Happy secular New Year, Bluesky!

4-year-old told me “I like you more than space likes planets” which as I understand is a huge honor in his culture

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

Bill Nye is short for William New Year’s Eve

Springsteen ass headline

LeCarré is a funny and satisfying writer

This is a thing that’s certainly been true most of my life, though I can see a time it wasn’t so much. I think Vietnam broke a lot of folks, and caused em to break their kids too.

IMO it's bad that people in the top echelons of government and business think ethics and integrity are Cringe and Woke because they're too dumb to understand why these things are important for political and economic stability- such stability itself perhaps a concept they're too dumb to care about

She’s so fucking close.

I guess I make and sell handbags?

Good.

Trying to shore up a failing regime with an unpopular war that has no actual causus belli is definitely a thing that works great every time just ask Nicholas Romanov OH WAIT.

There is, to be frank, much less novelty in mechanics than anyone ever thinks. This also matters VERY LITTLE. There was a great post a little while back about how good suitcases are these days, and RPG design is a lot like that.

Despite having been involved in it, I am absolutely horrified to find out more about the Google+ era. Also, I feel old.

If you’re only going to read one article on climate change this year, let it be this one. Prism's climate justice reporter ray levy uyeda provides the context for the Trump administration’s wide-ranging attacks on the planet. Environmental injustice is the result of centuries of policy decisions.

My girlfriend at the time and I met Ben Stein at the diner under the Well dorms at Duke. He said he liked my top hat, and I smiled and said thank you.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

this prompt elicited a reaction that alarmed my dog

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.

We must constantly push back. You are not good because you were good as a teen. You must keep choosing to grow and evolve as new bigotry emerges and the fight moves on.

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.

Local native languages should be taught in every US school. Mandatory.

This dude needs to be smacked upside the head with a copy of the social contract. This is some abuser brain bullshit.

It's really cool and great that "men whose SO broke up with them over their gambling addiction" is such a large demographic that advertisers are targeting them

From Facebook

…fuck.

It me.

Hole, either Live Through This or Violet; take your pick. Tori Amos, Boys for Pelé. Ani Di Franco, Dilate (I had a theme back then)

I just taught my lecture course on mid-20th c US history, which starts with Harding and concludes with Nixon. For the first time, I had to pause and stress that those scandals were actually shocking at the time and, what’s more, that Americans actually demanded people be held accountable.

The biggest divide in America today is not between “right” and “left,” or between Republicans and Democrats. It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The old labels — “right” and “left” — prevent most people from noticing they’re getting the shaft. Know the truth.

This game fucking ruled tho.

I should write an essay about organizing titled "All Those Boring Meetings Paid Off."

This looks freaking cool tho

Forget it Jake, it’s giving Chinatown

Can confirm for Apple iBooks.

This is 100% my philosophy. Liminal week; nothing counts.

Me all the time, even though I can’t drink lemonade anymore.

For some of you it’s heat and traffic. For some it’s rain tapping your window. For some it’s a café, a corner store, a borrowed quiet. Different places. Same pause. Wherever you’re standing— hope the day loosens its grip for a sec.

I don’t wanna be shitty to Tim here, but this is a very classic example of a false dichotomy fallacy. Why should solar require cutting down forests? It really shouldn’t. Which basically everyone in comments is pointing out.

In case you need a positive reminder: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

@brandesstoddard.bsky.social @bransler.bsky.social Voice Effect: Indulgence.

The thing that kills me is this guy thinking this represents a change. The key is the, “that works” part. It’s doing a LOT of heavy lifting. The first thing I think when looking at what could follow from this is: “could your company survive a lawsuit from your biggest client?”

A good series of skeets, but oh yes, this. This is also why it’s so important that not everyone is called to ministry. One of the best things about Hindu holy text imho is that it bothers to be explicit about how most people are gonna just… have normal lives and do normal stuff and that too is holy.

Still thinking about Wake Up Dead Man. What a beautiful, beautiful film. The core message of the sin of Ahankar, of arrogance and ego, vs the blessing of selfless service to those in need to glorify god rather than yourself is such a fundamental hindu belief.

Oof relatable.

So I think doing this in any context other than “I want to start a fight,” or “I’m making this exact point,” is prolly a mistake. The point to me is that qualifying one’s beliefs (or lack thereof) is a necessary polite friction in a pluralist society, which we are and have a right oughtta be.