neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

A small film of spring flowers from my garden because we recover from stress 60% more quickly when we look at plants & if we find them beautiful our brains release dopamine, lifting mood. Pause for a few moments to help your synaptic soup 🌿🧠:

this is why I try not to digest my food (for science)

Is it just the middle of the night or am I reading the implication in the Global Game Jam’s latest newsletter that Epic pushed GGJ to remove their CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license requirements, so that non-open-source Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) submissions are allowed?? globalgamejam.org/news

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

Just 2 more weeks to go

I'm an indie author of young adult fantasy in Portland, OR, and I'd love for you to try Fog & Fireflies. Available at Powell's Hawthorne and Parallel Worlds (if in stock) or online in ebool and audiobook form: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRXLT4RW

“This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender” - Pete Seeger’s banjo head seen recently at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...

"In 1922, Vermont became the first New England state to support a bookmobile. At the time, it was known as the “Vermont Book Wagon”. The term “Bookmobile” did not become commonplace in Vermont until the 1930s.

kids cookie decoration night went …well

extremely cute baby onesie from my colleagues at Temporal, accurately addressed “to the resident living inside Kara”

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Oh good, thank you @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social for writing on the weird AI generated descriptions of posts now happening in Google search. This has been driving me nuts specifically with the gay dom-com Pillion, whose trailers are getting described as “a woman expressed her devotion to a man” 🤦🏻‍♀️

Okay archaeologists / egyptologists, I’m curious - is this a legally sellable item by Goodwill? shopgoodwill.com/item/249644465 Buyers seem to be betting on it being genuine. And the AI description boldly says “The artifact appears crafted in a historical period and exhibits cultural significance”

This is one of my favorite traditions that we do on Electron; it’s a great time to both recharge and get caught up on internal maintenance and projects that we might not normally have the time to look into

Thanks @blackgirlbytes.bsky.social for writing about the impact nursing stations can make at conferences 🍼

the definitive piece on Pantone’s Color of the Year from JP. I will be reading no further pieces, I’m full.

tired of sharing my body with a roommate. coffee? he wakes up and kicks my organs long before the caffeine reaches me. no coffee? now I’m asleep (until he wakes up and kicks me). bodies should have a 1 person at a time maximum.

The Google Doodle for today is Tiny Chef, a stopmotion felt celebrity who will improve my Thanksgiving. I click the banner to get their advice. Google takes me to a pre-written Gemini AI Mode prompt of me asking AI for a cooking plan. No! No! I want the little felt Chef to tell me their secrets!!

Coming together to eat the food we share has been part of humanity from the very beginning. I wrote this post after a Thanksgiving week lecture on evidence for Neanderthals and other ancient people making prepared mixtures of grains, lentils, and other foods. www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...

AI art sneaks in when your heart is closed to folk art, to children’s art, to your own art. I know what it feels like to say “I couldn’t draw this, so it’s okay to have a computer do it” - but what part of yourself are you choosing to abandon because it’s not “good” enough?

Feast your eyes on this masterpiece painting my 3yo made of ME

Today’s mug!

come work with me and Angie Jones 🥰 block.xyz/careers/jobs... this is my team

We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation for the second "Funding the FOSS Ecosystem" devroom at FOSDEM 2026, along with Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), The Linux Foundation, NLnet foundation, Prototype Fund 🥳 pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/...

I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

There's 5 open Staff Dev Advocate roles now open on the Temporal Developer Relations team! Woa! More importantly, I'm there and you can work on the same team as me: temporal.io/careers

mine eyes? seeing the glory. the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored? trampled. the faithful lighting of his terrible swift sword? buddy, you better believe that's loosed.

Alex rules, huge get for the Bluesky team 👏

I really like Bruce Willen's "Ghost Rivers" language. I say "lost streams" or "piped streams" myself—now never "buried streams." ghostrivers.com

Today, the @ec.europa.eu has announced the creation of the #EDIC #DigitalCommons — a major milestone in a multi-year European effort that the Sovereign Tech Agency helped shape from the start. 1/3

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

But this misses out the best part of this mosaic! To the left of Odysseus' ship is a smaller boat with a man holding what looks suspiciously like a gigantic prawn. This man is likely to be the homeowner who commissioned the mosaic. (Mosaic from Dougga, Tunisia; C3rd AD; currently in Bardo Museum)

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

finally, some good news

telephoning my friend to remind them it’s probably the appropriate time to burn the War of 1812 White House candle I sent them several years ago 🫣 jdandkateindustries.com/products/1812

This year's Roguelike Celebration steam sale is up! Check out some awesome games, and don't forget to buy tickets for the conference *this weekend*! (also @shing.bsky.social's art is so good, I'm so glad we got them to do this year's art!!) store.steampowered.com/curator/4122...

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

(rushing to post good news while it’s still a Good News Day) oh btw, I’m expecting my second kid at the start of the new year!

Good No Kings walk with the 3y old today ☀️

I love reading about statue conflicts and this article is chock full of wild quotes from the most tasteless men imaginable

"Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections?"

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

So I guess sex work is only ok if just tech oligarchs are profiting off it and not marginalized women or minorities who depend on it to survive?

The end of Windows 10 support is going to be an environmental and security disaster, an egregious example of planned obsolescence that doesn't have to be this way: www.404media.co/the-end-of-w...