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Kim Z @observacious.bsky.social · 1d

My spooky season Letterboxd last four 🎡🪲🚸💀

Recent activity: Something Wicked This Way Comes (⭐⭐⭐ 1/2), Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (⭐⭐⭐), Weapons (⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2), Lake Mungo (⭐⭐⭐)

Kim Z @observacious.bsky.social · 2d

Everything is awful, but at least I can eat my feelings in the form of spooky treats from my neighborhood coffee shop (Rivers and Roads Cafe)

A selection of six spooky pastries. Three are cherry hand pies with venting that looks like creepy faces. Three are cookies with candy eyeballs in the middle.

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning, friends!

A panel from a Peanuts comic strip showing Charlie Brown and Linus leaning on a wall, chins resting on their hands, elbows propped on the wall. Charlie Brown is saying, “So much for feeling good.”

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CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM @chirpradio.org · 3d

None More Black: Dark Sounds for Dark Times! CHIRP music trivia returns to @beermiscuous.bsky.social for 5 accursed rounds covering all things goth & dark wave
📅 Tues, Oct 21 | 7:00 PM
📍 Beermiscuous
Hosted by DJ moimoi, the sinister fun starts at 7pm!
chirpradio.org/events/chirp...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

A family that runs two costume stores in Chicago is putting a creative twist on Halloween this year due to tariffs on Chinese imports.

How a family-owned costume shop is keeping tariffs from making Halloween a nightmare

A family that runs two costume stores in Chicago is putting a creative twist on Halloween this year due to tariffs on Chinese imports.

bit.ly

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Kim Z @observacious.bsky.social · 4d

To be fair, it is a scary book

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Kim Z @observacious.bsky.social · 4d

My spooky little free library has been up since September 28. Here's the activity so far...

Out - 21 books
In - 1 Jehovah's Witness pamphlet 🤣

A little free library decorated in black and gray with a painted skull and the words "All Hallow's Read." The door is open showing a collection of spooky books for a variety of ages and reading levels from board books to Stephen King.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

New in PN: The impossibly dumb reason for Trump's invasion of Portland

"Trump’s confusion isn’t just darkly comical (and a troubling reminder of the president’s growing senility) — it’s a stark illustration of the whiplash-inducing disconnect between his rhetoric and the reality on the ground."

The impossibly dumb reason for Trump's invasion of Portland

It'd be hilarious if he wasn't the commander in chief.

www.publicnotice.co

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Kim Z @observacious.bsky.social · 5d

Use a bunch of em dashes to make them think you're one of them

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 5d

Okay, my best attempt: CROSS-naw-hor-kaw-ee
But the first four vowels are all the same. So keep the “o” sound from “cross” and repeat it three more times. (Somewhere between “aw” and “ah”)
“Hor” gets the second most emphasis.

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone who needs me, I’ll be here all day teaching people how to pronounce Krasznahorkai 🇭🇺

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 5d

For the record…

Truth social TOS says dms are not encrypted.

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chigeek.bsky.social @chigeek.bsky.social · 5d

Happy National Pierogi Day to those who celebrate! One sweet cheese, please.

My photo of the Miss Pierogis from Pierogi Fest in Whiting, Indiana circa 2014.

My photo of the Pierogi pins being sold at Pierogi Fest in Whiting, Indiana circa 2014.

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Kim Z @observacious.bsky.social · 5d

Book mail! A seasonally appropriate cookbook of recipes found on gravestones and the stories behind them 🪦🍪📕

A red book cover with white decorations of vines, skulls, eating utensils, hands holding trays of cookies, a tombstone, an urn, and a Dutch oven. The words announce:
To Die For
A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes
Rosie Grant

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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 6d

Let's see what's happening in the community

Screenshot from the New Orleans subreddit; the title is Louis Armstrong Beehive Crotch/Ass, and the pic is a zoomed in view of the lower torso and upper legs of a metal statue of a man wearing a suit, head not visible, and there's a small beehive attached squarely on his dick area. Arrow to the right indicates this is pic one of two.

Pic two from the same New Orleans subreddit post; the pic is a zoomed in view of the back side of the metal statue, and there's a small beehive crammed right up in his butt area; one assumes this is connected to the beehive in the front; the bees found this nice recessed space that's protected from the weather and got to building.

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 7d

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 6d

Work smarter, not dumber

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Kim Z @observacious.bsky.social · 7d

Get a brown cat sweater and call it a day

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chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · 7d

well said and such an important thing to remember

everything has a lineage

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 7d

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 7d

If you haven't read this selection of short pieces by local/non-local authors about the banned books they read as kids, you're missing out! Words from @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social @bobcalhoun.bsky.social @semibold.bsky.social @dkossy.bsky.social, me, and others!

thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2025/10/...

Banned Books Week: Writers Recall the "Forbidden" Books of Their Youth | Third Coast Review

It’s Banned Books Week, and while it’s not a week to celebrate, per se, it’s one to faithfully observe.

thirdcoastreview.com

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 8d

lol/cry infinitum

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 8d

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons

Sign up for our humor newsletter to get Daily Cartoons delivered to your inbox: nyer.cm/0EivDaD

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Sarah Becan @sarahbecan.bsky.social · 8d

I am home in Chicago now but I would like to share this excellent flier I found in Yerevan.

A weathered telephone poll flier that reads “stop using ChatGPT, grammar, tellper, if you don’t want to REGRESS”

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 8d

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.

Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.

https://www.ala.org/bbooks.

BANNED BOOKS WEEK Oct. 5-11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984 - Read for Your Rights. ala.org/bbooks. American Library Association

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8d

Fam, this is a challenging moment. We (as reporters) are trying to balance urgency of news & amplification of resistance narratives with not assisting in putting people in prison. It's tough for everyone right now with how fast videos go viral. There's a lot we are not sharing.

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 8d

Pro-tip: if you have video of you or others directly intervening to obstruct ICE or de-arrest someone, for god’s sake don’t post it on social media. Or at a minimum blur faces first. You’re just begging for federal charges.

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