The flipside of "I have the worst pillow in town!"

ME: hello i need to reschedule my appt this afternoon RECEPTIONIST: certainly. can you provide a reason for the cancellation? ME: i can't stop watching this video of a man in a humanoid mocap suit kicking himself in the balls RECEPTIONIST: of course. let me pull up the schedule

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

Your Democratic City/County office should be a place you know you can always go for some emergency formula, a sanitation kit, to get a ride to the food bank, to get resume help or something notarized. And most of these would cost relatively little to offer.

If you begin Star Trek: Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. Join in a very dumb annual tradition and start 2026 off on the right hoof.

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I fucked less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

I was going to post Elisabeth Moss talking about how “Fred Armisen’s greatest impression is that of a normal person” but when I looked it up to get the wording right I learned AI has somehow turned it from being a scathing post divorce condemnation to being a really nice complement

As @riversidebryan.bsky.social somehow guessed, the gentleman with this wild hair/atrocious wig was…Mickey Rooney, Jr. He was a guest on GERALDO in 1990. And even in 1990, that hair was…no bueno. He passed in 2022.

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

“Your windows need scrubbing,” said Frog. “Your plants need watering.” “Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”

You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check

I’ve never seen a local news headline that so personified the entire country.

I want to watch someone run over these guys. Real slow. ICE is a cauldron of psychopaths, hopped up on white nationalism, and the entire agency has to cut off like a diseased limb. There is no reforming this shit. Merry Christmas.

Merriam Christmas

by the fired place. straight up "grinchin' it". and by "it", haha, well. let's just say. My crimints

Found this elsewhere and I’m passing it along for the Pluribus/David Lynch crew

i have spent time with bari weiss, who used to date my former roommate and who i am in an alumni program with, and i feel comfortable saying she is both stupid and evil

Pluribus fans, just a reminder that the finale is debuting tonight at 9 Eastern, due to the holiday. My review will publish tomorrow morning at

Happy holidays! Pigeons make milk, and I hope this fact fills you with joy and concern during this festive time of year

Gift pears at Christmas are one of the year’s best fruits. Just improbably stupidly good.

Some amazing YouTuber has put together 45 minutes of promos for a slew of 70s and 80s holiday shows—and then included links to many of them in the description section, so you can actually watch what’s seen in the promos. Have yourself a merry Gen X Christmas now: youtu.be/i7tSfJMBrec?...

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

You forgot one (might be the best one tbh)

HATCH THE FROZEN FLESH EGG

'Tis the season for some festive science songs. If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Brian always provides a nice end to the work week.

The thing that drives me the most crazy about this infernal ‘Has Feminism Gone Too Far’ debate is that even the women taking the opposing view HAVE BENEFITED FROM FEMINISM but are now engaged in a (bad faith) project to pull the ladders up behind them

Doing my usual once a year effort to put a dent in photo organizing. This is probably still my favorite photo of Tilly, in the midst of trying to catch her tail.

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

A hill on which I will die: Calvin and Hobbes is one of the great pieces of 20th-century American literature in no small part because it was never turned into anything aside from a comic strip. Leave it be.

Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why. Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.

this is the most "Get a Job, Stay Away From Her" I've ever felt

"we must first secure the border" has been the D position on immigration for upwards of two decades. it has simply eroded support for immigration across the board and led D numbers on the issue to crater. 1

🚨 New news app drop from some fine journalists at ProPublica.

You are never more than six feet away from a potential Jimmy Stewart impression, or possibly a Kermit

6 years ago, a federal ban on gender-affirming care for young people was absent from the national Dem agenda, seemed unlikely to almost everyone who isn’t trans. 6 years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a QAnon crank with a crossfit gym. Yesterday her ban passed out of the House with three Dem votes.

By insisting that gravity exists, physicists are excluding those who think it doesn't exist — and reducing the number of ideas by half. I am a professional political commentator.

Your post is being read by...The Nozzle

MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok

This isn’t even all of the AIDS quilt. It was so long they didn’t have room to display it all. Reagan flat out fucking murdered queer people

These are the "good and decent people" who didn't survive the Reagan presidency.

This is the correct interpretation on David Zaslav. Saying he's bad at his job is comical. He just isn't good at his job in a way that anybody with a soul (artistic or otherwise) would recognize, nor is he charismatically evil. He's making himself and people like himself rich.

I can't say for sure if I bought this myself, but since I was not allowed to play D&D, it's very likely.

I have had several projects in a row in which I have been explicitly asked not to note certain kinds of errors because "the copy is really clean," and there are always a number of such errors, and even though in theory it means less work to ignore things, it chips away at me.

“It was not a request from a stranger. Hudson had been friendly with the Reagans during the president’s time in Hollywood.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015...

oldie but a goodie

I don't think my mother ever used dial up internet, because she didn't get internet at home until she retired. (I suspect none of my relatives her age ever had dial up, come to think of it.) I didn't have an AOL address, because I already had an email address.