Taco USA How Mexican Food Conquered America @gustavoarellano.bsky.social 📚💙 📚💡 Fast, but edifying read covering all things taco, Tex-Mex and beyond (tortillas in a can anyone?).

Wow, like what could go wrong?

Watching Olympic Ice Dancing. Johnny Weir mentions the pair is dancing to AC/DC and Tracy Wilson says this portion is AI generated (shade). Other guy says something awkward. Then when the guitar riff for Thunderstruck starts, Tracy says "That's more like it!" No notes. 😆🤘

Wild to see election integrity trending after more than a year of people lashing out at, blocking or flagging anyone suggesting that free elections could end. Great that the folks who apppointed themselves arbiters of everything have decided it's okay to speak facts now.

Original Story By Arthur Laurents 📚💙 📚💡 "No one becomes an informer at the moment he informs; he's always been an informer, he's just been waiting for the opportunity." Reminiscences on WWII, old radio, Broadway & Hollywood. Laurents was a bridge between Old, Old Hollywood and New (old)... 🧵

And there were bloody footprints Where mercy should have stood

The streets are filled With too many babies Black air in the sky of blue People pass by No life in their eyes The concrete jungle's Really going crazy * The rent is due & the pockets are empty People ask machines for the truth... 1/2

Holocaust Memorial Day

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

Imagine this at your high school commencement. Powerful speech that just picks up speed.

The best way of describing someone who’s all talk and no action that I’ve ever heard in the UK, by far, is “they’re all wardrobe and no Narnia.” * read on for fun ways of saying “all talk and no action” in other languages (a thread)

Bluesky is messing with the algorithm again. Even tho, they're like "Us? What algorithm?" You can tell because they break something in the feeds. Today my following feed is going from 4h to 13d and including people I don't follow.

I started watching Pluribus with my Mom and right off in the 1st episode when they're trying to identify what the transmission is, she shakes her head and says "It's a cookbook." 😆

Living in hell when we don't gotta be. Cheaper, more stable, more jobs. www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...

This is my kind of sports coverage.

Be helpful if you can. Be prickly when you have to. Be someone's light in the darkness. Be the reason a forest is considered haunted. But most of all, be kind and stay weird.

Ugh, promises to be emotional?! What are you doing to me Stranger Things?

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Just realizing I haven't read much about Stranger Things origins or Duffers interviews,but saw someone mention the Montauk connection in the finale & link to this piece;crazy read! allthatsinteresting.com/montauk-proj... Too bad they used the story already cuz I would watch a Hopper Joyce spin-off.

Watched the Stanger Things finale last night and I have been having all the feels since 😪 argh! The season had it's missteps, but it tripped all my nostalgia buttons and tbh caught me off-guard. It is sad an era has ended.

Watching Syfy's New Year's Eve Twilight Zone marathon? Check the schedule to see what's playing and when: thenightgallery.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/s... Of course, you could just click it on and be surprised. Or stream it or play it on disc. Either way, hope you can welcome 2026 by "Zoning out"!

#JoinIn was so popular on Bluesky on Christmas Day that there was a 7-hour delay!!! Posts are finally showing up today. People have been chatting the whole time, so your post isn’t being ignored. People are still chatting. Everyone is welcome throughout the Christmas holidays.

Our favorite writer would have turned 101 today! Rod Serling was born December 25, 1924. As he so famously quipped, “I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.” As Lois Nettleton ("The Midnight Sun") said, he was "a lovely gift to the world." Merry Christmas, all!

Watching SyFy's bonus Christmas Twilight Zone marathon to celebrate Rod's 101st birthday. #joinin www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/ho...

I've got pear butter simmering in the slow cooker. It's a low effort way to make your digs smell amazing. #Joinin

I was going to post this for #joinin, but of course Eric beat me to it. Nostalgia has an undertow (especially this time of year). I prefer to tell it where to stick it.🤪

Twas the night before Christmas, and throughout the land The sleeping arrangements were carefully planned Down in the kitchen, a picturesque scene A mattress, a pillow, a washing machine

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

#duvetknowitschristmas comes early 👏 #joinin

Hey all #JoinIn is coming up for Christmas and don't forget #duvetknowitschristmas always good for a laugh (and a good cause).

In 1811-12, the Luddites attempted to resist some of the first waves of machine-industrialisation. They were crushed. 20 years later "pauper apprentices" (= orphan children) were being SOLD to factory-owners as cheap labour. Think on, dear hearts, think on.

Please remember, every time you see a newspaper or magazine article denigrating people - people like myself - who choose to avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2, there will always be a tiny, quiet voice in the mind of the author whispering, 'what if they're right'? We are right.

Thank god - Things can only get lighter from here.

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol - who commutes to Seattle from CA using a company-provided private jet - made $96 million for just 4 months of work. Brian makes 6,666 times the average Starbucks worker. That's the largest CEO-to-worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500! The visuals write themselves...

🚨BREAKING🚨 #SYFY makes it official! Two #TwilightZone marathons to end 2025: 🎄 #Christmas in honor of Rod Serling’s 101st birthday 🥂 The traditional two-day marathon starting #NewYearsEve Check the schedules here: www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/ho... #TwilightZoneMarathon #Zoners #ZoneSky

Exactly!

What a great piece! This just gets better and better as you read. prospect.org/2025/12/11/s...

"It wasn’t often, that monsters came from the forest; it was more often that the monsters were within the town."

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

If anyone's wondering what to get me for Christmas I wear a size 32 inherited generational wealth

Pantone’s vibe of the year is uneasy institutional silence

A bright spot in the gloom. I guess this Marigold didn't get the memo it's winter.

Seeing Star Trek trending with mostly everyone saying the new show looks crap, but they'll still watch it. Ok, so I guess that means no one is actually boycotting Paramount?

Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Looks like things will really get cooking after Santa visits this year.

Enjoying learning about cemetery cafes in Germany. The @saveur.com piece got me started and The Guardian expands with some added history of the origins. www.saveur.com/travel/berli...

Just, wow! They spend all their time telling us it can't be different, but it can be different. It can be better.

As it ramps up through the week of Halloween, and even though you know it's coming, the explosion of Christmas on Nov 1 is an assault on the senses and common decency.

6. This is why I always think of viruses, for example, as molecular sharks. They just 'want' one thing: to replicate. As such, their mutation and subsequent adaptation will always be aimed towards that goal. It goes without saying that none of our beliefs as humans changes that.