EXPLAIN YOUR USERNAME... Socio-Steve: I am a sociologist named Steve who is not very creative

We were so successful at cutting down toil that we now sell toil club memberships so we can do structured toil because we evolved to depend on some level of toil to function. (Thanks evolution).

The Black Plague was caused by alchemists doing research that upset the balance of the humors

Prices high because President bad. My salary high because I am good.

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

Aside: I find conjoint analysis methodologically neat and it is interesting to see what you get when you induce a cost-benefit frame on ordinary voters. But I don't know what to do with these sorts of results given the way political choices are actually shaped.

The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.

Good way to get artists to just not sign up for anything KC related going forward. Masterful gambit, etc.

I have a paper on the "bankruptcy" canard ready to go for January. Tar will be the first of a series of projects around OASI by @rooseveltinstitute.org We have an interest in this topic for good reason.

I got the 8 year old to watch the Muppet Christmas Carol with me. 11 year old is too tween for such things sadly.

This is a commentary on Andy Serkis's Animal Farm somehow

Eagerly awaiting the day when someone tries to cancel @besttrousers.bsky.social and he pulls out a FRED time series about his own posts to refute them. "This is publicly available data. Anyway can produce this with 5 minutes of work."

I actually really like this guy's channel... very Jersey shore nerd. I feel like we could be friends given common origins and interests.

Spending 300 meta currency to refresh today's discourse.

@gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social joined PBS North to break down the impact of expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, which could force up to 4 million Americans to lose coverage and put new strain on small businesses, self-employed workers, and rural communities. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOfm...

Ok we are beyond the anecdotes now. It's a very bad flu season. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/n...

Update: 4 inches and change. I hate global warming.

Had to check and yes How to Drink made a video about this. youtu.be/oTYF4diIwtQ?...

This was actually a topic of conversation at my Christmas dinner yesterday.

Getting excited about the possibility of 6 inches of snow in NYC tonight. But also remembering the Blizzard of 96.

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

I have no idea how the women that featured in these songs made through the filming successfully. How do you keep from cracking up?

Trying to imagine living in fear that someone might think a pet is lady-coded.

Relatable. This was me with graduate school.

Today is the feast of Stephen. Please place praises in the replies to this post. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

"Bring us sone figgy pudding. We won't go until we get some" You can't know that. We need to set up an RCT.

Well... yeah.

NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

In several cups of mulled vino veritas

The main problem with abundance is it's lack of farming subsidies.

That billionaires tax is for democracy not primarily for revenue.

This is a winning message that will go over well with well-adjusted adult humans

Someone got a weighted blanket for my daughter and I have requisitioned it.

Merry Christmas from Gargamel www.youtube.com/watch?v=prJj...

Merry Christmas from the liminal space between two past Americas www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpX...

They gave him the good stuff last night as a Christmas treat.

Merry Christmas from the Alpha Quadrant www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYUM...

St. Nicholas is the patron saint of children because of that time he found out that an evil butcher had murdered and pickled three children that he planned to chop up and sell as pork during a famine. St. Nick broke open the barrels and resurrected the children. Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas (Buon Natale) from NYC www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca5w...

Merry Christmas from the 80s. "Now why the hell are they blinking?!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKZf...

Sometimes I feel like Japan is the final boss of the social sciences

Good morning and Merry Christmas. I wish you all the endurance to handle the dishes and noise and mess and guests and mandatory merry making. May your regenerative coma tonight be most effective!

Hmmm the kids who should be in bed right now seem to be doing an unusual number of trips to the bathroom or kitchen for a glass of water. I suspect these are reconnaissance missions.

Fruit cake is lembis bread The yule log is the fires of mordor Eggnog for gandalf the white who is Santa The 8 tiny reindeer.... Friggin giant eagles again.

The Dresden Files. Yeah I know there was a shotlived sci-fi channel for 20 years ago but that doesn't count.

Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon is good. It does have some stuff tacked on in a perfunctory manner (housing, romance, mounts) simply because Skyrim had it and it became obligatory but the gameplay is good.

Billionaires as a class are a policy failure. It's nothing personal, kid.

The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work. This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

"We have a different and particularly bad electoral system" is the simple reason behind so many problems that people want to attribute to the character or culture of Americans.

Torelli's Christmas Concerto is topnotch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN7Y...