It feels more like 1866 when a bunch of traitors were quietly allowed to reintegrate into politics and shape 100 years of racist federal policies that pushed back progress and allowed a minority to shape social and legal standards.

This is friggin genius

All this discourse about fraud… the people conducting true fraud investigations are not advertising them. They’re working them quietly. If you’re finding obvious fraud, there’s an organizer and you don’t want to tip them off. Propaganda was the only point.

Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.

And the sheer variety of soups that can be made. Almost any staples on hand can be used to make a soup. That is part of the magic, transforming whatever you have on hand to something nourishing and filling. And that my child will eat.

Love this stat. The press release about Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social being on the BBC & BBC iPlayer Reached 24.3 million people in the newspaper world and was the equivalent of: £1.1 Million pounds in advertising spend. Bloody marvelous. @thebookseller.com

Seeing local Minneapolis businesses close to protect their customers and employees but Tran Siberian Orchestra still playing when there’s a travel advisory and roads literally closed by the state is certainly a choice.

It’s been awhile since we’ve had a blizzard warning. Going to be an interesting 24 hours.

They got ridiculously expensive and the portions got smaller.

One thing that gets me every time this comes up is when somebody turns evil and people act like they were evil their whole life. No. Children are not born evil or hateful or bigoted. That behaviour is learned and people learn it at different points in their lives.

One of my favorite books in 2025 was Daughter of the Otherworld by @shaunalawless.bsky.social, and as a fun fact the next book in the series will be out in 2026. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/daughter-o...

I started reading Redwall about the same time as Lord of the Rings. It probably shows.

Oh, are we doing books as academic origin stories? No surprises here.

"Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health under a new law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Friday."

It’s frustrating. I live far from any Trader Joe’s, and today happened to be near one. I got home to find a sealed item was completely molded over. Their customer service can’t do anything which I would get… if they didn’t tell me to go in store with a picture of the product and receipt for help.

Just finished A Muppets Christmas Carol. I remember getting so excited when my dad would take us to his friend’s house, because his kids had the VHS. Literally only wanted to go over to their house because they had the movie and nobody else I knew did lol.

My child under appreciates the Muppets Christmas Carol. So am I watching it alone on Christmas Eve? Yes. Yes I am. You can’t skip this adaptation.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

I love this kind of cooking. My partner is a very by the recipe cooker and is frustrated him when I cook from the heart lol.

3yo: “daddy’s phone is in his pocket!” me: “that’s true!” 3yo: “why isn’t mummy’s phone in her pocket?” me: “… buckle up, kiddo, we’re gonna discuss five hundred years of fashion and misogyny”

We’ve been reading the Yule Lads. It’s so cool to be able to learn about different traditions. Glad we brought the book The Yule Lads back from Iceland, our kiddo is so entranced.

no idea what this is about but a RESOUNDING YES

I miss this view. Especially this time of year. Now I want a Butler's hot chocolate.

Working on being off my phone more is helping me make my way through my book reviews! Hoping this trend continues as I go through the holiday season. ohwherewillwegoadventuresthroughbooks.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/t...

Our retriever arguing with me the other night that it’s the perfect weather to roll in the snow and stay outside. Christmas is his favorite time of year.

I don’t have 45000 books, but I have a lot. I had to move some of my humidity loving plants out of my living room (where the majority of my books are) because their soil was desert dry less than 24 hours after I watered.

We can’t use AI at work due to how much it made up. Completely made up. That’s not even starting into the hallucinations. Every day I struggle more with what AI is useful for, other than a cash grab for some tech bros.

This catches something really important. The risk is less that this crew changes the regime and more that while trying to do so they cash out the whole thing. Which is one more powerful reason why resistance is patriotic.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Good morning! Join us at @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social for a chat with @sarahweinman.com about hee new release WITHOUT CONSENT: the first trial to bring spousal assault into the light: on all platforms, as well as Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/6ufS...

Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.

I met Melissa Hortman in October of 2024. She was smart and kind. I heard about her murder in a LA hotel room and it dropped me to my knees. So I went to Minnesota and talked to her kids, parents, and friends. This is not true crime, this is Melissa in real life. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Be weird my friends. Make art. Whatever that are looks like.

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Gosh do I miss Dublin.

Every story I hear about Prince, it seems like he was just a really cool down to earth guy.

Delighted to announce that @ronanhession.bsky.social will be chatting to James Naughtie on the BBC Radio 4 Book Club On January 4th at pm. Marvelmoose! @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Other fun things - you can lose your teeth during pregnancy, a friend of a friend fractured her vertebrae during labor, there’s so many awful pregnancy and labor related things.

Anytime someone at work starts the day off by sending, “good morning how are you?” I know my morning is about to not in fact be a good morning.

Well this was a timely publication by one of my former professors… we will see how far I can get given the current state of the world.

The fun thing is, the higher up the corporate ladder the less likely the employees are going to be drug tested. Entry level job with low risk? Of course. Executive job with high risk decisions being made that can impact the company and sometimes millions of people? Of course not.

I hate the news coming out of Brown U. Trying to remember the rules for breaking news to try to stay calm.

Brown University now says police do NOT have a shooting suspect in custody and that community members should continue to shelter in place.

Good short video on new challenges to spotting AI generated images youtube.com/shorts/3M-BH...

While it is a feels like temperature of -16 F, my weather app would like me to know that there is a low risk of mosquitoes today.

Watching a newer documentary series on Hurricane Katrina and dear god. As bad as I thought it was… it’s so much worse. So so so much worse.

I don’t really know how people can say we are living in a democracy right now.

It’s also very difficult to tell if they’re ads or a link that’s going to install malware or steal your information. Half the ads do not look like legit ads.

My fiber/academic sister's new book on Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode just came out, & my copy arrived so I have to big up her. If you want to learn more abt the history of fairy tales & race, etc, grab a copy. Also look at the separate special order of mini skeins!