TIL that most seitan contains beef

I just did an internet search for “Trump falls asleep in Oval Office” and found a couple stories from small left-leaning outlets and some foreign press. Major American corporate media outlets or local news? Not so much.

Tonight's #FirstTimeFilm: The Fog (1980)

Although we're not where we should be, we're on a significantly better trajectory than we were 10 years ago.

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Look what just arrived early! It’s chunkier than I thought. Open access version on publication day which I think is the 18th on the @mitpress.bsky.social website. I must admit, I’m very fond of the colour!!! 🐦🐦 #syntax #newbook

800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel. Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire. Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year. Glad everything worked out for them. How about you?

Tonight's #BoardGames: 1. The Lost Expedition 2. Horrified

Given that the last recorded King of Strathclyde (fl. 1018) was called Owain Foel, I think there's good cause—in this otherwise excellent plan for replacing English in Britain—for letting the Brythonic languages go a fair bit further north than Liverpool!

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

Important information for Scots

This is going to be a shitshow, so we need to remind each other to be patient and kind. TSA has been working without pay. 📌 The FAA announced major restrictions that experts say could lead to thousands of flights being canceled as the government shutdown drags into day 37.

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

This is horrifying! I have a degree in German and Russian from Nottingham. And I went there because it was in many respects a leading light in modern languages. This is incredibly short-sighted and idiotic.

Alas, I can only dream of what a paradise New York City must be, with pizza by the slice and talking trash-can puppets. Here in grimy old London, pizzas can only be purchased whole and every single puppet is haunted.

Devastated to see Mamdani plummet to victory with a result that shows his critics were right all along. Now is the time for the left to move towards the centre. It's time to reach across the aisle, to swing your partner, do-si-do and really lay into trans people for no reason.

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So Mississippi, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia are now blue states? Good to know, Mikey!

Question from the audience: “can dude be used as a pronoun”? I checked our MI Diaries data and in Michigan the answer is “yes”! “But regardless, dude has a show about it on vice” #NWAV53

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

If you want your publication to matter, hire trans journalists!!!!!

Two of the most significant politics editors in Teen Vogue’s history were working class trans people from Ohio and Philly, and their tireless, fearless work is a huge part of why so many people are mourning its demise now. @satansjacuzzi.bsky.social and @leximcmenamin.com you will always be famous

The German word ‘Pferd’ and its Dutch cognate ‘paard’ are horses of mixed breed parentage. Their common ancestor came from Latin ‘paraverēdus’ (substitute post-horse), a word composed of an Ancient Greek element and a Gaulish one. Zoom in on my new infographic to learn everything about it:

I really don’t understand why it’s so hard for certain people to understand that Mamdani is doing so well because he is advocating for more than “keep Trump from taking the few good and/or semi-decent things that remain” and is articulating a real vision for how to make New York better.

Bloody foreigners coming over here and saving peoples lives.

Hate it when I accidentally get on the Time Trolley

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

If you think your kids aren't old enough to hear about what's happening in this country, remember that there are millions of kids their same age who don't have that choice.

Worth perhaps noting a distinction in my case. When I was little there were a lot of people in my life who were Aunty or Uncle X. But I wouldn't call any of them "my aunty/uncle" unless they were basically family. That definitely included parents' cousins—but not the lunch lady!

So recent (political) discussion of who we call aunty and uncle led to an interesting conversation with my wife. She's Northumbrian and I'm from northwestern Wales. For her, people could be called aunty/uncle if they were adult family members, or so close as to practically be family members. 1/

Last night's #BoardGame: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Just encountered a new (to me) #eggcorn: "all do respect"

Fucking Prince Humperdinck! Also, some people get to look better at 43 than others

There's actually something particularly satisfying, as a 44 year old, to spend the evening trivially doing the sort of things 14 year old me wanted to do but technically couldn't: Spending the evening in my own living room drinking liquor and watching an R-rated horror movie.

As a child of the 80s (I was four when this film came out) I'm randomly reminded of how I expected my teens and adulthood to involve something called "necking". But then, before it did, the word seemed to disappear.

Tonight's #FirstTimeFilm: Fright Night

Happy Halloween from Count Noun! 🧛

Last night's #BoardGames: 1. Bomb Busters 2. Tag Team 3. Crokinole

"Holliday...was running a marathon recently, some kids were holding a sign at 6.7-miles...she yelled “six, seven” to their delight. “For a brief moment” she says, “in our lonely, isolated, algorithm-driven world, I connected with those kids on something we shared" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“He was very strong on congratulating me.”

“Mom, what’s for Thanksgiving?” “We’ll find out when we get to the soup kitchen. Jeffrey Epstein’s ballroom isn’t going to pay for itself.”

Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

Pritzker: "I sent a letter to Kristi Noem and to DHS leadership asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend. I'm asking for basic human decency. I think their response will be revealing. Give the children and families of Illinois a break."

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

This is really poor by BBC researchers and producers. Goodwin hasn't been an active academic for a number of years, yet is described as one (thus legitimating his relentless Reform activism and constant bad faith misrepresentation of evidence). 1/?

I present, the lenition hypercube

This is next level authoritarianism.👇 "Following the suspension of two career prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly revised a sentencing memo in a high-profile case — removing all references to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and President Donald Trump’s social media post."

If you need to explain to an idiot why Tolkien would have despised these goons, I have already grabbed a picture of the relevant passage (and I doubt I was the first):