you have my attention

First rule of the butcher’s shop and of the operating theatre: Never catch a falling knife. This has metaphorical application of variable utility but in the literal sense it is sound advice.

Wow.

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

"Right, so here's our central problem: what we need to do is find a way to properly acknowledge this lane's important associations with teapots, without completely disregarding its associations with worms." "I've got it!" www.tom-cox.com/once-upon-a-...

Well, now I have something new to shout when startled.

A friend told me he'd been clearing out his gran’s house. One thing he found there was this knitted effigy of the man who had run off and abandoned my friend’s pregnant aunt. Into the effigy had been stuck one knitting needle for every year since the man had vanished. I wonder how he is doing.

It's time! Behold the Christmas hedgehog! From Verdun, Bibl. mun., ms. 0107, f. 008. Our thanks as always to @etreharne.bsky.social who found her.

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

Someone put this on a coffee mug yet?

Trump is giving his Pettysburg Address.

Yes.

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

There should be a constitutional mechanism for removing a president. Not impeachment, something that actually works, maybe like a catapult

Did . . . did the AI write this?

How I spent my morning: a free tutorial I found online on how to draw an initial medieval letter with a cute lil dolphin. Naming ideas? Okay, back to writing...

In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake. In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak. Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Currently between 6 and 7

Huh.

Somebody in marketing at the cast iron pan company is KILLING it

New nightmare fuel just launched

This is one of the most extraordinary, mic drop moments you will ever see in Congress. In a previous time, the Secretary would have resigned - or have been fired - before the sun set.

someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning

I'd totally forgotten I scored this Frog and Toad Christmas sweater last year. MY. DAY. IS. MADE!!!

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

this has become a very important video to me

Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.

A participation trophy for the very good boy who sits atop a movement comprised of Americans who resent how the libs have supposedly created a world in which children are rendered weak by all of the participation trophies they receive.

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

LMAOOOOO

This is what evil looks like.

How is this not murder?

Best editor/title nominative determinism I’ve ever encountered

I love these kinds of recipe recreations

the hater's council just vetoed this actually. "a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder. "hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members

The arc of the moral universe is rocking back and forth in the bathtub. The arc of the moral universe is out of ideas. The arc of the moral universe wants you to please wait. Your call is important to it.

Yes. Legit-sounding book clubs (with web pages and Etsy merch shops and all) say they want to do your book, waste your time with 2 rounds of planning emails, then say they need your headshot, bio, and the “standard $212 administrative fee” or whatever. Scam scam scammity scam scam.

I REMEMBER. In 1981, nearly 100% of people with AIDS died, often rapidly. I remember weeping. I remember Ronald Reagan's refusal to say "AIDS". I remember the brave patients, loving caregivers, and the defiant power of ACT-UP. And finally the miracle of modern therapy. Rise up for World AIDS day.

Wow. Mark Kelly’s Devastating Takedown of Trump.

Yet Oliver Cromwell had people hanged for watching Die Hard

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

Calvin unfortunate not to have Turning Point to do his bidding bsky.app/profile/jake...

Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.

New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street

Oh good. The wag the dog begins in earnest

the oval office now looks like a clearance table at hobby lobby

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

It's Thanksgiving! Are you getting your eels ready? It's tradition! The 1st Thanksgiving included a big table full of eels. And it's fitting. Tisquantum brought eels to the starving pilgrims that spring to celebrate their new treaty w/ the local Wampanoag tribe. 1/5 🗃️🧪

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge. Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.