Drawing of the Day: High winds damage major research observatory in California, and Zelensky plans to meet with Trump

Drawing of the Day: the Pope urges peace and Trump bombs Nigeria

I loved this. And I want to note the whole “there were no autistic people before …” discourse has an answer here: just the people were sent away in the incarceration (yes “care homes” like this), and if they fled, they were just abandoned by society, usually to die.

While I’m up- this pretty moss is growing on the highway overpass and I’m guessing after this storm is gonna be looking even better

You: hey man those pancakes look nice Guy who has spent 2 years hanging out in a nazi bar: BACK OFF FUCK YOU PUNK I HAVE A KNIFE You: *gently slides a plate of pancakes toward him* there there buddy

MTR issues Flash Flood Warning [flash flood: radar indicated, flash flood damage threat: considerable] for San Mateo, Santa Clara [CA] till Dec 25, 6:15 AM PST at Thu, 25 Dec 2025 11:11:40 +0000 via IEMbot Additional Details Here.

Somehow I feel like the fact a lot of people are suffering, healthcare is getting worse, and people are in the Christmas mood to channel their inner muppet probably hurt @mcuban.bsky.social’s plans to pleasantly waste time online here… seems like my feed has a lot of rooting for three ghosts

🚨 Flash Flood Warning issued December 25 at 3:01AM PST until December 25 at 6:00AM PST by NWS San Francisco CA 🚨 Additional Details Here.

Also I have power but with 50 mph wind gusts and flash flooding I don’t think it’s a given… and lots of folks around the Bay Area don’t have power right now. So if you’re seeing this- charge your phone and keep a flashlight nearby

Thanks for the heads up I had no intention of going outside

Drawing of the Day: some serious allegations in the Epstein files and oh there’s a million more documents… Also California is having a major storm and flood watch if you’re near the burn scars of past fires

learning mark cuban has spent his christmas eve arguing with randos on bluesky

This Pope slaps

i've been weirdly invested in this dog's sweater alteration IG roodabeguh

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

Altman is bullshitting at Musk's level now.

What the fuck TikTok? No I am NOT interested and this is not bold or stylish. Somehow liking music posts = being served a “hiphop pendant” which is a swastika. Not okay. I did report it.

I want to ask the flipside question: what will it take for wealthy progressives to fund the infrastructure and entities needed to identify, support, and sustain emerging voices on *our* side of the aisle?

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when

The weather service is so confident in potential tornadoes that it placed San Francisco in a rare marginal risk for severe thunderstorms three days in advance (both in yesterday's forecast for Dec. 24 and today's for Dec. 25), the first time the agency had done that for the city in at least a decade

"Defendants' actions in renaming the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts clearly violate federal law. Congress has named the Kennedy Center by statute, and only Congress may change the Kennedy Center's name." The complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🧵 Inside CECOT (60 Mins) - Dec 2025 (Clip) archive.org/details/60mi...

Now CBS will look even more unctuous by frantically trying to stop this from being aired EVERYWHERE. Hey, Ellisons, pro tip: The Internet is written in indelible ink and it won’t work.

Drawing of the Day: Epstein files? Where… CECOT special pulled by CBS’s Bari Weiss, Trump admin bombs another boat, boards and takes over an oil tanker, fires career diplomats, and Jim Beam is stopping production for 2026.

Just realized Jonathan Bailey’s voice and Jack Garratt sound the same on podcasts. Really similar phrasing and sense of timing.

Damn, Bill Clinton just called Trump & Pam Bondi's bluff. Clinton released a statement calling on Bondi to release all of the Epstein files that mention him - including photos. This is what a president with a spine looks like. Meanwhile, Trump is having the FBI scrub his name from the files.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

Drawing of the Day: Rest In Power Betty Reid Soskin

If a key part of your job is getting information right and ferreting out falsehoods and untrustworthy sources, and the tool that’s supposed to help you do that keeps throwing you obvious errors, than yeah, you’re probably not going to *trust* it and may end up deciding it’s not all that useful.

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

This is a good reminder that hardened opposition to good ideas can dissipate like … smoke

Drawing of the Day: Much of SF loses power, Epstein files released then unreleased, and Seattle warns people to flush sewer rats

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Haven't these people heard of Streisand effect

I do this… but also some of these devices they don’t make the cords anymore so if the cord breaks and you don’t keep a spare the device is bricked… regardless of if the item would otherwise still be functional

Just realized - the Sound of Music came out in theaters in 1965 about events in 1938… so 27 years later from the events… that would be like if a musical about the Kosovo War was top of the box office hits today…

one of four in a week www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

Drawing of the day: Redacted Epstein files, Stefanik is leaving Congress, and Trump’s put his name on the Kennedy Center.

Drawing of the Day Maybe healthcare in the new year? Also Epstein files tomorrow?

Drawing of the Day: Trump tries to convince us it’s all fine, consumer sentiment says otherwise. Also government lawyers admit government is at fault in the January crash between an Army helicopter and American Airlines flight that killed 67 people…

And the award for best washing machine repair tutorial goes to….

every article about Elon that doesn’t start with the fact that he starved thousands of children to death is malpractice this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society

It's like on the eve of WWII we decided to stop funding R&D into weapons systems to develop advanced aircraft, ships, and tanks. Climate change is going to kick our butts if we lose NCAR (and NOAA) at a time when climate change is increasing extreme weather events capable of crashing the economy.

File this under "high crimes & misdemeanors" because this is *exactly* how the Founders meant it