I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Friends Boyfriend Chipotle @kryptonianblerd.bsky.social interested in eating some not-really-Mexican fast food to start our 2026? <3

Listen, since the Dept. of Education wanna say that Nursing isn’t a “Professional” Degree. I’m just gonna go ahead and play some Ass-Shaking Music while I chart and be REALLY unprofessional, since they don’t give a fuck. Chess, not Checkers. (Related Pic attached for flavor)

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!

1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports. This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them. Subscribe to support our journalism.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers. www.health.com/adhd-medicat...

For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city. So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.

the fact that a baseball game could, in theory, never end is part of what makes it my favorite sport. on a long enough time scale, we'll eventually have the eternal game

one-out popups with runners in scoring position are unfortunate, but if you hit one at least 50 feet high you are awarded 100 in-game credits that can be spent on sunflower seeds or gum in the dugout shop. that explains most of these

the stadium stopped selling alcohol seven innings ago. everyone at this game is sober now

It’s 4 AM. We’re in the middle of the 32nd inning. The ballpark kiss cam keeps panning to the only two people left in the stadium.

BREAKING - Overnight in August, the city of Orlando, Florida took down the Pulse Nightclub memorial rainbow crosswalk. The next day, people began protesting. TNN interviewed one of the protesters, who recounted horrific human rights abuses after her arrest. Written by @thefreeradical.org 🧵

New episode is all set to go, it drops tonight at midnight! This one is really different: quiet, emotional, it rewards close listening over headphones. It’s our most musically ambitious story to date.

IIRC, this is the second round of layoffs in FB's AI division

and so the wins continue

Perfection.

These goddamn double plays

FIREFOX USERS Mozilla shoved LLMs into your browser a short while back, here's how you get rid of it -Search about:config in the URL -Copy+paste the following terms in the search bar one at a time (you can copy them from the alt text or the next post!) -Toggle each one to False -Humanity Restored

Newark, DE #NoKings

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

FOUNDATION AND EARTH (1987) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 28" X 20" After 30 years, Isaac Asimov began to weave his two most famous series together in his novel Foundation and Earth. In this scene the author described the discovery of a huge statue, a remnant of a long-lost civilization. 1/7

This kind of behavior is always kind of annoying but especially bugs me in this case because this is an 87 page NTSB report including both culture issues and detailed photos and microscopic analysis of the hull failure which I was really itching for and all previous reports were light on

Great reporting from @erininthemorning.com. If anything mattered anymore, this kind of analysis, and the overzealous misuse of the data would be humiliating.

so, a big Resistance account on here kindly reshared my piece, then deleted their original post, and wrote another one linking to an article from a different site that aggregated my reporting here (and did so with due credit to be fair) … social media can be so weird

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

💛❌👑 #NoKings

Honestly very impressed by Newsmax, the Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner. They deserve credit precisely because they’re standing up for journalistic principle notwithstanding their ideological inclination.

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

The reelection campaign of Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton of Washington, D.C., is nearly broke as she faces a slate of Democratic primary challengers and questions about her political future. @taylorgiorno.bsky.social

Authorities have charged a 29-year-old man in connection to starting the Palisades Fire, which killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,800 homes and buildings. (via @laist.com)

Y'know what? It's giveaway time! Been a while. Like and repost this post, be entered to win one of two You Are-themed decks. the dungeon and the tavern! Giveaway of one deck happens at 50 reposts. Both decks at 100 reposts! Let's go (and back the Kickstarter!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/san...

This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/...

If you live in PA, ME, or NV, @fetterman.senate.gov, @cortezmasto.senate.gov, and @senangusking.bsky.social need to hear you’re paying attention. Last night, they caved. Today, we need them to fight for our healthcare. Tell them you’ll have their back when they do. indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

The Golden Girls was way ahead of its time.

So let's talk about why this sucks. I am so angry and so disappointed, but I also know that a lot of people might not understand why I and my queer friends are feeling this way. Read on for an explanation 🧵(1/14)

Every state that doesn't ascribe to fascism should pass a version of this bill. If I have to show my papers to the Gestapo, the Gestapo needs to show me their face and their badge number.

Good morning world

So how many Americans actually support political violence? And what should leaders do to lower the risk of future violence? I took a look at the evidence. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/americas-r...

Funny you mentioned this today, I've been expanding this game into something really great and deeply explicit and I'm LOVING it.

"What do we want?" "Moderate, incremental change!" "When do we want it?" "It's not possible!"

LET’S GO, CLEVELAND, BECAUSE WE UP AND IT’S STUCK IN 2026!

Ashanty is my student, and this is her first-ever professional assignment! She’s a ridiculously smart thinker and writer — read her on AI in school instead of all the adults pontificating. 🤗

Received many DMs asking me about this week’s #strangenewworlds episode and why I won’t be reviewing it with @strangenewpod.com - here’s the short (and the long?) answer 🖖🏾 #startrek #startrekpodcast PART 1 :

Here’s my Tuesday post, an essay drawing on fresh research and my book that argues AI can’t replace polling: open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

Radio Song! (hey hey HEY!)

JUST IN: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalized with a broken vertebrae after a car accident in New Hampshire, according to his spokesperson.