Hope your best day in 2025 is your worst day in 2026.

"Read between the lines, and then you see the lie"

Thirty years ago today. The most beautiful, hopeful farewell.

Favorite five books I read in 2025: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad Bad Company, Megan Greenwell The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones The Last American Road Trip, Sarah Kendzior The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman, Niko Stratis

I've waited 3 years to make this post

AmericaFest is Decadent and Depraved - New coverage on the ground - unicornriot.ninja/2025/america...

They've spent their entire lives steeping in right-wing media and social media, which has drained their empathy, critical thinking, and capacity for sincerity and good faith, if they ever had any of those things to begin with.

Roger Ebert has not one, not two, but three book-length compilations of scathing reviews. Legend.

if you venture deep enough into the Parkway Central Library in Philadelphia, you can meet what’s left of Charles Dickens’ pet raven, Grip

O to be a little bird flying through the water with my friends

The Internet Archive has a playable version of the NY Times Crossword Puzzle app from 1992. It ran on Windows 3.1 and included a few hundred puzzles. (Click on Game/Open to select a puzzle.) [archive.org]

“When you have a group of kids,” she said, “you pick the one that is the most well behaved, that always does everything right, and you beat the living shit out of them. Because then the rest of them are like: ‘Oh, man, holy shit. If Dad does that to her, what would he do to me?’”

This is the beginning of a story about a plucky librarian who spends their days teaching privileged teenagers about information literacy and digital inequality, their weekends navigating the world of Manhattan real estate, and their nights looking for previously-unknown Epstein files.

Dive into today’s Exhibit of the Day: the Museum’s Sperm Whale & Giant Squid Diorama! The winner of this encounter? Likely the sperm whale. Scientists have discovered parts of squid inside sperm whales’ stomachs & scar marks on whales that match the suckers of a giant squid.

Harris also won every county in Hawaii.

"This is 1993. In quite possibly the greatest example of corporate shortsightedness, Sears shut down it's mail-order business in a cost cutting measure. It spins off Allstate that same year, and soon dumps Dean Witter and Coldwell Banker."

“A Christmas song for people who are lonely at Christmas! We need a song like that.” - Joni Mitchell

Here's an oldie but a goodie:

Librarians find themselves on the frontlines of a national battle. Across the US, they face the impact of uniting against library collection standards that include restrictions on race-related & LGBTQIA+ content. The Librarians explores the implications for education and public life, Feb. 9 on PBS.

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

In honor of MLK Day and Black History Month, DC Public Library presents Freedom and Resistance—an exhibition inspired by The 1619 Project, created with The New York Times Magazine, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and The Pulitzer Center. https://bit.ly/44xUfkm

How to identify #AI narrated books on Libby app #libraries

“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

I used to be stuck in an endless cycle of life, death and rebirth. I still am, but I used to be too

The Devil You Know is an 8-part podcast series from the CBC and Sarah Marshall (host of You’re Wrong About…) about the Satanic Panic. “These thousands of alleged Satanists were nowhere to be found…” [cbc.ca]

'Ultimately, 1587 Prime is a parched vision of luxury, simultaneously overreliant on ChatGPT-grade luxury tropes, rehashed ideas from its outside restaurant group, and lazy local outsourcing for stations that a top-tier restaurant should staff. I don’t know that it matters.'

Omar Hamad and Ibrahim are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza after Israel’s genocidal war destroyed nearly all its existing libraries, schools, and universities. lithub.com/you-can-help...

If there's anything AI has done for me this year, it's awakened a hunger for person-to-person connection. Hanging out with a baby, going to see live theatre, eating food someone made, appreciating art from 200 years ago, from 800 years ago, from 10,000 years ago... Human creation is so wonderful.

See the ongoing 🧵 for a series of great examples of the Kirby approach When presented with a bad-faith argument, it's never enough to refute it on its own terms. Eat the frame entirely

This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs

Wally Wood, ‘Disneyland Memorial Orgy,’ 1967

A short documentary about the making of 'Deltron 3030,' which just saw its 25th anniversary

You want signed Derf books for Christmas? Easily done! All with title page sketches, too. Macs Backs Books has them, and does mailorder. The website doesn't list Trashed or The Art of Derf, but trust me, they have them. Just give them a call or drop them an email. macsbacks.com/derf-signed-...

@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social Another video from an album from the 2001 list, from SONGS IN A MINOR, Alicia Keys' 'Fallin'': www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urdl...

"The Chart promotes a false equivalency between left and right, lionizes a political “center” as being without bias, reinforces harmful perceptions about what constitutes “news” in our media ecosystem, and is ignored by anyone that doesn’t already hold a comparable view of the media landscape."

"If a reference cannot be found, this does not mean that the ICRC is withholding information. Various situations may explain this, including incomplete citations, documents preserved in other institutions, or—increasingly—AI-generated hallucinations."

Today, 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟴𝘁𝗵, the trio of violist/composer 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗻, cellist/composer 𝗟𝗶𝗮 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹, and violinist/composer 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝘁 release a performance film of their composition “𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲 | 𝗣𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲.”

🧵 Blood Tribe unmasked here. Notable Chris Poulhaus and Drake Betentz marched masked for a while and unmasked later. New face here. Will drop a bunch of images and articles in this thread for researchers.

Dan Boadi & The African Internationals 1977 'Money is the Root of Evil' was billed at the time as 'the first African Funk/Highlife LP recorded and produced in Chicago USA.' It was reissued as a 12" in 2002, and then a 7" in 2022

'The Beginning' is an instrumental song from the album 'Mr. Big Mouth,' credited to Tunde Williams Plays with The Africa 70. Originally released in Nigeria in 1977, it saw a reissue in 2004

DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚

also my Theory about JMW Turner is one of his ancestors was knocked up by Poseidon and that's how he can render the sea Like That. like there's foam in his blood

"The story of pastrami is... a story of the futility of borders to stop an idea; the way cultural intermingling is its own corning-spice of improvement; the way the most ceaseless and cruel of prejudice, oppression and hostility gave way, in the end, to the soft and yielding majesty of pastrami."

January 2000: AOL buys Time WARNER December 2025: NFLX buys WARNER brothers

🪡🧵Portfolio post🦖🐟 I'm a natural history artist who specialises in designing and hand-making realistic plushies of animals! I focus on under-represented species, using palaeoartistic techniques to reconstruct extinct creatures. My work can be found on my website: www.palaeoplushies.com

TIL that the WWE operates an 'immersive experience' that includes memorabilia, a dress-up room, a statue of Hulk Hogan, and an Undertaker-themed escape room It's in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia I might've picked Orlando or Vegas or something, but I feel sure they had their reasons