Everyone please diligently check your candy this year. I cracked open a snickers bar and not only did I find a copper ingot, but it was of poor quality. Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.
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Mundane Halloween returns! Halloween is great, but the greatest part of Halloween is the annual "mundane Halloween" costume contest sponsored by Japanese website @dailyportalz Here is a thread of some of my favorites from this year...
I post this every year on this day and it makes me laugh every year
My 9 year old was the walking mushroom that shows up between episodes of Delicious In Dungeon 😂 She was adorable and nobody understood her costume
Mollie Wilson O'Reilly@mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 20h agoI love weird nine-year-old Halloween, because what do you mean you want to be "Comedian" by Maurizio Cattelan??
making fun of haley stevens and her fiance is a form of racism against minecraft villagers
Misread this as “forest daylight savings” and my subconscious is onto something
Frances: Meh and Loving It@francesmeh.reviews · yesterdayforget daylight savings let's eliminate tuesdays
To read the Q&A with my fabulous colleage Joy Rhode that Ford School published (and the University chose not to) see here. And better yet, preorder her new book "People of the Machine"! fordschool.umich.edu/news/2026/pe...
People of the Machine: Q&A with historian Joy Rohde
Today’s generative AI companies promise systems that will surpass human capabilities—and often portray that future as inevitable. Public policy historian Joy Rohde argues that these promises echo a lo...
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Uljana Feest@ufeest.bsky.social · yesterday
The Children of the Corn form a little league team to take on those rich snobs The Children of the Sorghum.
The O’ahu Skyline is doing a trick-or-treat thing at all of its stops and this costume would be so perfect for it ( @questauthority.bsky.social )
Amanda Wong@amandawtwong.bsky.social · yesterdayWell sir, there's nothing on Earth like a genuine, bona-fide, electrified, six-car monorail!
There’s not enough money to fill potholes in the U.S.
Manning's trick-or-treat tips 4 kidz: Always dart across the street so cars have less time to hit you. Wear a dark costume so the bullies who want to steal your candy can't find you. If an adult offers you drugs/alcohol, make them take some first so you know it's not poisoned.
The National Museum of American History has an exhibit right now on Filipino American history. The exhibit includes the finely tailored suits that Filipino immigrants bought using money they earned as agricultural laborers in California. Georgetown professor Erwin Tiongson discusses this here:
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · yesterdayPasswordless Telnet? In this economy?
flu: no way, he’s not coming covid: dude i swear. he texted me rsv: nobody’s heard from him in years whooping cough walks in: nobody? did you ask your mom [everyone loses their shit]
slate@pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 3d agothe boys are back in town but it’s covid, flu, and rsv
Everyone should be required to wear the same outfits they were wearing when I met them for the first time. I do not think I am asking for much here.
dressing up as your dad for Halloween and not showing up to your party
Absolutely insane October Surprise, I blame the GOP
AO3 Status@status.archiveofourown.org · 2d ago[update] Identified: We estimate that service restoration for #AO3 will take around 2 weeks but it could be up to 4 weeks. We are hopeful that we will be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state sooner. If that does happen, there may be times when the site has ...
It’s social media revisionism to say audiences knew in 1999 that Jar Jar Binks was computer generated. It took YEARS to figure that out. At the time we all thought he was a real man who was very unwell.
Repeat after me: I am not chiller than Violent J. I am not chiller than Mike Bloomberg. I am not chiller than James Somerton. I am not chiller than Ben Shapiro. But if I stand back and watch and learn, I will be chiller than I am.