To me, my X-Mas!

Merriam Christmas

Required reading from George Saunders on the responsibility of language, perhaps my favorite essay of all time: share.google/qqfsFrz9JR5g...

If you haven't been opening up the little windows on our CHRISTMAS MOVIE DRESS ADVENT CALENDAR all month, now's the time to get caught up before we reveal the ultimate Christmas movie dress tomorrow! tomandlorenzo.com/tag/movie-ad...

here comes jeffery combs youtu.be/26H_xWocEss?...

this DOJ is 100 percent unready for what happens when a bunch of Ayn Rand-reading Ivy Leaguers go up against a united front of women raised by The Spice Girls (complimentary)

🎶 I lerftt mīy haært inn Seattle Franerísco 🎶

The jumpy stray who showed up in our yard this summer, who we've been slowly acclimating to indoor life in our basement all fall, has finally figured out Foot can be Pillow. "Lap" is going to blow his mind one day.

Happy Solstice. Spring is already planning ahead.🕯️

In 2017, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) named Seattle a City of Literature in its Creative Cities Network. The designation recognizes Seattle as a vibrant hub of literary arts and creativity. #NewAtNoon @Unesco.org www.historylink.org/File/23440

Last night @unrulyandrews.bsky.social and I went to a Klingon production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, with occasional English from the Vulcan narrator ("marlI' was dead: to begin with"). SQuja' faces his cowardice, rather than miserliness, and learns he won't reach Sto-vo-kor if he doesn't change his ways.

(Guided By Voices - The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory voice) Flintheart Glomgold, Scrooge McDuck’s foe

APP NOTIFICATION: MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD EMAIL: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD TEXT: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD MESSAGE REGARDING MY CHILD: Remember the winter concert is tomorrow!

Imagine if cities demanded the same of car manufacturers.

The girlies don't want a Gaston origin story. The girlies want a Kronk origin story.

I've spent the last three weeks wrestling with Wake Up Dead Man. Here are some of my thoughts—I have many more. I am wildly grateful to talk about art that deals seriously with the world we've created, and somehow still holds on to hope. reactormag.com/entirely-too...

OH WELL - dashare.zone ADMIN

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis Discuss the appropriate amount of women for a fantasy book youtube.com/shorts/KuLc6...

It's a classic for a reason

Let's say they *do* cancel all the in-stadium events "supporting homosexuality" (on the eve of Pride weekend!!!). The giant Pride flag that local attendees will somehow smuggle in and unfurl at the top of the second half will be visible from space.

My guess: The acquiring editor handed this manuscript off to the production dept with sincere apologies that they'd done what they could with the author. The production editor hired a copyeditor they knew would keep their mouth shut and said, "I KNOW, I know. Just do what you can."

I’m still owed the settlement money for the book of mine Open AI plagiarized — the book I wrote while raising two babies

Hey, if you’re a Seattle/WA author with a book coming out next year and you have a firm pub date, please let me know for potential inclusion in the Seattle Times’s 2026 book preview. (Space is limited but I’ll do my best.) Drop a link either in replies or at my email: [email protected].

You will be visited by three spirits

'We will never fucking trust you again' www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...

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any tent that’s big enough for billionaires does not have space for me 🤷‍♀️

Nobody involved in this should draw a free breath for the rest of their lives

sexy teen soap set at starfleet academy? why not! they should make every type of show star trek. moody scandinavian police procedural star trek. half-hour family sitcom starring worf. vulcan columbo

imagine thinking Democrats desperately fighting back against ICE across the country and seeing their friends and neighbors scared shitless of being abducted and thrown into some nightmare prison want to hear you praise Trump for securing the border eat so much shit, man

"strong floor no ceiling" does, in fact, describe the Panera Sourdough Bread Bowl, available now

This Brandon Bird painting brings me delight every time I walk past it (and it's made even better by the fact that I got it framed at a shop a block away from a decommissioned Winchell's). Buy yourself or someone you love some delight!

Can someone spot me $19.25 million

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.

Those kids are dancing so hard! 🥹

HAPPY THANKSGIVIG - dashare.zone ADMIN

Truly a Thanksgiving miracle 🙏🏼

I have a friend who works in AI device research at one of the biggies, and she's told me that even though they could be working on*anything*, the men in leadership just keep basically asking for a second wife/assistant.

After much deliberation and a grueling interview process, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a new job and will not need any financial support from my parents to cover the high costs of childcare going forward. #AmericanDream #ThisIsYourCity

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

we're like infrastructure in that way

We’re up to 38% of last year. Wanna help me get a little closer to last year? SquidFacts.net Advent starts in ~2 weeks! I’ll be packing up orders all morning and tonight! Advent calendars fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s programming. They’ve been our biggest fundraiser for the last 3 years!

DNR making us face hard but beautiful things today

Uh-oh, we've broken containment.

a “Space Force”, if you will

Another revelation from all of these emails is that many of the richest and most powerful people in the country absolutely cannot write. Helps explain their sweaty embrace of LLMs.