Time is a flat circle

I don't know what this means but I have now heard two different Gen Z playlists with Marty Robbins on them

Everyone thought bari would be bad at her job but I haven’t heard this many people talking about a 60 minutes segment in years

Following British people is a fun way to learn that there are beloved celebrities no one in America has ever heard of, as long as you don’t mind waiting until they die or get metoo’d

The Mariah Carey story is likely to be the Brenda Lee story all over again. One of the biggest hit-makers of her era, remembered decades later primarily for one Christmas song

If your menorah (like mine) is not oven-safe you can also put it in the freezer overnight -- frozen wax is much easier to pull off than room-temperature.

250 degrees; I line the baking sheet with newspaper instead of foil because it soaks up the wax greatest hack ever, I wish I could credit whatever genius person first told me about it

Pro-tip from the ghost of Chanukah present: to remove stubborn wax from a metal menorah put it on a foil-lined baking sheet in the oven. It'll liquify and run right off.

After Harris on 60 Mins and Noem on Face The Nation CBS basically promised not to edit interviews at all if it makes Trump mad. So if withholding comment allows the admin to veto a piece, granting an interview allows them to completely take it over. A 10-minute rant is half the segment time.

This is demonstrably false. The left knew this guy was a centrist posing as a liberal for msnbc clout which is why so many progressives ran against him that they split the vote allowing him to squeak out a win. Won’t happen this time. Vote Lander.

Oh yeah well I prefer to feed good literary fiction into the AI to summarize, so I’m even smarter

Tired: Die Hard is a Christmas movie Wired: How the Grinch stole Christmas is a heist movie

Megalopolis (2024)

Fucking Adam Foote messing up my google alerts with his, I wanna say, hockey?

Been involved with these guys for 15 years and will be there again in January if you want to come say hi

Any Brits on here who can explain the Dr. Who joke in the new @andrewhickey.500songs.com podcast please

Mama take these Christmas lights away from me It's January and I can't have them up anymore

Probably should limit the replies on that one but we'll see how it goes

Bluesky leftists who constantly posted "cool memes" about how "oceans are now battlefields" need to do some real soul searching over their complicity in creating the conditions for the attacks on unarmed boats off Venezuela

Pinker blocked me back in 2019 for him making fun of Taylor Swift for her use of the word “literally” when I said he was “literally” an associate of Jeffrey Epstein.

Good day for the season’s first spin of Christmas in the Heart

This one is less weird than the Beatles thing but it's mildly amusing to note that the photo illustrating "Does America Need God?" was taken in England www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...

I still do not believe in giving out awards for Best Wrong Answer, but here was my best effort this Learned League season.

NYT first tiptoed past the swear word ban because of Nixon — “We'll only take shit from the President” as Abe Rosenthal said then. Trump exploded the taboo. I genuinely think it may be the only positive outcome of his reign.

Semi related one time in high school i was reading a Led Zeppelin bio and my older sister was reading over my shoulder and she suddenly said, “That’s how you spell segue?!” and I said, “That’s how you pronounce it?!”

pusillanimous from Another Day by the Rutles

Bumping a side conversation that emerged from this in case any pop music scholars want to weigh in. My gut is that modern fans tend to sing along at shows where pre-70s fans just screamed. Is this true? Is it a function of pop becoming more lyric-centered? Lyrics becoming more accessible to learn?

First thought: Oh no my parents are going to get divorced again! Second thought: Yeah, no, this can't be right (Kramer was actually #27, but thanks anyway Google AI)

Pro-tip: Only some of the gates with these signs have actually been upgraded to the alarm/delay system. In many cases the signs are just fake-outs and you can still exit through them quickly (and if that means other people can enter through them, well...)

The Beatles Rock Band video game came with a "realistic mode" where the screaming drowned out the sound making it harder to play

like a "look at what feminism has taken from us!" image? What's funny is that my mom, who was one of the screaming girls at the Beatles, say of that time, "We were so repressed that sexuality shot out of us like a squealing steam kettle when we had SOME permission to express desire, somewhere."

I THINK it may mean (or- they INTEND it to mean) that "feminism" has disallowed the "natural" urges of women to be ecstatic & squealing and "girls!" who unashamedly profess their adoring, uncontrollable girl-ness at boys, and now must be dour, angry blue-hairs? (this is my take on their take)

I genuinely don't understand what this photo choice (Beatles fans at airport in 1964) is intended to convey. That women are hysterical? Too frivolous for rights? Pre-feminist women were happier? PLEASE I only wanna talk about the photo. No comments about the stupid debate or people involved w/it

Someone from Yale wrote an angry email

"One reason to use alt text is that you can explain a joke for people who don't get the reference" Do you even hear yourself?

OK the new funniest way to find out is when the Dead Kennedys announce that they're renaming the band

A long long time ago, I was a reluctant poster girl, but AI is just making that crazy anecdote from my past cringy (that’s straight from my smiling mouth btw 😆)

I was on board from the first moment but "screenplay by Craig Mazin" really sold it for me

<John Lennon Revolution 1 voice> ...in

testicles are the guac of the penis

The New Yorker has digitized all their back issues, which is great, but I am dying from the thoroughly cringe AI summaries they've put on my articles

That's our boy www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

Private Equity: *looks around at all the goodwill generated from forcing countless beloved stores and restaurants out of business* "I have an even better idea!"

That's just thoughtful www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/s...

"His favorite saint is Oscar Romero" lmao enjoy your forced retirement Dolan

Turdus grayi

Damn the Merlin editors hated this bird

"We have the Eras Tour at home"

shot // chaser