People don't realize how many exceptional writers, actors, artists, and directors were lost because they were scared into chasing financial security. The US deliberately adopted policies that made it impossible to survive without going to college, then forced everyone out of studying the arts.

Consider that the Patrick Stewarts of today are working an unfulfilling corporate IT gig because they were told decades ago that there were "no jobs" for theatre majors, and they constantly think about killing themselves because life doesn't seem worth living.

Sam Cohen@samcohen.bsky.social · yesterday

“I was fortunate to grow up in a time when there was a compact between the government and the people dictating that the arts were a necessity in life, not a frivolity,” he wrote in the book. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

The Library of the Day is the Haunted Free Library #231975! Horror books only ⚰️☠️ Find a ~frightening~ Little Free Library near you this weekend by downloading our free mobile app: https://lflib.org/app

Credit where its due: www.bkmag.com/2026/10/29/m... - Thank you to everyone who protested this and to the @mayor.nyc.gov for heeding the call.

Mamdani Quietly Kills NYC's "Cop City" Plan

Nearly ten years after it was initially proposed, a plan to build an officer training center in Queens has been razed by the Mamdani administration.

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At all three NYC hospitals that have ended gender-affirming care for trans youth, as well as in front of the Supreme Court last year, trans adults have administered hormone replacement therapy in acts of defiance designed to demystify and destigmatize gender-affirming healthcare.

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.

imagine everything Musk is going to want from a senator that cost him a quarter billion in cash

#TeslaTakedown@teslatakedown.com · 2d ago

Since we posted this (checks watch) 3 hours ago, Elon's America PAC just added ANOTHER $6,269,054.51 to Texas, bringing his total against @jamestalarico.bsky.social via America PAC to... $46,672,768.94 Elon will likely spend $250 million in just this one race.

jean-luc picard was one of the best, least-toxic, examples of masculinity available to me as a kid. He was someone who showed that refined tastes didn't have to pair with terrible politics: you can be a space communist who leads from the front and loves classical music and theater.

Marvin Gaye releases his version of “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” 59 years ago today, so take a minute to enjoy the incredible, isolated vocal. 🔥

Endlessly thankful I got to spend nearly 37 years on the same planet as this man.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d ago

Patrick Stewart reading Sonnet 116, which has always been one of my favourites, in his beautiful, expressive, rich voice. youtu.be/wwGGW6QOYsY?...

I'm really fucking devastated right now so instead here's the picture Patrick Stewart posted nearly 13 years ago to the day with the caption "happy halloween" of him dressed as a giant lobster in a bathtub.

I'm going to sit down and have a big, ugly, long cry. His performance as Captain Picard moved me to tears, awe, joy, elation...again and again. An extraordinary talent, an extraordinary man. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ Captain and ‘X-Men’ Superhero, Dies at 86

He’s forever known for playing Jean-Luc Picard and Charles Xavier, whom he “admired for their morality, for their kindness, for their sensitivity, for their compassion.”

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SISTER ROSETTA THARPE with the aptly titled “Didn’t It Rain” at Wilbraham Road Railway Station in Manchester as part of a live, televised and extraordinary gig in 1964.

What email service am I supposed to use now?!? 😭😭

404 Media@404media.co · 3d ago

SCOOP: Proton CEO Andy Yen to his staff: “Stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.” 404 Media saw these internal messages, in which he also said it was "loser thinking" to an employee who urged the company to at least take a few days to test newly written code before going live.

If you vote early (and you should!), you should then be exempt from seeing any further political ads for the remainder of the election cycle.

The NY Times will publish a hit piece on the Democratic Alaska senate candidate six days before an Election but won't mention a new rape allegation against the President of the United States.

Rest in power Dolores 💔

19thnews@19thnews.org · 3d ago

Dolores Huerta, who rose to national prominence as the co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, and was known for her advocacy for women farmworkers, has died. She was 96. Huerta coined the ¡Sí Se Puede! chant and came to define the farmworker movement.

This article has me fuming. The selfishness and hypocrisy on display... www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Silicon Valley parents want the tech they help build out of their children’s schools

Both private and public schools in tech regions are limiting the use of tech in classrooms. But will low-income districts be able to follow suit?

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OMG OMG OMG scientists found a dwarf planet in OUR solar system, past Pluto!!!

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory@rubinobservatory.org · 4d ago

Meet our Solar System's newest dwarf planet candidate: 2026 ED138! Orbiting past Pluto, scientists found it in NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data from earlier this year. Early analysis suggests it's ~600–1500 km across, one of the largest found past Neptune!🔭🧪 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-f...

"Journalists often use the words 'unsubstantiated' or 'uncorroberated' when referring to the allegations victims have levied against powerful men, like Trump. Instead of saying these women’s accounts are not corroborated, maybe it’s time we say they were not investigated in spite of clear patterns."

Trump and Epstein’s intrasexual competition

Former Miss Switzerland contestant accuses Trump of ‘brutal’ rape after event attended by Jeffrey Epstein

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For anyone with creative IP online: UChicago's Glaze software alters photos imperceptively to the human eye so that AI can't train on it. glaze.cs.uchicago.edu UChicago's Nightshade software alters photos so that they poison AI models if used in training data nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

I rounded up 13 bone-chilling Indigenous horror reads that’ll crawl under your skin and into your dreams. Stephen Graham Jones is back with Off the Reservation, Never Whistle at Night returns for blood, and writers from Alaska to Aotearoa are bringing the scares. redpopnews.com/13-bone-chil...

13 Bone-Chilling Indigenous Horror Reads That Will Crawl Under Your Skin and Into Your Dreams

Indigenous people have been telling scary stories for thousands of years. For most of modern horror's history, though, we showed up as the curse instead of the storytellers. Think of the Overlook Hote...

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i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

The wealthy elite are making a killing from #ClimateChange. They profit from causing climate change AND they profit from its impacts. For them, it's a win-win AND and an incentive to continue investing in more greenhouse gas emissions. In doing so, they threaten you, me, everyone yet to be born.

Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, report finds

Oxfam says investing by rich in disaster recovery widens inequality and gives incentive to delay climate action

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Just read that Anthropic refers to its employees as 'ants'. I had a panic attack so bad I had to take a twenty minute walk outside. The absolute loathing that the tech CEOs have for the value of a human being is beyond what my nervous system can take.

LinkedIn top news articles today, Mon Oct 26th: - Anthropic files prospectus for potentially record-breaking IPO (17m ago) - AI has delivered 'zero payoff,' says Apollo's top economist (1h ago)

If you're going to see a documentary, please make it "Musk".

"But it's just a couple comments by a couple Dems". At least 72 Democrats have voted to strip human rights away from trans people and/or have campaigned on open anti-trans propaganda in the last year.

Celebrate Halloween and Día de Los Muertos this fall with a free, fun, and family-friendly events across the city. From pumpkin carving to Halloween-themed Zumba, there is something for everyone in this guide. 

NYC Free Halloween & Día De Los Muertos Events

Family-friendly Halloween and Día de los Muertos activities you cannot miss.

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