Due to an unfortunate joke, my child thinks a Lady of the Night is a French cryptid.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: AJJ The Menzingers System of a Down PUP FLOW

I give thanks for every reader. Time is precious af.

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

ok it is time for me to hibernate for the season i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year be well

The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries! They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out! archive.org/details/usda... 🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration

I had just sobered up from my Thanksgiving eve prep mixed drink when my brother started an argument touting the benefits of AI, so.... I guess it's wine time.

I'm at the "Promote Your Book! People Want to Hear About Your Book!" I'm at the "Bemoan NSF's Cancellation of the Program that Made Your Book Possible" I'm at the combination "Promote Your Book! People Want to Hear About Your Book!" "Bemoan NSF's Cancellation of the Program that Made Your Book Pos-

So I got to attend a Q&A with Tom Morello (guitar legend of RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE fame), and from him I heard a very smart creative lesson, applicable to more than just musicians -- thought I'd share it, and some further thoughts and stories here:

It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI

This bag of onions has me bawling. They're practically chemical weapons.

What pedagogic method is giving my child a miniature chocolate chip every time he gets a math flashcard right?

Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.

This is absolutely mad genius. I love it. I read it to my husband over post-breakfast tea.

prepping for the family fighting holiday by doubling down on my opinion that pissed this site off the most: if you want cool things to continue to happen, you have to seek out, support, and show up for the cool things

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

He was VICE PRESIDENT of the insurance company and turned down an Ivy League professorship to keep his gig. Wallace Steven is the Patron Saint of Writer Day Jobs.

Concord grape pie is literally the best pie, and most of you have no idea what you're missing out on.

We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.

This is absolutely beautiful & I wish Henson had made it before he died.

"All of this, food bloggers say, erodes the simple promise of a recipe: that someone has actually cooked it before you have."

Somehow there's a connection between this and the death of Google Reader. The danger in letting people find and access other people's creations was that there was money being made there but it wasn't being made by Google. They're sure taken care of that.

Stolen from Reddit

it’s incredible how both people who voted for Trump thinking he was better for Israel and people who voted for Trump thinking he was better for Gaza managed to be wrong

I received the reader reports back for my book manuscript. Thank you (you know who you are) for the most generous, supportive, & helpful comments! I guess this book thing is happening! Look for Doctoring the West: Women Physicians and the Politics and Practice of Medicine sometime next year!

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never: - comment on how much someone is eating - comment on how little someone is eating - comment on someone eating This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!

my hot take today is that Studio Ghibli’s Grave of the Fireflies should be required viewing for all Americans

I'm nearly finished with the reread of the catechism of my childhood that I've been doing this year. It's worse than I remembered. Anyone want to tell me about the catechisms they're familiar with? ⚓

As a result of getting glutened, I can't make it through the day without a long-ass nap, except my kid has half days this week. I woke up surrounded by:

I often see people post that if something isn't available to them when/how/priced how they want, that piracy hurts corporations more than individuals and all it shows is that you sincerely, sincerely believe that your instant gratification is more important than someone else paying their bills

You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post

our Thanksgiving events generally involve spirited debates over what the sliding scale of monster fucking should be, but I suspect a lot of other people are about to have a super awkward Thanksgiving

Everything may be bad, but hot dang there's a new Strongbad email today.

this thread is unbelievable

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

UPDATE: Americans who use YouTube 84% Facebook 71% Instagram 50% TikTok 37% WhatsApp 32% Reddit 26% Snapchat 25% X (Twitter) 21% Threads 8% Bluesky 4% Truth Social 3% Full Pew Research Center report: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/

tfw you've spent a week achey, miserable, and with a host of gi issues only to discover that the gluten-free apple bars your mom got you last week are, in fact, not gluten-free.

Visited the temporary Ghibli store in London today. I somehow managed not to spend my entire life savings, but it was a tough battle.

My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.

One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.

Who invests in critical thinking and who invests in an AI chatbot to help you think will be really telling.

While unloading firewood, my kid came up with a new term for the loose bark that falls off old logs: skin wood. Now, you have to live with that knowledge, too. All trees are covered in skin wood.

13k comments on one tweet is a massive payout. All of the tweets follow a certain formula, so the content is likely automated using AI technology (e.g., AI generated images and text). Basically running it as a money printing machine. But for those in the US, it translates to low simmering rage.

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

While unloading firewood, my kid came up with a new term for the loose bark that falls off old logs: skin wood. Now, you have to live with that knowledge, too. All trees are covered in skin wood.

Imagine not knowing seals existed and coming across this shit. I'd believe in spirits and monsters, too.

did you know you could log into your library app RIGHT NOW and borrow Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man in eBook? you should try it.

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