Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

Imagine being a poor (economically) Republican, reading this, and thinking "Hell yes!" at the same time you're mad at your boss for buying a third vacation home and making you look at pictures of it while refusing you raises for 11 years. This happens *all the time*, and yet....

The "my mom hasn't gotten a Social Security check in seven weeks, my cousin lost his job at the VA, and my neighbor's kid's cancer drug trial was cancelled right before the treatment went live" voter is the 2026 voter the Dems need to be laying the groundwork for landing right now.

Please join me in welcoming to the public domain such works as the 1930 Best Picture All Quiet on the Western Front, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, several Nancy Drew books, some songs you've heard of (Dream a Little Dream of Me; Georgia on My Mind), and more: blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/w...

There weren’t any disasters scheduled for this year, right?

Call for submissions! We'd like to expand the diversity of our Archive authors, and are looking for proposals for any available story from anyone meeting the criteria of being disabled or a person of colour. obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive... Closing date for subs 30/06/26 Please share! #booksky

At what point will a brave university simply tell its staff to stop applying for grants, and just fund their research or give them time to write instead. I'm sure it would cost less than all that wasted staff time.

Course evals came in from last term and were v positive. :)

This looks of interest for political philosophers seeking to keep our theories up to date with the world as it stands

Canadians are usually very lovely people who would only invent new war crimes if you actually deserve it, I fully support the initiative to let them import The Good Pickles

I dig tropical cyclone names elsewhere on the globe. Case in point today: "Iggy".

“When I look at Mamdani, I didn’t see some radical departure from the past. I see him as the heir to an old and venerable Jewish tradition – that of Yiddish socialism – which helped build New York.”

If you're cold he's cold, bring him inside

Start Bondi impeachment hearings immediately

if i were to ever have the privilege of being sworn in to an office, i would choose a copy of Black Reconstruction

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

I wish I could afford to turn down paying work, Sigh #anotherthingonthepile

I realise this may be controversial, but I *loathe* MLA citation style. Chicago Author-Date ftw!

👇🏼!!!!!

bye 2025👋

Gail bringing in 2026 like the lovable menace that she is.

That‘s because it‘s still ongoing

I hope history remembers Jack Smith's succinct answer about what caused the attack on the US Capitol on Jan 6.

Fortunately, I saw this post before I'd eaten anything this morning, so I was able to grab a chocolate. 2026 is gonna be sweet!

Welcome to the Public Domain, ANIMAL CRACKERS (1930) 🎭 😂 Nothing to do with soup. The Marx Brothers return in this 1930 adaptation of their stage musical. Laughs abound in the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

"Sir, how was your 2025? Are you excited about 2026?"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

I called this “The Orville Peck Principle.“ I did not get on the Internet one day explicitly looking for a masked queer cowboy to start crooning at me, but guess what? It was exactly what I fucking needed.

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

Thank God the year of hell is officially over! Hey wait what’s that text that just started hovering over me?

Just under the wire

OBITUARY: America committed suicide and was found dangling from a single lightbulb in a filthy bathroom somewhere in south Alabama. The suicide note left behind was stained w blood and feces and read we leave anything left of value to Mexico… Rest In Piss…

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

I was awakened at quarter to midnight by arseholes setting off fireworks so close that it shook the house. I could hear it through earplugs and headphones. Sigh

oh NO

Welcome to 2026. 🥳😮‍💨

Frankly, it has been a rubbish year, but I am glad to have been able to give coverage to things like this, which most of the Scottish media ignore. www.thenational.scot/news/2552704...

Think someone at the Beeb has been at the New Year drinkies early... 🤣 #Archaeology 🏺 #Hic #HappyNewYear

The "Neujahrsbrezel" in Germany is delicious but looks different (I know it as a sweet treat with sugar). Before I forget: Happy 2026!

Many people can access a mask bloc in their area if they need help with masks (which can cost more than people can afford sometimes!)

Look, the boulder has been putting up with repetitive work for zero pay for a long time. what would you do

Journal article on Murder, She Wrote accepted to the Journal of Popular Culture. Not sure when it'll actually be published but at least I can list it as forthcoming!

High Altitude Cooking Instructions xkcd.com/3187/

Boosting this explainer on how to retrieve (say) fanfic collaboration images that were hosted on discord that are no longer viewable! federatedfandom.net/@villainousf...

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

WE NEED SOME ORCAS We're holding out for some orcas till the end of the night They gotta be strong and they gotta be fast And they gotta be smooth black and white