When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

Visiting with Charlie (6) and Amelia (3) and getting all kinds of ideas for toys I need. Magnetiles plus they have this great floor-level "sofa" called a Nugget which I'm coveting (although it might be more sensible just to get some foam pads for the floor).

I think I posted this mashup before.

“They wasted our lives like pieces of scrap paper,” Mr. Sato said. “Never die for Emperor or country.” Instead, live your life with a wonderful doggie! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/w...

Merry Christmas

🎼 There is a doggie on a cloud I like to go there when I sleep 😪 Petting the dog is not allowed 🤬 But I still do it on the cloud 😈

"I'm In The Longest Pipe This Morning" 2025/12/25. (East Japanese Tree Frog)

strong counter argument against moving to portland right here if the governor is cutting funding for preschools on christmas eve jfc. the type of shit that'd happen before the ghosts of christmas show up

Matrix-style getting ready montage where I'm donning my gay apparel

The priority for the democrats should be figuring out ways to discourage male voting A bit campaign that voting is soy or something

ok team, there is a debate in the girls chat, and I have absolutely no idea which side to join in with, if any if you, a girl, go home with a girl, and she has dishes in his sink and plays with them like this, does that give you the ick

The avuncular gun-killer

(any game with a fast travel system) This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism would be infeasible to build in most American cities

It's happening again

I gave myself a somewhat panicked haircut the night before starting Christmas travel, and then at 5:15 the next morning I had to touch it up because the mullet was too unruly

Neighbors' roof

Israeli occupation forces distributed warning leaflets in Tubas, in the northern occupied West Bank, this morning, threatening Palestinian residents that posting, sharing, or publishing online content critical of Israel would be treated as a terrorist offense, potentially resulting in arrest or 1/2

Important work using U.S. tax data shows businesses have absorbed minimum wage increases without affecting employment, and through higher revenue-likely reflecting price & productivity offsets. Also shows how reallocation towards more productive firms offers another margin of adjustment.

In a profile of Stephen Miller with @swin24.bsky.social, we reported he’s privately laughed off immigrant families’ “sob stories.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... Speaking last night on Fox about the spiked CECOT story, Miller laughed about how ‘60 Minutes’ is “trying to tell sob stories."

For anyone that thought disinformation was a social media problem, it’s great to see all of the legacy media organizations giving best book of the year to a Princeton University press published book full of Covid disinformation.

That peanut worm is a little too exciting for me you got anything else?

(trying to sound like I travel a lot) "They're letting too many people wield the Delta Sky Club."

Under compulsory veganism, the only "Legal Seafoods" will be kelp.

Wait I thought this was obvious. Did we not already know this? I could've told 'em this from introspection lol. scitechdaily.com?p=505139

Moshi moshi

@puddleofbrain.bsky.social finally got your print set up on the wall. It's gorgeous. I love the newsprint packing paper too -- cool bonus.

"Parson Weems' Fable" most beautiful phrase in the english language

Tl;dr he said the opposite

Let's all be mad at Yoko Kanno for doing such a good job at pastiching Björk. You should never make a perfect pastiche of Björk, I wouldn't want to listen to that over and over and it wouldn't be perfect for the soundtrack of a show about a sci fi police tactical team.

Here's my impression of Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex. Stop! It's the police! (Bjork pastiche begins playing)

You might be a lib if .... [audience members shouting] YOU THINK THE CASTRO BROTHERS ARE JULIÁN AND JOAQUÍN.

Classic reply. We spoke to Flock safety, the manufacturer of these cameras, about privacy concerns. "How is that being addressed?" ABC7 News reporter Luz Pena asked. "If you're not involved in a crime, you shouldn't be concerned about privacy," said Lily Ho, Public Affairs for Flock Safety.

Do u think Ghost In The Shell: Standalone Complex has good politics for a cop show?

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White girl could have played Motoko

They programmed me for one purpose and one purpose alone, Jerry! To kill!

Hi I'm posting so much this morning cuz I'm on a plane and there's too much turbulence for me to get my laptop from the overhead bin

What exactly is "West End condos" a reference to?

TIL there are three romance languages besides romanian spoken in the balkans

Weiss's lack of professionalism is an important asset in her role, because professional norms are a kind of collective action by the staff. "This is how one runs a newsroom" or "this is how we've always done tings" are sources of authority independent of ownership. Her job is to knock all that down.

This seems right - Bari Weiss works for the Ellisons, not for Trump. In general, I think a weakness of a lot of analysis of this political movement is that it treats Trump and MAGA (and their equivalents elsewhere) as principals rather than agents. theintercept.com/2025/12/22/b...

Dear Santa: All I want for Christmas is a Snowy Owl irruption...🦉🪶

Tickled every time I see this mistake. Kant fucking LOVED reason. But he wrote a book "critiquing pure reason," so the dumbest chroniclers of philosophical history think he's where It All Went Wrong. Just learned Ayn Rand did it, and there's a very annoying guy on here who does it "from the left."

just a warning this holiday season if you're playing Caves of Qud and you got a fresh fir scent going and a blanket and a mug of hot cocoa or eggnog & maybe a little weed, it's POSSIBLE you will astral project. ie erase yourself from the physical realm and arrive at an Elsewhere. that's not on us

@consume.red can I send you my chapter draft about relativism and disagreement? I think it runs contrary prima facie to some of the things I've seen you say about relativism on here and I'd be curious if you think it's confused or whatever