this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

They overlap but I still prefer to believe that the Count is the undead Mr. Hooper. He counts because Mr. Hooper counted receipts from the store.

Hey Greenfield, MA booklovers! @federalstbooks.bsky.social is having a 20% off storewide sale today and tomorrow! #BookSky 📚 💙

This is what weak people think strength is.

Edna Mode’s Built-in Counter Incinerator makeagif.com/i/P6Me_d

Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.

It ends with too much unsettled. Enshittification. Lost friends to pettiness, politics, and death. My wife lost her mother. Cats died. People asked me for things I never offered. Let people down. Didn't write enough. Slow-motion sucker punch. Out of work. Everything a scam. Into the sun: go.

My mother (b. 1943) would say I had “more toys (or whatever item) than Carter’s got little liver pills.” Always think of that whenever I see this sign in Brattleboro.

Football bowl games should only be named after things that can conceivably be placed in a bowl. Peach Bowl, Cheez-It Bowl are good. Music City Bowl? No. Surely you have some food, botanical thing, or representative item that fits. The Guitar Pick Bowl.

I was obsessed with calculators as a kid. How they all had different matrices, functions, and displays. Another design spectrum flattened by apps.

Dear Jon Stewart c/o @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.

As a Patriots fan I find myself in the unfamiliar position of having to root for the Chiefs.

#jolabokaflod 2025

Not going to lie. After leading a global team with what I thought was empathy and candor, and then being stripped of my job just 10 days before Christmas, I might have expected a few more people—of the many ex-colleagues who decided to peep at my LinkedIn—to drop a note to see if I was okay.

“Out of courtesy, Uncle Dominic made a token defense of his position; the lazy, tail-swishing defense a horse makes against a mildly irritating fly…” “Snow” by James Lasdun www.theparisreview.org/fiction/2635...

The Donald Trump and Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too

Got laid off this morning. If you know of anyone who is hiring in the fields of data analysis, language analytics, project management, or even editing, I'd love to connect.

Tonight Stúfur, 3rd of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He sneaks into houses and eats the crust left on pans after cooking. All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in - if they have been good that is. The bad children get a potato.

I believe this is the only possible matchup between two singular creatures in North American sports.

Having a Coke with you is even more fun than going to San Sebastián

But when you got to know him, his sage wit came through.

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Webster asks, "Merriam, how do you, with your choice of career, live in the city on a low-five figure salary in publishing?"

Went out to shovel and found that the neighbor kid, who is a Boy Scout, had already done a pass. I have officially reached the age of “elder neighbor who should be helped.”

Solomon Grundy, Cyber-shopped on a Monday, Gave on Tuesday, Binge-watched “Wednesday,” Got thirsty on Thursday, Blacked out on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday. This is the end Of Solomon Grundy.

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

This panel from 1985 never gets old.

At long last, here's my conversation with wonderful @elizmccrack.bsky.social, whose wonderful new A Long Game goes on sale (at least in the US) next week!

I keep imagining the WH staff re-editing or putting on entirely fake news broadcasts and piping them live to his TV like they do for the mom in Good-Bye Lenin! who’ll have another heart attack if she finds out that communism fell in Germany.

Don't let those swill merchants rewrite you, Charlie Brown.

There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.

Feeling a bit of nostalgia for my erstwhile lexicography career this week in light of the (surprisingly kept under wraps!) release of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Twelfth Edition and recently learning of this unexpected singular mention in Stefan Fatsis’s Unabridged.

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

I'm not a real doctor But I am a real worm I am an actual worm I live like a worm

I hope this CBS promo for a Boston-set series that misspelled Donnie Wahlberg’s name was expensive.

I hadn’t known “cut rate” had anything other than a negative meaning before I ran into this photo at a local Walgreens. Got double-vaxxed today.

Once I went for imaging and they started doing images of my knee and the technician asked what I did to it, like she thought I tore my ACL while snowboarding. I told her I was there for my stomach. I was seventeen.

Now that I've read this book: You should be preordering the hell out of it. It's huge fun, and hugely informative. (And huge fun.)

Boaty McBoatFace had a legitimate precedent after all.

Working at the store. Customer said “it’s a beautiful night” and I was anticipating “beautiful store” so I said “thank you” and with that I took credit for the weather.

#tbt sorry we missed this, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

"But what none of them had counted on was Fulton’s need. Not just for a job, but for humans to have freewill." Marking this one to read again, "Love of Fate" by Rafael Frumkin @electricliterature.com: electricliterature.com/love-of-fate...

Reminds me of a box of Russell Stover chocolate.

In perfect rhythm I heard my partner rise, brush her teeth, return to bed, pick up her phone, and burst into gleeful laughter.

Another Republican too slow to act.

This is the most insane game I’ve ever seen.

I hope Seranthony Dominguez gets knighted someday.