Whenever I see someone getting out over their skis on a foreign policy take I remember Caitlin Flanagan confusing Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khomeini and then claiming she was actually expressing a profound truth.

Gary is in a sleeping on the futon instead of the bed phase. You can’t stop them from making poor life choices

Being able to afford therapy feels like even more of a rich person thing than having a cleaner

Still no snow

close crop of a picture I took today, look how round they are

good news everyone

Fascinated by torontonian English

I wonder if anyone’s learned harmonica just because of heart of gold

I love birds and animals

it’s his year

am i a quirk chungus?

You’re not supposed to jack off to burlesque. I actually have no idea what it’s for. No one does.

i couldn't finish ubik because it felt too frenetic but i did get up to the part where the guy runs out of money/credits to get his fridge to open and more and more companies seem to want to manifest this

“While the farm workers were cleaning one of the pens, two of them started urinating in it. One of them commented ‘Urine is urine’, while the other added ‘It’s also a way for the cows to boost their immune systems’."

gang we gotta stop being afraid of the Cringe Reddit Atheist and start fucking hating the church again. we Gotta.

i'm normally pleased to be asked to read people's fiction but if you give me something you are serious about trying to get published and you clearly just sat down, started typing and that's about all you've done to make it good, i dunno man. i don't have time to read a whole novel's worth of that

Going “just for an hour” never works

The Waitrose multi person tiramisu is pretty good

we are further away in time from baby gronk rizzing up livvy than baby gronk rizzing up livvy was from the first moon landing

at least there are redwings in the garden today

going to repeat here that >90% of EU politicians are going to have to go if we don't want generations of subservience to a violent, nazi country

Anyone seen any good murmurations lately?

tech fan: my phone tells me when i’m thirsty weathered sea captain: dolphins are the devil’s children

I actually think it's time to bring back the approach of curated lists and webrings from the early web again. Huge opportunity space for hand curation of information

when the cat is sleeping on the cat-print blanket it makes you feel like there is some deeper meaning to existence if only we could fathom it. maybe in the next stage, maybe once we're no longer larval

I have heard there are a lot of brat tamers on the apps these days. I hope there are enough brats to go around

Does anyone want to make out

Philbert having a bounce

I had to work today but now I’m logging back on to not working

I don't know what you would call this energy and I do not know who made this YTMND in Microsoft Powerpoint in 2025 but I love it so much

Why is there not a cinnamon roll emoji

New Year's day Otter Spotting... 6 river otters along a rushing urban stream. (Video and sighting report by C Chang)

My cousin’s picking me up in the Mazda later

The dendritic shorty

Reminder to get your dimes on the windowsills. I use a 5p piece

Amazing! We're now further in time from the release of turn of the century classic "Smooth" by Rob Thomas feat. Carlos Santana than "Smooth"'s debut was from the convictions of John Mitchell, HR Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman for their involvement in what was known as the "Watergate Break-In"! Wow!

Not a fan of why I have to read about this stuff, but cardiac electrophysiology is really interesting. There’s a whole electro-chemical ecosystem at work to animate the mechanics of your heart, from molecular effects at cellular level to electrical currents propagating across tissue

2026 yolo is coming back #yolo

Might go and have half a pint of Guinness tomorrow (today)

Some MFs don’t seem to understand that there’ll be time enough for counting when the dealing’s done

NYE fit

I’ve been asked if I would consider pumping up the jam

I love salt, sodium, things of that nature