Preliminary election results have Tiny Chef in the lead for mayor of Pioneertown. I'm waiting anxiously for the final results on the 3rd!

It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

01 Jan 2026

Check out the promo for the upcoming Muppet Show special that aired during last night's New Year's celebration! We apologize for the poor video quality, but Mildred is there! That should make up for things!

Going into 2026 like

I'm very happy to have this set.

Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.

Obviously youtu.be/lDK9QqIzhwk?...

How I am walking out of 2025

Where will @hamjenkins.bsky.social and his family take their Christmas photos now?

Surveying her realm

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

“Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair” to Premiere April 10th on Hulu, Teaser Revealed: www.mousesteps.com/2025/12/29/m... #malcolminthemidddle #hulu

Everything you want to know about my new book (unless I forgot something, or some things)

While reading old Batman comics, I came across the character of Patricia Powell. She starred in two backup stories, ending with a "to be continued." She didn't appear in the next few issues, so I looked up the character and she never appeared again in the 60 years since. www.cbr.com/batman-love-...

this is the financial press equivalent of telling California you’re unfollowing them on Twitter

How Not To Train Your Robot

"Unlike anything ever done or seen before!" Maybe because it's a stupid ass idea.

Are there canonically any Jedi other than Anakin who had children?

A small sketch of Snow White that I drew as a Christmas present for one of the other artists at work. #snowwhite #disney #prismacolor #snowwhiteandthesevendwarfs #coloredpencil

The election was lost when they stopped calling these people weird. They are so deeply weird that no one would want to have anything to do with them if they knew just how weird they are.

This article is great.

Horace Horsecollar is riding a horse.

It's a holiday miracle! Bean Bunny and Rizzo the Rat are back!

One of my roomies in Philly was an old school Piney and he once said "Living in the Pine Barrens is like, 'meet me at the haunted abandoned plane fuselage. No, not that one the other haunted abandoned plane fuselage'

The second LaserDisc Rip today is rarer than the first, and also is by Japanese City Pop artist Tats Yamashita. Early 90s. New York City. Real people. A single day documented from morning to midnight. Christmas comes early this year: Christmas in New York. archive.org/details/chri...

ALF will return in Avengers: Pog Form

Fantastic Four: First Foes by Dan Slott and Mark Buckingham will expand on the MCU team's fight with Mad Thinker, but it's the first of a new series of quarterly comics expanding their adventures.

Hey, that’s pretty good harmony for a snowman! Actually, I’m a SNUman. What’s a snuman? Nothing’s a’snu, man. What’s a’snu with you?

This year we've been told over and over that there are shortcuts to Doing The Work. But there aren't, not really. Here on the shortest day of the longest year I wrote a little defense of Doing The Work. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

I usually sit at the 2nd car from the end of the train on the Disneyland Railroad for this exact purpose- so I can watch the train curve ahead of me at sunset.

A few tweaks cut two links from the chain. I think this is where I'll leave it. Babe Ruth 1934 Yankees to Lefty Gomez 1943 Washington to Mickey Vernon 1960 Pirates to Roberto Clemente 1972 Pirates to Willie Stargell 1982 Pirates to Tony Peña 1997 Astros to Bobby Abreu 2014 Mets Jacob deGrom

Inspired by a post on Reddit, I built this chain of teammates to connect Babe Ruth to a current player.

Babe Ruth 1934 Yankees to Lefty Gomez 1943 Washington to Mickey Vernon 1960 Pirates to Robert Clemente 1972 Pirates to Willie Stargell 1982 Pirates to Tony Peña 1997 Astros to Luis Gonzalez 2008 Marlins to Robert Andino 2012 Orioles to Nick Markakis 2020 Braves to Freddie Freeman

Star Wars Insider is ending next year. The first 153 issues are available on the Internet Archive. I remember some of these issues from when they were originally released. It was a fun magazine. archive.org/details/star... Wars Insider 023 (1994)

Factual information. 😁

I feel seen.

Walking in nature reduces activity in the brain region linked to sadness and rumination. A psychologist on why active rest periods—not couch time—are what actually restore us during the holidays. buff.ly/ls00al0

I make stupid jokes about the McMagic Memorial Bulb, but this clown went and did it for real.

This is how @caesarmcmagic.bsky.social and I took our Christmas pictures, but then Disney put an end to it.

Your favorite athletes likely hold abhorrent views. I call this the Mike Piazza Theory.

“On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925.” Includes Betty Boop, Blondie & Dagwood, and works by William Faulkner, Agatha Christie, and the Marx Brothers. [web.law.duke.edu]

Also just tapping the sign again — A.I. eliminates the opportunity for creative discovery on your way to the destination you *thought* you wanted. You’re making art, process is everything.

@hastin.net Happy birthday!