Miss Marple! Nancy Drew! It's a great year for mystery fans.

Basically every Lorraine Heath ebook is on sale at the moment it seems (I only did a screenshot of the first image in the post) - .99 to 3.99

you’re gonna need a tinier tim

LMAOOOOO

sometimes... sometimes anime isn't a mistake

*at a christmas party* oh Rudolph is your favorite reindeer? That’s cool yeah yeah he’s pretty great *in reindeer chat* BlitzenBoy92: at the work thinh. take a guess DonnerTime: buncha dolphies? VixenLover: fuckin lame bro just keep ur cool change the subject The Dasher Enjoyer: thinh

A lot of folks here probably don’t know I wrote a paper about using the game of Mastermind to teach logic & experimental design & interpretation: 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

xmas eve mastermind. don’t show my opponent this skeet

ONLY YULE

Except for bean-counting network executives in the 80's, no one likes a clip show. But even by the standards of the trope, this is dismal The framing device is that Riker's space rabies (spabies) is eating his brain & can only be cured by him reliving old episodes of Star Trek—but not the good ones

started / going

Haven't posted this on here yet

Turned 47 and graduated with my doctorate in the same week! Y’all just gonna have to get tired of me cause I can’t shut up!!

Vaccine beer! 🦠🍺 Coincidentally, I met this guy’s brother yesterday at the Tree Ring Laboratory at UArizona, where we & our spouses were taking the tour of the dendrochronology lab (recommended if you’re in Tucson) 🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/vacc...

it helps that all of the “pro” arguments for generative AI were written by generative AI

And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.

Vaccine beer! 🦠🍺 Coincidentally, I met this guy’s brother yesterday at the Tree Ring Laboratory at UArizona, where we & our spouses were taking the tour of the dendrochronology lab (recommended if you’re in Tucson) 🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/vacc...

and tiny tim, who was NOT in the epstein files,

"These practices are small, but they are deliberate, and they reflect a commitment to building the kind of scientific community I needed when I was young—one where safety is nurtured and trust is earned." 🧪

"I just need to get through this week" she says for the 14th week in a row

Just say women. This is taking forever.

Had to explain Ea-Nasir to my therapist

I’m guessing most Americans don’t know this, but because I lived in the UK for 8 years and still watch the BBC via VPN, I can tell you that the BBC iPlayer’s volume dial goes to eleven.

He was buddies with a pedo but in a tasteful, honorable way

Part 151 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd or finding Mew under the truck by S.S. Anne (we swear) Art Deco Ingrid parfum bottle made of malachite glass by Riedel glassworks, depicting a nude under a waterfall. Bohemia, Czech Republic. 1930's

PSA: there’s been an exploit for Signal and WhatsApp released that can be used to silently track you. Temp fixes for both can be done in your settings: For WhatsApp: Settings>Privacy>Advanced>Block unknown messages. For Signal: Settings>Privacy>Phone number>Who can find me by number>Nobody

(they're boys, but replies are girls)

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

Is this click bait? cowardice? or both? Put the facts in the headline, please. Medical evidence shows saturated fats are bad for you, causing heart attacks even stroke. RFK jr & his MAHA movement are putting people at risk by suggesting the opposite. Say that. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...

"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common "I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you

Playing zoom chicken. I got 10 minutes to put on a nicer shirt and expression

Snow on Sumida River - Tsuchiya Koitsu

A BLOOMY HEAD is $7.99 + shipping! This one is my first historical romance, set in 1820 Shropshire, between a trans man doctor who has been forced to leave the military by a serious injury and a widowed cheesemaker. There are murders. www.sharonjgochenour.com/store/1z60ub...

a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization

best package warning graphic i've ever seen 🪶

Looking into this. I want to leave Spotify

In which Julian tries to separate out the “bad” kinds of eugenics so we can keep the good stuff. This will work for a while if you are determined not to think it all the way through

We didn’t need all these biographical Willy Wonka movies about who he is as a person. In the older versions, he’s obviously God or the Devil. You’re supposed to spend the entire story wondering which one and gradually become worried they’re the same being

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Them: “25 years ago” Me: *nods sagely* “1986”

Opening the taskmaster calendar this evening came with a task AND a bonus task, which felt a little too much like opening my email, but it was still cute

Everybody please stop doing what you’re doing for a little bit. I have a headache

romulan numerals

The taskmaster calendar is the undisputed winner this year for sheer childlike joy. It turns out all I really needed from a calendar isn't sugar (jelly) or sugar (chocolate), it was the joy of being given small puzzles with objectively correct answers #jamvent

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

The @stechlab-labels.bsky.social labeler is interesting. I have a different perspective on certain threads when everyone involved is labeled “this user posted more than 100 times yesterday”