‘It’s poetry we’re doing,’ he whispers. ‘It wouldn’t mean a thing if it were easy.’ — Ferdia Lennon *Glorious Exploits*

🏺🌲🪔 Io Saturnalia!🪔🌲🏺 #OTD from Dec 17-23, Romans celebrated the god Saturn by feasting, exchanging gifts, lighting lamps, and switching up the normal societal class structures 🪔🌲🥧 This illustration is from my series depicting Saturnalia in Hadrians Wall country (more below)🏛️🌲

More from my series depicting Saturnalia along Hadrians Wall country🏛️🌲

Gullah-Geechee descendants on Sapelo Island may be facing a massive property tax increase that could open the doors for developers to turn the island into a vacation spot for the rich A meeting for property owners to give feedback is scheduled for today

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

For #WyrdWednesday and its day of Saturnalia, here the ‘world turned upside down’ with rabbits hunting, catching and executing a hound. Courtesy of the British Library.

If you give multiple interviews to Vanity Fair and don’t know whether or not you are on or off the record - then you are not qualified to be a chief of staff. Speaking as a chief of staff.

very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime

Being the director of the FBI and releasing a couples podcast while a mass shooter is on the loose is a wild choice

Everyone thinks GHOSTBUSTERS is a libertarian fantasy about the triumph of business but it's actually a cautionary tale about how the 80s antipathy towards government & push for privatization results in dangerously incompetent bureaucrats & a private sector exploiting natural disasters for profit.

The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent. Adopting. Babies. What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.

Learned from New School friends this evening that the university is planning its own version of a “school for civic thought.” A university founded by Columbia faculty who rejected the call for “unqualified loyalty” to the US govt during WWI, is now embracing patriotism, + Isaacsonian hagiography?

This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.

I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.

WTF happened to “self deportation”?

It's Saturnalia Eve! 🌟🌟 How are you going to celebrate tomorrow? I will have my traditional Saturnalia feast with some delicious ancient Roman food and wine! #Saturnalia 🪔

Become ungovernable

In what universe does anyone think that Firefox users are looking for a "modern AI browser?" Do CEOs intentionally antagonize their user base? Is there some sort of underlying reason for doing that, or are they all just naturally shit at everything they do purely for the love of the game?

incredible stuff over at r/ididnthaveeggs It’s a eggnog recipe

Here’s how dead Twitter is — this was four days ago and I’m just now finding out. Zero blowback.

We did it, Joe. @sassquachcomics.bsky.social

Bari Weiss’ much-hyped CBS News town hall with Erika Kirk was a massive ratings flop

CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Inside the mother of all Neolithic tombs ... Newgrange in Ireland. This photo, from excavator Michael O'Kelly's book, shows the chamber (with spiral carving) that is illuminated via the famous roofbox opening at winter solstice. A 5,200-yr-old celebration of the return of the sun. #TombTuesday

It is pretty buried and the whole bill has had a wild existence. The anti-trans bit is in Sec. 559A. Also up until last week S 1071 was a 1 page bill about disinterring a serial killer from a military cemetery. The House added 29 more bills onto it through the rules committee.

And S Res 532 passes by a party line vote, confirming 87 nominees to 88 positions. Finally, we have the big one: the motion to proceed on S 1071. Originally a bill to disinter a serial killer from a military cemetery, the House tacked on an anti-trans and racist 3k page NDAA to it yesterday.

Also, 4 Republicans voted nay (Cruz, Lee, Moran, and Paul) & 3 didn't vote (Daines, Hawley, & Moody). Meaning this bill absolutely could not have passed this stage without the support of the Democrats.

This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

If you’ve watched “Death by Lightning” on @netflix.com and want to know more about James A. Garfield, ask Santa to bring you some of these books about the man and his life & career. Thanks to my friends & former colleagues at James A. Garfield Nat’l Historic Site in Ohio for making this graphic!

This was my biggest concern. As soon as this shit hit the research, we were all fucked. It’s basically going to mean any references past 2023 are going to be useless.

Looking for a little upbeat reading with your morning coffee/tea/wheat grass/flat soda gulped right from the bottle (wait, that’s just me?!)? Check out what the Guild has been up to!

Reminder that if anyone is setting you up online to do some crime, THAT PERSON IS A COP. ALWAYS. WITHOUT FAIL.

Funny situation JD has put himself in.

Microsoft has "invested" over $13 billion into OpenAI. Why? Great question. But it's definitely not because the AI products out there right now are popular or effective.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

The FDA under MAHA control: Weakening the quack Miranda warning on supplements (and a double standard: impossible testing standard for vaccines, none for supplements) sciencebasedmedicine.org/fda-under-ma... via @sciencebasedmedicine.org @gorskon.bsky.social

I wonder if they've managed to pull their heads out of their asses and figure out why that is, or if they still think it has so much uNtApPeD pOtEnTiAl

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

While the mainstream discussions are depressingly about *how* best to remove and stop immigrants, it’s a revolutionary act nowadays to say that immigration is actually a positive thing and an essential component of a thriving country, so please join me in doing so!

Zootopia 2 is the highest grossing Hollywood movie of the year & Kpop Demon Hunters was Netflix's most popular movie of all time, but fuck animators, am I right? I hate reading about how huge & beloved this stuff is while knowing how hard creators have it & how it still isn't broadly taken seriously

This is what happens when the FBI is run by two right-wing conspiracy theorist podcasters who spent the last 11 months purging almost anyone with institutional knowledge from the bureau. They're going to keep fucking this kind of thing up.

Rob Reiner was one of the few celebs whose involvement in politics and activism felt genuine and was rooted in good faith

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

Statement from the Lear Family on the death of Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner. Rob Reiner described Norman Lear as his second father.

christmas has gotten so far from its religious roots, wish we could celebrate our holidays like medieval christians (cross-dressing, being told by the bishop to stop cross-dressing, resolutely refusing to stop cross-dressing, threatening the bishop in defense of cross-dressing)

I'm recording an all-drag ep of The QueerXP tonight, and one of our guests had to drop out. This is a hyper-specific request, but if anyone out there is free at 8pm Eastern for a game of Trans Vampire Cowboys.. AND is a BIPOC drag performer... please shoot me a message!