A new paper suggests that nature abhors a vacuum and that disease stems from miasma.

The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists. They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver. apnews.com/article/trum...

What the fuck are these people ever talking about?

"Cast in the name of God, Ye not guilty"

Police found an ICE agent asleep at the wheel after an 18hr shift at Broadview and the agent crashed into a hedgerow. Charged with DUI. Cops knew they'd stumbled into a heater. Body-worn video footage with the story. (By two city news veterans, who I've admired as long as I have known the bylines.)

In the shadow of the forest, though she may be old and worn, They will stare unbelieving At the last unicorn 🦄 🎼

We also need to start reckoning with the fact that "I'm going to steal all your money and kill you" is not policy. It is petty tyranny, and should result in his immediate removal.

My dad knew Cheney since he was fords chief of staff and would always say “i liked him then. Idk what the hell happened” In the run up to the second Iraq war my dad wrote an article comparing it to the gulf of Tonkin and Cheney himself made sure my father was fired from his gov job Anyway he’s dead

The Amazing World Of Tomorrow

I once said "Michael Douglas, that guy from The Ghost and the Darkness" and my mother very lovingly said "You're so young."

I'm gonna have to watch this aren't I

I get I don't have in my history exhaustive library of encounters. But doesn't feel even like extension of the worst policing I've seen, and I've seen bad. This feels different effort entire, started from scratch with few rules and better tech and pushing boundaries of what can be gotten away with.

Border Patrol grabbed workers from the front yard of a home in Edison Park this afternoon then took them behind an office building in Niles and passed them off to a prisoner van. Woman came out to MF them and said "you're in the most conservative neighborhood in the city and nobody wants you here."

Crop of a rough portrait commission for Ken Thank you for trusting me with your character ! 🖤

I spend carefully on art for my #fantasy book, so I go with the best. @thisisradinsky.bsky.social helped me lift the Raven Knight's visor--something he never does. If they found out he's Asian, they'd lose their minds. Buy the book: www.patreon.com/posts/now-av... And commission Radinsky, he rules!

It's uncharacteristically quiet in the House of Representatives during this floor debate. Not even the Senate was this quiet. The only voice is that of the recognized speaker. No chatter in the gallery. No side conversations on the floor. No staff. No calls. All are quiet and listening to debate.

. Death . . Skelly in a sally #tarot #illustration #artsky #art

In later years people are going to be making so much fun of this. Millennials like myself get dragged for having a Hogwarts house, but poor Gen Z or Alpha are going to get razzed by their kids quizzing them on how many fingers are on a hand or how much glue to put on pizza.

Alan Wake: I was stuck in The Dark Place. Everything I wrote was becoming real. But I couldn't remember writing it. Was it me, or was it Scratch? MEANWHILE IN SAGA'S MIND PLACE Saga (staring intently at photo of Draco Malfoy w/index card that reads "Hermione?!?!")

I didn't punch a clock today, but I did write like 2,000 words of the next novel and attended a meeting about opposing a 12,000,000,000,000GW data center they're trying to cram through in my county, and I'm writing my reps about it. So I have failed capitalism again today. Forgive me capitalism

Graphical fidelity has become so complex that it is actually harming the experience. There is too much visual information in games for you to read all of it easily at a glance, and so the only way to show "yes, you can go this way" is to just put a png transparency color on points of interest.

One critic once said of Jai Courtney that he was "so forgettable that Sam Worthington doesn't know who the fuck he is" and it remains one of the most intricately nested burns I've ever heard.

As my wife pointed out today, it is literally easier for her to use my typewriter to fill out some forms than it is to futz with pdfs. I feel like if a 225-year-old piece of technology works more quickly than your file format, your file format sucks.

I swear to god if I ever meet Andrew Koji I'm going to make such a fool of myself he'll fall so hopelessly in love with me we'll just have to live happily ever after

Erin Kelleyman in all of it

I'm really pleased with our jack o lantern this year, great group effort.

We took the kids to the pumpkin patch today and the good news is the weather is nice and the cider is good, but the bad news is we have caught the pumpkin curse.

I've been obsessed with this TV movie since it came out. It is the king of garbage King adaptations. I don't care what other obscure bullshit you cite. I was like 9 when this thing came out and couldn't believe how dumb it was even then.

I am hearing that there is a debate about whether to teach "whole books" in English now (AKA "books"), vs. just excerpts. This is my whole #fantasy book. I tried to find an excerpt suitable for Common Core, but they prohibit "having a plot" or "murdering racist goons." www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSWBF9R4

The breath I take after he dies will be the first breath of my life.

I have been saying for a while that while I understand medieval peasants didn't have penicillin or vaccines, they also did not have little mirrors in their pockets that could play back their aristocrats' voices every day.

This is really exciting, Schoenbrun's work so far has been unique.

Respectfully, "Dems" are not going to be hit hard by this whatsoever. Their starving constituents will be.

Don't listen to the guy with brain worms -- get your flu and COVID shots. Protect yourself and your community.

I need every democratic candidate to please be just this vicious with these sclerotic old aristocrats. Cast them out. Drive that oaken stake home.

Phew managed to make it another day without getting a nazi tattoo. It’s hard out here. Just nazi tattoos roaming the streets attaching themselves to people. Stay woke

Guys it happened again today. I was sat down at a café drinking a flat white and answering emails when I looked down and saw a tattoo artist about to ink me up with a Totenkopf. Shooed him away. You've really got to stay on your toes these days.

I am revisiting cinema's best, most noteworthy, or just ridiculous fight scenes in my Fight Night feature at @pastemagazine.bsky.social, and usually the pain is on the screen. But this month I watched Freddy vs. Jason, and it un-graduated me from high school. www.pastemagazine.com/movies/fredd...

To make it as easy as possible for folks, my #fantasy novel is now also available through Kindle. (If AWS does not crash and burn again, that is). Buy my book, make me famous enough not to have to be on Amazon for discoverability. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FX257QPV

There are a lot of good old-timey Halloween tunes, but they're really old timey: "The Devil's Ball," "St. James Infirmary," and the like.

If I find out your bed connects to WiFi, I’m considering you a dumbass and a safety risk and immediately removing you from my life.

Fully Rely On Grandmas.

The two genders are "regularly shoots English longbow" and "doesn't regularly shoot English longbow"

Our politics has devolved to a Sons of Anarchy episode where we literally need to point a gun at our candidates and yell "SHOW US YOUR INK!!"

I'm contractually obligated to watch Freddy vs Jason for something and am actively dying inside. The aughts were the dumbest time to be alive until right now.

As a former reporter I can indeed confirm that we are all unseelie fae who are bound to secrecy if you blurt out OFF THE RECORD OFF THE RECORD OFF THE RECORD at us. But if you should ever give us a sock or turn a branch of mistletoe thrice neath the harvest moon, we are freed again from our fetters!

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

No they aren't.

I have been chided my whole life to be respectful of people's religious beliefs as those beliefs become increasingly fucking illiterate and entangled with everything. futurism.com/future-socie...