Everything I need to know about American politics I learned by being in an abusive relationship 🙃

For the love of dog. It's 2026. The word has not applied for at least 10 years. STOP calling them "conservative." Right wing, check. Christian Nationalist, check. Extremist GOP, check. Fascist-friendly, check. But they are not "conservative."

you're going to get more posts about Heated Rivalry, mending clothes, photos of my dog in the snow, and *spins wheel* how everything is actually operations management

Crazy how much of all this shit started because women wanted to talk about video games.

Hi folks. Whatever it is you were holding back from asking for, whatever you thought you didn't have the resources to pursue, whatever art you thought you needed permission to make -- just go for it. Go do your big project. You might as fucking well do it.

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

A point that I have made in my work is that in both cases, AI and fairies, people often wanted to believe it was real

A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.

Cannot believe we are living through the collapse of the American experiment. Really thought we’d have another couple hundred years.

Always remember that listening to music can be the entire activity. Put on headphones. Blast it through speakers. Close your eyes and just listen. Listening to music is not a background activity. It can be the entire journey, and it's worth the time.

It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.

So proud of tonight’s curbside find!

At one point an early version "I'm Afraid of Americans" was being workshopped as potentially going on the Johnny Mnemonic soundtrack, that didn't happen, but this permanent reference to Lo-Teks is still in there as a permanent artifact

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Watched a VERY uncomfortable telly-church service about the evils of non-married sex with my 88 year-old momma, before I’d had my coffee. And they expect this will get people to start going to services???

He’s using Venezuela as a distraction so we’ll forget about the Epstein files. Joke’s on him. We can multitask. Release the Epstein files.

Truth.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Where the hell is the Justice League? The Marvel heroes? The Avengers? Anyone?

Chilly night in Chicago, but protesters have shown up to confront Trump’s illegal war.

the reality of what we’re really facing is starting to sink it. jesus fucking crisis.

Had another long chat with a friend about moving to France today. I mean, there's always a crumbling chateau outside of a small village looking for a bunch of dumb do-good Americans to save a place. Who's in?

Good example of what every elected Dem and candidate should be saying loudly right now:

I know these guys famously do not think anything through all the way, but holy shit

And in good news, my 88 year-old momma's New Year's Eve Day pacemaker checkup went well. Also, NYE is a GREAT day to go to the Houston Medical Center for a routine thing, as there was almost no traffic and it was as painless as one could hope for a trip to the med center.

I know everything is a nightmare shitshow today but the five year old went to his first tae kwon do class today after a couple of “I’m too shy” false starts and he had a great time and he’s so proud of himself and I am so proud of him too

Right after the 2016 election, I was on my sofa sobbing for a week straight. I don't think I showered, or brushed my hair or anything. Totally inconsolable, because I could see how bad things were going to get. At least now I feel that we are getting close to the bottom of how awful things will get

The world is awful and on fire, and I'm actually doing much better than I was this time of year. Last year I was in a minority seeing how bad things were going to get, and now ....at least EVERYONE is seeing the awfulness and no one is telling me I'm overreacting.

This is a weird story. We do not have military control over any of the country. Why would they be allowed in? Why would they be allowed their freedom?

A friend in baseball once told me: It's amazing how far away spring training feels on Dec. 31 ... And how close it feels on Jan. 1 Just to prove that ... The first spring training game of 2026 is 7 weeks from today! Feel warmer yet?

Your disabled friend isn’t exactly thrilled about the idea of getting whatever horrible lurgy you’ve reassured them isn’t Covid, it has been revealed.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

This is the energy we need for 2026!

Yay we outlived 2025!

Explain to us why this was released on New Years Eve. Oh, that's right most of the media will ignore it in favor of Anderson Cooper "special". Tomorrow is a holiday, people watching football, hung over, eating and sleeping. Timing is everything and this timing stinks.

The quiet dignity of a self-confident nation.

Extremely important never ever ever to read the introduction to a novel before you finish it. I cannot think of a more important thing!

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

Yearly reminder that you CAN just become a different person, you're not as imprisoned in your life as you think. You can just be the one who dresses nice or exercises or reads a lot, or whatever. You can just start doing it, some people might make fun of you but they don't really care.

When donating money to good causes, I don't want to be offered a chance to leave a tip to cover your processing costs, I want a mailing address where I can send a check where you won't be paying fees to credit card companies. Sigh.

The President is insane. Pretending there is anything rational in this situation is joining in and amplifying the insanity.

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Pretty sad times we live in when it’s news that the government has agreed to follow a court order.

sam altman is just a sales guy with one goal: getting obscenely rich in silicon valley. his big thing previously was an app where you can find your friends on a map and after he sold it it turned out to have 500 users. he's not a stemlord he's just a run of the mill song and dance flim flam man

I’m starting to suspect Elon is not operating in good faith

Good news/bad news: I have MANY things that need to be done before End of Year tomorrow…but my closet reorg is coming along quite well. (I do not need to be focusing on this.)

This is my grandfather’s stapler. It’s a prized possession. It lives on my desk because it reminds me of him. I’ve used it twice in thirteen years. Sorry, staplebot, I’ve no work for you here.

Also, I refuse to consider NYE a real holiday. I’m 100% with the New England take on this one—Chinese food & telly.

Amazing the number of dudes I’ve had asking what I was up to NYE. Either ask me out or don’t, a soft open doesn’t work here.