Good day and happiness

"Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me." - Judy Blume #CensorshipIsSo1984 #BannedBooks #LibrarySky

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

Hey, reading is not a spectator sport. It's active rugby. It's capoeira. It's each brain cell doing jeet kune do. It plays in the rain, in the mud, in the snow or on the sunniest day of a flower-filled year, but it does so with a wild smile on its face knowing nothing will stop it. Power forward.

If you're mad about Daylight Saving Time, you could blame Benjamin Franklin, who first suggested the practice in 1784. His cheeky theory was that if people rose with the summer sun, they wouldn’t have to buy so many candles. Let your lower paraffin bills comfort you today.

Did I get an extra hour of sleep or am I just exhausted from a decade of constant dread?

What could be better than free books delivered to your home for your young child? Sign up for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library today! action.everylibrary.org/dolly_parton...

It is the first day of November— Throwback to this 2011 trailer I animated and composed for The Scorpio Races. (Notice the paint is still wet on a bunch of slides because I was so behind on a bunch of real deadlines while I was playing around with this).

Viva la Vida is Austin, TX's longest running Dia de los Muertos celebration, in its 39th year, sponsored by the Mexic-Arte Museum. This year's parade had a special theme of 'Flores de la Ofrenda' (flowers of the altar), celebrating the significance of the marigold, chrysanthemum & carnation.

Great job, everyone, we did it again

Update? Had to refill the bench twice. 250 books gone in just a few hours. A perfect night. ❤️

Empire State Building wearing its pumpkin costume.

40 million users on halloween [takes a long drag on a cigarette] no way one of them isn’t a dracula

HAPPY HALLOWEEN AND SKIA DAY!!! My new DVerse novel is live and available to purchase! Check out my 90s era vampire corporate thriller this weekend to celebrate the best day of the year right 🩸 Order Now: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FVWJ7TBJ

My queer oceanic horror novel is out! THE DEAD OF SUMMER 🪸🌊⚓️ 🪼 A beautiful island harboring insidious secrets rising from the waves 🐚A depressed teen with conspiracy theories 🪸Contagious coral zombie bachelorette parties! 🦑Eco horror, but gay!!! Out everywhere now 🪼👄🪼

Happy Halloween, have candy ready and lock your windows!

Happy Halloween!

Drawlloween Day 31: Trick or Treat #drawlloween #drawlloween2025 #copicmarkers #micronfineliner #makeartdaily #artistsonline #drawing #humanartist #horror #strathmorepaper

The word is a vampire.

600,000 Coloradans are about to lose SNAP food benefits. 300,000 of them are children. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports on Colorado's poorest county preparing to hand out MREs.

Republicans cheering children going hungry is never going to leave my memory, and it shouldn't leave yours, either. Shunning works. And people with plenty denying children anything deserve shunning.

If you see someone stealing food - no you didn't.

A small town police force bragged that citizens "can't get a breath of fresh air in or out without us knowing" thanks to Flock surveillance cameras. They used the cameras to wrongly accused a woman of a crime, forcing her to find other surveillance video to prove her innocence.

Indigenous horror may seem new to many, but it is ancient. It is born from stories that carry lessons, warnings, and survival through generations. What is new is seeing those stories retake their rightful space in the contemporary horror landscape. redpopnews.com/13-must-read... #redpopnews

Thanks everyone! If you'd like to check out more of my work, I have an ongoing gothic webcomic you can read now! sablecomic.com

My dad, explaining AI to my mom: “It doesn’t think. It copies stuff wrong.”

Need some Steve King for Halloween? Gotcha covered. THE INSTITUTE (MGM + thru AMAZON PRIME) 1922 (Netflix) GERALD'S GAME (Netflix) LISEY'S STORY (Apple+) And tonight: IT: WELCOME TO DERRY (HBO) You can find other stuff, too. If you're brave enough.

THE FAMILIAR by Leigh Bardugo is only $2.99 ✨ www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-famili...

To cap off the spooky season, here are some great Frankenstein adaptations worth checking out during Halloween. We love these uniquely monstrous retellings.

I sort of forgot to mention that my podcast, It's Storytime With Wil Wheaton, had a wonderful test season earlier this year, and new episodes are on their way! I will return on October 29th, with a spooky story. You can find me wherever you get your podcasts, or at patreon.com/storytime

Also, yer boy Jakes is over on USA Today listing the scariest book of all time (or at least in my experience). So is @keithrosson.bsky.social and @joe-hill.bsky.social and others. www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

'Donald Trump Has a History of Pulverizing Historic Buildings' news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

Fave Five: Graphic Novel YA Reimaginings Tragic by Dana Mele and Valentina Pinti (Hamlet) Northranger by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo (Northanger Abbey) Mismatched by Anne Camlin and Isadora Zeferino (Emma) Dan in Green Gables by Rey Terciero and Claudia Aguirre (Anne of Green Gables) Angelica and…

I do not know why THE BOOK OF ACCIDENTS ebook is on sale at all of your chosen electromagic bookmonger sites, but it is. So if you want a haunted house, a mysterious boulder field, a nightmare coal mine, a family under siege, and a disappearing serial killer — well, this might be the book for you.

"Research has shown that, inside some companies, workers begin to see their colleagues who use generative AI as less creative, even less trustworthy."

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

🥶 First official freeze of the season for Denver! Low of 32° at DIA and 31° at Central Park = coldest Denver morning in nearly 6 months. First freeze in Denver since April 29th. This year’s first freeze is nearly two weeks later than average (Oct. 7). #COwx

Nice day for a little walk and talk with a few friends in Denver #nokings #denver

Denver showed up and showed out! #nokings

#NoKings #NoKingsDay #Denver

Amazing to see so many folks out in Denver. This is about 5 times the number I saw in April. #nokings #denver normie liberal moms and kids waving US flags and a marching band—this was the most American thing ever. @thejainguy.bsky.social @smotus.bsky.social

Thousands of No Kings demonstrators flowed through the streets surrounding the Colorado Capitol as they began marching through downtown Denver on Saturday afternoon. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social #NoKings

No Kings Denver speaker Joe Salazar (fmr Dem state rep) tells me they estimate 25-30k gathered in Denver today, similar to the No Kings protest earlier this year. This view is from photographer Cheney Orr for the New York Times. #copolitics

Generating a 5 second video is the energy equivalent of running a microwave for an HOUR

OUT THERE SCREAMING anthology ft. stories by @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social , @nkjemisin.bsky.social and edited by Jordan Peele is only $1.99 🙌 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/out-there-...

YES! the authors of BLACKOUT and WHITEOUT have a new thriller coming: BREAKOUT 😆🙌 preorder -> www.barnesandnoble.com/w/breakout-d...

Remember: For October, The I HUNT KILLERS ebook is on sale! For a mere $1.99, you can delight to the horrors and the bloodshed from the comfort of your own screen! Bodies? Slashed! Prices? Slashed! Here are links: barrylyga.com/amazing-octo...

Looking for the perfect fall read? HIS HIDEOUS HEART, a collection of retellings of Edgar Allan Poe's works by some of your absolute favorite YA authors, is on sale now for $2.99! Amz: amzn.to/3J1Y9KI B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/his-hideou... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass. youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...