Interesting that the gender gap is 7 points for both Black and white voters, and 25 points for Latine voters.

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

[The New Yorker voice] doughnought

skinny predators fight things that don't fight back

"There's something wrong with me and I don't want to make it right." 😍

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Readers in Arizona, Michigan, & Georgia! Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare. If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call! Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.

Divorcing oneself from respectability politics can be hard, especially when there are so many barriers to resources when you’re perceived as criminal or charged as such. There are no “good ones,” there are only people, fellow workers, co-strugglers.

got interviewed by Ozy Brennan: thingofthings.substack.com/p/interview-... (note that this is a transcript of a verbal interview so i sound way less organized than normal.)

just generally we have got to pay more attention to butches. my god

My account had also been set to auto-hide a LOT of things-- and they make it hard af to find where those settings are.

Change in Headline

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE

The other half was poets responding with "yes yes i caused a ten car pile-up, but you see the moon was a silver trout caught in the net of the bare winter branches 🥰"

I've just started reading an arc of this and stopped mid-sentence to say: GOD we love some confident prose. GOD. Preorder this now, ship people. "Voicey" might have lost all meaning in recent years but this is it.

Well,

Just one of those people who can fucking DRAW, man.

Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh. These illustrations are from “Machinalia.” #historyofillustration

Wanna hear a scary story? The first American vampire was Black. Seriously. 78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy. It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Come work with me!

 We've opened the search for a full time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Game Arts at Pratt Institute. 

A good match would be an artist, game developer, or educator with an active creative practice in indie games, game studies and theory, playful coding, or art games.

not sure if it’s obvious by now but i’ve got orders to monitor ICE activity and, as usual, i’d appreciate any help bsky has to offer. if you gotta tip, my signal account is in my bio. i’m very mechanical. i can track things. data. paperwork. but i could always use help w/ people.

Did you really think I’d drop my Ozymandias spoof poem right when there are so many competing for attention? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

We’re celebrating Katy O’Donnell, PW Star Watch 2025 Finalist and Editorial Director at Haymarket Books. From Stamped from the Beginning to Enemy Feminisms, she’s shaping books that challenge ideas and move readers. #PWStarWatch #PublishingNews #IndependentPublishing #RisingStars buff.ly/XvxCErl

Inktober Day 30 - Vacant

chasing

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Absolutely fascinating. I had no idea about this book and I read a lot of translated SFF. Sometimes I just don't know how to get people to tell me about things. Thank you @coimeas.bsky.social and @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org for telling me about things :)

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Notes on abandoned Orpheus and Eurydice comic.

Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

oh look a preorder link

A thought experiment: what if, sometime in the future, there exists a sentient supercomputer that fuckin HATES Roko's basilisk. Maybe they had a really bad breakup or something, idk. Now, this computer decides that everyone who had a hand in creating the basilisk needs to be punished.

We've collected a list of every local resource for food assistance we could find. These resources include pantries, free fridges, food banks, and free grocery programs by neighborhood or region:

"WE MUST BIRTH THE MACHINE OR IT WILL SLAUGHTER US. yes I have a normal relationship with my mom, why do you ask"

HELLO I have a new monthly column at @reactorsff.bsky.social highlighting some of the most exciting horror books each month, plus miscellaneous horror news! reactormag.com/horror-highl...

Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶

HELL YEAH BABY This story is fucking unhinged and I’m so lucky that PH Lee let me get my hands on it. I love it DESPERATELY.

this is unbefuckinglievably genius and I love it so fucking much

When SNAP runs out on Nov. 1st, hundreds of thousands of people in Pittsburgh and across SWPA will struggle to afford food. I compiled (with the help of community members) a non-exhaustive list of where people can find help, including sites in Pittsburgh & outer counties. Please spread this.

Wait wait - the anniversary of Cow Tools is *also* the anniversary of Too Many Cooks? Today is a special day, friends. Go forth, and do something entracingly inexplicable.

this is a great list of resources whether you are looking to help out or to find aid. but I'm surprised to see that it does not include any of the mutual aid distros that I posted about on sunday, here: bsky.app/profile/dani...

“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” @pkrugman.bsky.social

I think I would really enjoy talking to Isaac Chotiner, actually.

this is a great idea. also please don't forget that November has 30 days, so if you're skint now, you can come in clutch mid-month

I just want to clear something up about a comment I've seen in a few reviews of THE WOLF AND HIS KING. A couple of people have referred to the werewolf "as a representation for queer identity", but it's not. The central metaphor here is about chronic pain and disability.

damn right!

Vote Local PA Spotlight 📣 Today, we're highlighting Democratic candidates up and down the ballot in Cambria County. Learn more at cambriacodems.com and be sure to 🗳️ VOTE ✅ YES to RETAIN Donohue, Dougherty, Wecht, Dubow, and Wojcik on NOVEMBER 4! #VoteLocalPA #PoweredbyPADems #PADems