Here's a simple happiness hack: Do something for someone that is truly altruistic. Do it in secret if you can, and take no credit, if you can manage that in a world that sees everything. Do this as often as your circumstances allow, which may be once a year or once a day. Try it and see.

These motherfuckers who shill AI keep saying 'the genie is out of the bottle'. You realise that stories are full of ways to trick the fucking genie back into the bottle, right? You keep using that metaphor but I do not think it means what you think it means.

Skönhet är inte allt här i världen. Dessutom är den flyktig.

Same energy bsky.app/profile/numb...

Altman is bullshitting at Musk's level now.

vance is a genuine lunatic

Sadness www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

Avant son départ à Londres, la tapisserie de Bayeux assurée pour 800 millions de livres Financée par les contribuables britanniques, l’indemnisation doit assurer le chef-d’œuvre contre tout dommage ou perte pendant son transfert et le temps de son exposition

On Christmas, we’re reminded of the choice we can all make – to choose love for our neighbor, care, and solidarity with one another. May the spirit of Christmas move all of us to action, and toward a future of dignity and freedom for all.

Hilda does not approve of selfies on Christmas Day.

Joyeux Noël à tous et on n'oublie pas pour tous ceux que Noël rend tristes ou angoissés que FUCK NOEL.

Generative AI today is like asbestos yesterday. We greedily put it everywhere. Tomorrow, we will devote crazy amounts of money and endless efforts to depollute the information space.

Merry Christmas, God Jul, Crăciun Fericit, Joyeux Noël 🎄🎄🎄

“.. A backlash from Canadian consumers .. has virtually stopped the sale of American whiskey in what was once among the industry’s biggest export markets.” @nytimes.com 🇨🇦 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/d...

Bob Dylan writes about Willie Nelson in a new New Yorker profile (Bob also says before this, "It’s hard to talk about Willie without saying something stupid or irrelevant, he is so much of everything") www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Avvento a San Marino

Stockholm at lunch time. Presque nuit, quoi. 🙃

Un prêt pour financer l’Ukraine, cela choque Marine Le Pen, qui a bénéficié de prêts russes. Jusqu’ici c’est cohérent. www.bfmtv.com/internationa...

Found a nest of one of my favorites! A true oddball. Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus, the red-headed spider ant.

Despite all the noise about “mass exodus”, 51% of African emigrants move within Africa. Only 3% of the African population lives outside their home country, compared to 8.5% of Europeans living outside theirs. publications.iom.int/system/files...

Do not entrust your mental health to a chat bot. (I'm not objective here. Full disclosure: I'm a mental health professional) (but, still)

Cornell Watson for Bloomberg in Rocky Mount last night.

RIP British writer Emily Brontë, died this day 1848. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire". "Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree".

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

Once again, never forget the role the richest man in the world played in this

Watching BRAZIL (1985, dir. Terry Gilliam) really prepared me for authoritarian cultists being proud of their tacky plastic surgery

Yes, the "young, single playboys" in their 40's and 50's, married, preying on 15 year old girls and boys.

Vivian Maier, Fire Escape Shadows

talking to the moon again by outrunyouth

MI6 Chief gives speech. Speech may contain words that are interesting. But because MI6 Chief is a woman @telegraph.co.uk prints an article about her appearance, with no mention of the speech’s content.

Rob Reiner made some great movies but he was also unafraid to speak the truth, and was one of the public voices who knew you don’t squander your platform, and only got louder about opposing evil fucks as he got older. Legend.

Gabriele Münter, On the Tram (After Shopping), c.1909, German Expressionist Painter #WomensArt

In Croatian it's "mrmljati/govoriti sebi u bradu", and since "brada" can mean both beard and chin, I always assumed it was the latter (since the phrase is used regardless of gender) and only NOW, reading these other versions, has it dawned on me it must actually be the former. 😶

Entamée au lendemain des attentats de 2015, la collaboration entre la DGSI et l'entreprise spécialiste du big data Palantir est prolongée pour 3 ans, alors que l'écosystème tricolore peine à voir naître une alternative. @lesechosfr.bsky.social

In France, we are paying Palantir to take all our data.

On Friday the EU voted to indefinitely freeze Russian assets in Europe, totalling about 210 billion euros. The EU now plans to use the frozen Russian assets to fund the Ukrainian economy in 2026 and 2027. This is a big FUCK YOU to Trump who was not in favor of this plan. Great news for Ukraine. 🇺🇦

Jason Isbell: “Elephant” youtu.be/ClugMhMbrRg

The giant alabaster statues, known as the Colossi of Memnon, were reassembled in a renovation project that lasted about two decades. They represent Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt about 3,400 years ago.

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

Happy St. Lucia's Day

Last order I took before Christmas madness takes over, a personalized candle ment for a Christmas present. Going to someone in Paris, tomorrow! #galleriaobscura #christmas #handmade #madeinfrance

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

GOD: if my commandments get 50,000 likes, i will tell Abraham to kill his son

Nothing makes you want to go back to a church more than the fact that at the end of the mass they tell you bah, in fact you are not allowed to take the body of Christ because we’ve invented reasons. 🙄

Pancakes at 10PM for tomorrow’s School Christmas Party 🥴. But the real good news is that i can do that in the stainless steel pan, for the very first time, without any burning and sticking to the pan! 💥 #skillz

The American mind can't comprehend this.

Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms. It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.

Brigitte Macron a choisit son camp. Le même que celui de son mari, qui n’est jamais celui des victimes, affirme la journaliste. Lire : bit.ly/48NlQzg

This is the second time I have photographed one of my favorite Mycena species - this one is found on leaves and has regular water droplets along the stem for a reason which remains a mystery to me. From the Chocó Andino region of Ecuador. #mycology #fungi #mycena #fungifriends

Me: learning from the internet that mango is good for dogs, I prepared a mango snack for Hilda. Hilda (when I offer her mango):