My next door neighbor’s terrifying Halloween decorations

Francisco de Goya, “The Devil's Lamp (The Bewitched Man),” 1798, oil on canvas, 42.5 × 30.8 cm (National Gallery, London). From the play "El Hechizado por Fuerza": the priest Don Claudio believes he has been bewitched and will die if the oil in his lamp is not perpetually replenished 🎃

Please do this. (& if you live elsewhere, also a good time to check that you're registered!)

FFffrancavilla.bsky.socialOct 7, 2024 3:16pm

If you live in one of these 10 states (AZ, TX AR, MS, FL, GA, TN, KY, IN, OH), today is THE LAST DAY you can register to vote. Even if you think you're registered already, double check to see if your registration is still active. Please do this, it only takes a few minutes. Pass it on.

On October 7th, 2024, I want to repeat Edward Said’s advice to us all: “Where cruelty and injustice are concerned, hopelessness is submission, which I believe is immoral.” Heads up. Hearts open. We can build a better world.

Hey writer & reader friends! Daily Science Fiction Magazine (DSF) closed down awhile ago -- but now the site is down and so any current links to stories are broken. However! Stewart C. Baker made an excellent tutorial on how to grab archived links: ⬇️ www.infomancy.net/finding-arch...

How to Find Archived Stories from Daily Science Fiction Using the Wayback Machine - Infomancy.net

The Daily Science Fiction website no longer works. This post explains how to access archived versions of your stories using the Wayback Machine.

Cole Escola removed Bernadette Peters does her taxes, which is an incredible skit. I die. It's also a billion times funnier cuz I do taxes and that's exactly what its like (altho no one has told me yet that they've eaten the babies)

Look, some countries execute people for treason, but I prefer our more civilized method of waiting 4 years for a 165 page legal brief that argues all that treason we saw at the time actually happened.

L'shanah tovah! Looking forward to my apple cake tonight and thinking about what what liberation looks like and what it looks like to make that moral arc bend toward justice. What does it require of me. How much more can I do. I miss my bubbe saying good yontif so i'll say it for her.

I feel this

JLjessemlocker.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 3:56pm

This turn-of-the-century Rosh HaShanah card goes hard. The Old Year struggles in the water while the New Year stands on the shore, and a Yiddish inscription urging the old year to "drown forever already"