I am currently watching the Disney+ Christmas movie with the Jonas Brothers, in which Jesse Tyler Ferguson plays perhaps the creepiest Santa ever and it really feels like a fever dream

Both Alan Ritchson and Outlander being in my Wikipedia Wrapped is not something I’m proud of but it’s important to embrace who you are

The narrator of the audiobook version of the gay hockey book pronounces the city in Saskatchewan as “Ruh-gee-na” and now how am I supposed to trust anything he says

Incredible.

Heated Rivalry is another win for CanCon

Life has few pleasures as delightful as a grilled cheese made with white bread and American cheese.

The dichotomy of American holiday travel: a literal smorgasbord for dinner one day, and Hudson News beef and cheese sticks for dinner the next

I was distantly aware of the Lewinsky scandal, but the first news story I really remember following was the Elian Gonzalez scandal. Followed shortly thereafter by the Bush/Gore election fiasco in Florida.

You know, I didn’t appreciate it when I was there because it was 90 degrees outside, but one area in which Japan really got it right is the heated toilet seat.

I never have any desire to own a record player except during Charlie Brown Christmas season. It is, to me, the spiritual embodiment of analog music and I am cursèd to listen to it via something known as “Bluetooth” on a “streaming service”

If you want to know what my current music obsession is, it’s this album of Japanese-language versions of popular Disney songs music.apple.com/us/album/ult...

The price of a double stack biggie bag was $4 in 2021. It’s now $7 (a 75% increase) and the fries are smaller. TRUMP TAKE BURGER

Bert and Ernie are not beating the allegations with this one

Me during cuffing season:

Somehow Glen Powell always looks like a person wearing a Glen Powell mask.

This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...

My solution to daylight savings time is that from November-March we spring forward every day at 2p (everyone gets out of school/work earlier) and fall back every night at 2a (everyone gets an extra hour of sleep). This solves both the sunset and sunrise time debates, while only creating minor chaos

Today at my church two different gay people* spoke about why they have so much hope for the future of our church and it was so good and also would have broken 15-year-old me’a brain (*full disclosure: I was one of the gay people)

Todd Rokita is the biggest loser in all of Indiana politics and that’s pretty incredible when Diego Morales and Mike Braun exist

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

"Incredible Dumbassery and Zero Catholics" would also be a great title for a history of the Church of England ca. the late 16th - early 19th centuries

I would like to advise my followers that these frozen dan dan noodles available from your local Costco warehouse store are very good and incorporate the Sichuan numbing spice very nicely without being overwhelming

“wherever you go there is always a Hoosier doing something very important there” even if the important thing is being a quote in a mayor’s victory speech

So desperate for hope in 2025 that this 8 second video has me crying on my couch

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

This is a side quest to the night but who do we have to talk to at YouTube to get the “PBS is government propaganda on par with Russian state TV” banners taken down now that they’re literally not publicly funded anymore

Petition to bring back the “AMERICA’S MAYOR” title for NYC mayors

I logged back in on my phone to be here for this I love all of you people We are going to build lives worth living, in communities and states worth living in, in a country worth living in, in a world worth living in

NEW: A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say they feel targeted just going about their lives.

ICE’s campaign of terror is racist and illegal. religionnews.com/2025/11/02/e...

Paul Hollywood you will never see heaven for what you’ve done to our beautiful Toby

Danielle is, once again, making very good points

Had an Isabella Rossellini lunch* today (*Arby’s big beef ‘n’ cheddar)

The number of times I've had to explain to IT professionals that the entire idea of a public key is that it is public and thus does not need to be treated like the nuclear football is... too many

Going to convince the tech bros of America to think vaccines are cool again by rebranding them as disease microdosing. "Ever since I started microdosing the flu once a year I've never been healthier"

"When our friends and congregants are kidnapped, forced into hiding, torn away from their families—those things are happening to Jesus in real time. ... We must act to stop this evil and witness to the goodness and dignity of all God’s children." docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died. n.pr/4qjVMDS

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

i’ve posted some version of this many times so i finally decided to make my case for it: taxing the rich is not only good for us. it is good for them. having a billion dollars is like toxic waste for your soul. we can and should remove it from them. it’s the loving thing to do!

If there’s one thing about student journalists it’s that they know their rights and they are going to fight for them.

the Cher christmas album is one of the greatest pieces of media of the 21st century

A top 10 human feeling is windows open, chilly fall morning air, hot shower

Being away from America for two weeks will have you craving the craziest things when you return. Tell me why I’m insatiably in search of a hamburger steak with mashed potatoes like it’s 1953 and I want to try one of those newfangled TV dinners

I think this Leo fellow might just have "the juice," as the youth say. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Accidentally fell asleep at 9:30 last night, so my body was ready to go at 6:45 today. Did you all know there’s a thing called “morning”? When you can observe something called a “sunrise” on a “chilly fall day” with a cup of “coffee”? I thought it was fake all these years but is apparently real.

People think it’s silly or odd when I talk about coming out to myself and then coming out to God — but when you’ve been praying to be fixed for 4-5 years and realizing it’s not going to happen and that’s even better, it’s a major shift!

Jacob’s thread is great. I wasn’t given a book per se, but seriously considered going to Grove City College because Warren Throckmorton was there. I was *very* bought in to the mindset behind conversion therapy.

There are many reasons late-night convenience store runs don’t hit the same in America as they do in Japan, but chief among them is that they cost $20 rather than $4

The way heterosexual businessmen talk in airport lounges when they assume no one is listening is wild.

I always forget how big Alaska is. Especially post-2022 a pretty substantial portion of flying to/from Japan is just trying to get through Alaska