I was told that what you do on New Year's Day sets the pattern for the whole year. Today, I: -took care of pets -deep cleaned cat boxes -took out trash -vacuumed -cooked French toast & bacon for brunch -took down & put away Xmas decorations -cleaned & tidied kitchen -organized storage -napped

Mine was 'out of pocket'

Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.

This is your energy for 2026 *via Zjaan on masto/original source unknown

A special NYE feed-yourself thread: Cheese tortellini with healthy carbonara sauce with ham and peas! You'll need: cheese tortellini (it can be fresh, dry, or frozen, or you can make it from scratch, you're more ambitious than me, mine is fresh, bought at Costco) Put water on to boil.

My heathy carbonara sauce starts with tofu. The secret ingredient? White miso paste.

A friend from Australia sent me greetings from 2026. It's there waiting, and we can make it brighter. Don't give up.

an actual convo I just had with my son: (reads post aloud) Me: I don't understand, I thought I knew Star Trek, when did Cap'n Kirk start sniping people? My son: OH. SHIT. That's not James T. That's Charlie. Me: OMG. (pause) Guess it shows how often I think of that man. Son: (nonstop laughter)

'Don't get your hopes up! Only the rich will be able to afford it!' GO AWAY. Stop telling me when to hope, how to feel, when to be excited. JUST STOP IT. Take your joyless naysaying and go naysay-yourself.

I'm blocking all doomers who tell me the world is terrible and corporations / billionaires will ruin everything. GO AWAY. I DO NOT NEED TO BE INFORMED. I can make my own grim observations and I'm choosing to consciously report breakthroughs and bright spots right now.

You may be having a day (week? month? year? life) where it feels like a major victory that you showered and put on clean clothes. Or maybe you're pumped because you ate food today. Take joy wherever you find it. Don't let anyone tell you that your small victories aren't victories at all. 🫂

Tonight's plan is a charcuterie with fancy crackers to start, some salad, cheese tortellini with carbonara sauce, and then we're planning to watch Wake Up Dead Man.

In the last two weeks, I've heard about: -mRNA vaccine to treat age-related vision loss -cure for Alzheimer's and a treatment to reverse cognitive damage -Japanese scientists working on a way to regrow teeth I'm in awe. What a time to be alive. 🤩

In the 1920s, the KKK circulated rumors that Catholics had amassed a huge arsenal of weapons and explosives and hidden them in the basements and sewers beneath the University of Notre Dame, in preparation for a Catholic takeover of the US. Thinking about this today for no particular reason.

Ends in a few hours!

I am begging you, folks. When someone posts something hopeful, restrain your desire to tell them why their hope is untenable, doomed to fail, or make some unreasonable political analogy out of it. LET US BREATHE AND DREAM.

Uh. Someone must be impersonating Jonathan Franzen and claims to have "followed my career with great interest". The weird thing is, there's no link or attempt to sell me anything. Reasonably certain Jonathan Franzen has no idea who I am and that his gmail wouldn't have an 866 in it.

Holy shit. www.popularmechanics.com/science/heal... This would be life changing for so many people.

Professor in a huge Bio 101 class (300 students?) made me stand up so everyone could admire my "sturdy birthing hips"

While walking down the street with my wife, a random old guy on a bench yelled out "YOU GALS TOOK YOUR PRETTY PILLS TODAY, DIDN'T YA? YEEAH YOU TOOK ALL OF 'EM!" And that's why we call my HRT "pretty pills" to this day.

Some of y'all need to look up Communal/Altruistic narcissism because holy shit folks.

OK tell the truth, who screamed a little (or a lot, that was a gd jump scare) the first time they dove off something a high in assassin's creed?

I have to put my cat in a bag today, and I'm not looking forward to it.

Hey can we talk about Leslye Penelope because I don't see enough people talk about Leslye Penelope I haven't read all her stuff yet but THE MONSTERS WE DEFY was a masterpiece so maybe start there

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

this is correct, though if you're gonna do it then do it, I don't want romances written because someone wants to check the box I want romances written by sickos with decade-old AO3 accounts

Dang. I'm jobless (high school student) and now I have sinister family secrets too? [Book is The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson]

I was running errands today and noticed that the northbound 5 was completely locked due to construction or something. I've been in B'ham long enough to choose a scenic alternate route (saw the ocean, avoided traffic) back home without GPS. I feel very pleased about that.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

I think about this a lot

One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background. The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.

The Venn diagram of people saying, "Everyone I know is sick!" and people who don't mask is a circle.

Steam comments: She needs bigger boobs Tumblr: I can fix her Reddit: how do you beat her ass Ao3: here is 500,000 words of her tragic backstory Bsky: This is a thread about how Orin is a victim of the patriarchy and, therefore, I'm now allowed to like her 1/125 Steam: seriously, can boobs be bigger?

You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check

Christmas dinner

I tried a hack I read for Yorkshire pudding with my little corn puddings and it's brilliant. Pats of butter in the bottom of the muffin tin, five minutes in the oven, then add the corn pudding batter. Bake as normal. They came out crisp outside, buttery, a little sweet, and gooey inside.

I could tell this book was written by a dude, a thousand tells. I verified after being disconcerted by how the MC (a woman) described something. If I hadn't known? Next, this man writes that this woman is wearing JEANS with a white halter top in Nevada in July. No, sir. Talk to a woman, please.

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

This lady won $70million dollars and spent Christmas Eve buying people groceries. This is such a beautiful report. www.youtube.com/shorts/QiHcc...

merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this

I thought 2025 was going to be a total bust writing-wise. I am so glad I was wrong! #romancelandia

Something you didn't know about me. I have five grandchildren. Two grandsons, three granddaughters. Three are cats. Two are dogs. Guess the ratios! 😂

Today, I made biscuits and gravy, then we opened presents. My son & I got each other things that we'd mentioned this past year. It's lovely to have someone who listens and pays attention. Alek got me a book (Hollow Kingdom) that I've been waiting 4 months for on the library waiting list. 😍

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.

Just finished A Chance for Christmas and it's the time loop Christmas romance movie my Groundhog's Day-loving heart needed. People, it's free on Tubi and it is SO good. Treat yourself to happiness tonight.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, is never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you, never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

Just finished A Chance for Christmas and it's the time loop Christmas romance movie my Groundhog's Day-loving heart needed. People, it's free on Tubi and it is SO good. Treat yourself to happiness tonight.

My cheesy broccoli is so delicious and so easy. I will give you the recipe. 1 c cottage cheese 1/4 c water 4T dry cheese powder Blend! Set aside. Microwave 1 16 oz pack of frozen broccoli for 5 min. Put in baking dish. Top with cheese sauce. Mix. Add 4 American singles. Bake 30 min at 350.

Reading Children of Time and rooting unambiguously for the spiders.

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now