Decorating the Christmas tree. Found the 2020 ornament. It was a hard year y'all. Best to you all, to those we lost, to the loneliness and isolation, and to those who are still suffering.

Kid brought home chicken thighs. Time for cast iron pan chicken.

I just realized than one astronomical unit (approximately the earth's orbital radius, defined to be exactly 149597870700m) is how far light goes in 499.00 seconds. I mean we all knew 8 minutes (actually 8.317) but 499.00 seconds! Come on, pedagogues! Do better!

If the federal gov't is going to take 30 years to complete 1 rail line, they better be planning other lines to be built concurrently. Canadians cannot wait until 2055 for discussion to begin about a 2nd rail line. #cdnpoli

I'm sorry these numbers don't register to me as actual years

Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man was very good! Josh O'Connor did an amazing job.

1. Jurassic Park. Got front row right-corner seats. At one point my wife jumped and her legs went across my lap. 2. Raiders of the Lost Ark. My dingus brothers made us late and we walked into an utterly packed Eglinton Theatre about 5 minutes late, ugh. Tremendous film.

This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.

NEWS FROM CANADA Santa has his own Canadian postal code: H0H 0H0 And yes, our postal codes after letter-digit-letter digit-letter-digit. If your website validation assumes all digits, please fix.

Delighted to take up my post as Visitor of Massey College in the University of Toronto

Bernie Sanders is 84 years old. He keeps chugging along. Good for him.

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

Winter may be beautiful, but bed is much better.

A 2018 clip from Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown of Henry Yau, who earlier this week announced that his umbrella shop Sun Nga Shing will close at the end of the year, ending an incredible 183-year run

No Country for Old Men. Just too dark

Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."

Three.js r182 released 📈 threejs.org/changelog/?r...

In Toronto, yesterday was the earliest sunset of the year. Today was later, by five seconds. The earliest sunset precedes the latest sunrise by a few weeks because of the tilt of the earth--the shortest day is the solstice, in between them. sunrise-sunset.org/ca/toronto

Once someone pointed out the similarity of the six seven thing to the way folks my age respond to 42, I got it. Honestly I'm kinda fine with seeing kids obsess over numbers that aren't 69 or 420. (Or 14/88)

The Ontario Science Centre property at 770 Don Mills Rd doesn’t belong to Doug Ford. It belongs to the TRCA and the City of Toronto. I’m asking council to ensure that this architectural masterpiece be kept in a state of good repair so it can one day serve the public again.

NEWS FROM CANADA Construction crew demolishes modern art installation, mistakenly believing it to be part of the demolition required to renovate student residences. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This was a joke thread but no lie I copped two great fonts from it that are designed to be more accessible for people with low vision / dyslexia / visual processing issues so hah, another victory for woke ✌🏼

Software engineers vs. writing tests.

“A way of doing something original is by trying something so painstaking that nobody else has ever bothered with it.” —Brian Eno

Wow, Brian. I feel attacked.

Super exciting: Rust is no longer experimental in the Linux Kernel, it is here to stay!!! lwn.net/Articles/104...

Ok who wants a bizarre no stakes mystery to solve? I had to go to the hospital by ambulance this morning (heart stuff, am ok now.) A bunch of ambulance guys came into our living room to get me. And now we keep finding tiny glass ducks On the floor.

lol www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UvLHp5/

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

oh no I'm creating an echo chamber where people are chill

Holy shit y'all, I was *there* for a bunch of the development, but you don't *really* appreciate customizable select until you see it used in anger. Check the third demo with the restaurant menu.

on today's episode of "Claire's Therapist Is Everyone's Therapist," we were talking about how I always love "the new year is coming, I'm going to Fix Myself" energy but can never sustain a resolution she suggested treating the last day of every month as a mini New Year's with one small new goal

Pratt paints more than just food I guess!

Oh my god

Of COURSE this game ends on a turnover

Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p... #MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro

I asked ESPN Research and they asked Elias Sports Bureau and they looked back as far as they could (to 1978) and it would appear Jalen Hurts is the first player to ever commit two turnovers in one play. Isn't history beautiful?

I am incapable of making chilli in batches smaller than 10 servings.

mary: you booked a hotel yet joseph (playing wooden xbox): yeah no i'm on it

After nine years of development, meshoptimizer has reached its first major version, 1.0! This release focuses on improvements in clusterization and simplification as well as stabilization. Here's a release announcement with more details on past, present and future; please RT! meshoptimizer.org/v1

45 years ago, I remember around 11pm my older brother broke the news about the shooting to the rest of us.

John Lennon October 9 1940-December 8 1980 the #Beatles

TIL about Anthropologie rocks advent calendars

Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera. This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw. But it's not very far off.

And we continue to send Boston the best tree we have, for their support afterwards

a new jersey-based christmas tree delivery service called Spruce Bringsteen

lol was watching batman this morning and got hit with "ignore all previous instructions"

"ignore all previous instructions"! AND the alignment problem. In a 60s kids TV show (which was the best BTW (I saw in reruns))

They could have been my classmates. I was a university student just like them. I was studying CS; they were in an engineering class. They were targeted for being women. I will always remember them.