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Cheap roof, free meals... unexpected spiritual awakening?
The FDA has greenlit an optical fountain of youth, one man attempted a churchy life hack and found a side of community, and Phish, of all bands, has your Halloween party playlist on lock.
Greg Sullivan
October 27, 2025 • Est. Reading Time: 9 minutes
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“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
― Diana Gabaldon
In this issue...
The end of readers?
I love my readers, as in you, the lovely individual enjoying this newsletter right now. But I hate my readers, as in the annoying glasses pinching the bridge of my nose right now. If you're reading this on your phone and you have the font-size dialed up to double extra large like I do, you’re going to be very interested in what the FDA just approved.
And yes, I’m struggling with how to write this so it doesn’t sound like a sponsored post. It’s not! But if this works?!? Sign me up.
Vizz, a once-a-day eye drop first brewed up in the ’70s for glaucoma patients, has been repurposed to treat presbyopia, a fancy word for the very normal, very annoying loss of near vision as we age. The claim is that, for around $2 a day, you could ditch your reading glasses and still see clearly without compromising distance vision.
In this story by Mark Wales, we learn how a few drops in the morning are meant to set you up with glass-free near vision for up to ten hours. I lose my glasses so often, I’ve actually flirted with one of those eye-glass chains like a sitcom grandma from the 80s, so, I kid you not, I’ve already reached out to my optometrist to see about giving this a try.
Where do you draw the line on vision care procedures?Which answer is better, this one? Or this one? This one? Or this one? |
And what did we learn?
Friday, we asked you to predict where the World Series would stand today. About a third of you called it correctly at a game a piece. And exactly the same percentage couldn’t care less!
Dodgers up by 2 games (14.3%)
Tied at a game a piece (31.0%) ✅
Blue Jays up by 2 games (23.8%)
I can't imagine caring any less than I do (31.0%)
Image of the day
For someone who describes themselves as a non-hiker, Donimic91 seems to have found their way deep into Zion, where they captured this stunningly striated shot.
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He went for the freebies, stayed for the feels
At first, it sounded bad. Like “gaming the faithful” bad. In Erik Barnes’ story, one atheist bragged online that church was the “ultimate money-saving hack.” He wasn’t joking. Through his wife’s congregation, he scored a cheap roof repair, help at the DMV, and weeks of free meals when she got sick.
Cue the internet outrage. But as the comments rolled in, something surprising happened. Instead of shaming him, most people pointed out what he’d actually stumbled onto: community. Real, in-person, look-you-in-the-eye connection, the kind most of us are missing in a world without “third spaces.”
What started as a shameless life hack turned into a crash course in how people used to show up for each other. And what he learned might shift how you think about belonging… even if church isn’t your thing.
A jam band doing David Bowie, The Beatles, and a haunted house soundtrack?
Whether you think Phish is a genius-level improvisational collective or just “four dads noodling endlessly,” their Halloween tradition of “musical costumes” is objectively wild. Every few years, they cover an entire classic album live, and not just the obvious choices. We’re talking Remain in Light. Ziggy Stardust. Even a Disney haunted-house record.
In this delightfully nerdy dive by Ryan Reed, we count down 5 of their most inspired, bizarre, and “wait, they really did that?” Halloween sets. Come for the costumes, stay for the ska-inflected “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.”
Amsterdam is a complicated city. Some of the world’s greatest museums, iconic architecture, a unionized red-light district, a famously pragmatic drug policy, stunning canals, a confounding bike-to-human ratio, and towering windmills.
It takes time to weave a city this rich. And Amsterdam has had that time. Exactly 750 years ago today, on October 27, 1275, Count Floris V granted the people of “Amestelledamme” a toll exemption. With fewer trade barriers, beer and herring and timber flowed; merchants followed; craft guilds took root; canals stitched the city together.
Seven hundred fifty years on, the lesson still lands: remove a little friction, and you make room for ideas, people, and prosperity to move.
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Until tomorrow, may your vision be clear and your Spooky Season phishy.