Guy who owns WQWOVRVO desperately scanning his socials hoping to see a protesting anglerfish

For some reason no price bump on the perfectly good WQWOVRVO anglerfish www.amazon.com/WQWOVRVO-Inf...

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This is it www.amazon.com/Stegosaurus-...

“When you read Dickens, when you read Zola, when you read Flaubert, when you read George Eliot, when you read Jane Austen, don't you want to try that stuff?
When you look at the 19th century novel, it's so much more varied and so much more alive and so much stranger than I think people remember”

Nephew now wants to be Portland Frog for Halloween 🐸

The rise of “dirty pastels” in interior design: welcome transition away from gray, but feels very 1830s somehow www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/r...

MIT’s response to The Compact invitation

The real headline should be “Let Me Liquefy These Dazzling Institutions and Inject the Slurry Into My Own Veins Only”

Fair

It’s the NY Times, not Politico

Ugh, disgusting!

I would like to just take a moment to invite you to enjoy Cake's 1996 mega-hit 'The Distance'.

It's likely that you know this song, perhaps even love it. But just take a moment to revel in the utter masterpiece that it is.

Surrender yourself to it.

You deserve it.

hell to the YEAH

Stunning acting this week from the actor who plays (erm) shitweasel misogynist hacker Roddy Ho

It would be *extremely* funny if the Nobel committee just gave it to Obama again.

Wowwwww

This man is rising to the occasion. Trump’s greatest legacy may be the election of President Pritzker in 2028.

Pale light of autumn

Reading a passage from the 1890 Lippincott’s version of _The Picture of Dorian Gray_ at our campus’s banned book week event. So glad our library organized this!

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

I have some crow to eat, absolutely did not think the Dems' strategy would work here

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

In June I announced that I was retiring from NYU after 39 years, but I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press.

Today I can explain what I meant by not leaving the field. I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Read on. newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...