My parents are legends.

“This is the 8th time I’ve texted you.” Sir, that sounds like a you problem.

Thinking, as I do every Halloween, about ‘route of ghost’

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 whipped softened cream cheese into eggs for making french toast this morning and it worked fine. Recipes? I don’t know her.

After years of huge Halloweens with hordes of trick-or-treaters, I’m enjoying being way out yonder where even if I forget to turn off the porch light, it’s unlikely anyone will come.

Fifteen posts explaining how to properly decorate a cake

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Senate race between Jon Ossoff and Mike Collins gives us good material to illustrate two common problems with men's trousers, which most people miss when shopping. Let me show you. 🧵

"American Creoles: The Francophone Caribbean and the American South" examines the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South, esp. Louisiana, which had a an attachment to France & Francophone world. Read Free www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt...

TIL that there is a Seattle scream club. They meet at a beach and scream it out. eventbrite.com/cc/scream-clubtm-seattle-4818857

Scream Club® Seattle by Amber Walcker | Eventbrite

Scream Club® is a safe, non-judgmental gathering for mental health, connection, and emotional release.

eventbrite.com

Yes, yes, and more yes. Buckets and buckets of it.

Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · 4d ago

If you want more Patrick Stewarts, then you publicly fund the arts and learning programs, so that working class kids can find their way into making a career in them.

All this AI being foisted on us to do unnecessary things when all I want is something that asks me if I meant to type “of” when I typed “if” on my stupid phone screen keyboard.

I could get down with a sad girl cover of I Can’t Drive 55.

Bellevue College seems to always have a couple hundred active job postings and I dunno, that seems like a lot?

PSA: you can cook pumpkins and other pumpkin-like squash whole in the oven. It is so much easier to deal with once it is cooked.

TIL that you can have a permanent residence on a cruise ship. Or at least until they decide to boot everyone off.

when you're a kid and people tell you not to be an artist, it's not because the world doesn't need art, or because you don't want to make art, it's because the world hates artists so much it will create trillion-dollar companies to avoid paying artists $75

25 accusations. That fucking guy is 80. Did he have a sex pest spree one year, like every two weeks he did a sex crime? Or did he space it out, doing one every two or three years?

For my reporting I'm interested in talking to people who know about old telecom wiring still hanging between wooden utility poles, sometimes unused, and how it's being stolen for scrap. Infrastructure enthusiasts, linemen, rural cops, telecoms scholars: my email is jsilverman@icij.org.

Random, but lately I’ve been so grateful that @brooklynmarie.bsky.social talked about hypochlorous acid sprays (like Magic Molecule)!

when i got home from you can see everything last week the first thing i did was google adam nayman you can see everything because i love when he writes about Fielder. Still the best piece ive read on it www.theringer.com/2026/10/16/y...

‘You Can See Everything’ Through Nathan Fielder’s Looking Glass

The ‘Rehearsal’ creator’s collaboration with Lance Oppenheim is a stunning look into Elizabeth Holmes’s inner world. It also wrestles with the contradictions of, well, everything.

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anybody else just like... tired

My tired brain parsed this as “Pumpkin Spice Hog” and if anyone is looking for costume ideas, well, there you go.

OneDishwasher@onedishwasher.bsky.social · 2w ago

Pumpkin Spice Hot Dog but what condiments? Whip cream? Maple syrup? Chicago style?

Garth Brooks is touring again? The 90s really are back. Am I gonna go? Double Live is permanently etched in my brain from start to finish so...it's a strong possibility.

There have been more headlines lately that make it appear people are being held accountable for fraudulent stuff and it's never Those Evil Truly Fraudulent Fuckers, and it looks like a nationwide show of law and order just in time for the election that hurts vulnerable people in the process and...

Did I buy a sticker vending machine after about 20 seconds of consideration? No. It was 5 seconds.

Find a handwritten note and post an image of it.

Josh Mankiewicz@joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Find a handwritten note and post an image of it

The Professional for Tax Purposes

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 2w ago

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang for Tax Purposes

The collective weariness is real.

Dude saw my tattoo of sunglasses and scissors, asked about it. I said I was a collage artist, that I cut a lot of paper. “Oh, you’re a CRAFTER. Like my wife when her scrapbooking stuff makes a mess of the living room.”

Dorothy's Expressive Blink

Alt: Dorothy from Golden Girls offering her Expressive Blink that tells someone she is not amused. She has short gray hair and a light purple sweater over a white collared shirt.

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PSA for WA King County voters: ballots were mailed out today. Drop boxes will open tomorrow. Call (206) 296-VOTE (8683) if your ballot hasn’t arrived by the time Monday’s mail arrives. (Corrected a previous typo)