The Sound of Music is on TV tonight, so we must point you, yet again, to this all-timer by Melinda Taub from our archives.

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

Thread: As a translator myself, I echo everything Aliette says. I have also noticed longterm customers suddenly no longer calling, because somewhere there is a machine translation system that is cheaper, even if its output is worse.

So that what happens when posts escape containment 😳

Happy Solstice (Twelve minutes late)

Christmas Day sorted

Not now, enormous 68-million-year-old egg in Antarctica

The three genders

Now imagine how downed robot cars would hamper response after major quake.

PG&E is having a massive outage in San Francisco. Waymo robots aren't handling the traffic light outages well. Cell service is also out is some places. No surprise as Waymo robots & cell have repeatedly failed during power outages. CPUC regulates both Waymo and PG&E (Profit Greed & Explosions).

Ruglið.

Last night I dreamt I went to Duncton

Longest night. Been awake a while and that's OK.

Mistletoe wasn’t supposed to kill anyone after Baldur but making an exception for Nazis is on brand

So in a 24 hour period both Jake Paul AND Andrew Tate got knocked TF out? Amazing!!! I hope that 2026 keeps this same energy.

It's Santa landing on your roof!

My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. NARRATOR: Almost every male currently living is nicer than Andrew Tate.

This is absolutely fucking bananas the way that these people are *so close* to getting it but still manage to miss it by a fucking mile.

Well, now I have something new to shout when startled.

You know one of their songs would have to be “Gimli Gimli Gimli (an elf after midnight)”

From the greatest hits collection.

It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. The top ten numbers of 2025: 10. 398 9. 169 8. 6,712.45 6. 53 5. 8,008,135 4. 3 3. 4 2. 43 1. -68.34

It's kinda funny that with these types of dudes their biggest fear being women will treat them how they have treated women.

Only 24 hours until the Winter Solstice at 21/12 15:03 UTC. Please prepare all virgin sacrifices in advance and form an orderly queue before the Bleeding Stone. Be prepared to clear up your own blood, entrails, ichor, etc. and leave the sacrificial space clean and tidy for the next user. Thank you!

shout out the guardian photo editor one time

This is a great story. It makes me so happy when little glimpses of the Internet before the Doom Times peek out like the first daffodil buds of spring.

Go on, it's good to start a Saturday with a little tear duct clearout

This just in: Óður er alltaf jafn góður!

In "Irish people are our cousins" news, I just "saw" @donalcunningham.bsky.social here at the theatre.

we go live to David Walliams’ front door

Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.

Þú mátt borða jólasíldina fyrir kl 6 á aðfangadag

An old (and rare) Icelandic phrase similar to “he’s a few sandwiches short of a picnic” is bindur ekki bagga sína sömu hnútum og samferðarmenn. It means “he did not tie his bags with the same knots as his fellow voyagers.”

Superb

When the first tin of chocolates is opened... Happy #FlyDay!

Jólapeysudagur.

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

The night of the long butter knives. Thread.

this is it. this is the most bluesky post ever

Lawn darts only killed one kid before they were banned. Meta has killed 36. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

you know how when you were a little kid you could go up to people and be like, “you, girl with the pink ponytail, do you want to be friends?” and then you were friends? you can also do that as a grownup; they don’t want you to know this, but people hardly ever say no

The author! Oh Emm Gee.

Hvenær ætli verði hægt að framleiða vélmenni sem fær brjósklos af því að það beitir sér ekki rétt og lyftir meira með bakinu en fótunum? Eða vélmenni sem gæti alveg ryksugað oftar ef það bara nennti því.

Some will find it hard to sleep tonight...

In 2007, a clip went viral of a man being stopped on the street by a Guangzhou TV reporter. The man was asked about a sex scandal that was all over the news at the time and his reply has been a popular Chinese slang phrase for not getting involved ever since. He said “I’m just here to buy soy sauce”

Yes, small ($wise) UBI pilot projects work, especially in the US where security nets are only found in circuses. UBI is a *much bigger* issue than that, and here is a good article on it. Do I agree with all of it? No. But the questions remain.

"All blows to the head and striking children in anger is completely forbidden, along with the stupid custom, used here and there in the country, of scaring children with yulelads and ghosts."

Here is the beginning of a royal decree from 1746 by Christian VI, the king of Denmark and Iceland, about how much people in Iceland were allowed to beat their children. It also forbids scaring children with tales of Yulelads and ghosts.