YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Ziemlich viel Alternativgeschichte in meinem SF-Lesetagebuch der letzten Wochen. Und Silo, Lucifer und Lessons in Magic and Disaster.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2025/11/science-fiction-im-oktober-und-november-2025/
How to watch Raiders vs. Chiefs: TV channel and streaming options for October 19 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6716817/2025/10/14/how-to-watch-raiders-vs-chiefs-tv-channel-and-streaming-options-for-october-19/…
Can an octopus learn to play a piano? This guy, Mattias Krantz, tried to find out. He rescues a random octopus from a fish market and then tries to work out how to teach it to play. You can skip the training to 15:20 to hear their first duet, but the training is interesting too. https://youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?si=BMFFE7
"October 2025 was the planet’s third-warmest October on record"
#Climate #ClimateChange
Labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October, November;
Unemployment rate is up
The October loss of more than 100,000 jobs was particularly striking,
-- the sharpest losses since the covid pandemic-era recession.
But economists expected losses in October
-- because the data reflected tens of thousands of federal workers who deferred resignation and officially parted ways with the federal government in October.
Federal government payrolls fell by 162,000 j…
Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-18-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251018/p56#a251018p56
Should I be fully exploring these maps in Octopath Traveler?
The random encounters are making back tracking a real pain already at level 8
#videogames #octopath
i absolutely love going through https://okstupid.lol/ and seeing all the MEN who signed up for "WhiteDate" thinking they could find far right women to mingle yet all it lead to was their insane incel beliefs being leaked alongside their real address and name
Nice day at the beach in San Francisco, California
#NoKings October 18, 2025
https://bsky.app/profile/andyheppelle.bsky.social/post/3m3iwmaua3s2v