Police procedurals help normalize this FYI

Well at least no one’s dying anymore… oh

Yeesh I hate being repetitive, and yet... It's time once again to remind my fellow Americans that there is no mechanism whereby state run elections can be suspended or canceled by the federal government. None. So don't go along with any garbage you hear to that effect. Laugh, and get ready to vote.

Make it viral.

Looks like I have a car brand to never buy

Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

🚨BREAKING: DOJ admits it has only released 12,285 documents required by Epstein Files Transparency Act. More than 2 million documents still need to be reviewed/released. DOJ is in violation of federal law that required release by Dec. 19. More from Democracy Docket in am. www.democracydocket.com

No CEO is worth 62.5 times the average worker. Salaries are fairytales told to keep ordinary people from eating the rich. They are rich because they decided to pay themselves a lot more than what they're paying regular folks!

Violence, death and stolen land: people need to know the true cost of an avocado | Claudia Ignacio Álvarez

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Just remember that all the child protection laws around removing access to tech instead of regulating tech to make sure no one can be assaulted with fakes is one more way of the state sanctioning violence against certain bodies.

This is my deepest take if you want to cut the NYT cooking cord.

They’ve been doing it for years, especially those of children.

Sometimes I think about how much all our lives are shaped by greedy little people who find it easier to take than make, and while I'm glad I see it from outside their enclave, these are still not nice bedtime thoughts

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

I'm likely going to buy one when I find one I like so I can shut my phone off at night

“The influenza season is in full swing, and it’s already proving to be deadly for some of the most vulnerable Americans around: children.” “Several states have reported their first pediatric flu deaths…experiencing record-level surges of illness… driven by an unexpected strain of the H3N2 flu”

In this Year of Reading, a gentle reminder: The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.

Area People Amazed At Discovery That Watching TV While Driving Is Distracting

Bluesky is that special place where 30 million people come online and listen to lectures on how to run public campaigns and win elections from a guy who got 3300 votes and placed 15th in a state primary

Cool.

small reflection up on The Wayward Academic: michelleanjirbag.com/2025/12/27/t...

Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions. Apple doesn't recognise unions. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. The big corporations are not on your side.

And this morning the Shed is a quiet place by a fireside, with good books at hand, and a purring cat; and a big brown pot of piping hot tea, and a generous pile of cherry scones...

lmaowww

I promoted Miracle on 34th St. in Tokyo in 1994, and it was SO much fun. I remember turning on the TV and seeing a Christmas special with Goofy, a girl in a Bo Peep dress, and a cursed witch’s broom. I had no idea what was going on, and I don’t think they did, either.

Hundreds of thousands newly displaced as Islamic State insurgency expands in Mozambique

Door 22 of #Shedvent: Your second gift; in a wooden cup. A cheering draught of winters past; of summertime; of absent friends, and friends as yet unknown; all scented with nutmeg and cinnamon, and brandied apple, cherry, and cloves...

Goodness this reminds me I'm behind on my annual read/listen to of The Dark is Rising

This is one of the reasons I find universities’ uncritical embrace of gAI so troubling. We’re inviting the wolf into our midst, they seek permanent customers in terms of enthralled staff, faculty and students incapable of working without LLMs at least, and worst, they seek complete dominance.

As someone who lost so much freelance work because people thought grammarly was a one to one replacement for a human editor's skill and nuance, I'm begging you all to stop telling students it's a useful thing. BEGGING

"can you shake an 8 ball?"

FINALLY

Stuck a profile up over on UpScrolled too. Same handle. Not sure how much I'll use it but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hey, do you all know that there are people in prison in the UK, arrested for connection to Palestine Action, who have been on hunger strike for 45 days. David Lammy refuses to even engage with MPs to discuss the issue. David Lammy has taken over £30k from pro-Israel lobby groups.

I remember writing years ago about a then-new initiative by Amazon to disrupt local government procurement of things like office and school supplies. Turns out Amazon's become very popular with school districts, and it's using dynamic pricing to rip those schools off. prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...

speaking of which, I have a new piece out today about how the Trump admin is making it harder for people of color to enter the workforce, harder for us to remain in the workforce, and harder for us to do anything about it There's a word for that: Resegregation ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

We really, really need to talk about peer review requests that get rebounded with more and more manipulative attempts to force you to say yes even if you have already said no because of <insert reason here>

I interviewed Rob Reiner as one of the bonuses for the @criterion.bsky.social BluRay of SPINAL TAP. We talked for an hour about the movie and his career and then they shut off the cameras and we talked about movies for another hour. A delightful, unhurried genius.

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Because it’s a smash and grab.

Every one of these CEOs needs evaluation for brain rot

Well that's surprising. If only there was some way the BBC could've known this. Some clue in Trump's own history, perhaps, or the wider history of Britain trying to appease emotional foreign fascists. Anything at all that would've indicated that appeasement doesn't work.

This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley

A Tesla Robotaxi has been spotted in Austin, Texas with no safety driver! Only 8 years late! Thing is, it's controlled remotely. Just like his fainting robot was! Why are people such fools??? Only thing Musk has invented is tulip mania 2.0 and 1930s Germany 2.0.

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Probably because diet is so important to brain health