How is How I Met Your Mother 20+ years old? And why do I think of Friends as that old when it’s even older? Oh, maybe I’m old.

In a December news conference, @vanhollen.senate.gov said employment at NASA Goddard in Maryland had fallen from more than 10,000 to about 6,600.

For beginners, it can be difficult to know what to put in alt text, as well as when alt text is needed and when it isn't. This decision tree from W3C helps you determine what to do, based on specific situations. www.w3.org/WAI/tutorial...

Well this doesn’t bode well:

I assume there is no way for the average voter to know the time from drop off to sort? And that it can vary as much as the local postmaster likes, staffing, rain, sleet, or snow delays. Nor dark of night? Like, say, early November?

Just a few miles from my home town. Northwest Iowa does not need more bad weather to devastate the rebuilding efforts already ongoing from 2024 floods.

Container ships translate into quick capacity for vertical launch systems. I’d imagine some modern command and control. Defensible? Cheap expendables? www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

There could be so many lives lost as Russia ignores deterrence. Sad but clearly the understandable.

Won the 1.4 Billion Powerball drawing. $4. Woohoo! Or as my wife said, “So you lost $16?” Well, sure, do the math. Thanks for that.

perfect metaphors don’t exis—

This seems like a good re-use of reactors to me. Not an expert by any means, but rather than have them all sit at a DoE disposal site? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Congratulations Boeing on the B-52 engine contract award! Will we see them fly another 75 years? finance.yahoo.com/news/boeing-...

The federal government abruptly cut nearly $12 million in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics in retaliation for criticizing policies of Health Secretary RFK Jr., the organization alleged in a new lawsuit.

This year’s contributors to the Bulletin’s “Voices of Tomorrow” section, which features essays and opinion pieces by rising experts, focused heavily on the threats posed by nuclear weapons. Here’s a sampling of insights from our newest voices: buff.ly/HhkNFq6

Fraudsters out in force today. Multiple calls from different google voice numbers claiming to be Wells Fargo, Capital One, etc. My solution? Blow their eardrums out by repeatedly pressing 9 until they hang up. My favorite line “go ahead and call whoever you like” when I said I’d call fraud line.

This has not been the Monday before Christmas I had expected.

Not sure if that’s me or if it was my dad. I don’t think he ever had a disorganized box but he sure had every cord.

Huge opportunity for doctors and systems to advertise that they believe in and follow the most current science.

I’d bet someone was having fun and hope they don’t get fired. Probably useful for some people I can think of. Probably like The Eagles song - you can checkout anytime you like but you can never leave?

I’d bet someone was having fun and hope they don’t get fired. Probably useful for some people I can think of. Probably like The Eagles song - you can checkout anytime you like but you can never leave?

I smiled. Maybe even grinned and chuckled quietly.

The Trump administration is going after the attorneys nationwide who protect and defend disabled people. This is a huge attack on civil rights. P&As do all sorts of often hidden work such as leveraging their position to get into immigration detention facilities on behalf of disabled detainees.

When did the Economist start echoing the style of The Onion? www.economist.com/business/202...

Is it weird I remember my great grandmother watching this?

Good article and fascinating background of the new MI6 chief. apnews.com/article/brit...

American-born POC don’t have immigration documents because we didn’t immigrate here, but of course we’re supposed to carry them anyway just in case, since obviously we must have immigration documents, look at us

The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans. bsky.app/profile/jare...

Yes, to be clear: with measles, there's a heterogeneous range of combinations of outcomes — but the idea that you can sustain an illness, recover, then have it kill you years later more or less without warning is fairly astonishing considering very powerful people are calling for "natural immunity"

Good development for the Philippines. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

👀👀 DiffProtect “rewrites a person’s face in a photograph using the same generative technology behind modern image creation tools. The resulting photo still looks like the person to any human viewer, but to state-of-the-art facial recognition systems, the image becomes something else entirely.”

Seems concerning that they continue to militarize the Spratly Islands. asiatimes.com/2025/12/chin...

This doesn’t get better without investment in education, K-12, OJT, college, trades, etc., but it starts (or should) with K-12, literacy, and then digital literacy. Which 40%, demographically, don’t have the skills needed? What do we need to do to change it? www.axios.com/2025/12/11/j...

Re-upping this, since it's only available for two days:

Collapse isn’t a single moment. It’s what happens when the systems people rely on keep existing on paper but stop functioning in practice. trib.al/lEwPGHg

Holy sh*t. Camp Lejeune implicated. Scientists thought Parkinson’s was in our genes. It might be in the water. - WIRED apple.news/Arw4j_E6JSf2...

From the U.S. Department of Education website. Seriously.

Well, it finally happened. Yelled "Be quiet" at the beginning of a Zoom call. The people on the other end looked pretty surprised. One of my Cairns was barking at the dog on TV. The other running to the window to see what was outside because apparently he doesn't see the TV and the animals on it.

imagine investing in public media and ensuring that media literacy (and spotting unreliable narrators) was integral in primary school education

Love José Andrés - great article: www.ft.com/content/6cb0...

Moonlit sky. Maryland super moon with clouds. #cloudscape #supermoon #fullmoon #clouds #sky

Moonrise.

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

Blue is (im)patiently waiting for it to be dinner time. Which is not until 5 pm.

DOJ says immigration judges, as "inferior officers," may be fired on the basis of sex, religion, race, or national origin. Leaving aside the law, it's *politically* remarkable they're taking this position. washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/former-... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Boeing will build 96 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters for Poland under a US Army foreign military sales contract valued at nearly $4.7 billion. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=64479

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Fascinating thread.

Panoramic skyscape.

How do I know I used to travel way too much? When I see a scene in a movie and go "I know that parking garage entry, it's the Westin in Atlanta."

Rubio in the hot seat after telling senators the 28 points is a Russian plan US is passing along to Ukraine According to Republican Senator Mike Rounds, Rubio told senators that the 28-point peace plan drawn by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart, Kirill Dm...