BLUESKY: And for my third wish please restore DOJ independence GENIE: lol on it

Very confusing to try to root for DJ Metcalf but not the guy throwing to him

Me waiting for Aaron Rodgers to face the Texans' defense

I see we are conflating age and cohort again

So I guess way back when an older me stepped out of a portal and said “Someday the resistance will be led by the chairman of the federal reserve” I should not have told him to fuck off

BREAKING: My sanity

I miss the days when awards shows and sports playoffs being on would reliably make them the biggest thing to post about

Nikki Glaser: "CBS News, the only place to See BS News" lol

YOU, AN ACTUALLY SERIOUS PERSON: This is an unprecedented government crisis ME, SEEING THE CHECKMARK: Bluesky's got the juice!

In case you need a break from everything terrible, here are some wedding photos from Jenny Lewis marrying her dog stereogum.com/2484791/jenn...

“Organized gangs of wine moms”

I don't know if Trevor Lawrence could possibly look more like a guy named Trevor Lawrence

NEW from me: Job growth has been functionally zero over the last five months, as the US sinks from a “low hire, low fire” labor market to a “no hire” one. That slowdown is hitting young & low income workers the hardest 🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/the-no-hir...

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

Remember, it’s not a dogpile unless it’s from the Autre Côté region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling discourse

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

Postdoctoral positions: Our team at the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public is accepting applications for up to two postdoc positions, starting in Fall 2026. Priority deadline is Jan 15. If you know someone who might be interested, let them know!

lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"

omg did Sammy D just get through a big game with zero turnovers?

If I was a linebacker I would wear an enormous neck roll because no linebacker wearing an enormous neck roll has ever not been awesome

TIRED: Maduro is a bad guy, but WIRED: Wedge salad is delicious, but

Troy Aikman thinks Wonder Bread is spicy

Given all the hype around this game, good thing they assigned Aikman and Buck to keep the excitement from getting out of hand

When the shirtless Cliff Poncier begins singing... you know what you're in for!

Every time a ref calls delay of game, I imagine he's Jeannie granting a wish to the defense

Read an entire thread of reply-all emails without replying-all

Do kids today even understand the intro to "Money"?

The 1.3.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of Kruschke's "Doing Bayesian data analysis" is up! solomon.quarto.pub/dbda2 #rstats 1/8

Apparently the training data for Bluesky's topic model cannot put "Indiana" + positive sentiment in the same cluster as "football"

fun fact about that Rose Bowl in 1917: UO didn't have money to send the team to Pasadena, so they sold the campus bookstore. The company that ran it was so awful that in 1920 students, faculty, and staff raised money to buy it. The Duck Store is the nonprofit co-op they established 105 years ago.

FUN FACT: the Gregorian calendar got its name when co-inventors greg and ian couldn't agree on the name

Literal blood on the hands of the Oregon defense (complimentary)

In a just world, the "I woke up feeling the cheesiest, coach!" voiceover guy should be retired on a tropical beach, and the "Georgia bark" guy should be cashing his union-minimum check and hitting his next audition. I can't explain it but you know I'm right

Announcers should be talking up the Oregon defense even more but they're getting off the field too fast

Save this paper to read later!

Is one of your goals for 2026 to write more? One question I get all the time is, "How do you make time to write?" So, here is my unsolicited writing advice for the new year:

AUTHORS: "Causal questions can be tackled by writing down the probability of everything" SOCIAL SCIENTISTS: So in other words, they can't (j/k looks like an interesting paper)

omg

🚨 WA and other vote-by-mail states: The post office changed its postmark policy and no longer guarantees a postmark will be given on the date mail is received. For deadline sensitive mail, like ballots, this means that you need to mail far in advance (10+ days before) or use a drop box. #waelex

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

At last we have created the Pop Tarts Bowl from the classic novel Don't Create the Pop Tarts Bowl

Clicking through quote-posts for the context like

MAHA's got a multi-million dollar war chest, and that's why your feed and our federal government is filled with their BS. We're doing the work to bring science back to the people, & restore sanity to science policy. Chipping in any amount makes a difference in this fight. zurl.co/kvV6y

The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14

this is the true hellsite, in that it's full of other people

If I was Jared Goff I would try turning over the ball less

And a very traditional Lions Christmas to all