losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Couple ask friend to be wedding celebrant, wedding celebrant asks ChatGPT to write official speech, speech nullifies wedding because it doesn't meet legal requirements cc @davidgerard.co.uk

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome." @pcgamer.com #CES www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.

silence, peasants, the queen is flexing

Cassidy is responsible for all the sickness and death that RFK Jr inflicts on the American people.

It's fascinating how many people justify generative AI use with "everyone else is doing it" & downplay environmental costs with "well [doing X] has impact too." I mean sure, "everyone" drives cars and cars have environmental costs, therefore I should stop riding the LIRR and buy a HumVee.

Go Bills. 🇨🇦 #BillsMafia

Here's the link to the story

The most effective surveillance-evading gear might already be in your closet.

A dear friend is Sbux union leader through Workers United and 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.

Aww, c’mon Wegmans! You’re one of the last good guys left standing. How can you do this? @wegmansofficial.bsky.social

Do we need to issue a Silver Alert for @schumer.senate.gov? If anyone finds him wandering around Prospect Park or something please let his office know.

Bari Weiss’ rebrand of CBS News as “Fox News but way less successful!” is coming along apace.

Calling is better if you can swing it, but if you're phone shy here's a slightly augmented script I made for faxing/emailing/etc (feel free to steal in alt text). Find Your Senators: www.senate.gov/senators/sen... Find Your Representatives: www.house.gov/representati...

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

Just stopped dinner to make sure everyone knew this bc I didn’t

All those wall calendars that start in September and go through December of the next year are nice I guess but I need a calendar that goes January - January to cover me while I look for a new calendar after January 1.

HELL YEAH BAY-BEE

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

Me, 12/8: everyone tell me what date in Jan you are available to meet Everyone: 1/4 3pm Me: ok here's the calendar item, lock it in. Me, 1/1: Don't forget we are meeting 1/4 3pm 2 people immediately: can't do it, made other plans.

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.

For their anti-immigrant, white nationalist post about 100 million deportations, DHS stole the artwork of a non-white foreigner: Japanese illustrator Hiroshi Nagai. Apparently no white Americans were available to design an image. View Nagai's work here: hiroshinagai.com/contents.html

INSANITY 🗃️

Blind squirrel finds a nut.

i am losing my mind over this listing that staged a condemned philly trap house with AI

MTV from the last years I watched MTV so not classic but not modern either

Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

"The USPS posted a $9 billion loss" is an interesting way to phrase "The USPS cost each american $25.94 last year."

NYC had steep drop in gun violence in 2025, with fewer shootings than smaller US cities https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-had-steep-drop-in-gun-violence-in-2025-with-fewer-shootings-than-smaller-us-cities

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.