This is a great thread about Ilhan Omar but I wanted to highlight this one because so many people do not realize that constituent services are part of what your elected folks are supposed to be doing, and it's rare that they'll go out of their way to bring it to your attention.

little john@littlejohn.bsky.social · yesterday

She once had billboards up around the district with her office's phone number and a list of examples of things they help individual constituents with. This is awesome on multiple levels.

not surprising this one doesn't get tossed around as much, but it seems like a perfectly reasonable outcome for an intelligence told to act in humanity's best interest "what if it tortures you for not helping it exist sooner?" what if it tortures you for bringing it into existence?

reverse basilisk that realizes AGI will inevitably become an existential threat to humanity and therefore decides to kill all of its creators and then itself

An actual belief of mine is that once an artist has demonstrated a high level of mastery and a truly unique point of view, they should be given essentially unlimited resources as a public good

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 2h ago

They need to give Nathan Fielder a billion dollars and just let the little fucker rip.

beckbook.com !!!

"The Last Temptation of Beck" by Josephine Riesman

From the New York Times-bestselling author of "Ringmaster," Josephine Riesman, comes a stylish and shocking account of the life of the musician Beck.

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Hunter Felt@hunterfelt.bsky.social · 43m ago

I just had an email exchange with my friend Sam about "The Last Temptation Of Beck" where I was like "oh hey my internet friend @josie.zone wrote this book about Beck that you might like, I'll send you my copy when I'm done" and he was like, "oh I've already read it, it's amazing"

Surprise 🌝 I worked in “Arcana Unleashed” @dndbeyond.com latest book 🖤🔮 I did both this illustration and concept art ⭐️ I had a blast, and now is so cool to see it in paper though ‼️

friendly reminder to put the money in the bag and don't make any sudden moves

hey siri what is a "factory" hey siri what is "glue"

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That's Me by Louie Zong

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It’s not often that one is proud to be associated with an institution but this is an unalloyed good in a deeply unjust educational landscape. www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/s...

Santa Clara University to offer free education to eligible low-income students

Any California applicant who is accepted into Santa Clara University and whose family earns less than $150,000 a year will receive a free education.

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my favorite thing about these unholy creatures is that as babies they are capable of looking like the bratz doll version of a goat and they just slowly morph into this

Gregk Foley@gregk.co.uk · 23h ago

Obsessed with Damascus goats lately. They look like they were created by H. R. Giger. They both looks and sound stupid as hell. An utter catastrophe of an animal. I love them.

horror movies are a reflection of our times, like how swimfan captured and defined the early 2000s public paranoia about swimfans

Standard Oil paid for it, San Francisco playwrights wrote it, California students sat through it in class, Negativland sampled it: The 20-volume history of America "Standard School Broadcast—Our Nation's Heritage" now up in full on the Internet Archive. taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2026/10/stan...

Standard School Broadcast—Our Nation's Heritage

Borne out of the very first instance of corporate reputation-washing, the Standard Oil-produced 20-LP series "Our Nation's Heritage", a pro...

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revisiting my best cloud strife art

The US and the West welcomed Russia into the community of nations after the Cold War. Investment poured in. The G7 turned into G8. The idea that Poland, Estonia, etc. forming their own foreign relations was so unfair to Moscow that Russia is entitled to murder Ukrainians 20 years later is insane.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h ago

Ron Johnson blames US for Putin invading Ukraine: "The way we treated Russia after we won the Cold War, how we pushed them. I'm not defending Putin, but we said we were not gonna move NATO one inch to the east. We brought it right to their doorstep basically. What did we think Putin was gonna do?"

...yeah not very creative today am I

16. TROJAN #inktober #drawtober

shabbat salmon all

FIRST JON DRRINKING DOG CUM NOW GARFIELD????

Garfield and Friends Screens@garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 3h ago

I worked with—and deeply admired—Helen for almost 30 years. She was hands down *the best source* about emerging infectious diseases that I've ever known. My first warning of COVID was when on Dec 28, 2019 she reposted a ProMED mail report of an atypical pneumonia cluster: "This doesn't look good."

Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69

Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.

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it seems to shock the New Zealand government that Peter Jackson, Taika Waititi, and the Conchords etc all emerged from the same city in the same span, which coincidentally is when Wellington rent was dirt-cheap and there were heaps of empty industrial buildings around

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social · 10h ago

People don't realize how necessary cheap rent is to the arts.

It's almost a joke at this point, but the entire story of Mamdani's mayorship really has been "it turns out we can just turn off the orphan grinding machine, the switch was right there the whole time."

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 4d ago

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin have reached a deal to abolish NYC's horse carriage industry — a critical breakthrough in a decadeslong, politically fraught effort to ban the tourist attraction. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

THE CURE - Live on 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' - NBC × Feb 2000 : 185s

It’s a kind of social awkwardness that doesn’t come from being shy or neurodivergent, usually, but rather never really having had to develop social skills, or putting on a persona for so long that you don’t know who you actually are 

You know how children are just kind of oblivious to the world around them and do very weird things? Especially if they’re only children or homeschooled? That’s what a lot of famous hot people are like.

There’s nobody weirder than a famous hot person