Hi friends! First a quick note: this newsletter has a fancy new url and can be found at www.theinfophile.com.

Happy Halloween! My favorite holiday though this year will be subdued, of course. I’m thinking of doing some baking and maybe we’ll watch a movie. My wife has never seen “Blade” so perhaps that will happen! It’s cooling down and the hours with sun are getting fewer (don’t forget to change your clocks back an hour this weekend). For me, the coolness and the darkness has lifted my mood and I’m feeling more like myself; however, I know that is not the case for many of you. I feel like we’re all some sort of version of this right now, give or take a few types of depression:

<image is a meme of multiple versions of Spider-Man pointing at each other. Text reads, “When my regular depression meets my seasonal, covid, capitalism, patriarchy, racism, & homophobia depressions.”>