I get to share some lovely personal news to end the year: NEON are picking up worldwide rights to IT ENDS! variety.com/2025/film/ma...

Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.” Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

Making latkes, thinking about Bondi Beach

This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.

In the first six months of congestion pricing, air pollution within Manhattan's toll zone dropped 25%. Pollution fell across the five boroughs and in the suburbs, too. A clean air win all around.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

I love this so much. The full paragraph for "The plan fails to mention how traffic would be rerouted." The additional closed streets. The turning parking spaces into public restrooms! All of it. nypost.com/2025/11/29/u...

A historic first today as Opus 4.5 scores 100% on SvelteBench - the first model to do so. We're hard at work on the next version of SvelteBench that will use an agentic approach, if you have feedback, submit it here: github.com/khromov/svel... #svelte #ai

anyone else reconsidering whether or not to turn on pnpm's minimum package age? #SHA1HULUD

Time to ride

lmao France

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I will add: People who expected this teacher to be bummed do not know (good) teachers very well. A civics teacher? With a student who wants to run for office? That’s probably bliss.

Best things I've read this week: How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere martinrobbins.substack.com/p/how-hs2-bu... My Truck Desk www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10...

New York to Chicago by train: 1905: Pennsylvania Railroad, 18 hours 2025: Amtrak, 19.5 hours

i’ve become radicalized on crime, looking for some serious motherfucking tough-on-crime politicians, but tough on serious crime, the kind that causes massive rather than just particularized harm, the “nonviolent” (despite mass casualties) crimes of the rich and powerful.

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to @manishearth.bsky.social on unflagging TC39 Stage 3 Temporal in V8 today. Heading for Chrome 144 🎉 By many metrics this new date-time API is the single biggest change to JS ever 🔥 V8 uses Boa's temporal_rs by @jason-williams.co.uk Kevin Ness & Manish 👍

New York Times, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social > Studies increasingly find links between higher concentrations of certain pollutants and the prevalence of dementia. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/h...

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Scientists? Everyone opposes this except the tech bruh nutter who came up with this.

I hung the dry cleaning in the back

While pretending to deplore it, this administration has been basically doing everything possible to calculatedly provoke violence against ICE agents as a pretext for ratcheting up brutality.

Updating my LEGO White House

Swedish PM Kristersson to receive Zelensky in Linköping today, and they will hold a common presser to announce "news from the defence export domain". Whatever that is, but we note that Linköping is known for Saab and the university producing aerospace engineers. www.regeringen.se/pressmeddela...

this is fine

No costume but we did what we could. #NoKings #Malmö #Sweden

Do you know what a group of frogs is called? AN ARMY

No costume but we did what we could. #NoKings #Malmö #Sweden

TFW you can’t remember your own phone number. The worst part is that I actually got more sleep than usual last night.

I agree with all of this and it's very well said. The only surprising thing to me was that his main problem is the same as mine: I miss great Mexican food www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Qv...

I can't be the first to have this idea (the meme not the worktrees)

I'm a bit pleased to learn that Cloudflare found SvelteKit to be nearly an order of magnitude faster than Next.js. We've invested in Svelte's speed, but not SvelteKit's, so I suspect there's still much more room for improvement.

Svelte added a new type-safe utility for working with context 🔥

I still think about this scene all the time #MVEMSNUP www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpGv...

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

On AI & water usage, it looks like all US data center usage (not just AI) ranges from 628M gallons a day (counting evaporation from dam reservoirs used for hydro-power) to 200-275M with power but not dam evaporation, to 50M for cooling alone. So not nothing, but also a lot less than golf courses.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Needless to say I think this is brilliant. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

We’ve gone from DEI is bad to being upset that the #3 most streamed artist on Spotify in 2024 will be performing at the Super Bowl because he’s Latino. This isn’t just white identity politics or institutional racism, this is racism as official government policy. thehill.com/blogs/in-the...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

hakeem jeffries could fucking never. fuck literally anyone who claims to represent americans who *isn’t* out there saying this shit.

i feel like the journalism industry needs to invent a category for this post and give a prize to it in perpetuity

watch this.

A friend writes: I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI" instead of "I don't believe you." Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight." Kid: "That's AI."

i think about this post every time i watch a movie

More evidence that biking is really good for you: After reviewing 23 studies, researchers concluded that there a "positive association between cycling and cognition" in adults 45+. doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

it's literally happening