Always think it’s interesting that I tend to celebrate Solstice on the actual night closest to the moment it happens—which usually means doing ritual stuff the evening of, which in turn usually means I’m wishing people a Blessed Solstice the day before everyone else is Like I spent today SLEEPING

Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out. All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.

Unless they plan to somehow impose the restoration of the Shah or some other crackpot external opposition formation onto the country, they will genuinely miss Khamenei when he's gone. He's the main and arguably sole reason Iran does not have the bomb.

These people really don't seem to get that a post Ali Khamenei Iranian state that's brought about by internal change will almost certainly be five more secular and also ten times more anti Israel and anti US, and also a nuclear power.

Ctl+F this

As a multiple language speaker it's also frustrating to see people using AI for translation because the English speaking world tends to treat translators like workers for hire instead of co authors of text and this feels like more of it. Translation at the literary level is creative work. (2/?)

Blessed Yule to all who celebrate. May the longest night of the year renew your strength and restore your peace.

when you have to release the epstein files while also trying to selectively omit the guy who's in them more than anyone else

So deeply not kidding when I say that the current paradigm of "Gen AI" is doing deep, lasting harm to our ability to make knowledge, meaning, & truth w/ each other. Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾

Thread on why even using AI as a way to brainstorm a project is a horrible idea.

today is all about watching people come up with entirely new ways of being wrong like we're experiencing breakthroughs in the field of error studies nobel committee rushing to cobble together a Prize for Inaccuracies epistemologists' heads spontaneously exploding from the falsity vibrations

Sometimes we just have to admit that we don’t want to hear from people. We don’t actually want a debate We ain’t trying to be “better people” We trying to make the wrong people stop talking and mind their business .

I don’t know how to identify a bad parent anymore. But sweeties, you’re doing great!

This is a great example of what historians do and what actual research looks like. I read this thread to my former graduate advisor, who taught European history for 50 years and who I now care for full time. He was guessing the next post before I could read it aloud. AI can’t replace historians.

This thread is my favorite kind: interesting facts, jokes, and cat pictures.

Interesting thread

"Romantic fiction, however you define it, is about the things that matter most. It is about how we create community, and where that starts. It is about love and everything that happens because of it."

My "notify me when this is available" tag on Libby is huge - even if your library doesn't have a book you want, let 'em know you want it! My library has acquired quite a few titles that were on my "notify" list

Absolutely right. AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there. Let me illustrate …

I talk to my students about this on the first day, and use it to discuss why they are in college in the first place.

Nyxie staring awestruck at the Christmas tree has been my phone wallpaper this month.

A solstice sunrise over Lake Winnipeg.

HAPPY SOLSTICE! VOLUME WAY WAY UP. (if you can do it without alienating people nearby but honestly, they need this too)

YAY we made the correct sacrifices the Oak King won great job everybody

I actually quote Rob Bell at the beginning of Witness Marks and I’ll be interested to see who picks up on that as a signal to what I’m actually doing in that book

Winter Solstice night is always when I relisten to some of Rob Bell’s interviews with Alexander Shaia, who gave me this idea I’ve always held onto since I became a Druid and started observing tonight: We light lights not to keep back the darkness but to adorn it, to love and exalt it

Fire is lit, wine is mulled, vigil until dawn has begun Here’s to the rebirth of light

Fire is lit, wine is mulled, vigil until dawn has begun Here’s to the rebirth of light

The organizational crew has been hard at work this year to make it the best hunt ever. We have secured support for the hunt from a new sponsor who will be providing tracked off-road wheelchairs hour those who need them to participate. Betty is heading that up so drop her an email to reserve yours!

TOMORROW IS THE WINTER SOLSTICE AND Y'ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. It is time for the women (defined broadly) to hunt the Year King through the woods and tear him apart with their bare hands!

I write novels because I love stories. Because art is hard to be good at, it's always a challenge, I continue to learn & improve my skills & change my perspective throughout my life. Art never has to be static. Why on earth do it otherwise? The outcome is great but it's the process that sings.

AN EXTRA BLESSED YULE EVERYONE

I feel that possibly Frigga may be sending these dorkass losers a message.

finally started Pluribus. many thoughts, chief among which is: find you somebody that loves you like Vince Gilligan loves Albuquerque

Another Day anothe Johnny Mnemonic post

“He’s electable” when he already lost my mom. Like. He’s losing fuzzy footed leftie dem voters IN CALIFORNIA actively because he couldn’t STFU about trans people and keep Charlie Kirk’s toes outa his mouth

Holiday party makeup (no filter)

Blessed Alban Arthan/Yule After the deepest darkness, more light

I didn't see many people talk about Son, and it's a really solid film, with three excellent performances at its center. Andi Matichak shows she was severely under utilitized in the Halloween movies. Emilie Hirsch is great as a detective, and Luke Blumm is great as a kid, with weird stuff going on.

important

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Merc is absolutely the best, please help if you are flush.

The 19 page rape civil case against Trump and Epstein. She ended up dropping the case because she and her family got death threats. She was 13. It happened in the summer of 1994. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/31...

The #1 movie when you were ten years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Let’s see, March 1994 was… The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult …huh. Not sure how to interpret this

Shit like this just emphasizes for me that even more than ugly, the Trump aesthetic is so unbearably fucking *boring* This is WILD, it’s COLORFUL, it’s goddamn EXUBERANT

The fact that major media outlets keep platforming the “Loud, Overconfident, and Wrong” class while simultaneously saying we’re fresh out of ideas is just such an embarrassing self-own.

democrats are very capable of fighting to defend their core principals, like 'insider trading'