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word of the day: scorbutic (relating to or affected with scurvy)

The next issue of WFMU’s program guide/magazine, LCD, will be out in late January, and we welcome submissions! The theme is THE SONG. We’re looking for comics, illustrations, or short essays on songs that are amazing, groundbreaking, or outstanding. Deadline is Nov. 1. More info here: wfmu.org/lcd

Dr. Sakuhei #Fujiwhara would be elated to see this 6-day forecast. When he wrote his paper on the process we now call the "Fujiwhara Effect" in 1921, numerical modeling and satellite imagery were still decades away. #Imelda #Humberto rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

If you care about immigrant detention centers, you should probably know about GEO: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

On the left is a map of deterministic model tracks for Imelda from 2 days ago. If you mostly look at deterministic models, you would’ve been nearly convinced a landfall is happening. On the right is the latest forecast. There is a valuable lesson here for being cautious with interpreting models.

The final Atomic Action retro comic, SLEUTH COMICS #2, with art by @shanepatrickwhite.bsky.social and @markstegbauerl.bsky.social & 3 variant covers, is on sale now at the link below. www.indyplanet.com

SLEUTH COMICS #2 variant covers by @shanepatrickwhite.bsky.social, Rick Hoberg, & @genegonzales.bsky.social, colors by Matt Webb.

(fingers crossed) gwar ... gwar ... gwar ... gwar ... gwar ...

"Wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?"

"out of the three mass shootings today,"

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 A plan under development by the White House could see colleges and universities that pledge to adhere to the values and policies of the Trump administration at a competitive advantage for research grants. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Sure, let's eat and review this Shrek Ass of an apple --

Horror movie pitch: working title - JUST LOOK AT THEIR FACES HP Lovecraft, famed New England letter-writer, wrote FACTS re: ancestral wizards possessing their eerily similar descendants to live on. A reporter discovers this while reviewing DNA tests from Mark Zuckerberg, famed New England etc…

Some of us tried for years, decades even, to call out that the rightward shift of our politics was being amplified by algorithms that prioritized angry engagement and we were dismissed as unserious and now here we are.

Fresh at Old Men Running The World is a new The Skim, which is a nepotism special, due to me getting all excited over TEETH: FALSE KINGDOM by @rossignol.bsky.social and @marshdavies.bsky.social. In short: this may be the best paranoia game I've ever read. #ttrpg #indiettrpg

Solitaire

#BonAppetitYourMajesty ich.unesco.org/en/RL/cheoyo... In case you were curious; magicky stuff, metaphors.

Customer: CLAUDIO LOVE (4) FRANCIS DMV: C4 EXPLOSIVES - name is Claudio Verdict: ACCEPTED

Guys, you don't need to go so hard. You're not The Association! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF-o...

I might be eaten by that….

Pete Davidson in custody of Saudi Arabian authorities after asking every audience member at the Riyahd Comedy Festival if they helped kill his father

ISS astronaut Jonny Kim just shared this snap of Humberto's eye today. You can actually see the seafoam taper off between the eyewall and the eye. Amazing stuff.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we review LOVECRAFT Y NEGRITO (2023) by Dolores Alcatena, a Spanish-language graphic novel about Lovecraft and his cat. deepcuts.blog/2025/09/27/l...

Idly daydreaming about a line of protestors in Santa suits.

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

PS from the Portland reddit...

It seems I've made a lot of people upset with this joke. Admittedly, it started off kind of rocky and the premise was a bit of a stretch -- a lot of you could see-through that immediately -- but I will happily pass the torch to anyone else who has a better joke.

This is one of the best satellite signatures I have ever seen in the SW Atlantic (non-Gulf/Caribbean). #Humberto is up there with storms like Andrew, Dorian, and Irma in my eyes.

I heard the Antifa is heading for Juntura this time. Huge numbers. Convoys. It’s all laid out in the chans.

Absolutely beyond parody that Dave Chappelle is headlining a comedy show for Saudi royalty after what, a decade of whining about cancel culture

you should buckaroo. it took an unfathomably infinite amount of variables to bring you to this exact moment over trillions and trillions of years you are the end result of mind bending cosmic rarity and you wield that radiant uniqueness through everything that you do

#HarrysBananaFarm New sign: YOU’VE GOT TO HAND IT TO A BLIND PROSTITUTE

Expect a raft of high-quality Scandinavian programming. (They do make a good cozy mystery, those folks.)

Waiter, there's something unusual in my soup

Op-ed: New College of #Florida move for Charlie Kirk statue reveals troubling flaw -- the decision was made without seeking input from students, faculty, staff, alumni and other members of the New College community. www.heraldtribune.com/story/opinio...

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

This Week’s Honorary Unsubscribe goes to Kim Seong-min. Born in North Korea, Kim had a chance to defect to embrace Democracy. He was caught and sent back to be executed. What happened after that is worthy of a feature film. The story is worth the 3-minute read time.

an elite team of coconut crabs was sent to eat Amelia Earhart

This only happens to you once

QUATERMASS AND THE PIT (1967) | Dir: Roy Ward Baker

(Just for the record, re: last RT, I don’t think Teddy Roosevelt is the least “woke” president; his mostly forgotten maneuvers with the Mississippi postmaster kind of prove that: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_... )

I mod a Lovecraft group on Facebook and another on Reddit. Long ago learned that you can't talk with some people. Racists? Banned. No conversation. Don't even give them oxygen. Just want to post Lovecraft's most racist poem? Banned. Any attempt to use the N-word out of historical context? Banned.

Even Teddy Roosevelt (our least "woke" president ever) called Wounded Knee "a massacre," in which "squaws, children, unarmed Indians, and armed Indians who had surrendered were killed, sometimes cold-bloodedly and with circumstances of marked brutality." 5/

Nice timing.

At least a third of my book (in progress) is just me having fun explaining the humor in Frost’s astronomical poems, but this one is different. The tone goes from contentious to sad. Note, the “far star” is a galaxy. 🧪🔭

the original is a banger: