Denver’s tied its hottest Christmas Day on record (69°) as of 1p. Very good chance we set a new record shortly. #COwx

Waymo’s post-incident report on the SF power outage is interesting. Turns out they DDoSed the human supervisors with prompts to confirm a stoplight is out before proceeding as if it were a four-way stop.

I really do need to play this game sometime.

Happy holidays from your furiends at the zoo ✨ Thanks to Keeper Megan and Keeper Ali for the holiday pics!

So much for going on a nice refreshing walk.

Merry Christmas to those who like being wished Merry Christmas and have a very nice Thursday to those who do not

types of Persian word: very, very Indo-European (barādar, "brother"; sitāra, "star") inexplicable false cognate (bad, "bad"; mēz, "table") learnt it from an Indian takeout menu (murġ, "chicken"; gōšt, "meat")

December 25th. The day the Fellowship departs Rivendell to destroy the One Ring. Whatever you celebrate, may you have the courage to take the first steps to defy and endure against the dark, and rekindle light into the world.

Lo! Please find attached this year’s improved #ChristmasIsland flag. Happy Christmas! 🇨🇽

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reindeer games

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Can confirm it’s true but we only believe in source control as far as it originates from industry, any other pollution existing in recieving waters is a failure of the treatment system, not that we keep adding it in through other methods

Princeton (derogatory)

Tornado Warning inside a Severe Thunderstorm Warning inside a Flash Flood Warning in LA County at the moment, if you're wondering how things are going... #CAwx #LArain

Read about the popular #History of American Jews ordering Chinese food for Christmas in this great answer from @hannahstohelit.bsky.social . Theres concerns about keeping koshers, and finding an open restaurant on such a busy night! #Skystorians buff.ly/ILn6Gpp

Did You Know: People will like you more if you have a high personality?

Happy Gnollidays everyone!

I think I have a stronger case that my dentist engaged in “treachery” with the bill they sent yesterday than this.

“Frog!” cried Toad. “I am sorry for all the dumb things I do. I am sorry for all the silly things that I say. Please be my friend again!”

If you view the COVID era crime spike as a symptom of a widespread wave of sociopathy acquired in the pandemic, the same wave that perverted politics, the fall of crime back to 2019 levels or lower is encouraging.

Merry season of Mari Lwyd, the singing horse spirit (and Christmas I guess)

I need BONES for explosives

i posted this to badsite on 2018-07-28: "I've been mulling for the last two years the idea that the GOP's Southern Strategy was like the Bene Gesserit's Kwisatz Haderach breeding program and Trump is Paul Atreides fucking it up for them and they don't know how to put the sandtrout back in the qanat"

This has happened before. In the late 1930s, Eddie Bauer doctored a photo of their original store, removing the animal carcasses. This was to appeal to urban lifestyle customers drawn to the idea of outdoor life, but didn't like the idea of hunting. Hence renaming hunting coats to barn coats postwar

BARD: Okay, now that it doesn’t matter, what did the wand do? GM: Oh, it was genuinely a wand of wild magic. ASSASSINS: Like a Wand of Wonder? GM: HahahaNO. REAL wild magic. Like “flip a coin to see if you tear a hole to the Abyss OR if everyone in a sixty yard radius turns to gophers.”

Retrocomputerists: Check your old computers' clock batteries; they can leak, and that's bad. Me, for years: Well, I should dig up my old Sun, but… Me, on semi-working meds, seeing a Sun on here: Hey I should do that. The Sun in question: (has its battery potted into the NVRAM/clock chip)

There’s a chance of tornadoes in parts of California tonight through Christmas Day. Here’s a map of where tornadoes have hit the state in the past. #CAwx

That awkward moment when a machine learning model from a well-known tech company translates “Hajde zemër në Shqipëri,” as “Come on honey in Pakistan,” But at least it's running locally. (And it does get the country right without the trailing comma.)

2025 actually did suck. i know we've all said this about a lot of previous years but this one was quite bad actually

UPDATE: All rail lines have resumed their regular routes. Please give yourself some extra time as we will need to put the lines back on their schedules, so some extended waits may be possible as we close any service gaps.

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

On the other hand: whether there's any substance to this item at all, even if it's fake and generally believed to be fake, it IS in the Epstein Files and alleges egregious offenses by Trump. We've heard administration officials - possibly under oath - say there's nothing of the sort in the files.

I need to stop being mad at PG&E for a moment and go to sleep.

My whole timeline is made up of folks watching a 60 Minutes report the Trump administration tried to kill and unredacting Epstein files that weren't supposed to have been posted yet. Can't stop the signal.

Hard to tell if the postmark says 13 Aug 2019 or 3 Aug 2019, but either way this kind of looks like a suicide note, if it's real?

I learned something new today:

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

This is how I found out that new mod drama just dropped.

UPDATE: Per #Boulder County, Wild Turkey Fire at 3 acres, but forward spread has been stopped and crews are in mop up. There is still concern due to high winds, evacuation orders remain in place for now

the 8yo said we’re going to have a meme reset on the 31st and we’re getting rid of 6-7 so that’s how that’s going

More than 48 hours into the PG&E meltdown & most of the Muni subway is still down. Right as people get ready for the holiday. It’s outrageous & unacceptable. It’s time for serious accountability. It’s time for San Francisco to break away from PG&E & create a public utility.

Tired: waiting for Godot Wired: waiting for the interlined N/J train. (There is no tracking. Sit on the bronzed chair and contemplate the futility of existence, or something, idk)

UPDATE: Riders on the interlined N & J, please use the Church & Market stops in each direction as your transfer point to/from the KLM shuttle buses. Eastbound: https://sfmta.com/stops/church-st-market-st-17073 Westbound: https://sfmta.com/stops/church-st-market-st-18059

HeadsUp: No predictions are available for the #NJudah & #JChurch while they are operating as one line. Trains should arrive approx. every 12-15 minutes.

Reminder: Due to continued power outages, Market St. Subway service disruptions continue. Current service plan details here: https://bit.ly/4qjt4BY

When I lived in Philly (2012-2014), SEPTA was still using tokens for the system. It sucked. It was a shitass pay system not only bc you had to carry these damn things around but also bc getting them was not easy. If there was no booth or machine at your station, sorry! No exact change? Sorry!!