I really do just want one year where “maybe this year will be better than the last” isn’t a phrase of desperation but instead a cheerful moment of optimism.

Got to hand it to Trump, giving an insane interview about his health is really tuning in to a lot of the country’s New Year hopes and dreams.

2026 is gonna be our year, guys.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

I love being home but I could do without the boomer resistance lib insta reels at full volume every day.

My grumpy girl, but I love her so much.

The line in this courageous essay about her child not remembering her broke my heart. I hope she knows what an impact it had on so many people.

I have my coffee

My cranky boomer take is that it was better when they included return slips with stuff you ordered automatically.

In spite of being a good song “long December” is based upon the false premise that December is long when in fact on the vibes based metric (the most important measurement) December flies at the speed of light.

I’m currently laying on my bed completely frozen because Jack the (former) stray is leaning up against my legs and if I even twitch he’ll run. This is truly shocking behavior from a cat who runs if you look at him too long.

cmon

Living in the Midwest is going from 60 degrees to 20 in less than 12 hours.

The low-end version is called Gollum and it’ll accidentally sacrifice itself to save you from the high-end version.

Finally got my flu shot this morning and had to listen to the nurse talk about how getting the Covid shot was unnecessary and instead people should just avoid sugar.

The way I know I’m still pretty normal in spite of being somewhat online is that I have never been completely enraged by an innocuous skeet by Will Stancil.

Because of plain bad luck I have never had a dishwasher anywhere I’ve lived in my entire life (no, I am not exaggerating) and I HATE it. My only requirement for my next place is that it has a dishwasher.

Christmas dinner was cancelled on account of the host’s elderly and much beloved dog reaching the end of her journey so my mom had peanut butter and jelly and I had leftover pimento cheese dip for dinner. Honestly, the passing of sweet Libby notwithstanding, I’ve had worse holidays.

So evidently there are actual hockey podcast bros out there reviewing Heated Rivalry and in like a sincere actually enjoying the content way? This show is a marvel.

Got switched from an RA to a TA for spring for some kind of data science (or maybe machine learning? It’s unclear) class and I cannot stress enough how I am the last person in the department that should be assisting in that class. I am full of dread.

Gift shopping for loved ones can be demoralizing because it's oh, you love them? Name literally anything they would like.

You know what pisses me off is that pre-Covid Kroger always has sufficient checkouts open for the number of people. Post-Covid it is ALWAYS two open at most. Two days before Christmas? Two. Lines down into the aisles. Exhausted workers. No matter, only gotta pay two of them!

Releasing grades at 8 pm the night before Christmas Eve has got to be one of the most diabolical things a university has ever done.

Lol hoo boy do I have a few. When I did my MA at Illinois, I GA'd in the Student Life & Culture Archives--probably the best collection of materials on US higher ed from a student affairs/campus life angle. My job? Process the 100+ cubic feet of a recently-donated national fraternity's archive

Can’t believe in the year 2025 cuisinart still has not made a food processor that’s easy to clean.

I think it’s funny that people like my mom (somewhat dialed in liberal but not online at all) had no idea who Bari Weiss was but know now and are disgusted. That new job is working out great for her!

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

thinking for no reason at all about my very first job, which was at a censored newspaper in Myanmar and seemed very distant from my life and my country

Bamboo. A renewable resource. Sustainable, unlike my relationship.

Oh no

State TV shit

As a general rule I subscribe to the idea that we shouldn’t make fun of people for things they can’t change HOWEVER that hair on top of that forehead is a choice.

Protip: if you like oatmeal cookies but want to make them ~festive you can just replace the raisins with dried cranberries and throw in some orange zest and you have an easy and crowd pleasing cookie.

Oliver didn’t love his Christmas sweater, but I certainly did.

Look, I hate the man but I do need people to know it’s Newsom not Newsome.

I am so embarrassed for these people.

ELISE NAVIDAD

Hardly the most offensive thing here but “my family has been here since the revolution” people are so tedious. It’s like “okay?” My family has been here since the mayflower. It doesn’t make me special.

There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.

I dunno if it’s part of the schtick or what but why write things you *know* are going to upset people if you can’t handle the result of it? I find it baffling how many people write reactionary takes and then get all offended when other people react!

“Not all men” I guess but at this point it seems like it’s all men in a particular tax bracket.

I’ve made a lot of questionable decisions in my life but my decision years ago to not ever watch a Trump speech was not one of them.

wow that was stupid but i guess at least he didn’t declare war with venezuela

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

I know parenting is a thousand times harder than cat parenting but at least when you holler “knock it off!” at rambunctious children they understand what you’re saying.

Gavin Newsom is Mitt Romney for the Democrats, a department store mannequin who will lose in a general election

has this man ever taken a bad picture in his entire life? lock him up for that alone, it's unfair to the rest of us

These people are just evil and you’ll never convince me otherwise.

lol, but also, pay attention to what your city council is doing! Mad that yet another gas station has been approved? They voted on it in a meeting where no one from the public objected! Angry that the affordable housing plan was voted down? Only the opposition showed up. Be active in your community.

Well that’s unsettling.