Huh. Grandma was right about “real” furniture, it’s way less flammable than modern furniture which is mostly made of petroleum products. youtu.be/CTqizMtS4zU

Happy Boxing Day!

Is the Santa letter courtroom reveal in “Miracle on 34th Street” the best courtroom reveal in movie history? If you say no, it’s because you can’t handle the truth.

My suggestion of high fiber cereal for Christmas breakfast in the manner of Tiny Tim was met with disdain.

My quick and dirty thoughts on Trump's short-sighted, stupid, and self-defeating ban on foreign made drones. Banning foreign drones won't make us safer. Instead, it'll encourage people to build their own drones - which are way harder to track and to control.

I've written a quick newsletter about this drone ban - which will make us less safe. bsky.app/profile/fain...

Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other. buttondown.com/apperceptive...

open.substack.com/pub/wonkette... I like Governor Newsom's initiative: Don't get mad and gnash your teeth and pull out your hair, do something about their insane policies. Cal. has the right idea, hopefully more states will follow. #HHSBrainWorm #MAGAMorons #TraitorTrump #BlueCrew #Resisters

God I love a mean restaurant review, especially of a place owned by rich guys from a football team that I hate.

This is extremely important

A cool result of everything having AI in it now is there are a bunch of buttons on every application that I have to be careful to never push, and everything takes five more seconds to load during which there's an animation of bonzi buddy thinking really hard

wait a minute how are the "your body has gone soft from not eating the raw meats of your ancestors" guys also the "the computer should summarize the big scary email for your inadequate brain" guys

I am so grateful for this man and his bravery.

My brother, who is a HS English teacher and a softball coach, keeps aluminum bats in his classroom just in case. Years ago, I would thank my lucky stars I didn’t live in Sarajevo, but, well, here we are. We don’t have to live like this.

Bless @faineg.bsky.social they do try. Did not occur to them to make this the bottom of the box. Zoom in on the tag too. Watching them try to wrap a gift is a gift to me.

Before we had drones, we had guys who jumped off buildings with wings attached to their arms, and medieval fan fiction about how Alexander the Great spent his free-time attaching hungry eagles to thrones to make inefficient flying machines. My latest: little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-anc/

the wingnut industrial complex has turned on her- none of this trash ever sells, it's all bought in bulk by conservative groups to inflate #s and make their bullshit look popular, that they didn't bother in this case means she's on the outs

It is important to be very careful when using the words "adult" and "toy" to search for something. Really quite exceedingly careful. In fact, you might just want to rethink the whole thing.

Reminded of last year in Tokyo when I had the dreaded LuLu Attack.

@faineg.bsky.social showed early artistic promise. And before you ask - it’s Santa. Note the beard and the jolly demeanor.

Guys who fling themselves off perfectly good towers! Thrones piloted by Alexander the Great and powered by hungry eagles! Both hypothetical and somewhat more historically validated flights with artificial wings by famous Italians! The latest in my series on the ancient history of drones:

Saudi Arabia is easing its rules on alcohol for non Muslim foreign residents who earn at least 50000 riyals per month, roughly $13300. Then they get to buy alcohol, Bloomberg reports. Money comes first.

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social want a snack?

I think I might be qualified.

The president dozed off so frequently during his big televised ass-kiss meeting today, Jake Tapper may have to write three more books about Biden.

One way of looking at it…

The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

It's wild to me that this guy has reinvented himself as a resist grifter on this website

Anti-ICE commercial from Women's March

Snort

Would you like a personalized Weimar inflation experience?? Then we have your product!

Airport timeout in Osaka.

Aside from the high seas murder spree, an order to court martial a sitting senator for 100% legal political speech, and to do so under blatant unlawful command influence, would probably be the clearest case yet of an order so manifestly unlawful there is a duty for anybody in uniform to refuse it.

Credit to @faineg.bsky.social for buying us tasting spoons. Incredibly useful especially when preparing a big meal. Sanitary as you have enough to use them only 1 time and you still have the good spoons for your meals.

once again, Puppy Killer’s “terror squaders” are subject to laws as-written… laws are not Bible verses open to interpretation. www.reddit.com/r/NorthCarol...

Oh jeez, I must've tripped and dropped these pics of US cops training on mortar systems... Oops...

It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends. We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over. We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

That moment when you drop a medication on a sketchy floor in a hotel and have to decide whether to take it or not. I usually blow on it real hard. Germs hate wind. True fact.

heads up, this WILL ALSO REMOVE the automatic sorting that Gmail does, so you will no longer have updates/promotions/forums tabs and instead have just one big inbox. Which is stupid

This is extraordinary.

This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The Grand Banks of Newfoundland helped shape the history of Canada. Many of Newfoundland's first communities were established thanks to the Grand Banks, where cod were said to be so plentiful they could be scooped up with a bucket. This is the story of the Grand Banks. 🧵 1/12

An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

And no socks unless I need socks. TBD.

Actual causes of death in the US and media coverage of same. And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world. @ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues. ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

I think it’s finally time to get a tattoo by @Faine Greenwood.

I do not like thinking about how vulnerable the U.S. now is to genuine terrorism thanks to this fucking clown show