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Congress sucks. Damn thing doesn't work for shit. I was promised checks and balances. I want a refund.

i can't believe that on top of everything i have emails i have to attend to right now. what am i supposed to do. read and answer them?? you ask too much

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about

all the proud maga isolationists now hastily adding an S to their AMERICA FIRST signs

Just a totally normal day crossing a totally normal street in Juneau. @mariancall.bsky.social

My takeaway is that we have not been mean enough to the New York Times this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...

I think that advice is extremely short-sighted. Try harnessing anger at fossil billionaires after collaborating with and enabling them. Try telling people you'll protect public health after supporting policies that let fossil fuel companies poison the air and water in disadvantaged communities.

Coming back to climate, many self-styled "pragmatists" today counsel collaborating with fossil fuel companies. Making it easier for them to drill wells, build pipelines, fuel data centers. Paying them billions in tax credits for squirting CO2 underground to push up more oil.

This is such a damn good thread and the only thing I think I can add is that it is really whiplash-inducing to see how many formerly centre-left climate-aligned folks have in the past few months leapt to centre-right tech-aligned. Not sure if it's despair, stewing in Musk's X-swamp, or just honesty

Finally, science has perfected the hubris machine

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

carefully choosing my vocabulary based upon mouthfeel

Why did they call episode I the phantom menace instead of Ani Are You Ok

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

bill nye is short for william new year’s eve

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

One of my very few woo woo beliefs is that humans need to be able to see the night sky at least periodically to function properly and my evidence is that if I don’t go somewhere with dark skies at least every 4 months, I get really irritable and sad.

My favorite annual news article! ...Although, I suppose, slightly tainted by the voracious machines that will gobble up these public works. www.npr.org/2025/12/26/n...

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It Happened To Me: A task I put off for 3 months took 2 minutes to complete

Still got it baby www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

i desperately want Bird-Inspired-Fashion to become a thing. not with feathers, but, like, EXACTLY this ⬇️

Here is Elsie doing a holiday photo shoot.

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

I remember students complaining about hand cramps when I was proctoring finals as a TA thirty years ago. And uh, you’re not supposed to “like” the final exam.

Had the same experience trying to repair my coffee grinder

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I don't have to be ashamed of being white, but man, hearing that jackass tell me I don't have to is why I'm currently ashamed to be white.

Very good paragraph here from @cstross.bsky.social on LLMs… www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

And if you are the friend with the kink I promise the fuck out of you there are lovely people out there who share your kink & will not make you feel like a horrible monster for something that is a natural part of human sexuality. I encourage you to avoid people who would dehumanize you in that way.

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Google Gemini Pro: please generate a map of the western united states showing cities of over 250K population

Ho. Ly. *Shit.* ""Okay, but it's technically dazzling." Like the world's most advanced plantation." Absolutely nails the racial politics of the Avatar films to the wall. The likening of James Cameron's obsession with the Lakota Sioux to JKR's obsession with trans people is spot on.

There is no thaw without the freeze. The ferryman will have his fees, So light your lamps and keep them bright Against the cold and longest night. For this we know: the fire burns. The winter dies. The sun returns. And all if we stand, and if we fight, We can survive the longest night.

The wheel turns; the summer ends. The light departs, the cold descends, And we are left to hold the light Against the cold and longest night. The wind that howls around the door, The tracks of snow upon the floor. Reach for your loves and hold them tight Against the cold and longest night.

Yes -- I strongly distrust any narrative that says "the kids are not ok in NEW and UNPRECEDENTED ways we should be scared of" if only because it's so easy to find examples of these narratives that go back as long as we've had language and bc if we wanted to help youth, we'd start with gun control

All I want for Christmas is a $32K spaceship recliner pod from Neiman Marcus, 1982.

yeah, I think something like “dismantle ICE” has a much broader coalition for it now, including a large swath of normal liberals for whom ICE has become the face of the administration’s horrors the Overton window here works both ways, the larger the overreach the larger the backlash

🔊ON & UP 😍👇🏾'The Git Hoan Dancers (People of the Salmon) from Metlakatla/Seattle are known for their theatrical performances' (IG: gatheringtribes. Dec 2, 2025) #Art #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations

I have my students write three-sentence summaries of articles and then read them aloud in class, to see how different summaries are depending on the things that most interest you. We map overlaps and differences to help them understand why trusting a supposed summary machine short-circuits thinking.