🇺🇸“The history and the gravity of this moment are not lost on me. I maintain an abiding sense of gratitude to those who worked generation after generation, to ensure women could be ... casting ballots, but could only dream of a day like today.” -Abigail Spanberger, Virginia’s first female governor

I'm late to the game on this, but Weird Al singing Rage Against the Machine is so awesome there are no words. I needed this. youtu.be/COZcKrUx1Ts?...

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only!

Not a bad way to spend a gift card.

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Stephen Miller is there to remind us of the dignity & class of Nixon's criminals.

Had my parents and sister down for their Christmas visit. My sister got me the Star Wars and Superman records, which is pretty awesome.

What is with my Boomer parents and talking about people dying?

Gonna roll into 2026 like ...

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #10 and I did it without owning the original issue. Tales of G.I. reprint series digest edition Tpb I don't have the Tales of ... issue anymore, though.

for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism

I was interning at a publishing house in the summer of 1998. One day, I was covering for an editor's assistant and took a phone message from Ray Bradbury.

"You should read my newsletter ..." Oh. You mean your blog?

"So this is Christmas. And what have you done?" Run the dishwasher. Over and over and over ...

It's like they know me or something...

Merry Christmas!

My sister keeping me in line.

See a fox. Post a fox.

Just in time for Christmas, we look at Good Spirits by B.K. Borison requiredreadingwithtomandstella.com/2025/12/17/r...

Everyone in Charlottesville is driving in slow motion today.

Was driving back from running errands and wound up behind a Lamborghini SUV. What is the point of that car?

Well, if anything, I can say that in 2025, I wrote the first draft of a novel.

Want some proof that these folks are all surface no substance? For fucking crying out loud.

This.

I am blown away that I wrote a blog post about "White Water Summer" IN 2012 and it continues to get comments like this.

Great title

Oh, the shitty plagiarism machines floating on hype are attracting shitty researchers who plagiarize in order to get in on the hype? Color me shocked, shocked I say

Whoever originally created HOAs

There is always that one fucker who just swans up to the counter, ignoring the long-assed line, because they "have a question." And I am ALWAYS the next one in line.

My childhood friend Chris is the guitarist for Gone Stereo. I'm kind of cringing at this. Btw, I am shocked that The Beaches and The Beths are not on this. Maybe next year.

I am a dev and I dislike AI because •it cannot operate without stolen data •it does not work reliably •it lies all the time •it is terribly inefficient •it pollutes •it is/was oversold •the biggest frauds champion it •the people behind it are psychos none of these are unreasonable complaints

It's always so neat to see Miriam and Noelle still showing up on lists of holiday books to read. ❤️🌈🎄 www.marieclaire.com/culture/book...

My only shopping today will be to my LCS for their quarter-bin sale. Oh, and we need milk.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: Billy Joel and Elton John (Dec 2001) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (9/13/2003) Huey Lewis and the News (1996) Violent Femmes (2005 or 06) Marc Broussard with opening acts Sara Barielles and Will Hogue (4/3/2005)

Damn, I'm this many chapters into writing this. And yes, I still start in longhand.

Clearly, I need more bookmarks.

Scars are cool. I've got a scar on each arm from where I smacked the underside of the oven rack. That's like being in a knife fight, right?

Megyn Kelly is not just problematic in her defense of Trump and Epstein…she is emblematic of the decline in humanity infesting the Republican Party. The double standard for the definition of a child. The excuses…the rot at the center of the GOP. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

In this Teen-Titanic episode 231 of The Quarter-Bin Podcast, Tom Panarese @popaff.bsky.social joins me to discuss Tales of the New Teen Titans 3, from 1982, as reprinted on 2024’s Titans: Beast World: Evolution. relativelygeekypodcast.blogspot.com/2025/11/qbp-...

My latest episode covers the 2025 @baltimorecomiccon.bsky.social popcultureaffidavit.com/2025/11/04/p...

COMIC: It is time.

Oh, these are fucking delicious.

This is one of those movies that you have to watch. It's so well done and just gutted me.

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

Finally finished editing this podcast episode. Will be out tomorrow.

That’s by design. Billionaires monetize rage bait, and it has the added bonus of keeping us fighting with each other while they rob us blind. But one day soon, all the anger from the culture wars they’ve cultivated to distract us from the class war will be turned on them.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Friday is Halloween and I have three blocks of freshmen.