All other time zones are, by definition, peripheral time zones

The Times Square ball drop is a nice bit of pageantry, but the “real” New Year is of course at midnight Central Time

Maxed out my credit cards, enraged my enemies, finally admitted to my sister I was wrong about something that happened when I was 12, let’s gooo

I love when I'm cleaning out folders and find very dated, very hastily made memes that are now borderline incomprehensible

I travel for the culture.

I’m a married Swamplizard now btw

Drinking in my 20s: hell yeah it’s time to party Drinking in my 30s: hell yeah it’s time for bed

People who say “good for you” sincerely need to stop messing with my head

The Grinch: dead at 37, got into the chocolate

he was so real for this

The interior of the reindeer eyeball permits 60% of UV light to strike the reflective layer common in animals with good night vision: the 'tapetum lucidum'. But the reindeer's has different fluid pressure between winter & summer that changes the spacing of reflective collagen.

State of my workout routine: just had to displace an ancient and stagnating civilization of spiders while moving my weights out of the corner of our garage

State of my workout routine: just had to displace an ancient and stagnating civilization of spiders while moving my weights out of the corner of our garage

It wasn’t until I heard the Eminem say “Guess that's why they call it windowpane” that I thought about how windows have feelings too. The power of music.

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

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Has humankind who has reached the moon and split the atom found an easy and non-tedious way to shave over the sink and dispose of the hairs? I tried those tarps and didn’t love it, because the hairs stuck to it and then wouldn’t dump off in the trash, just making a different sort of mess, elsewhere.

Something deeply wrong in a culture where institutions throw their own faculty under the bus because no religious or conservative opinion can ever be delivered poorly, or ever receive critique.

Art not made with AI.

New: We obtained thousands of internal chat messages from the ICE team creating viral videos of raids and "EPIC takedowns." A scramble to satisfy the White House and "feed the beast" spawned a new "propaganda" machine, current and former officials told us. "It's a war!" wapo.st/4s6YnC5

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

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(west wing opening music as guy in suit runs down the hall) RE-REDACT IT! RE-REDACT IT!

This is why you never assume someone is pregnant and has cancer and is a mummy, unless they bring it up first

Even if you were unaware with how central Hans Von Spakovsky has been to right wing conspiracies about nonexistent “voter fraud,” you would still be right to think it’s a bad sign that someone named Hans Von Spakovsky thinks Heritage has gone too far to the right

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

Weiss, Trump, and the other losers defining our expertise-skeptic era jump into roles they’re unqualified for, try to make things happen by command and pure will, and constantly find out some shit is actually kinda hard to do and there’s a reason people don’t usually do things they way they did them

60 Minutes journalist Sharyn Alfonsi sharply summarizes the appalling decision of Bari Weiss not to run her CECOT story: “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”

yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.

It's hard to tell what's actually happening in the video that purports to show Epstein's suicide but 1) the video is hosted at justice.gov and 2) it's in a directory called Data Set 8, which would be the next release. It looks fake to me, but that doesn't explain why it's on the real DOJ site.

“You have arrived in hell.” That’s what the CECOT director allegedly told immigrants. Human Rights Watch said “Detainees were subjected to constant beatings and other forms of ill-treatment, including some cases of sexual violence” This is what CBS doesn’t want you to see.

The comforting aspect of this Bari Weiss situation is knowing, absolutely, that all of her lame contortions and disingenuous appeals to integrity that just so happen to protect monsters will not protect her. Trump will make her public enemy #1 regardless, because relative fealty is never enough.

If anyone ever wanted to sue the heritage center for something, now’s the time

Just a few months ago the entire administration was gleefully posting AI Ghiblislop bragging about how cruel and inhumane the camp would be, explicitly referencing racist memes of alligator babies, etc. And *now* they're suddenly worried about looking cruel and inhumane

I have a degree in classical greek, love the ancient history of the region, have studied oral tradition from literary and linguistic perspectives, so I’m using that authority to say some folks are blowing the armor situation in Nolan’s Odyssey way out of proportion.

This is the kinda shit Rudolph had to put up with and it is not ok

Just real ghoul shit

The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision. "The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

some bs here

LPT: just look at the front of the box instead of doing the puzzle, they’re the same

This might seem funny, but keep in mind that she just lost her husband and everyone grifts in their own way

An interesting part of politics driven by negative polarization is how each party consistently makes the most convincing arguments for why they should be replaced

at the family gathering, referring loudly to every topical conversation as "discourse" until they make me leave

Cut! Let's try it one more time from the top, but now pretend you're a politician.

Boosting my odds of getting a research grant for my EEG study by offering to collect data using the Mind Flex telekinesis toy by Mattel.

Unfortunately, there are lots of people willing to give a very liberal interpretation of "as a starting point for critical engagement." This is what abstracts are for. They're 100 words. You can skim them. With some of my ethical reservations, it really makes it a hard sell, for even this use.

(rushing to the tailor 2 days before the ceremony) is it too late to attach something like this to my suit??

Day 4 of Influenza A. 6 days until my wedding. Really couldn’t have cut it closer.

Big ups to Freud or something for how everyone who does something like this for some reason gives it an ominous name right out of dystopian sci-fi

Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses