Y'all. This is gonna be serious fun.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Hey, when random guys with no badges and no authority try to grab a protester and drag her away, that's when you put down the phone, get out of your seat, and fucking help her.

Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?"
Me: "That's the documentation deliverable."
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Me: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Me: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

Super great that one of the major funding bodies that supports my physics research is now officially in opposition to me being the one to do it.

btw the alt text for this is incredible

Dog, cats are latest victims of Chicago's budget cuts, animal control department staffing shortage Efforts to make Chicago's animal control department a no-kill zone have been dealt quite a set-back because of the city's deepening financial crisis, and Chicago police may have no choice but to step ...

Chicago, If you’ve ever thought about adopting a cat or a dog, now would be the time to save lives. abc7chicago.com/post/dog-cat...

3 Ways to Support Incarcerated Trans People on Trans Day of Remembrance We can always do more to help currently and formerly incarcerated people.

On Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember those behind bars who have been taken away from our communities.

Remote jobs made work possible for many disabled folks. It's awful to see it under this sort of sustained assault.

Saaaame

When I was a buyer at a large indie, my rule of thumb was:

1 preorder: huh, let me take a closer look at this one
2 preorders: we need to stock this book
3 preorders: we should order enough to face this out
4+ preorders: this should be on front-of-store display

Made a list with (I think) everyone on Bluesky who's collaborated with da Sickos in some way. If you have and aren't on this holler at us. These are some fine folks to follow imo go.bsky.app/AG5GVQ3

If you follow me and have zero posts & no bio, sorry you're an autoblock #transformandrollout of my feed

This remains one of the wildest stories:

Reporting Nazis and other troublemakers also
*works* here; sometimes they get booted within hours. Reporting the Nazis is not a waste of your time, y’all, you can and should do it

And never neglect the detail that Artemisia, in this exact image, gave Holofernes the face of her rapist.

Reskeet to save someone’s fucking life

A kid in a Frankenstein's monster mask holding a trick or treat ghost pail. Behind them is a giant SUV about to hit them. The text reads: Don't fucking drive. Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for young children. Drive slow. Don't drive on residential roads. Look for children crossing the street and between parked cars. Even better - don't drive on Halloween

TONIGHT

It's #Halloween

Don't drive.

Thanks for obliterating my heart this week, Agatha All Along. Stunning turn by Patti, awesome script & shoot structure.

Not a thought in his pretty little head

#Webcomics Hey kids! Here's a fun game! They just dropped a list of All the artists that Midjourney admits to having scraped to train its A.I. engine. Are YOU on it? (We are) Do you have a good lawyer? (We do) (storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

The bad person was me, this past weekend: I convinced myself that some "awful stats" were true, and when my partner corrected me, I tried to play it off as "well it's still bad, regardless." I need to get off my horse and get on some fucking fact-checking.
This cartoon is embarrassingly timely 🤐

Person 1: Anyway, I couldn't believe it when I saw that news. Person 2: That's because the article you read was false, and here is the evidence that it's false. Person 1: *thinks* well, even so. The fact that I COULD believe it tells you something about the current state of affairs. Person 2: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Person 1: "Everything alright?" Person 2: "Sorry, I meant to say GEE WHIZ WHAT AN INTERESTING WAY OF THINKING" SMBC-comics.com

Big Same.

"If I must die," a poem by Refaat Alareer

"If I must die," by Refaat Alareer, who was reportedly killed by the IDF today in Gaza.

i don't know why this is so hard for people. biweekly means you are attracted to your own week and also other weeks

Honestly I think not enough people outside academia realize that if researchers want a paper to be freely available they have to pay the publisher thousands of dollars. The same publisher that doesn't pay for the paper or the reviewers providing material it profits from!!

Hey graffiti bluesky, who is the "Cool" Disco Dan of Chicago? Ever since I moved here, I've been keeping an eye out for any tag name that I see as often as I saw "Cool" Disco Dan's back in DC, but I've failed. Who is it? I want to know whose tags to look for! ^.^