

My all time favorite genre of text message is from harried people with dogs who use voice to text for composition.

So many folks who thought Born in the USA was a pro-America song are suddenly worried about not understanding lyrics.

Pretty sure it wasn’t actually Liam. But it was a clear homage.

THIS.

Oh my bad… looks like it wasn’t. Either way, the point was made.

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

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Re: cutest child. Now I have even more goosebumps retroactively. Brilliant!!

I think one of the best things about Bad Bunny’s performance is that it was so *specific*. It so clearly had a point of view coming from real lived experience and actual emotion, actual heart, not cynical calculation. Just beautiful.

1. This choreography is super fun 2. Was that the cutest small child on the planet or what?! (With the Grammy) 3. You know, I think pretty much every high school in the country offers Spanish classes. If you can't understand the words you pretty much only have yourself to blame.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

In the face of growing backlash against the LGBTQ community, I have coincidentally published my raunchiest collection yet. It is entitled Tricks and may be ordered directly from the publisher CutBank Books here: www.cutbankonline.org Be forewarned: it contains homo stuff (and I don't mean milk) 🏳️‍🌈

One must constantly prepare for sudden beauty.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

When I say poetry this is what I mean.

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

Badger carries the old moon out of the month. NewMoon 21 October. Art by Jackie Morris

I write messages to the dead and the not yet living. This is a good week to set something down on paper for those who will read it later or by passing like a wind over the pages.

Do they look cute in the daylight? We think so! 🐡🎨 blueasterstudio.com/collections/...

A guitar titan is gone. Farewell to the Spaceman; here's my NPR obituary for KISS legend Ace Frehley. www.npr.org/2025/10/16/n...

On-point statement from the IU-Bloomington AAUP: “this action and the Rodenbush firing constitute a clear violation of First Amendment protections of freedom of the press, and further deteriorate IU’s commitment to free speech.”

To catch you up, Indiana University’s student newspaper reported: • It was told to print no news in its homecoming edition, set to come out Thursday. • It refused. • The director of student media was fired. • Hours later, IU cut all print editions of the paper, including Thursday’s issue.

🗣️ We're hosting an archival version of "plainlanguage.gov" to help make sure this trusted resource remains available to folks who need it.

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

Assuming CDC formally adopts ACIP's recommendations, CVS tells me it will provide Covid vaccines without a prescription in all 50 states and won't require even self-attestation of a qualifying condition — "it’s up to the individual patient." No confirmation from Walgreens or Walmart yet.

Sad. Don’t know what coverage is like in the US but here’s the BBC.

The friend who witnessed Michael Brown’s death was shot and killed Sunday morning less than a mile away from where a police officer killed Brown.

This is the drug that is a 100% effective treatment for HIV. this is the one you've been seeing in the news. I would LOVE to see an in-depth discussion of exactly what "clinical, financial, and regulatory factors" are keeping them from essentially carrying a cure to a deadly disease.

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

This is a fascinating, disturbing, but also moving story, about how AI is being used to monetize death and grief. Maybe there could be some kind of a "certified human" stamp and you could just search for that and automatically factor out AI

🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨 Please RT this so as many people see it as possible. forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...

#Kona #webcam facing the ocean over Aliʻi Drive, just south of the pier, is here. Tsunami will have some work to get over the seawall, and it will be 17 mins past sunset, but could still be interesting: www.konaweb.com/cam/index.html Screenshot below of conditions (flawless) right now.

Academic librarian friends - throw some words of encouragement her way!

This beautiful summer poem by Rosalie Moffat.

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them. tomlehrersongs.com

Frank O'Hara, who died #OTD in 1966. “In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”

If you want to support public radio stations in danger of closing following Congress’ vote to end funding, check out this website: https://loom.ly/TVaWxxc

“The typical female pet owner spends more time actively engaged with her pet than she spends in face-to-face contact with friends of her own species.” The pet lives in her house, DEREK. Do you think that female pet owner has to text her cat, who is in her house, 15 times to make plans, DEREK

Precious few printed recipes for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Does that mean they are rarely made or eaten?

today in Grokology, the chatbot is doing antisemitism