Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

The GOP’s midterm strategy is literally just Comet Pizza

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Goodnight, friends. You are not alone. I promise. I love you.

The Man With the Golden Retriever

Imagine this being your spouse. Everybody and their mother warned against NFTs! The very same people warning against AI now. Nobody's listening to us though. And there are about to be a LOT more homeless folks when that bubble bursts too.

Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...

Make a Bond film casual On Her Majesty's Croydon London Borough Council* * I'm joking about the casual. James Bond's work life has far more leisure than your average local government employee or councilor

The spirit of Emo compels me to share this wish

Found this elsewhere and I’m passing it along for the Pluribus/David Lynch crew

Agreed. It's heartbreaking when I see teachers telling kids to "just use AI for the art part" because it can do it "better" or "faster". It can't. Please don't do this to kids. You have no idea whose artistic spirit you're crushing. Same with writing. Help them figure out how to do it THEMSELVES.

Do da Dune Doomsday Double Feature Double Dare December!

Rahm as CHI mayor, 2021 @ms.now: “There is no incident in recent Chicago history that has created such distrust of City Hall & the police department than then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s unsuccessful legal battle to keep under wraps the dashcam video showing Officer Jason Van Dyke shoot the teen 16 times.”

Telescope Types xkcd.com/3182/

My brain weirdly goes to the opposite of this - a Teen Clark, feeling out of place and not knowing why, and being taken away to a Kryptonian-Oz. The Emerald City even looks like Kandor.

The "We're not in, etc, etc" really does sort of make it work a bunch, right? There's fun stuff here.

The combination of "Superman is vulnerable to magic" along with "Why are the Emerald City and the Wicked Witch of the West green?" definitely mean Clark and Toto aren't gonna wipe the floor with Oz folks!

Bless Michael Sheen for copying John Oliver! In 2016 Last Week Tonight used $60K to buy & forgive ~$15M in US debt. “Carp was offered a portfolio of medical debt worth $14,922,261.76 at a cost of ‘less than half a cent on a dollar, which is less than $60,000’.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...

Michael Sheen is just. An exemplary human being in so many ways

Wishing you all a delightfully spooky December! In 19th century England & the USA, Halloween was the time for ROMANCE and Christmas was the time for SPOOKY ghost stories! That's why Dickens' Christmas Carol had ghosts. www.thesawmillmuseum.org/blog/how-vic... www.history.com/articles/chr...

“Hard archaeologist endorse” Dr. Sarah Parcak aka “Indy From Space,” U of Alabama at Birmingham “Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her”

Obviously I must tag John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social !

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Chappell Rohan

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Sex Bomb-adil.

Tomorrow at 11:30 in Minneapolis, many orgs are co-hosting a march and rally west down Lake Street, from Mercado Central to Karmel Mall. FB details here, and at least Unidos sent an email about it: www.facebook.com/events/89474...

Time to escalate my calls: I think something is rotten at Meta, and they are in trouble

What oil, what land, what assets did Venezuela steal from the US? And when? A social media post from an alternative reality.

Reporter Dave Byrnes: “Moments ago in Chicago's Little Village community: the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, along with local elected officials, labor leaders and other community groups held a presser to address ‘ICE/CBP escalation and Bovino’s return to Illinois.’”

See if you can spot Liberation Day. @usapolling.bsky.social

border patrol agents, including greg bovino, are slamming chicago’s southwest side/near suburbs already today. at least one person abducted from tbe walmart parking at cicero/33rd in cicero—a frequent target for agents (photos below). also confirmed in back of the yards and brighton park.

My wife and I have decided that our big holiday movie nights this year will be Billy Wilder's The Apartment, and The Death of Stalin. I know Stalin died in the Spring, but it's the feel-good celebration I need this season! www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9eA...

Border Patrol's Greg Bovino pulled his amateur circus out of Chicago, but there's still an ICE presence. Alert we got this morning. Cicero IL is the middle of a majority LatinX belt starting w Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood and stretching to my suburb of Berwyn.

For anyone who thinks resistance is futile, I would like to bring your attention to just how much less ambitious the administration’s domestic crackdown goals have become in recent months. They’re unpopular, fighting on all fronts, and on the retreat.

I just read the new SPINAL TAP book and there’s a moment where Rob Reiner and the rest of the cast ask each other which projects will lead their obituary. Rob was sure “Meathead” was going to be the first line of his. Tonight, everyone’s teeing off with “one of the greatest directing runs ever”

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

As part of the #AlexRoss exhibit at the #DunnMuseum IL I'll lead a kids art program, "Draw Yourself As A Superhero." Register online. And while you're there check out the Ross original paintings, a US children's book art show, and the history of this corner of IL! www.lcfpd.org/calendar/dra...

For December, show the cover artists that make up the biggest parts of your collection. #comicskycoverartists Day 13: Gene Ha (or @geneha.com ) Here's my plug for the day - if you haven't read Mae before, check it out. It's really, really, really good! #comicsky

Happy Chanukah from Brooklyn's own Jews in Jiu Jitsu!!

Please consider making a public comment on the newly proposed rule changes that include invasive social media scrutiny for those visiting the United States. Customs and Border Control are seeking to collect 5 years of social media info, telephone numbers, and more. is.gd/DfVM5M

IMPORTANT!! Evidently Jólabókaflóðið is the Icelandic word for “Yule book flood." 🌊📚🌊 WHEW the cultural envy

The video shows “43-year-old fruit shop owner Ahmed al Ahmed… charging at a man in a dark shirt who is holding a rifle. He then tackles the armed man from behind, wrenching the rifle from him with his hands before pointing the gun back at the man.”

There’s a whole thing in Hanukah about how you’re supposed to “publicize the miracle” except that there are all sorts of exceptions in times of danger. Because the times that the Jews have lived under have not always been safe. May the souls of the murdered in Australia be for a blessing.

Mail call! The Comics Journal #311 which I got for the Kate Beaton overview. Beaton is such a thoughtful writer I'm looking forward to a lengthy interview with her about her works.

“Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.” Forced to resign over his off-air statements for trans & disabled rights, pro-Palestine protesters, and against foreign autocrat Donald Trump. BBC Radio 4's Robin Ince of the science show The Infinite Monkey Cage.

My email commenting on the new "5 years of social media and your DNA etc" rule for tourists from the EU, UK, Japan etc. And suggestions for comments! Email your comments to [email protected] In the Subject: line, include: OMB Control Number 1651-0111 U.S. Customs and Border Protection proposal

If you're a US citizen and want to comment on the Border Patrol forcing foreign visitors to hand over 5 years of social media, DNA, email etc you have to send an email to: [email protected] In the Subject: line, include: OMB Control Number 1651-0111 U.S. Customs and Border Protection proposal

The US State Department plans to demand visitors from the EU, Japan, Britain etc submit 5 YEARS of social media, DNA samples, 10 years of work & personal email addresses. THE most important thing to know? US citizens have until February 9, 2025 to submit public comments! Short URL: is.gd/DfVM5M

My 1st reaction: The Onion, always capturing the moment! 2nd reaction: Oh. This piece is from 2015... Like the "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" The Onion article.

I just want everyone to remember: The OG deal was for a $1 million advance for the book that she was going to co-write with Lizza. Obviously, it got restructured before D&A, but she still walked away with a pretty good chunk for the first 1/4.