Born #OnThisDay in 1780 was the polymath Mary Somerville. She was the first woman to have a paper read to and published by the Royal Society with her paper on the relationship between light and magnetism, and she in fact inspired the coining of the word 'scientist' itself. #WomenInSTEM

Unamerican. Trump Administration Emphasizes Religion in Official Christmas Messages www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/a...

#MusicChallenge #EmojiSounds 12/25 -🎅 Dropkick Murphys - "The Season's Upon Us" Before listening to this great song, keep in mind that I love my family and deeply respect my mother. 🤣 Dropkick Murphys - "The Season's Upon Us" www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTx-...

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has donated her entire $12.9 million raised through book deals, speaking engagements, and grassroots fundraising to a homeless housing initiative in New York City. The funds will help build 150 affordable housing units. 👉 brightmove.forum/.../breaking....

Die Hard 6: The Un-redaction “Yippee ki-yay kiddie fiddlers!”

This is a great example not just of Nazism being normalized, but of being so removed from the consequences of Nazism that it becomes just a thought exercise. I mean, hey, 20 years ago this avowed antisemite couldn’t even have been part of polite society and look at him now!

@jamestalarico.bsky.social criticized a new Senate bill for "historical whitewashing," highlighting its removal of significant figures & events from educational content. His #CupOfJoe reminds us that a well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy. [Thomas Jefferson]

Never did I ever imagine before Trump that the New Republic would stand more firmly against a fascist tide of nationalism than the Atlantic.

Wow. This Trump post. They are going to take away his phone.

Scientists studying reindeer/caribou early in the Cold War made a startling discovery. It led to a major public health investigation, turning Canada and the Arctic into nuclear spaces. #histSTM 🗃️ daily.jstor.org/the-radioact...

2025 will see the warmest Chirstmas on record in many parts of the U.S., with some areas of the Central US experiencing temperatures more than 40°F (22°C) above average. The Climate 8-Ball is too busy reading some unredacted files to comment. Source: www.tropicaltidbits.com

(🦋) BLUESKY NEWS: The South African Sociopath—everyone knows who I mean—has apparently just made a series of changes to Twitter that launched a new exodus. The per-second growth rate here at BlueSky is now *more than triple* what it was yesterday. So welcome, Twitter refugees! This is *way* better.

I’ll say one thing for her: Bari Weiss is not a procrastinator. She killed CBS News in record time.

So my dear friend @mamafoo2000.bsky.social and I lunched in a famous, iconic Parisian brasserie this week and of course had to start with their famous, iconic (French) onion soup. After a few spoonfuls, she said "yours is so much better" and I won't argue. jamieschler.substack.com/p/authentic-...

youtu.be/Z_R4q70_rJg?... 🎶🎄❤️🎶 @callmemare.bsky.social @dbnranch.bsky.social @climateelf.bsky.social @vestlandsfaen.bsky.social @justsweetness.bsky.social @lizz1228.bsky.social @palehorse.bsky.social @omega7stone.bsky.social @ismua.bsky.social @shellieh.bsky.social @sandymw.bsky.social

#BlueBeats ✨🎄 @climateelf.bsky.social @dawnbritten.bsky.social @hawaiian-ishkelly.bsky.social @theosoph.bsky.social @spv2022.bsky.social @tsetseron.bsky.social @dkrappe.bsky.social @bettyl.bsky.social @bkend44.bsky.social @olszewskijc1891.bsky.social @rabbijill.bsky.social @paulette7.bsky.social

youtu.be/DgqXKJxALmk?... Simon and the BlueBeats💙💛🎄✨🎶 @theosoph.bsky.social @dbnranch.bsky.social @skyair.bsky.social @chrisisbritish.bsky.social @michellespenc.bsky.social @spv2022.bsky.social @tsetseron.bsky.social @dkrappe.bsky.social @arlindars.bsky.social @bawalker.bsky.social

Christmas in the East Wing, 2023. 🎄

nothing demonstrates how good people are at missing the blindingly obvious anti-capitalist message of “A Christmas Carol” than the fact that Michael Caine starred in the iconic “Muppet Christmas Carol” and is STILL a loathsome Tory

youtu.be/BSzkREaefno?... #NoMadKings

Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the German constitution guaranteed freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Through decrees and laws, the Nazis abolished these civil rights and destroyed German democracy. Starting in 1934, it was illegal to criticize the Nazi government.

