“Read on to discover exactly what a billionaire’s gift is worth in dollar amounts us normals can understand.” TLDR: normals donate a higher % of their net worth than rich people. Not surprising. aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-genero...

“They make you dependent on specific people and places. From the perspective of a frictionless global marketplace, all of this is pure inefficiency. And so the infrastructure for thick desires has been gradually dismantled.” www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires...

Feels like a metaphor for *something* or other.

Music is healing. Love this. A Texas doctor provides healing to patients with vinyl music www.npr.org/2025/12/22/n...

www.kuow.org/stories/at-a... I'd love to have a place like this. Such a fun, cool, and human story. I hope he has a January event I can drive up for.

There has long been enough evidence to indict and the slow release is intended to 1) further torment Epstein victims 2) get Americans used to child rape by elites 3) flaunt impunity, since there have been no meaningful consequences for perpetrators 4) arrive right when AI casts everything in doubt.

“Maybe it's fitting that we close out the NextDraft year in news coverage with an investigative report that we had to bootleg from another country's broadcast because it was barred from our own airwaves. That sounds familiar. It just doesn't sound like America.” wp.me/pbRvtl-8Ie

“So the thought had occurred to us at that point in life that behind doors there were things happening that we could only imagine. I guess what you learn later is that you can’t imagine, and if you want to know you have to ask and listen.” scripting.com/2025/12/20/1...

“if the system in place before 1975 had stayed in place, the bottom 90% of Americans would have had almost $80 trillion more in 2023 than they did.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-1...

-Comes into your space uninvited, without permission -Greedily uses up resources preferentially - Forces a new mode of existence on you -Steals your own shit to sell back to you -Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings AI or colonialism?

Cool. stickertop.art

Read this as an American woman and then go break something.

“Everybody on our list will receive the Morton Christmas Card… And while we love everyone who receives our card, those who subscribe and support our family’s essential end-of-year work will get even more of our love.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why...

When I finally get annoyed enough to do the 2nd edition of Conversational Design, there's going to be a section titled "Don't be a lazy fuckhead" Here's the free PDF of the 1st ed. Lots I wish I'd written differently, but even more I want everyone to read. www.mulebooks.com/conversation...

“There is no plaque to mark that Bloody Island existed because Americans are not supposed to remember that statesmen acted like gang members and got away with it.” – @sarahkendzior.bsky.social in “The Last American Road Trip

Beautiful from @xkcd.com. xkcd.com/3172/

Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.

Thoughts and Prayers is an HBO documentary about “the impact of the $3 billion active shooter preparedness industry on schools and communities across America”. It’s completely sickening that we choose to live this way in America. [kottke.org]

“But ‘the violence of the show is not in what’s happening onstage,’ Bianchi told me when we spoke over Zoom this summer. ‘The violence is in the text; it’s in what is not happening onstage.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/t...

“I think of this now as the difference between living in a house you built that requires some effort to visit and going into a town square where there are not particularly rigorous laws about whether or not someone can punch you in the face.” www.elizabethspiers.com/requiem-for-...

Gold.

Two views of Orion from last Saturday morning.

They all need a copy of Murderland by Caroline Fraser. We’ve seen this story before.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/girl... “The Gilgit-Baltistan Girls Football League is a bastion of independence and autonomy amid a traditionally conservative environment.”

Whenever distress or displeasure arises in your mind, remind yourself, "This is only my interpretation, not reality itself." Then ask whether it falls within or outside your sphere of power. And, if it is beyond your power to control, let it go. – The Manual

“Do not be fooled by how things first appear. With time and greater perspective, you can regain inner peace.” – Epictetus

NextDraft: Extra, Extra “Yes, the government that has threatened political opponents with hanging and scolded reporters, "Quiet, Piggy!" is now calling for more civility this holiday season.” www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

“A technofascist hell had taken its place: a world where Johnny Cash is replaced with AI; a world where walks in nature are replaced with virtual reality facsimiles.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

Priorities.

🤮 Meanwhile, people suffer. “The top 0.1 percent of American households saw their wealth grow by 90 percent, to a collective $23.3 trillion, from the fourth quarter of 2017, when President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, to the second quarter of 2025…” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/r...

I highly recommend getting one for work so your bosses don’t have to ask your opinion.

Prince loved to remind people that he wrote this song while looking in the mirror: You're so good, baby there ain't nobody better So you should never, ever go by the letter You're so cool, everything you do is success Make the rules — then break them all 'cause you are the best

@sarahmercier.me @lukelukeluke.bsky.social and other #mushroom fans.

Prediction: This pic will go down in history, like the photo of napalmed Vietnamese children, as an encapsulation of the horrors of this presidency.

73% of Copenhageners don’t own a car, and the city has made huge strides reclaiming public space for people that had been previously surrendered to cars. Now candidates in the upcoming city election want to prioritize “car storage” again. Not surprisingly, @colville-andersen.com isn’t holding back.

“They will keep telling you that AI is inevitable. But when somebody tells you that something is inevitable, remember how often humankind has proved them wrong.” Excellent talk by @monteiro.bsky.social youtu.be/zH2dFXDMwe4

WHAT IF WE JUST INVESTED IN ARTISTS AND AUTHORS LIKE MANY OTHER COUNTRIES

Easy to cancel. You can keep your playlists if they come to their senses or to move to another service. “Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, the federal agency behind mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities.” #DontStreamFascism app.sosha.ai/s/w47vHrmf

I’m pretty sure this will just make it easier to #DoCrimes. Future headline: “High speed chase ends in one Cybertruck explosion and four left on side of road in Valley of Fire, out of juice.” www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/n...

My review of the book of the year (for me) and the book that inspired me months ago to apply for a job in eviction prevention (on my lunch break now). Enjoy the review, and get the book! @brian-goldstone.bsky.social youtu.be/rVq8HKl8RVU?...

Seems like a good use of time and resources. 😑🤦‍♂️

I know we’re not doing Spotify anymore. But. Sports! spotify.link/PR4lCJ7rXXb #WorldSeries #Music #Sports

This is why we love baseball. #WorldSeries

I get it.

This would be a good game to have go to extra innings. We’ve all got nowhere to be tomorrow and plenty of leftover Halloween sugar and booze.

This is the 2025 Toronto Bluejays. #Clement #WorldSeries #Game7 #Bluejays #GoJaysGo

Okay Jays. Let’s get Donnie Baseball his ring, okay?

[through gritted teeth] this is objectively an excellent baseball game

Is there any World Series bingo square that hasn’t been called yet? Diving catch ✅ Homer off Ohtani ✅ Benches clearing HBP ✅ Drill single off pitchers leg ✅ #WorldSeries