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Monster On The Table Times like these, I am reminded of the prodigious soldering feats of @smellsofbikes.bsky.social and am once again in awe.

“the only previous time he ran for executive office was for mayor of Rio de Janeiro in 2016, when he fainted during a televised debate and finished fourth” 🙃

Just saw this amazing image of Tetsuya Chiba holding omnibus 4 of Kodansha USA's English release of Ashita no Joe. I can't help but see his face & imagine he's thinking "Took you Americans THIS long to finally release my manga in English, huh? Well, better late than never." RIP

He's resting his feet on the painting of the footrest. The real chair is as painterly as the painted chairs. I think it's hard to overstate how brilliant this photo is.

Roy Lichtenstein in his Manhattan studio 📷 Thomas Hoepker, 1982

In my base model, 2027 revenue is $108.6B, but that's still producing only a 5.1% operating margin. Their upcoming contracted compute is really expensive! Anything but a bull case for them makes their IPO (and even their Series H) way overvalued.

FWIW, Anthropic admits its current margins may not be representative. There's a bit of lucky timing here: big revenue growth while on the tail end of cheap compute contracted more than a year ago. Their future compute is... not so cheap. (1st pic their S-1, second are my graphics based on S-1.)

From 1973, Ed Emberley’s Little Drawing Book of Weirdos. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/e...

this man is a gotdamned patriot

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

Frankenstein — Bernie Wrightson

Frankenstein — Bernie Wrightson, 1983

Day 12 - strongest Republican day so far, up 30% vs 2022. Dems up 40% and UNA up 69%.

Self-portrait, c.1898 by Giovanni Giacometti

Painting of Albert Einstein on violin and Paul Ehrenfest on piano. Ehrenfest was a student of Ludwig Boltzmann, an extraordinary physicist in his own right, and a dear friend of Einstein. Original watercolor by Marijke Kamerlingh-Onnes, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives #Einstein #science

Our $2M investment in the Sea Cliffs Exhibit Renovation Project has gotten a pretty clear seal of approval.

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

Old research found the same damn thing: New research finds frequent disease outbreaks in B.C. salmon farms, endangering wild salmon theconversation.com/new-research...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Follow his lead — if you’re going as something historic for Halloween, such an Austin Moonlight Tower, don’t forget to include the historical marker in your costume www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=186872

If Trump can crank out 1300 words on Bill Maher you can finish that chapter

Bluesky has four kinds of users

"Both top-shelf reporting and top officials in the Trump administration, including Trump himself, have said that Musk made this decision on his own. That would be treason. The traditional way to figure out the truth of such a matter is with a trial." prospect.org/2026/10/26/d...

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Yacht owners will be living in a Far Side cartoon where the whales are all “Hold on, these things just crumple? Have they been like this the whole time?”

This is stunning news. Bauza was *ubiquitous* in American animated film and TV--he has 422 separate IMDB credits, and most of those are for multiple roles on a single show. And with good reason; he was extremely creative and a superb mimic.

“At just 11 years old, Reese has already turned her love of rocks and minerals into a museum, a creative business, and a workshop where she cuts and polishes stones to reveal the colours and patterns hidden inside. 'Pebble Rebel Dune Saloon' is located near Liebenthal, in West Central Saskatchewan”

someday anthropologists will call this era the dumbassic period www.tmz.com/2026/10/25/n...

And again, it's worth noting that this happened despite Lula being an incredibly flawed candidate. His son and some of his key political allies are embroiled in genuine corruption scandals. He's 80 years old. Crime is incredibly high. But he's won despite those flaws. There's a lesson in that.

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

WE DID IT. I CANT FUCKING BELIEVED WE DEFEATED USA WE DEFEATED A COUP WE DEFEATED META WE DEFEATED EVERYONE WHO TRIED TO SILENCE BRAZILIA PEOPLE LULA WON GUYS. THE PEOPLE WON.

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Lula Goes HARD

"[T]he U.S. military [reportedly] dropped more than 270 million submunitions over nine years of secret warfare [in Laos] ... [B]uried munitions which did not detonate continue to maim and kill civilians, more than half of them children, frequently while in villages and rice fields."

Brazil extended voting hours in lieu of the attempts at voter suppression seen today. We'll know the results soon enough. I hope for all our sakes Lula wins.