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🎃Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃

Join me & @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social tonight on @johnfugelsang.bsky.social 's show for "We’re Still Here", live at 10 PM ET on SiriusXM Progress 127 🎙️ From Native ghost stories & Día de los Muertos to buffalo hunts, Alaska drilling & Trump’s NSPM-7, we’re walking through another circle of stories

Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

My fav grocery store has already marked down many holiday-season staples, which means shoppers can save a few bucks, and maybe pick-up some supplies to donate to a food bank on the way home…

No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education: 1) Hire manye facultye 2) Small class syzes 3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte 4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail

So, one of my senators had a henchman robocall us to invite us to listen in on a pre-recorded town hall where said senator blamed the government shutdown on people not in power…

An interesting point about various approaches to family-focused policies around the world…

🎃Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃

What?!? Scooby Doo? In a Sunday special hosted by #HouseOfSvengoolie?!? That’s good, better, best! #svengoolie

This, fercryinoutloud

Food is the first thing/Morals follow on. Capital Area Food Bank: give.capitalareafoodbank.org/campaign/709... Arlington Food Assistance Center: afac.org/donate-funds/ Feeding America: give.feedingamerica.org/a/donate

It’s time for the Big Broadcast! #svengoolie #TheFly

just signed up to be part of the class action suit/settlement against anthropic bc it may be a drop in the bucket but fuck AI and fuck em for stealing words i put blood and sweat and tears into

A thread for students:

Being a little bit silly sometimes is all we have left.

All of the wrong people have social anxiety and/or impostor syndrome.

Mosquitos have been found in Iceland for the first time ever “I could tell right away that this was something I had never seen before,” an Icelandic scientist said

Isn’t it amazing how often some dudes entering politics just stumble into tattoo shops, and without their knowledge, stumble out with historic hate-group symbols inked on their skin?

Always vote in your local election. From city council or county commissioners, to sheriff, to school board, it matters.

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Professors are value added!

I know it's cringe as fuck, but small acts of kindness are going to be so important for the foreseeable future. Being kind and doing kind things can be your lifeline. It can keep you sane.

Law profs on the march! with @david.noll.org and @21grapefruits.bsky.social

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

Saturday night on MeTV- it’s the biggest “Svengoolie’s BOO-nanza” double feature yet- starting off with Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Teri Garr and Marty Feldman in“Young Frankenstein”- followed by the Karloff “Frankenstein” with the Sven Squad! It’s alive at 8 pm eastern/pacific, 7 central time!

US travelers, consider Amtrak. Just saying.

Yeah… I tend to block shitposters. Just sayin’.

As any writer can tell you, ideas are a dime a dozen. We’re all overflowing with ideas. The actual book is the result of a lot of hours spent in the chair, getting that idea down on paper and painstakingly beating it into shape. That’s where the work happens.

Well, almost ended up with a cat… (Mr C stops for strays, and I love him for it.)

Diagnostic mammogram? Done! After last year’s breast cancer scare, I’ve been declared good-to-go. Get your mammograms early and often! #writerslife #breastcancerawareness

Leaning into hygge this season! Got my blanket and my cup of tea, tonight. #writerslife #hygge Photo: domestika

This is the vehicle women like.

From now on, I’m giving all my tortillas to Tucker!

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power. https://to.pbs.org/4nTbVP3

HOW I LONG TO HUG YOU WITH MY NEW HUGE MUSCLES.

Lighthearted music! That’s a bad sign! #DieDieMyDarling #TCMParty

Finally! Got your sweater ready? I do! Image: the inspired pencil

ffs

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Well got back from vacation to be laid off in a cost cutting move. So if anyone has any job leads in the content writing/editing/online teaching worlds, would be grateful

Grants available: The Whole Foods Foundation is offering support for educational beehives and bee programming in K-12 schools or Nonprofit organizations that serve at least 10 students in the U.S./Canada. #grants #schools #libraries

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights. https://www.ala.org/bbooks.

Is everyone getting more annoying or am I just getting angrier

Why, yes, I do start following fun scholars when I find them on BlueSky! (See also: novelists, film buffs, dogs, foodies, musicians, broadcasters, cocktail connoisseurs, journalists, general truth-tellers, kindly people with great senses of humor, and cool creatives)

Finn is quite pleased with how the portrait came out

Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate

let the gourd times roll