J. Eric Oliver has a smart, highly-readable book about the If in LA, maybe from @vromansbookstore.bsky.social ? Or you can just go look at Pixel as I talk about it. bit.ly/49e1Zte

As someone who tests very well and it has no relevance whatsoever to my actual class performance - and as someone who has known fucking morons who are basically tape recorders when it comes to data they can spit back into a Scantron - I understand the frustration but please...no.

Yeah, that one DEFINITELY went into my brain file.

@amiberger.bsky.social, I give you Rosenpants and Gildedsleeve.

I still flinch when someone says "Killing time." There is literally not one book of faith that impacted me that way.

Did you know that the homicide rate in NYC is roughly 20% the homicide rate in Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee? If you watch Fox News, you don't know that. Fox has been smearing the Apple with false claims about crime for a decade now.

THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH. Which has taught me far more about how to live a meaningful life than any religious text I have ever scanned.

The nice thing about that particular curse is that, unlike chemo or the smell of microwaving fish, there is no collateral damage.

So we just accept this then? This is a legitimate use of technology going forward? This vile individual's account is just prompt after prompt asking Al to alter real-life images of women. The law needs to catch up with technology now - because we can't trust these tech companies to police themselves

For 2026, I wish for you to get back everything you put out into the world. If that's a curse, that's on you.

This is our third year with Dina Martina as the send-off for the holiday season. I actually have lost my voice, I was laughing so hard. WORTH IT. If Dina is anywhere near you, climb over people to get a ticket.

Not for me yet. I was never technically punk but something of the "Oh, you insist that's what beauty is? Then watch me not do it" fuck-you energy infected me nonetheless.

What a wonderful moment to not be able to explain but to still have.

The annual dermatologist visit is never not quite the ride. "Say, let's make small talk while only one of us is dressed and that person is checking to make sure the other person's dots haven't changed. Then, the reminder this doctor can also inject lethal poison in your body, should you like."

The same idiots who believe Somali’s are committing fraud in daycare center are the same idiots who believed a child sex-trafficking ring was being operated from a pizza place's basement.

What's fun about having read ENSHITTIFICATION is how every day you are reminded of it.

Totally not suspicious at all. An innocent man would absolutely do this.

"Quinn, that's a horrible thing to call someone; you aren't A GIRL'S GIRL." In fact, it's an accurate thing to call someone who is doing that work for money. How can we know she is? Because her aesthetic is "Most Successful Dallas Hoor (With Occasional Dubai Trips)."

(Music cue: "Frolic" by Luciano Michelini [Please clear with L. David])

To be fair, cats are very Resistance.

Make sure to have a cup of non-Starbucks coffee and maybe wander through a bookstore ahead of time; really test their Godliness.

Fun fact: Amazon is so awful to their serfs- sorry, "Employees" that they feared they would run out of people desperate enough to work for them. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Good thing the other awful guy with the hoor wife got back into office and broke the economy!

Come for the perfect reading for filth; stay for the @amiberger.bsky.social CAMEO!!!!

It appears she went on a blocking spree. Oh, well. (Hands Court Jester fidget-spinner made of the entrails of podcast bros)

OOOH.

Speaking of hootch, the Kid is due home in about two hours. I just texted her to see if she would be pleased to have an Amaretto Sour waiting as she came through the door. This may be the most Episcopalian thing I have ever texted and I was on vestry committees.

I COULD ALSO USE A NEW SWEATSHIRT AND A FEW THOUSAND SWIFFERS. (Also, they have a decent tequila)

I think of my middle-aged lady bladder as the most indefatigable member of the resistance.

AND NOW I MUST MARRY THEM.

"Blindly." You know what? It's the holidays. I'm not going to let Court Jester have her fun with you. But I am going to very strongly suggest that you hear that for the warning it is. Court Jester really wants the keyboard right now.

It's not. I also infused vodka and bourbon. I know the tequila results more intimately because quite a few people like margaritas and when Consort has had people over I can easily make them. The recipe is easy to remember, I can play with the variables and I get an instant response.

Not once this year has a news story about Costco made me had to reconsider my current shopping plan. A couple of the news stories have made me laugh. The only time Target ever sees my sullen little face is when I go in and use their bathroom.

Here's the problem. Any money brought into that state benefits the state. "But the people aren't red." Life is finite. I cannot research and differentiate every trapped small business owners from the true believers. I have fights that I fight. A lot of them. This is not my fight.

Here are some tequila-fruit infusions and my notes on them: 1. Strawberry: will ruin you for restaurant straw margs. 2. Pomegranate: Nice little tart bite, pairs nicely with chocolate liqueur subbing for triple sec. 3. Plum: Perfect fall margarita. Can do triple sec but, honestly, go amaretto.

I have also boycotted Dominos for years*. * I completely forgot they're politically trash. I just refuse to eat terrible food.

I got a mix of the purples in peak season at the local farmer's market. The greens are also delicious but I wanted that color.

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?

Anyone can read the redactions of the Epstein Files by just copying and pasting them into a word doc. The people at Trump's Justice Department are so stupid they used Adobe Acrobat to black out the documents.

I have the luxury of being able to boycott both. Also, Amazon. Do they GAF? They do not. But it tickles me to deny them my coin.

Please do not buy from us. We're a little insane right now.

It's true, there should be a bit of aeration in the water for it to technically be a Daisy but the Margarita stands as one of its favorite daughters and there are no bubbles.

YOU ANGEL MADE FLESH.

"But why aren't you buying from red states all the year-round?" Because I have enough stuff. What I do purchase is usually pre-owned, vintage, estate sale...because the world has enough stuff.

I am well aware of that. Collin Bakery is estimated to take in $248,000,000 a year and Gethsemani Farms makes 70,000 pounds of fruitcake a year. I really don't think my stand is going to impact them all that much and those were the only two things I purchased from red states.

That and the monks. Both red states. I won't give them a dime I do not absolutely have to. No fruitcake for Quinn.

ALSO NOT MAD AT THIS.

NOT MAD AT IT.

WE HAVE ANOTHER CONTENDER.

It's good but I think Holidaisy is still the one to beat.