huge night for aloof wives

I am The Anointed One* *i tripped off a curb, fell on top of the glass bottle of olive oil in my bag, and walked home dripping like a piece of bruschetta

One of the major fruits of research is delight. Think of how often you’ve read about a discovery and really enjoyed it. Often the most pleasurable kind of news. Public delight isn’t discussed enough as one of the major outputs of funding research.

so, the costume of the year last night clearly goes to the kid who came dressed as municipal scaffolding

happy Halloween from me and @mcsweeneys.net! (let it be understood that my agenda is being a Silly Goose) www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hon...

they are trying to kill every trans kid in America when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink unconscionable evil

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

this is closer to the actual film than i expected

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

L’affaire Thomas Crown

It is deeply immoral that cashiers in the US are not allowed to sit.

my spouse, 5 min into WOLF CREEK: Australia looks like a nice place to visit

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military. They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

Thanks to @marawilson.bsky.social for this week’s story on the Out-Of-Network Network, illustrated by Emily Flake. Read the whole thing here! (Have an anecdote about navigating the healthcare system that you’d like to share? Reach out to us.) outofnetworknetwork.substack.com/p/paying-653...

reminder:

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

happy birthday + belated birthday to my two goth dads @brucespringsteen.net & @stephenking.bsky.social

latest in @mcsweeneys.net — the crust has never been thinner www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

If you're a university president insisting that you need to invite more people like Charlie Kirk to your campus, you should first be required to make a speech to all your students, staff and faculty that reads off all the verbatim quotes from Charlie Kirk in this piece.

my body is broken. i go to my fathers, in whose mighty company i shall not now feel ashamed

whenever someone walks by with a Great Dane, i feel compelled to watch it pass like this:

blasting “born in the u.s.a.” (derogatory)

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

standing on our balcony yelling down to each boy and asking him “what news”

WEAPONS 2 starts with the same scary parent meeting, but they’re debating whether Campbell’s Soup causes autism

FLORENCE & THE MACHINE’S NEW ALBUM COMES OUT ON HALLOWEEN, omg omg!!!! WE’RE SAVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"I need to be good at art to make art therefore I require the image generator" you fool. you utter embarrassment. go make something out of paper clips coward

The point is, we don’t want a vibes-based society attempting to recreate a mythical white supremacist past OR a vibes-based society attempting to pretend a pandemic and a genocide aren’t happening and it’s 2016. Those have been our options now for nearly a decade. I’d like reality, please

me after 0 drinks

of all mortals, some dying men are the most tyrannical

jesus fucking christ man

Not the showiest funny moment in WEAPONS, but Josh Brolin’s delivery of “what the fuck” after that dream sequence brought the house down 💀

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

not to brag, but the vet just diagnosed my son as “handsome, sweet, and dumb”

unspeakable horror

niche, but if you’re at The Fringe, try to catch TOM AT THE FARM a tenderly brutal piece of work

"Do you think YOU got what it takes to come to my house and beat me?" Bobby Flay intones lifelessly from atop his carrion throne of bones

lots of thoughts on TOGETHER that I’m holding back until wide release, but i need to know what would happen if _______ took The Substance

good morning to the couple pushing a baby stroller full of tomatoes

how it feels to chase an episode of THE GILDED AGE with THE KNICK

"THE DIFFICULT SEMANTICS OF KEEPING UP THESE THREATS IS IN NO WAY DISTRACTING ME FROM THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF KILLING YOU. I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST LAST LAST LAST LAST LAST LAST LAST LAST SUMMER!"

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad

blasting “born in the u.s.a.” (derogatory)

i keep coming back to this.

I need everyone to hear this: if we are not centering and listening to disabled ppl in this moment, our priorities and vision for the future are fucked. Disabled ppl are the ppl most likely to be poor. This bill will kill them. And we already abandoned them to COVID. We have to show up now

Struggling with the work/they're building concentration camps balance.

really does feel like if we can cyberbully the House into passing changes on the shit they openly hate and get it kicked back upstairs again there’s a chance it might not survive the Senate a second time if you live in a GOP state it’s time to ruin a House rep’s life

This is true. Safety-net hospitals in both rural and urban areas are already stretched thin, in part because of the exhaustion and attrition of healthcare workers after COVID. If outpatient Medicaid collapses, the deluge in unreimbursed ER visits and admissions will drown the system.