"how (would) those record profits (of oil companies and of those who profit off them) ... spread if they were applied to prices at the pump instead of prices of shares on Wall Street."

Mike Peterson@csotd.bsky.social · 2h ago

If you can't keep'em from voting, keep'em blind. Explore how it works with Christopher Weyant, Garth German, George Riemann, Martijn van der Wiel, Mike Smith, Patrick Chappatte & Paul Duginski www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

may that blue wave be prescient!

sirenmA@sirenma.bsky.social · 2h ago

An early evening walk #Stunday

You add it at the end because that's what the jar is for. Jean Louis would like a word. #spices #pepper #culinaryhistory #flavor #cooking #herbsandspices #foodhistory #Cooksky #Bluesky #Flipboard

Black Pepper Was Once Used as Currency. What That Tells You About How to Use It.

For most of recorded history, black pepper was not a condiment. It was a currency precious enough to pay ransoms with and powerful enough to fund empires. That history changes what the jar on your kitchen counter should mean to you, and what you should be doing with it.

beestrot.com

I think I'm in love...

The Mouthy Renegade Writer@mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 19h ago

Damn, I adore Jo Jo From Jerz's mastery of profanity and how she targets her fury about this administration directly at the MAGA shitiots who voted for this insanity. This is the best thing I've seen on the internet all week.

"Managing your own chronic illness care is a job: tracking symptoms across specialists who don’t talk to each other, translating your own history into whatever language each new provider needs to hear it in, chasing test results, appealing denials... All of it costs the same energy work would."

A Chronic Voice@achronicvoice.com · 14h ago

"Part of what makes this exhausting is that it rarely looks like effort from the outside..This #burden lands hardest on the people who are already dealing with #illness or #disability.": buff.ly/CVjrIb8 by @thethrivingspoonie.com #NEisVoid #ChronicIllness #InvisibleIllness #healthcare #disability

Here's the very first photo of me with my new family, on my trip from France to Belgium. My tummy did not enjoy the ride, so we stopped to let me breathe. Mum held me close, and that's when I knew I was in good hands. 🐾💛 #CatsOfBluesky #Catsky #RescueCat

“She couldn't be the prince, and she'd never be a princess, and she didn't want to be a woodcutter, so she'd be the witch and know things.” ~ Terry Pratchett #Witchsky #Booksky

Cartoon by Dennis Goris https://substack.com/@dennisgoris

Halloween Countdown 👻 Old Josie of Cliff Farmhouse, All Cannings One late afternoon in 1946 or 47, Mrs F Hues glanced out of her bedroom window and saw her neighbour, old Joshua Cowdry, standing by his gate. 🧵

#Tennessee I was just informed by someone whose driver's license will expire before Tuesday's election that the state of TN has decided to renew licenses in "batches" rather than processing them as payment is received. Despite the state processing their renewal payment THREE WEEKS AGO, they have

"... if a photographer turns in 50 pictures of people sitting listening to speakers at a demonstration and one shot of the guy in an Uncle Sam costume toting a plastic rifle and covered in fake blood, we know which photo the editor will choose. True in the Vietnam days, true now."

Mike Peterson@csotd.bsky.social · 2d ago

Do young people vote? Does anyone want them to? Explore the topic with Adam Zyglis, Clay Jones, Jon Ostrove, Jonathan Brown, Maarten Wolterink, Matt Wuerker, Michael de Adder & Rick McKee www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

Whenever the PMC data have you feeling pessimistic about the current state of COVlD, remember the WHN estimates are 20% higher. 😬 They have been making impressive forecasts and just added some really great features to their dashboard. Check it out. whn.global/estimation-o...

Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA@michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 6d ago

PMC COVlD Update, Oct 26, 2026 🔥44 states with COVlD outbreaks (see Alt) 🔥Double wave peaks, both at an estimated 950,000 new daily infections 🔥6th week in a row of massive CDC upward retroactive corrections going back to early July THREAD (1/5)

Thank you Patrick Stewart, feminist.

Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence

The actor recalls a childhood tainted by his father's cruelty

theguardian.com

[an empty message because Sir Patrick Stewart has died, regular SpaceDad posts will resume another day because Picard's spirit lives on]

Beavercreek, Ohio 🤣😂

If there is one thing the world could use more of right now, it's kindness. Let's spread some around today. Happy Thursday, friends. ✌️💙

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝@sundaedivine.lol · 3d ago

I‘m going as Amelia Earhart to our Halloween office party by just not showing up.

It's so easy to laugh it's so easy to hate It takes guts to be gentle and kind

Pittsburgh graffiti@pghgraffiti.bsky.social · 4d ago

Commit, Rachel 🤩 #Caturday #Witchsky

Good morning from pretty-in-pink #Pittsburgh with a barge floating on glass. Somehow this resets the morning for me after oversleeping. 🤦🏼‍♀️

"... treating individual sick people with medicine wasn’t necessarily the long-term solution; what was needed was education, jobs, better housing, fairer taxes, and 'full and unlimited democracy. ... Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing but medicine at a large scale.'”

Politics is medicine on a large scale

Vote like your health depends on it

yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com

curie for me. i hope the cover glows in the dark.

Helen Day@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 5d ago

Time for a round of ‘you can only pick one’. Which will it be? (Would you ‘like’ or rt this one please, so it doesn’t get buried 🙏)

This post is circulating and it is fake. Folks, it’s already bad enough. No need for this crap.

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Jody DiPerna@jodydiperna.bsky.social · 5d ago

Shove that ballroom up your ass. Will they toss me from my polling place next Tuesday if I shout that in the voting booth?

Here's a playlist of Halloween fun to take you up to the big day. #HalloweenAdvent

this sure would come in handy navigating our steep hills here.

The puppies Penn & Teller, and Richard@rdaily.medsky.social · last wk.

See if the kids and city slickers out their can figure out what the “G” stands for. Usually on work or farm trucks. Used one a lot as a teenager delivering produce to stores but only had 3 instead of 4.

oh, my goodness. i forgot he was the cop in "harold and maude."

J.A.Tallon@tallon.bsky.social · last wk.

Tom Skerritt in "Harold And Maude" - RIP

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