Toad looked out of his window. “These messy leaves have covered everything,” said Toad.

The thing about America today is that if you just describe what is happening objectively and unemotionally you sound hysterical and partisan and what you have to remind people is that the reason for that is not you, it's the people doing the things you are describing

In no particular order: The Moody Blues Def Leppard Tom Petty Yes/Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe The Who The Who was 14 July 1989 and was 39 (!) songs over the course of 3 hours of playing, including just about all of Tommy. And we had a double rainbow just before the concert!

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

Looks like this’ll be the weekend where a bunch of UVM freshman say to themselves “I picked this school WHY??” 🤣

The rare violation of Betteridge's Law!!

Just watched “Three Days of the Condor”. Pretty good! (Though I would not say great.) And oh boy, does it bleed 1970s from every pore!

the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.

This is FUCKING WILD!! 🤯

Hey @akivamcohen.bsky.social — do you have a good thread to link in on why this is such a terrible, terrible comparison?

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

Of course it's 100% cloud cover here while what might be the best aurora night in years rolls on. 😢

While 🤮 on the existence of ChatGPT commercials the cool song they are using in it is “Les Fleurs” by Minnie Riperton.

This is insane

🎶 Kay-kay-kay, Kay-kay-kay, Kayshon Boutte 🎶

This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

WTAF?!? o_O www.denverpost.com/2026/01/17/b...

The Acrobats, by Alexander Calder, 1944, 📸 by @Bessex_Joshua

See Burns's "The American Revolution". He didn't shy away from talking about how dirty things were. (Though it wasn't limited to the Patriots. The Loyalists were pretty bad too. It was a very ugly war.)

once again saying: our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse.

My grandpa, who escaped Hitler, who watched his family get shoved into cattle cars (and whose sister was literally separated from her mother by Mengele), had a refrain: "hope, hope, hope." Try to carry this fwd. It's hard, yes, but do it bc what choice do we have? joshsternberg.com/2010/06/12/c...

What a shot!

By obtaining the physical Nobel Peace Prize, Donald J. Trump is its rightful winner. by Vladimir Putin, Super Bowl XXXIX champion

Oh wow! Awesome job on both axes!

ICE needs to mask to protect their identities, but ICE will publicize the names of protesters ICE demands to be addressed respectfully, or ICE will call you a "fucking bitch" ICE demands to be treated civilly, or ICE will fly into a rage and kill more innocents ICE, the biggest snowflakes of all

Disappointed it's not crab claws! 🤣

I feel like I’m taking fucking crazy pills why isn’t the fucking media telling anyone we’re about to go to war with NATO

Happy TOSS Birthday to Joanne Linville, who was perfect as the Romulan Commander. #TOSSatNight

#birdbot

I never see the doomers offering strategic solutions, or even saying "this is the fight we need to be gearing up for," just saying "this is what's gonna happen, mark my words." Being "right" about what he'll do is just another form of compliance in advance.

The unfortunate reality that is that peace prizes lose half their value the minute you drive them off the lot

The operative word was "me." Don't tread on me, but let me tread on everybody else.

So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet shitposters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them

@radiofreetom.bsky.social @thomastell.bsky.social Some of these “story springboards” from the original 1964 TOS network pitch could have been wicked cool with the right writers!

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Tooze's masturbatory fantasies of massacring liberals for not being left enough are such a perfect summary of who he is and why not treating Leninists like neo-Nazis is one of modern academia's greatest sins. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Judge Young once again not pulling any punches.

Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.

January 14, 2026

Yikes on bikes! 😬

Secondary eSIM FTW today!

Heh!

Yikes! Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of SQUISH THE FISH! That was such a fun run even with its ignominious ending.

Ne plus ultra of white saviorism.

One of the best F&T moments. “HEY BIRDS, HERE ARE COOKIES!”

“Poor Frog,” said Toad. “He must be very sad. I will cheer him up.” Toad ran home. He made sandwiches. He made a pitcher of iced tea. He put everything in a basket.

Depending on what counts as “home”, either the Merrimack or the Pawtuxet.

They won't though because they are amoral and/or cowardly weenies.

Spock and Kirk 🖖 Charcoal pencil #sketchbook #artist #startrek