Pleasantly surprised by how excited the trick-or-treating teens were for the sticker sheets we had on offer. Fully expected those to be grabbed almost entirely by the toddlers. Glow sticks were also very popular, especially as night fell. Dum-Dums not so much, but our 5yo loves them, so 🤷🏻‍♂️

I was just thinking about this one today! It's a perennial favorite

Whenever I enjoy a D&D novel or comic, it always turns into homework as I take notes on the characters and settings so I can deploy them in my games. Currently gathering details on Fielle's family inn as I read this, to use in my Baldur's Gate campaign… Thanks @delilahsdawson.bsky.social 😄

Unplanned werewolf double-feature tonight, as I knocked off the two shortest films on my October watchlist: The Wolf Man (1941) – ★★★ boxd.it/bxsiYp Slice (2018) – ★★ boxd.it/bxvb67

As soon as I saw this headline, I could hear @yrfatfriend.bsky.social and @michaelhobbes.bsky.social in my head yelling about what "ultraprocessed" even means

i saw goody proctor making inflammatory posts about charlie kirk

It's only 32 miles away, think it'll still be there if I leave now? 🤔

If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

Inspired by a @ghweldon.bsky.social moment in today's Pop Culture Happy Hour episode. I regret nothing (except the resolution of the headshot 😕)

This hardly even counts, but I was getting lunch with some coworkers at a fast food joint, and after we checked out my colleagues were like "That was [famous Chicago Bear (or maybe Bull?)] behind us!" I'm so not a sports person, I still have no idea

Honestly? Would

happy pride month!

I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it. www.wwltv.com/article/news...

Oof, this "game" sounds like a relationship destroyer 🫣

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

Or, y'know, your life is FULL of people telling you which to pick, but they're, like, boring adult authority figures, which you're ignoring because you're a teenager 🤷🏻‍♂️

Shared to the Fb group for my community a negative encounter with some sketchy door-to-door teen solicitors, and SO MANY people were like "Call the cops on them" which…seems like an unnecessary escalation? #SuburbanLife #DontCallTheCops

Hey @nytimes.com Games, got an update for your Spelling Bee dictionary:

Protect trans kids. Fuck your hogwarts house bullshit. (Stolen from a discord community, no origin given)

A film that takes place where you're from (Kinda. The book was actually set at my high school and surrounding environs, of which Larry Doyle is an alum. Names — and filming locations — were changed for the movie)

That Bat-Cola bottle design rules

Wait, hey, I had salmon on First Contact Day too! 🐟🖖🏻

Ruin a movie with a kitchen utensil Ladle in the Water

Let's get her there!

My brilliant 5yo saw me reading this book by @theradr.bsky.social and asked what it was about. After I explained that it was about what we should do if we've hurt someone and need to make it better, he said "That book should be in every house!" And y'know, he's not wrong

My standing rule is that we need a quorum of players to keep the game on schedule — anyone is welcome to miss for any reason, but if more than half the players are going to miss, that's not worth the plan-revising acrobatics I would need to do. But otherwise: This 👇🏻

The 5yo has discovered @sshaskan.bsky.social's Pizza & Taco books, and we have not gone a day since without me having to be Pizza to his Taco as we recreate the books (ghost pepper hunting is the favored iteration, followed by being cool at school)

"Did you know there's a song called Space Jam? It's my favorite!" — The 5yo

Wondering about the voice behind the 5yo's beloved YouTube creator Dr. Binocs, but LLMs have made search engines useless

Excuse me, Spelling Bee, but I would like to have words with you about how I spend most of my days…

Barry Manilow's "Copacabana" just came on, and the 5yo immediately stopped what he was doing and said "This is the song about Lola!" …I continue to have questions about what goes on at his daycare

On the newest Free With Ads, @mattlieb.bsky.social made a joke about synching the 1922 Nosferatu with Dark Side of the Moon, and now the only thing in the world I legit want is for bands to make concept albums that can be synched to old silent films

Just had "my first labor rights struggle" convo with the 5yo, who wanted to know why he has to go to school for five days every week. He's asked me to tell the people in charge it should only be three

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

📽️ Apparently real estate agents in Milwaukitoba work out of cubicle farms and only rep fully-furnished yet unoccupied properties

Spoilers, I suppose, but I was really hoping the end credits scene would be something to do with Department K, rather than the nothingburger should've-been-a-deleted-scene that we actually got 🤷🏻‍♂️📽️

How my brain works: Watching the SNL 50th specials, and I can't stop thinking about the logistics that must've been involved in figuring out who to seat where in the audience

📽️ My impulse was to write a more defensive review, but I didn't want to let the haters control the conversation

You don't even need to know coding! I cannot imagine looking at any dataset, seeing outlier data — let alone reams of it! — and concluding malice rather than a systemically explainable cause

I gotta admit, seeing this level of open corruption goes a long way towards explaining why the Imperial stormtroopers' gear in Star Wars turned out to be completely useless the first time some stone-age teddy bears started throwing hands.

I paused my #Google Ads campaigns. Not sure what impact this will have on my web orders, but it’s likely substantial. Can’t in good conscience pay them while they do evil. Owning a small business in 2025 sucks. Hopefully people will find ny site without Google Ads.🤞🏼 luckydoghotsauce.com, btw.

Bay-on-Sea? .........I'll see ("sea"?) myself out

Watching this on Hoopla (where they've got it in some bonkers matted aspect ratio for some reason), and good lord is the German guy a total @dantelfer.com NPC. It's like he walked straight out of passive-aggressively antagonizing the #NerdPoker crew — I love it! 📽️ #filmsky

Wasn't sure if this break was a creative choice or an accidental conversion-to-digital flub. The fun of e-reading. (He does this several times in the story, so I figured out it's deliberate, but I do wonder if the "did they mess up" response was an intended outcome…) #BookSky

Does he think "now deleted" and "pseudonym" are exonerating factors in the decision?

I just read for the first time Stephen King's "Sometimes They Come Back," and it was a fine little horror short, but now I'm wondering how there was enough "there" there to adapt into ONE movie, let alone spawn two sequels…

…you ever get the feeling you're being watched?

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