This is literally one of the funniest threads I have ever seen. Brilliant.

Another Christmas Carol observation: although it's never explicitly stated, I'm pretty sure that Fred's wife is pregnant.

This is great because it demonstrates that transphobes actually do know that gender has nothing to do with anatomy or genetics. These are gingerbread men despite having no penis or testicles, and DNA that is mostly butter.

Tunashamed

Young Americans who aspire to be scientists should be looking for career paths outside their home country, just as aspiring scientists do in other countries that don’t adequately support science. If I were starting my career now, that’s what I’d be doing.

Seasonal public service announcement: Scrooge is younger than you probably think: probably mid 50s, 60 at most.

"And here's something I know you'll enjoy hearing," he assured the Humbug. The bug listened with rapt attention to something he alone could hear—the shouts and applause of an enormous crowd, all cheering for him. -- Norton Juster, "The Phantom Tollbooth"

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social is a national treasure.

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Pretty much sums up the moment.

'tis the season

Can you liken something to itself?

Mark Kelly for president

Someone who says "Holy shit" about punctuation is my kind of person.

People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.

I don't think he's lying when he says things like this. Lying implies intent to say something false, and I think that he is completely uninterested in whether what he's saying is true or false. He just says what makes him feel better and/or what his audience wants to hear.

At one point one says "Maman" & gestures to her offscreen & she says "I'm not getting mixed up in your business" 😭

I have something in common with @jamellebouie.net: abut 30 years ago, my sweet potato pecan pie won a pie contest.

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

If a swastika isn't a hate symbol, what is?

Ten years ago, I would never have imagined it possible that a US president could call for the execution of his political opponents, and that this call would barely be considered worth covering in the press.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u... Summers is stopping teaching but remaining a tenured professor, presumably at full salary.

I don't think of myself as an exceptionally cynical person, but I'm baffled that anyone could find this claim (that the DOJ will scrub the Epstein files to remove mentions of Republicans before releasing them) to be "stunning". It would never have occurred to me to imagine that they wouldn't.

If Jonathan Coulton had done nothing in his career but rhyme "Norsemen" with *divorced men", Dayenu.

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/stats-3 #smbc

It's actually amazing how this guy can still shock the conscience after all these years.

I thought I had a low opinion of Larry Summers before ...

Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.

This should be on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.

It is regrettable that the governor of Virginia doesn't know the difference between "regretful" and "regrettable". www.wric.com/news/politic...

I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Listen, I'm not saying I endorse brutal mockery of Avi Loeb's claims that every interstellar comet we see is an alien spaceship, but I will link to it because the aliens made me in order to sow doubt about their cometships. oddnews.com/article/this...

I was thinking the same thing, but I don't know the arcana of Congressional procedure. What would happen if Johnson et al. continue to simply not swear her in? What steps could be taken to force them to?

Happy "Lights All Askew" Day to all who celebrate! (Headline in the New York Times from Nov. 10, 1919, brings Einstein's theory of gravity, general relativity -- along with its alleged incomprehensibility -- to the public.) 🪐🔭🧠📰 #physics #science #histsci #lightsallaskew

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Good lord. If this is true, it's an utterly grotesque level of political incompetence. The main effect of the continued existence of the filibuster is that no major Democratic legislation can ever be passed.

Heartwarming sight of the week: a little girl walking out of the public library with so many books she could barely carry them all. There might be hope for us all yet.

Somehow I'd made it to age 58 without knowing that the Beach Boys did a cover of California Dreaming. It's a strange version for at least two reasons: 1. It requires you to imagine that for some reason the Beach Boys found themselves living in a place where the leaves are brown and the sky is gray.

Dear Physicists and Physics fans, I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th. Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩‍🔬

Oddly, this article omits to mention that the Narnia books are simply bad books.

This is by far the worst thing the Trump administration has done, and that’s saying something.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Brave, brave, brave, brave sir RFK Jr.!

Ashley's and my NY Timeses this morning. Apparently we opened the app just on either side of the Times's decision to change the headline on Douthat's thing.

score one for "the pundits are projecting their own preoccupations onto the electorate"