🚨HAPPY EXPLODING WHALE DAY🚨 1/n www.oregonlive.com/travel/2024/...

The vehicle arms race: xkcd.com/3167 (I'm lucky to live in an area that is fairly bike-friendly, with drivers who understand how to behave around cyclists.)

Please help, I've fallen down the Temu screaming goat throw pillow rabbithole

Teslacon Saturday (3)

Teslacon Saturday (2)

Teslacon Saturday (1)

Very pleased to announce that I've sold cli-fi short story "Bend Like the Palm" to Clarkesworld!

if you voted in Seattle you gotta make sure your ballot counted now

The solution to "but we blew up Bond in the last movie" seems obvious to me: make the next one a prequel. Return Bond to his Cold War roots with 60s gadgets and luscious midcentury cars, fashion, and decor. The stakes for the plot are already established and couldn't be higher.

Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want. (Here's the opening of "The Kuiper Belt Job.")

Okay, so fantasy football is a thing. But doesn't that imply the existence of mystery football, horror football and the like? Maybe Regency football, screwball football, Ruritanian football and more?

welcome

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

To be clear, this deal still needs to go through a debate and amendment process and more 60-vote thresholds to pass the Senate, and then it must pass the House. There's still room for constituent pressure.

A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Teslacon Friday (1) REVISED

Teslacon Friday (3)

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Teslacon Thursday (3)

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Teslacon Thursday (1)

This judge may be the angriest person in America. This thread blew my hair back.

#TodayILearned that whalebone (the filtering keratin of baleen whales), when used as corset boning, would gradually mold itself to the wearer's body. Modern plastic boning doesn't do that.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin. How times change.

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

In 1945, German prisoners of war at Camp Butner in NC were shown films of the atrocities the Nazis committed. Many reacted in shame and disgust. 1000 of them burned their uniforms afterwards. There will come a time when Republicans will have to face the atrocities they are sanctioning here.

At PDX heading to Madison for the Teslacon steampunk convention!

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Tomorrow morning 53 Republican Senators are going to walk into the White House to be berated by Trump about the filibuster and the government shutdown, and they're each and every one of them going to be thinking about tonight's results.

I have decided: I don't need to know that the shipping label was created. Keep me in the dark on that. Come back to me when something real is happening

St. Peter at the Pearly Gates: Did you live by the Ten Commandments? Mike Johnson: I have no idea. I have not seen those

This is where I've thought our slop hell is going for a while and it's now Meta's stated objective. We are seeing the beginnings of it now. Do you want to go see [the big game] to support [your favorite team]? Ticketmaster is running this on Facebook now:

Philip K. Dick gets it right again. Let's hear it for the vague blurs!

The ecological impacts of "AI" are bad but if people only used it intentionally, they'd stay there. But with every provider, every search engine, every website firing up some chatbot or summarizer even when not asked it quickly turns from bad to monstrous.

New opinion on the National Guard case in Portland from Judge Immergut. She ruled Trump’s federalization orders exceeded statutory limits and likely violated the Tenth Amendment. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

We had 50-60 kids despite the rain. Amy suggested that when they complimented my costume I should say "vhat is costuum?"

As he reached for a piece of candy before the kids arrived, I said,” Hey, you gotta say ‘trick or treat!’” He did me one better. Walked upstairs, came down with some hangers and quickly turned into a dashing vampire. @daviddlevine.com

The Roberts Court has gone so far off the rails that even calling it "Supreme" grants it too much legitimacy.

Since it’s Halloween… Here’s Mike Jittlov’s “Swing Shift”… youtu.be/scV2fSmE75M?...

Oscar Wilde's British Library reader status, cancelled after his conviction and imprisonment in 1895, was symbolically restored in October. Just to make sure no Wilde impersonators can take advantage, the card expires or expired on Wilde's death date of 30 November 1900.

Remember to leave a babysitter out for Michael Myers tonight!

Ooh, I hadn't heard that this project is going forward! Fingers crossed that it's successful.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

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