A Marine veteran turned oyster farmer who is now a rising Democratic Senate candidate once was weirdly right on for a Democrat.

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I’m pretty sure Will Short’s staff at the NYT is wasted all the time. These are far from the only “Booze Clues” I have seen. We’re talking every other puzzle. Sometimes more than one!

but why would marc benioff suddenly decide to support trump was literally the story last week lolol

Ace Frehley, the original lead guitarist for US glam rock group KISS, has died aged 74. The guitar wizard died at home, surrounded by family, following a recent fall. 📷 Don Emmert

I feel like stuff like this is too often overlooked in discussions around technology-based mitigations of climate change. If we use tech innovations to make it easy and convenient for people to use the “greener” alternative that already exists, they’ll use it.

Living in the Future benefit: the combination of Google Maps public transit directions and phone-tap onboard payment makes it SO EASY to take public trams/buses/metros when traveling now. It’s fantastic not to have to resort to taxis just for lack of easy access to the local transit ticketing system

Actual current website. www.fs.usda.gov

we have spent the last decade witnessing a national epidemic of “it should be illegal to not hang out with me just because I’m a mean asshole” behavior

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

*hunger games cannon* ´*•.¸(*•.¸ ^¸.•*´)¸.•*´ «´¨`•° BOLTON °•´¨`» ¸.•*(¸.•*´~`*•.¸)`*•

Back in my day someone who brought up “free speech” when bitching about getting banned from a website was laughed at. Now we have a whole presidential administration of people who are mad about getting banned from websites.

Susan Stamberg, NPR 'founding mother,' dies at 87 www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1...

Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: [email protected].

“Two Helens agree…”

Alright, youre new here, so lemme tell you how it works. On this site, we are all Blue Mages. We can only use magic stolen from other users. We win arguments by posting lists of our health problems. And we Never. Quote tweet. Doulas

The state of our Union is... uh, let's call it "frayed."

Mad respect to the Blue Bell marketing department who have not spent a single dime on packaging design since the late 80s.

Author Jason Theriot tell stories of French-speaking Louisiana residents who found that their language and way of life served as valuable tools in the battle for freedom.

I got some new LEGO! … or not

WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪

Hello Thursday. 🖼️ Lily Seika Jones

“the protests don’t count if they happen in blue cities.” so, what, they aren’t americans? their voices don’t matter?

Of all the things that didn't happen below, Eric Trump having four friends is the one that didn't happen the most.

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat. But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger

Arthur Sze, the twenty-fifth US Poet Laureate, has written a poem about the Library of Congress. Oh my heart. 📚 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

RIP to the legend. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

A happy spooky #moviemonday to you all. This week I thought I would highlight YET ANOTHER late period John Carpenter movie people erroneously derided to me for years, until I watched it and realized it actually cooks and they were wrong. boxd.it/bb5oj9

Taking turns reading out loud in grade school was fun and we should have kept doing it forever after.

When you rediscover an important thought you once jotted down in your Notes app.

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog. www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Regent parrot chicks getting weighed are just so absurdly adorable and undignified 😂😭😇

Stay Weird Portland! 🔥 Today Portland had an emergency naked bike ride to the ICE facility. IN THE RAIN. It was around 50°. Thousands were fully nude, half nude, or wearing costumes. Portland is VERY dedicated to exposing the absurdities of injustice. Here are some photos & videos. 🧵👇🏼

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

I've made this scale to help people out during this holiday season

I'm absolutely convinced what makes Shakespeare inaccessible to a lot of audiences isn't the iambic pentameter old english it's the fact most plays are rehearsed as spoken verses and not acted with meaning because when actors actually act out what they're saying it is So Clear

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Confirmed: Diane Keaton would have found me sexy.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

‘Reading Rainbow’ is back — and the first episode was filmed in a Berkeley library #ReadingRainbow #Berkeley #Libraries www.berkeleyside.org/2025/10/09/r...

New anthem. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_tCv...

Chair dispenser designed by H. R. Giger.