I got sick for Christmas, so it's time to make chicken congee and veg out on the couch with the cat until the new year.

Guess who managed to get sick just in time for Christmas?

amazing work of course but it’s always like “the victim’s murder-crazed ex-boyfriend was cleared by police after he said he definitely didn’t do it” and then he looks like this

Paid a visit to the most important person in my hometown tonight.

stumbled on a bunch of extremely niche professions that only have articles in Dutch Wikipedia (autotranslated in my browser)

My house has a claw-foot tub, but when I first moved in, California was in the middle of an extreme drought, so I never used it. Since the winter rainfall of the past couple of years has moved us out of drought conditions, I am thinking that 2026 might be when I enter my "soaking in the tub" era.

Here is something that I would actually like AI to do for me: whenever someone posts a video instead of a text post, summarize it for me so I don't have to waste time waiting for the video to get to the point.

Actual best Christmas movie.

Working remotely at my parents house for the week, and they (both retired for 20 or so years) are having trouble accepting the fact that I am actually expected to work a full 8 hours, even though I'm just sitting in their living room. Yes, work still makes you do that.

Be still my beating heart.

Current status.

Currently in Hawaiian timezone, and you can really tell when all the mainland political wonks go to bed. My "For You" feed totally transforms.

I am about to watch Inland Empire for the first time.

TFW you've successfully ruined dad's new stretch pants with your horrible little claws.

I am definitely feeling the need to air some grievances this holiday season.

2026 is the year of physical media, I'm calling it.

I wonder if I could just work from bed all day

I used to be a shower right before bed kind of guy, but lately I've converted to shower at 5pm, spend the evening lounging around the house in my jammies kind of guy, and so far it has been an A+ upgrade. Especially for fall.

Currently really enjoying this 23 message deep email thread with a work colleague who clearly is not reading the entire email and keeps asking me questions I already answered two emails ago. We definitely don't have a reading comprehension issue in this country, nope.

I actually got 9 hours of sleep last night, and I feel so powerful today.

I baked a delicious loaf of bread for the first time, and it was suspiciously easy? I have a feeling I'm going to become a bread fiend, if I can just whip these out like this.

Christmas shopping: done.

Wondering if they sell premium box seat tickets for The Hague.

Elliott Erwitt Macy's Parade NYC, 1988

Unfollowed some super-posters this week and I gotta say, it has been paying dividends for my mental health.

It is a cat in the jacket kind of morning.

The entire month of November so far has felt like, 3 days, tops.

I feel like everyone on this website is forcing me to know about a bunch of stupid assholes I don’t care about

Peter Eugén, Born (1978) Swedish “Boat in Stockholm Archipelago” Watercolor, 42 x 56 cm. #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Bed has got to be one of my number one places to lie still all night and not get any sleep.

I’m howling.

that's what I'm fucking talking about.

My Christmas gift strategy is simple: everyone gets food items. That way, they are likely to share with me.

My takeaway from watching the first episode of the new Ken Burns American Revolution doc is that cancel culture was alive and well in colonial New England. Except when someone did something they didn't like, they tarred and feathered the fucker and dragged him through the streets.

MAGRERR CHRISMACKS

I think we've found a new "hardest problem in computer science" with how long it's taken bsky to let us turn off retweets for an individual user.

Again.

Fresh Snow A.J. Casson 1983

I had been spoiling the cat since she was sick, but now that she is feeling better, she has made it clear that she very much expects the spoiling to continue? I may have made a huge mistake.

CRT boombox is well and good but this is my bedside alarm clock 😎

I turn 50 next year, which feels like the perfect time to get a 50 year mortgage.

Me: maybe I should stop eating saturated fats, my last cholesterol reading was a little high. Also me: maybe I should eat a shitload of gyzoa for dinner.

I feel like so many good video games have come out recently, and yet, gamers are as upset by video games as ever.

It's starting!

Someone is finally starting to feel better.

Check out these lowrider stamps the USPS will be releasing in 2026. [kottke.org]

Sorry babe you know I have to spend the first hour of my day checking out light fixtures or my heads just not right

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