An all to common example of me apparently speaking a foreign language to my 14 year old: Me: I think your bagel is about done. Can you check on it? 14yo: bubble up?!

Anyone else watching the dude climb the building?

Most of the United States right now.

bracing for impact to my work inbox...

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There are increasing chances for snow and ice from the southern Plains to the Mid-Atlantic late this week and into the weekend. There is still plenty of uncertainty in the forecast, which will evolve in the coming days, so stay up to date on the latest at weather.gov.

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I'm having trouble imagining the point of this whole milk thing with the administration.

Looks like X boarded the struggle bus this morning

Obligatory "so you're telling me there's a chance." NWS forecast for Fort Worth, TX.

That’s a nice spin on the third warmest year on record only behind the last two years.

After reading this… Sounds more like the developer of an eight year old game trying to create relevance. Email is very routine in kids’ schooling now from what I’ve seen from my daughter. One complaint the developer had was that emails weren’t formatted nicely.They’re emailing a bot, not people

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

A combined 204 record warm lows are forecast overnight Tonight, Thursday night, and Friday night across the CONUS – 37 by more than five degrees!

A reminder that you are free to look at a video online, decide what it means, and proclaim that to anyone who'll listen. The NYT, NPR, CNN and all other journalists can't do that, out of professional responsibility and their own vulnerability at this moment. Give the journalists time to work.

Just caught the last 25 minutes of ‘Rudy’ again, and tears again.

I love Misery. The book and the movie (though to a lesser extent). Casting James Caan as Paul Sheldon was odd to me though.

Daughter just said, “you have no idea how lucky you are until you’re not lucky.” I guess she’s smart now.

My 15 year old has a crush on early 2000’s Hugh Grant, and I can’t blame her.

I don’t like that we’re calling him “Elmo.” I understand that it’s meant to be diminutive, but c’mon. Elmo proper deserves better than that.

Not sure Bluesky needs a holiday to air grievances.

A rare High Risk has been issued: "This will pose a significant threat of flash flooding, landslides, rock falls & mud slides. The greater than normal travel during the Christmas Holiday will potentially expose a larger number of people to these life threatening hazards." -NWS Forecast Discussion

It was really the 48th punch that did it, but it was a doozy.

This bag is in deep trouble tonight.

Unfortunately it is good reporting not to print what we all are damn sure is why, because that requires supporting information from interviewees or evidence. AP is one of the few good outlets out there. Because they don’t excite doesn’t mean it’s bad journalism.

Have you been dreaming of a white Christmas this year? Above normal temperatures and rain over the next week could melt those dreams away... You can stay up to date with your local forecast by checking weather.gov.

Shocked by the awful death of Rob Reiner. I spoke with him for over an hour last night. We talked about his work and his plans for the future. I always enjoyed his company. We met at his Dad's in 1975. Last thing he said to me was "See you next year.." Such a terrible end. Such a sweet man.

And perhaps the surgeons and trainers. But whatevs

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Seems a lot of college football fans have forgotten that bowl names have been ads for decades.

Hoosiers got a glimmer of hope from their state legislators yesterday and The Onion said, “fuck them.”

These AI headlines can’t even distinguish a 26 year old film (Green Mile) from a Netflix production.

Family just now on Family Feud told Steve they’re from Katy, TX and despite his obvious confusion as to where in god’s name that is in Texas, they left him hanging. Hell, I tell people I live in Fort Worth and feel obligated to let them know it’s near Dallas.

The editors of TIME have to get tired of explaining how person of the year is picked every year.

If he were on a fishing boat with no way to benefit the U.S. admin, he might be in real trouble.

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🌍 M7.6 earthquake near 73 km ENE of Misawa, Japan at 2025-12-08 14:15 UTC More info: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000rtdt

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We’ve entered “look how kooky and unique I am” Spotify Wrapped season, for all of those that celebrate.

Today the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security told the President, "you have saved hundreds of millions of lives with the cocaine you've blown up in the Caribbean." There were ~29,500 cocaine overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2023.

I mean, AI might actually be the devil, but the number of things pretty clearly generated by prompts meant to be click-worthy rage bait and blamed on AI is getting tiring.

Do these people just call all drugs “fentanyl?” Venezuela is well documented as NOT a major source of Fentanyl (some claim that none at all comes from Venezuela). Mexico leads that by far, with the source chemicals mainly from China. Venezuela is big in cocaine though.

We just finished the “They Called Him Mostly Harmless” documentary on HBO. Oh man, that was comically bad. 😂

I think Will Arnett is fine. Seems like a nice guy. But his GMC ads are 🤮 But money talks.

Now that I’m old, watching my fellow olds freak out about new things that are popular while forgetting things become and become unpopular all the time is…odd. Some gain perspective. Some think new things are dumb.

The bird is done and resting. My wife did all the actual work here. I was merely a lifter and timer for bastings.