We are now taking donations of blowup costumes to Portland. These blowup costumes are desperately needed by protesters who are continuing to fight the good fight. Please note that we already have too many T-Rexs, so please, no more T-Rexs.

Voidbeast continues to regard its alien captors with deep suspicion, but allows that there may be some signs of civilization.

A lot going on here, but a religion note: DHS Assistant Sec. Tricia McLaughlin refers to Rev. Black as a "pastor" here — using quotation marks.

It's a notable slight against a faith leader's status, as Black is, in fact, an ordained minister of a church operating within the Presbytery of Chicago.

Uh, whoa! Dude! Look what you glorious weirdos did! WHAT STALKS THE DEEP is #12 on the New York Times!

"In rapid fire, I was hit seven times on my arms, face & torso with exploding pellets that contained some kind of chemical agent. It was clear to me that the officers were aiming for my head, which they struck twice.”

Be *extra* careful if traveling westbound on the detour.

Drivers are not looking for westbound traffic on 28th and I know of at least one crash (last night, car/scooters) already since the detour went in.

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.

Trying to develop a little habit where, when I say a thing, I then immediately follow it up mentally with: "The reason I say that is because..." And then I try to complete that sentence out loud. It feels like it'd be redundant, but it's almost never!

Extra funny when you think about how Sinners, which features Michael B. Jordan gunning down Klansmen in broad daylight in slow-mo, is the 10th highest-grossing R-rated film of all time - higher than The Hangover, 300, Logan, John Wick 4, etc....

I love shitting on social media as much as the next guy, but Skype a Scientist was built directly from social media connections.

We've matched over 60,000 classrooms with scientists from it...

That's pretty great.

Yeah. It was weird. Yes, early miscarriages sometimes happen for no reason we can ever tell.

But also some people, like me, just have low progesterone, and it's easily fixed.

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

I could have a rational filing system for things I want to keep track of.

Or I could store everydamnthing in my downloads folder and just back up the folder every time I feel twitchy.

Trans people, I am once again asking you—nay, begging you—to share something good that is going on in your lives right now!

I’ll start: I’m working on a new graphic novel and having a blast with the creative team we’ve assembled!

I will 100% support any politician who takes transit, bikes, or walks regularly to get around. Be out in community! Don’t just drive through it.

Got my first book deal by tweeting at an author "someone should write a book like this" and he responded "you should write a book like that" and tagged his acquisitions editor.

So many things. I've found research partners, colleagues and friends. I've participated in voting rights fundraising. I've learned from so many experts

Absolutely. It was indispensable in keeping Minneapolis folks connected to each other during the week of police riots that followed George Floyd's murder. And personally, I've gotten to know musicians across the country who I never would have met otherwise, and a bunch of those are now irl friends.

I can never find any of my shit because Download, Picture, and Document are far from mutually exclusive categories. Putting everything on Desktop just always works.

From Parth Kothekar's M.C. Escher-inspired series of papercuts

www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/10/part...

Met @silmaria.bsky.social on a BBS 30 years ago (minus 1 week). The rest is history.

Saved at least three wanted pregnancies by being open about my own miscarriage problem.

A career pivot, some amazing friends, some beautiful art, two books.

A speaking reputation.

ADHD advocacy.

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

#OnThisDay Oct 8, 1956: Southdale, the first fully enclosed shopping mall in the world, opens in Edina, Minnesota. Architect Victor Gruen, later realizing his invention had not lived up to his utopian vision of a car-free public square, became the biggest critic of malls until his death in 1980.