EXPLAIN YOUR USERNAME I'm MJ and I grew up in Buffalo.

Rode an elevator with Bette Midler, who I'd been trying to spot for years, and was too shy/stunned/awkward to say a word. She enjoyed chatting with the UPS delivery guy riding with us, though.

sigh. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Got this fantastically clever Christmas gift. It's a dedicated algorithm free music player that you can carry around without the distractions of your phone, and it can hold thousands of songs without needing an internet connection. The UI is so simple anyone can manage it. Fantastic

A thread of how to say “nobody asked you” from around the world, starting with this one… A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”

I *know* I shouldn’t share the NYPost but I got served this BUTT PHRENOLOGY article !!!! And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY !!!!

perfect metaphors don’t exis—

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

Good morning #BillsMafia

And Tiny Tim, who did not die, is never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you

#MerryChristmas #GoBills

Oh so mcsweeneys was at my church

Call NORAD at 4:30 and Trump might answer the phone. You know, in case there's anything you want to wish for this Christmas or something. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

I may have been out of Whamageddeon on day 1 but at least I can say I've managed to go 25 years without seeing this movie.

"Peakers," power plants "meant to run only in short bursts during periods of spiking electricity demand," are "often decades-old, fossil-fueled facilities" that "emit more pollution when they are running and cost more to produce electricity..." Data center demand is keeping them online.

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

And now everyone is watching it anyway without any ratings or ad revenue for CBS. An all-time backfire.

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

"Despite the injury, I don’t expect Allen to miss any games or time unless he is Highlander and is decapitated." 🤣

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Sometimes the scroll is startlingly on point.

"On the neo-Nazi far-right, adoption of AI-voice cloning software has already become particularly prolific, with several English-language versions of Adolf Hitler’s speeches garnering tens of millions of streams across X, Instagram, TikTok, and other apps."

Baby Yoda and I would appreciate if the Bills show up in the first half this week #GoBills

Ah, FedEx. FE Website: Your package will arrive after 11am FE Door Tag: Hi, we were here at 10:40am and you weren't so we didn't leave your stuff. FE Website: Look at the Door Tag to see what we're gonna do with your stuff next. FE Door Tag: [none of the What We're Gonna Do boxes checked]

The NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Is “Ruth’s Chris Kennedy Center” anything?

I love these threads.

I'm white, so unlikely to be randomly picked up, but I'm also an adoptee with a piece of paper that says "there is a birth certificate on file in Albany, NY" as my proof of citizenship. I have no faith it would be accepted by ICE or DHS.

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

Mark Zuckerberg earned just $1 at Meta in 2024. Elon Musk made $0 at Tesla. They're not alone. A tax law professor explains how the ultrawealthy legally avoid income taxes while their wealth grows by billions annually. buff.ly/updvY1r

He's lying. How do we know? Because they released the Sept 2nd video already!! Just not the part where they illegally killed the survivors. There's nothing "top secret" about the second strike if there wasn't anything top secret about the first one.

Coke admitted they had to generate 70,000 video clips for their latest Christmas slopvertising BY MY CALCS: - 4x the CO2 impact of a normal ad project - 1 day of 2-5 medium hospitals - 1 month of 250 households - 44 years of continuous Netflix viewing futurism.com/artificial-i...

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

I have a social work joke, but I haven't had time to document it yet.

I swear to fucking god mozilla, *everyone hates this idea*. Do NOT succumb to The Fear & the Monetization Disease. You don't need to have a "modern AI browser", at all, ever. You need to be th comany that respects user privacy, meaningful consent, & choice; the one w/ The Browser That Fucking Works

Become ungovernable

You know how many media outlets covering this? One. Me. Not even kidding. And this about the AI and internet governance and safety.

Tell me you don't really know the Buffalo Bills without telling me you don't know the Buffalo Bills. Josh Allen throws up before every game, and sometimes during. The Patriots didn't get him unnerved, it's just another Josh being Josh.

Arm like a cannon, legs like a rhino, eyes of an eagle, guts of an elderly pet cat that "must've got into something"

Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.

Good morning. Two words of advice… • Smile, it’s Friday! • When someone tells you, “that’s enough coffee”, ignore them.

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

The phrase that has me running for the Leave Meeting button on a webinar: "Now we're going to break out into small groups..."

This is why we need to teach logic in our schools.