Can highly recommend finding a sunbeam & standing in it with your eyes closed for as long as you can

Successfully tricked TWICE, one right off the bat like a fool & one right at the end like a slightly different fool! I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Jan 2nd 2026 (Tricky), in less than 12 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

So glad her husband got that job so at least one cartoonist in New York can have health insurance.

I opened up Instagram for the first time in 2026 and the 1st thing I see is rage bait from a fun queer meme account I follow... and I just... unfollowed? And it was that easy? And that's my energy moving forward? Everything that tries to enrage me I will abandon!!!

"Mamdani walks in an older Jewish tradition. Not that of ritzy Upper East Side synagogues, but of so many of our great-grandparents: the socialist sweatshop workers who fought for a better and more beautiful world." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

May this be a year of justice.

Yesterday, Reuters unveiled a report in which they discovered that Israel re-purposed armored personnel carriers into truck bombs, loading them with up to 3 tons of explosives and then using them to destroy residential buildings in Gaza.

This error was a literal fingerslip that I didn’t realize I’d done so I stared in confusion at how I could have gotten it wrong for 1 minute before clicking it again I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Jan 1st 2026 (Tricky), in less than 10 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Happy New Year friends! If you’re so inclined, join me in paying attention to the first bird you see on the first day of the new year, something I started doing 6 years ago amalelmohtar.com/a-new-years-...

“What is magic but a change in the world? What is conjugation but a transformation, one thing into another? She runs; she ran; she will run again.” @amalelmohtar.com has written a whimsical masterpiece where every sentence is lyrical and lush. 💐 She reads; she read; she will read this book again.

#Sirens26 #Bookmas Day 18: For your poetry-loving friends looking for something equally lyrical in prose THE RIVER HAS ROOTS, by Amal El-Mohtar's (@amalelmohtar.com). Cherished sisters, closer than death, tend the enchanted willows. But when one of them takes a lover, their lives are torn asunder

Here we go, my end-of-year roundup to join all the others: publications and links and recommendations! leemandelo.com/f/2025-a-yea...

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

It is a stunningly beautiful book.

It got me, alas! Maybe I’ll do better next year I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 31st 2025 (Tricky), in less than 9 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Just a reminder, my next novel, Radiant Star, is available for pre-order wherever fine books are, uh, pre-ordered!

If you’re in the UK & are so inclined, from Dec 25 to Jan 5 you can get the Kindle edition of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS for 99p as part of their 12 Days of Kindle event! This means in the UK you can also get that price matched at other etailers, like Kobo! Merry Christmas! www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:

remember when you could go online and search for "good pillow" and you'd get like blog posts reviewing and comparing pillows but now you just get an Amazon page for Good Pillow Great Sleeping Perfect for Single or Couple Great Soft sleepy Dream Pillow for soft Bedtime Relaxation pillow ($97.83)

"What was your biggest impact on the Internet?" I drew the original of this. (I storyboarded and assistant directed on this episode.) (Fry, "Shut up and take my money")

[helpless from serotonin] oh

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Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

I repost this on every platform when I see it

Such an embarrassing mistake right at the end! I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 30th 2025 (Medium), in 04:47 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

One of the best to ever do it

This past weekend we had dinner with our friend who is a Sbux union leader. She clued me into 3 things. Starbucks has not signed a contract with the workers for 4 years. Starbucks has more union violations than any other company in the US. Shareholders are demanding they settle. Keep boycotting.

I loved The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar. It’s a poetic and lyrical fairy tale wrapped in folk songs. The audio version performed by Gem Carmella is amazing. It’s a book whose themes are sisterly bonds and the audiobook’s background music is also performed by the author and her sister🎶 5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Was thrilled to see a barred owl yesterday out near Almonte

I still want to raise funds for Palestine Children's Relief Fund, so I've reduced the prices on these pieces because something is better than nothing! 100% of proceeds from these pieces goes straight to PCRF. ✨💖 I've got 3 birds left! shop.lioninthetrees.com/collections/... #art #pottery

As someone for whom "rain froze into snow" is a common weather... If you park outside, like I do. If you can cover your windshields with a tarp or heavy cloth, the freezing rain won't stick to the car. Which is much better than scraping out your whole car.

Also! If you are expecting freezing rain, and park your vehicle outside, do future you a HUGE favour and bring your snow brush/scraper inside. It's hard to get into a frozen-over car when your ice scraper is inside said car (ask me how I know)

There’s a freezing rain warning in effect for Ottawa-Gatineau & if you’ve never experienced this before let me personally implore you to stay off the roads (if you *have* experienced this before I trust you are already staying off the roads & likewise insisting others do the same)

We are 27 minutes into WEAPONS, a film I am being very brave by watching, & thus far I cannot suspend my disbelief over - Justine not being a lesbian - People owning clocks that loudly tick

Good news if you live in the UK.

Really enjoyed today’s! Frowned at a tangle for a few minutes longer than necessary & then took exaggerated care with the denouement but still pleased I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 28th 2025 (Hard), in less than 13 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Folk have confirmed that this applies to ebooks from Apple & Bookshop as well!

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Cheryl Harris's 1993 "Whiteness As Property" identifies this sort of personal injury as a new, post-Brown form of whiteness as property that emerged from anti-affirmative action lawsuits in the late 70s and 80s

obvious but still significant that one of the primary and most socially tractable ways some people experience their own “whiteness” is when they decide they’ve been personally deprived something they’re owed, whereas when they get or have things, it’s what they’ve personally earned as an individual

I've been recommending this book ever since I read it. Its gorgeous, lyrical, and its the sister story that Frozen wishes it was.

Also, Hello Kitty isn't even the best character in the Hello Kitty universe:

The map's form: knotwork It shows: accessibility Its purpose: to indicate lines of power

That time of year again!

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

As of today I am caught up & therefore bereft

This book was my favourite present this Xmas, already read it through the library earlier this year but just had to have my own copy, can't wait to read it again (and again). It is absolutely gorgeous!!!

a dozen pages in and am reminded that nobody else writes like @amalelmohtar.com - wielding language like an expert surgeon wields a scalpel

Can confirm for Apple iBooks.