Bonus holiday joy via my stepmom: Percy is ready to open some presents

don’t wrap presents on the floor without a plan on how to get back up

She gets to open one present on Xmas eve

Saying it again, anthropomorphized "chatbot" user interfaces to LLMs should be illegal. There's zero reason these interfaces have to be like this—other than companies making people addicted to them.

I'm not saying the bakery I've purchased holiday baked goods from for the last ten years should have asked me personally before changing a recipe. That would be ridiculous. I'm just saying that how the bakery feels about peanut butter & jam bars has been noted and I will never forget this betrayal.

Buoys and pots

It was getting to him.

@nedpyle.com this is a sweater that the human originally got for Rory (before there was me) but they both thought I’d like it more. What do you think? Does Kell approve?

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Gift link! ‘It’s a war’ Inside ICE’s media machine By Joyce Sohyun Lee and Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com @joyceshlee.bsky.social

It’s my 2nd Gotcha Day! Two years ago my foster-human handed me off to a nice lady who said she was my “forever human” and I had a brother (that’s Rory!) waiting for me at home. I can’t compare to others, but I think I got a pretty good human 💜. #DogsOfBluesky #GotchaDay

Napping Kell hopes you can help out his pal Traci

We had to deploy strategic defenses yesterday

Too close for comfort

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

She’s worn out from all her Xmas shopping, poor thing

Goodnight

so the two notable programming moves bari weiss has made at CBS are... airing an interview nobody watched and not airing a 60 Minutes segment that everybody watched. it's like she's satirizing herself

What do we think Tallie asked Santa for?

SCOOP-3: In January, Oak View Group, then controlled by Tim Leiweke, donated $250k to Trump's inaugural. In July, Leiweke was charged in a bid-rigging case. He was expected to testify in the DOJ's case against LiveNation. But this month, before either case went to trial, he was pardoned by Trump

SCOOP-2: Isabela Herrera donated $2.5m to MAGA Inc. on 12/31/2024. At the time, her father, a Venezuelan-Italian banker, was being prosecuted for bribing Puerto Rico's governor. In July, Trump's DOJ authorized a misdemeanor plea deal, overruling career prosecutors who had pushed a harsher sentence

Gee wiz making a meatball that survives broiling & simmering to remain tender & juicy is an absolute pain. 1.5 hours of prep & I don’t even get to eat them, they’re a Xmas meal for someone else! Ah well… tis the season & whatnot

The most ridiculous dog in the world

Rogers Park.

Here is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues in full:

This little guy is so loyal.❤️ He sat at my feet all day long while I made simmer pot jars, iced gingerbread cookies, wrapped gifts, dusted, vacuumed, laundry, washing dishes, etc... He is woofed.🐾 (🧵 1/2…)

Cozy orange cat snuggles after a lovely Sunday.

exception

Get this set framed & I’ll take $50 off!

You should make a big Sunday red gravy & eat all sorts of Italian things this week. It’s the perfect meal prep & hardly any work, mostly just waiting for a few hours. Tomorrow I’ll make meatballs, later this week I just boil some pasta, or fry a sausage & peppers, whatever. Easy & tasty holidays

“Mom said the couch rule was more of a guideline”

Ned & Lisa foster pup superfans may remember this wonderful girl as Blinken.

Happy gotcha day to this little scraggly muffin!!! Wrigley has brought us so much joy and laughter these last 2 years! Every the fuzzy blanket in the house is hers. Thanks to @doggoneseattle.bsky.social and especially @nedpyle.com for sharing pics of his little foster pup 2 years ago🐶🥺

“Bring us back a good treato from the grocery, dad!”

Can confirm Jeff Passan’s report that the White Sox are signing Japanese slugger Munetaka Murakami to a two-year, $34 million deal

Today’s my 5th gotcha day! They say time flies when you’re having fun and that must be true because these 5 years together have flown by. Here’s to many more years of love and adventures together 🩵 #DogsOfBluesky #GotchaDay

Richard Savoie (Canadian, b.1959) "Clarke et the Boulevard Westmount Montreal," Oil on canvas 18 x 24 in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

✨ Happy longest night! 🌙 [ #art #illustration #mosskittens ]

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

Wishing you and yours a happy Winter Solstice, with many Yule blessings. Here's to the returning sun! #yule #solstice

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

Darby now insists on a pillow fort for her 2nd breakfast nap

We did get a walkie but once again the human did some cleaning. This is Finley and I looking at the human after she took the sheets off the bed and said we could get on it (rude!)

Sherman went with a more festive sweater.

Dog viciously mauled by a tiger. #cats #kittens #caturday