This is my fifth Christmas after losing my mom and grandma. Do I get a jacket or something? It doesn't get better, it gets different.

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If only we could celebrate Christmas like the godly settlers. Here's a public notice from 1659. When the Massachusetts Bay Colony officially ruled that observing Christmas was a satanic act. pic from voyagingthroughhistory.exeter.ac.uk

My OpEd about the data center proposal and the tech gap in America (and our small town) was published this week but our paper is old school print. I'll scan and post soon. Just wanted to let y'all know it is still a Christmas wish to have data centers built next to the homes of the tech bros.

Just running a last few holiday errands. pic from thegraphicsfairy.com

The holiday email from our sellout State Rep Tom Barrett has a poll with some interesting wording. Barrett only did one call-in/virtual town hall in 2025 for his constituents in Michigan's district 7.

Like most, I first saw James Ransone on The Wire, & Generation Kill. I loved him on those shows, and was always happy to see him in something, from Sinister to Tangerine to It. A reliably twitchy and fun character actor. Capable of playing it funny, or tragically sad, sometimes at the same time.

Watching: The Man Who Invented Christmas. A holiday story about writing under pressure. Classic. Charles Dickens is played by Matthew from Downton Abbey so it’s a whole costume drama dream. youtu.be/UxcnYR3mcPU?...

Be like the Victorians and read a biography or two during the holidays 📚🎄 cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/i...

But does your cat do impressions? Here’s Cindy Clawpurrrr’s interpretation of a spotted snowball. #CatsOfBluesky #CowCats #Cats

This Victorian Christmas greeting card showing children staring at the dead body of a robin—typically a symbol of hope and good cheer—captures the 2025 holiday vibe:

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What’s my favorite Christmas jam? youtu.be/6PMZ41aTnoA?...

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

I recently learned that Nietzsche suffered from migraines with aura and it’s just putting a lot of pieces together for me.

This is how she watches dystopian thrillers. #cowcat #CatsOfBluesky #sillykitty

Went to put my nieces air-dry Christmas clay creations in a display box & then decided to whip up a quick background scene and now I’m hunting for materials to make fake snow for the bottom. We thinking classic Elmer’s and glitter? Cotton balls? Teeny individually cut snowflakes? #DIY #Crafts

Happy Winter Solstice! Beer can, pinhole camera photos of the Summer to Winter Solstice (2024) and the Winter to Summer Solstice (2025). You never know quite what you're going to get with these photos, set the beer can pointing towards the sun at hopefully the correct angle and wait 6 months!

"Specialization is for insects." -Robert A. Heinlein

What I see when I catch her chillin with a pom pom. #CatsOfBlueSky #PetsOfBlueSky #CowCat #Cats

After hours on #Caturday with a new Christmas toy.

Data centers dominated 2025. They (shakily) propped up the economy, they got exponentially bigger, and they provoked resistance across the country. So we spent 2025 covering data centers, and the fight back, from the perspective of working people. perfectunion.us/data-centers/

Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.

Just your ordinary town Michigan public library. 🥰

The Gander (short for Michigander for those not in the peninsulas) put out a list of the most touching Michigan news stories of the year. Go warm your hearts! gandernewsroom.com/2025/12/18/m...

There’s a new documentary out called Breakdown: 1975 and that’s so funny because my mom called my birth story the same thing.

Lol my alma mater just established a "college of AI" and the letter I sent was like "please 'remain competitive' by fixing your shit, everyone hates this, it's like a college of subprime mortgages."

One of her favorite watch spots. #CatsOfBlueSky #CowCat

Doctor watching medical drama: "That detail is wrong." Regular viewers: Interesting! Cop watching crime drama: "That detail is wrong." Regular viewers: Interesting! Historian watching history drama: "That detail is wrong." Regular viewers: It iS NoT A DoCuMeNtArY!

Are there earbuds that exist that do not have touch control features? I want old school single-function ear thingies and not the ones that skip a song or accidentally call someone if I tuck my hair behind my ears.

The Christmas movies I've watched so far have only Christmas in common: Krampus (holiday horror delight), The Night Before (totally underrated), Daddy’s Home 2 (I’ve never seen DH1, don’t need to), Gremlins (fave), Christmas in Connecticut (another fave), Christmas at the Catnip Cafe

The buy your own healthcare insurance bit in Cheetolini’s speech kills me. Does he really not know that people could always buy their own health insurance and it’s the pre-existing condition protections and group rate that the ACA offers that have made it even remotely possible?

I appreciate having a craft supervisor but she tends to micromanage. #cats #WhiskersWednesday #CatsOfBlueSky

Become ungovernable

Every single scam works in America.

Why don't all of the targets of his lawsuits do this?

How Your Private ChatGPT And Gemini Chats Are ‘Sold For Profit’

We are failing our kids

More proof that representatives who are against universal healthcare are privileged a-holes with no ideas.

incredible things happening at the nazi bar

This chair thief is showing the opposite of remorse. #CatsOfBlueSky #CowCat #PetsOfBluesky

Say what you will about the Clintons but we must preserve the legacy of Socks the cat. He always loved Christmas. #FamousCats #Cats

There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat. The claim collapsed because it’s a cover. Check my latest… open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

She won’t do a full Christmas outfit but a tasteful splash of holiday femme fatale, sure. Happy #Caturday #ChristmasCat #CatsOfBlueSky

My targeted ads are getting crazy lately.

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863. Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today. #WomenInSTEM #astronomy

Just a gal, a box, and her pom poms. #CatsOfBlueSky #CowCat