Sunrise promise at #Bamburgh beach,#Northumberland that turned into lots of clouds shortly afterm. I lovecl these moments in time. #landscapephotography #UK #sunrise

If you enjoy a smart little whodunit, #TheOutfit (one of my favorite films) is on Netflix. www.netflix.com/title/81518647

AI assistant built into your automatic espresso machine told your MIL to “calm down, Sheryl. You’re being ridiculous.”

The Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center has been canceled. The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, said, “When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert.”

Ella Fitzgerald "Sleigh Ride" youtu.be/NRSvczD9840?... #Jazz #JazzSky #Music #MusicSky #ChristmasMusic

“Something like the plate tracker helps to encourage and promote legal transparency and legal accountability, especially when they're going around, switching plates, trying to hide, trying to be undetectable,” said Sherman Austin. Full story: lataco.com/ice-license-... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Also, if you are an artist I do an art show for two hours on most Thursday afternoons/evenings. You just have to look out for this image: bsky.app/profile/cats...

I hear there is a wave of people coming from twitter? I have a starter pack of non-AI cat accounts that post their own images and use alt text. go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN

The Regime isn't up to handling this situation....this is not good.

good tool ⤵️

“Finding” a million additional Epstein documents on the day everyone is distracted with their families is as competent as Pam Bondi’s coverup is ever going to get.

Trumpers and MAGAts are chronically, unjustifiably fearful of anyone who seems the slightest bit different than they are. Bigots beyond measure and rationality. Despicable as they think the "others" are. Heartbreaking.

all show, no performance But they got access to citizen information formerly protected by privacy barriers, and started building a national registry, which makes one wonder if that wasn't the real goal all along... ((gift article)) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

HHS abruptly cut nearly $12 million in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics that include screening the hearing of newborns and educating new parents on safe newborn sleeping in retaliation for criticizing policies of RFK Jr. wapo.st/3N2TBoV #TheWeeknight #Inners

Mark Cuban is a funny case of getting hit by the lucky stick. He sold his streaming company at the peak of the bubble and the company never amounted to anything in the long run. Bless his heart he made a crap ton of money but he doesn’t have any special insight that the average Joe doesn’t.

For those vaccinated against HPV before age 17, their rate of vaginal or vulvar precancers was 57% lower than for unvaccinated women. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The unsurprising reality of trickle-down: Academic research tells a clear story: A 2020 LSE study analyzed 50 years across 18 countries and found tax cuts for the rich had ZERO effect on GDP or employment - all it does is increase inequality. No peer-reviewed studies show it works. Zero.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it

I love this. I remember watching the Charlie Brown Christmas special as a second grader and loving Guaraldi's music A San Francisco jazz pianist made ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ a holiday classic www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Just back from leading Xmas eve service at our tiny rural church. You better believe we talked about baby Jesus having to be hustled across a border as a refugee to escape the secret police of the repulsive king, with the wise men helping. A subversive from the manger on--merry Christmas y'all!

I've been saying this for some time. Curtis Yarvin is the least original public thinker since Adrian Vermeule. Yarvin is retreaded Aleksandr Dugin. Vermeule is Carl Schmitt in translation. And they're linked, too. Dugin bases everything on the writings of Ivan Ilyin—one of Carl Schmitt's students

Hey, big shoutout to anyone who has ever been the black sheep of the family, the breaker of legacies of harm, the refuser of conduits of intergenerational trauma, the one who spends the holidays wondering why your reality is so different from those of your kin. It is ok. Keep walking. We got this.

We sure do fall for the fallacy that a guy who has made a lot of money doing one thing, suddenly must have a holistic understanding of the entire financial system! No, man… he just got rich doing one thing and repeated it.

Jingle Bells in Ukrainian

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4HH... Note they’re speaking to different people on separate phones in the same room. 😵‍💫

He’s not wrong.

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air