OK people, hit me with your recommendations for 2026 PAGE-A-DAY calendars. (The kind with 365 small sheets that you tear off one by one.) It's become a tradition to get my kid one each Christmas, but I don't have an obvious candidate to buy from this year.

ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.

If you would like to have a lovely roast dinner at The Chase in Islington on 1st December, and also support the soup kitchen at my church, that would be wonderful. Mabruk is generously donating 100% of the costs for this dinner. £65 each, sign up at www.justgiving.com/page/mabruk-...

Canada to accelerate high-speed rail project connecting Quebec City and Toronto

The freakout level on Facebook about a 9-hour planned power outage scheduled to start at 9 PM on Friday night is really something to behold.

Lauren Ambrose. We co-edited the yearbook.

I LIKE getting copies of Analog (and Asimov's! and F&SF!) in the mail with my stuff in them. I LIKE having them on the brag shelf. I don't like it enough to throw the people coming up behind me under the bus. I don't like it enough to give the message that rights grabs are okay.

Freelancers who write about the law, please take Jay's money!

1. Great, let's do this 2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators 3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

This was the worst way to find out Keith Olbermann is on bluesky.

You could do a whole documentary on the Revolution’s impact on slavery, because the effects could play out in strikingly different ways around the country. (4/fin)

Poutine vocale

some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops: Blue Diamond Bob's Red Mill Land O'Lakes Tillamook Welch's

Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with 2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.

"It’s my turn to bring a snack for my son’s preschool class. My snack will be simultaneously nutritious, allergen-free, and appealing to three-year-olds—like dinosaur-shaped muffins that taste like rainbows but are made of steamed arugula."

I will affirm till the day I die that the fox hunting ban was and is utterly ludicrous, but this is hilarious and delightful. English trail runners! Raise your heart rate and end your runs in a pile of slobbering doggos! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

WTF is this bullshit. My power to baptize, marry, and absolve, is absolute, and cannot be affected by any temporal power. What a weak, cringing, defective sacramental and sacerdotal theology this claim reveals.

Infantas Isabella Clara Eugenia (later my patron!) & Catalina Micaela, & their pets, painted in 1570 by Sofonisba Anguissola. It’s her day.

This is brilliant! During her speech, after the announcement, N.K. Jemisin mentioned the “Lovecraftian Horror of AI” as one of the great challenges of our time. I think there isn’t a writer who wouldn’t agree with this perfect “descriptor.”

My 17yo is absolutely a kid. Making huge strides in maturity practically on the daily? Yes. Still a kid? Abso-fucking-lutely.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

"Average American believes in freedom and democracy" factoid actually just statistical error. Average American believes in cheap consumer goods and low wages. Thaddeus Stevens, who believed in equality of man before his creator, was an outlier, and should not have been counted.

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

I can't believe it took us until this morning (when 17yo read the Epistle at church) to come up with "we've had FIRST Thessalonians, yes, but what about SECOND Thessalonians?!"

Yep, it's definitely "millennials and Gen Z are ruining Las Vegas" and not "no Americans can afford to take a vacation and everyone else is entirely rationally terrified to go there"

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they can come into the tent when they admit they were wrong and change their views we all joke about Woke Bill Kristol but he is for the most part the perfect example - he has, legitimately, become much more progressive you can’t bring in people who are mad he’s not delivering on horrible shit

All national borders should be completely open.

Leonard Cohen looms large over Montreal. Johnny Cash looks over Sacramento (down the road from Folsom Prison). I love these. Big, fun place-making & story-telling instead of a big, blank wall. I’m recommending this again. Put favourite son Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip on the Kingston skyline.

AI Chatbot Obviously Trying To Wind Down Conversation With Boring Human https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-obviously-trying-to-wind-down-conversation-w-1850146151/

🌱 Spain’s community energy revolution is spreading! From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are providing cheap, clean electricity to homes, including low-income families, while promoting local ownership and fighting fuel poverty. We love to see a community-led energy transition 🤩

I was once on a Zoom call with a bunch of Anglican Church of Canada folks. Land acknowledgements are very common among us (although in many contexts there are actual Indigenous people who can bless/smudge/give words, which is obviously much preferable!). Anyway, we were on this Zoom call and

Overheard at the church bazaar: "I'm having a hard time committing to a gravy boat."

Grace, 47, lives in an apartment in the heart of Lachine, just up the canal from the Fur Trade Museum, where Bill McKibben's HERE COMES THE SUN and an old Anglican Chant Psalter sit on the coffee table while she works on her sermon.

If @govpritzker.illinois.gov could call off his goons that'd be great

Googly eyes make everything better

This is exactly what @billmckibben.bsky.social says in HERE COMES THE SUN - that in 15 years the US will be this weird living museum of fossil tech.

Am actual Anglican clergy. Find this intensely fucking embarrassing. Stop behaving like Philip Pullman's caricature of Christians, people.

In Wyoming Ranchers are now lobbying against far right initiatives to kill solar because it's cheap as hell for them to throw up on unused land and provides either all the power they need or extra income when it over generates. Even the Market's gone woke lol

Some, uh, interesting memorabilia at the church bazaar this weekend

I'm not surprised to see that Zohran passes the Little Kid Test with flying colours.

Ds need to prioritize mass amnesty. anyone this admin arrested and targeted needs an expedited and near instantaneous path to citizenship. also reparations.

Not the primary point of the painting or the post, but notice the extreme normality of this Olden Days woman with her tits FULLY on display while breastfeeding

Ah, you heard and hearkened to the Thritch! It is a force not to be underestimated.

Fuck off, slopbot. (I've been deleting bulk spam from my website for a decade, but this is the first example that scraped actual words/concepts from the post and tried to pass them off as thought.)

Pinging Rachel Reeves and her immense intellectual abilities:

WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!

Turf them all the fuck out. There is an infinite supply of qualified people to be in Congress who are not sex pests. We could have a House and Senate composed entirely of women!!

Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...