First day back in the office after the break. Arrived thirty minutes late. Don't remember who I am, where I work, or how to read.

The vaccine autism thing is bullshit but even if you believed it, it seems incredibly fucked up to then believe that raising child death rates is some sort of worthwhile trade-off to reduce autism rates

I already lived through the tragedy, I don't wanna live through the farce!

as people's schedules return to whatever is their normal, i'll re-up this announcment: www.blakechastain.com/the-exvangel...

Just got my first AI-generated book-marketing scam email. 🥰

Bari Weiss: Welp, no story here!

Happy War (Xmas Is Over)

Aha. They were not worried about protecting themselves from going to war, they were worried about protecting war from girls.

Love how there wasn't actually any difference between the Nobel Peace Prize and the FIFA Peace Prize.

So many people over decades have been called conspiracy theorists for suggesting that U.S. intervention is driven by capitalist interests, and the interests of the oil industry in particular. Now the president just says it outright in press conferences and interviews.

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I was gonna say I wish hell was real, but actually, I think it is and we already live there.

The slopmonger wants to feed us slop.

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

Yes. Kathy Hochul is converting to Islam.

One thing I would like in 2026 is to have more copy editing work coming in! I’m a developmental editor at heart but people don’t freelance that out as much and I’m good at CE as well. If you’re involved in freelance CE hiring for any presses besides S&S (who I already do work for) pls get in touch!

Aside from the ethical considerations, I just don't understand how people use Twitter without recoiling in disgust. Like, forget whether it's right or wrong to use it, just, how could you possibly *enjoy* using it?

I still use the same clock radio that informed me when 9/11 was happening 😭

If Mamdani can do even just one or two of the things he promised, it will make such a huge positive impact.

The NYT editorial board members are wearing Black armbands while crying and vomiting today. Tomorrow's Editorial: "Just because you won the election DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN ACT LIKE YOU ARE THE MAYOR."

I'm losing my health insurance in 2026.

Yappy hew hear!

Processing my pre–NYE party social anxiety by taking a covid test for no reason.

In 2025, I: - went from not exercising at all to completing 110 Peloton rides - helped get Zohran elected - edited a national bestseller www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/771172...

A "big tent" can accommodate random Trump voters who change their minds and switch sides. Marjorie Taylor Green would need to spend the rest of her life making daily public apologies and never holding a position of power ever again just to be allowed to look at the tent.

"it's in our DNA to do things that are absolutely not in our DNA" is so stupid it goes all the way around and loops back to stupid again

Tfw you believe in eugenics but not, like, for yourself

I dragged him to fulfill my winter fantasy of ice skating and then it turned out he actually knows how to ice skate.

We are pioneering new and dystopic ways of cutting off our nose to spite our face.

If you can't tell the difference between cilantro and parsley at a glance, don't worry. Neither can the restaurant that made the banh mi I'm eating.

Wow, no way, thank God there was an AI-generated notification to let me know

My husband just casually informed me that a song he played on like 10 years ago "got placed in a Netflix show that's apparently doing numbers, it's called Heated Rivalry?"

Now seated for Tim Tam Ping Pong

The first thing ICE did when it was created was raiding meat processing plants in the Midwest and south to help quell labor disputes over safety violations and keep those who weren't detained from getting legal protections as many had kids who grew up locally and were citizens with political power.

Crispy Chipmas and a snacky New Year, from your friends at the Frito-Lay Corporation!

Saw some little girl ask an adult man what his name was, he told her and then politely asked her name, she replied "I don't have to tell you my name. And YOUR name is little, little, little BABY." Owned

("Die Hard is a Christmas movie" voice) Good King Wenceslas is a St. Stephen's Day carol.

Making real eggnog for the first time, but I'm really bad at cooking and I think odds are about 50/50 that I scramble it.

And Tiny Sim, who DID die

In retrospect the Bush-era War On Christmas stuff seems more ominous than it did at the time. It was just cable news guys crying about dumb/fake shit, then and now; I mean the campaign to turn Christmas, which most everyone likes and feels warmly about, into just another thing to get mad about.

And Tiny Sim, who DID die

It's not so much that I like Christmas music, it's more that I like periodically hearing songs that I've known all the words to since I was a child.

If ADHD is a fake diagnosis that was made up in the past few years, then explain Uncle Billy from It's a Wonderful Life.

Yes, I will be at church tonight, but not because I've re-converted to Christianity, just because my husband works at a church now, but not because he's converted to Christianity, just because life is very ironic sometimes.

I'd never heard of Kat Rosenfield, so I looked her up. She writes for Bari Weiss's website. But yes, it's everyone else who's biased in this situation.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

I hate thinking about people in the future studying this era in history and not being able to actually rely on contemporary coverage by the NYT, WashPo, CBS, etc, etc.

As we all know, college is not where you go to read, learn, or think. It's where you go to blog your opinions before social events.