Christmas time famously being the season when people most want to receive coal.

Christmas music season is not complete without hearing Dennis Wilson sounding very much like the band member who drew the short straw while he delivers a holiday message to the fans in the middle of "Auld Lang Syne." They even used a take where he half stutters. open.spotify.com/track/1nwQIL...

Supposed to be working but thinking about watching "Wake Up Dead Man" again tonight instead.

Just like we seized his farm and made it an American monument to the people who died stopping the Confederacy.

The answer might surprise you if you were born yesterday and you didn't yet know that schemers often benefit from getting second chances they don't deserve and that rich people are greedy so they're often totally credulous in the face of obvious scams.

Might be the most thorough and accurate diagnosis of Trump and it's from the first 3 months of Trump's first term.

Just another day on the internet.

@timgrierson.bsky.social I was just listening to the podcast and enjoyed the mention of 466. I never took the class but was thinking about how I saw Zodiac in that class when my roommate snuck me in. I just rewatched it last night and still remember seeing it totally blind.

The Knives Out movies are going to culminate in an explanation of the Noah Segan Cinematic Universe.

Rewatching Zodiac and noticed it had an almost perfect sweep of 5 stars from the people in the following on @letterboxd.social.

"I'm an alcoholic who hasn't killed anyone drunk driving yet so driving drunk is good actually" is a hell of a take, even for 40 years ago.

To paraphrase my Swedish brother-in-law: Yes, I'd pay more in taxes to have government provide more services and eliminate the risk of medical bankruptcy. To his second question, how does a guy who started a low-cost prescription company not know how this works in most other countries?

The Laffer Curve has been a joke since at least 1986 when Ben Stein mentioned it in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Going to spend the afternoon thinking about what other things should be in my "battle rhythm every day."

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR, or Marvel.

An extremely solid understanding of the Gospel here. 🤦‍♂️

The person who labeled this button on the gas pump that turns off the blaring sound on the autoplay ads is a real American hero.

The exact reason I use that gif so much is that I'm acknowledging that my posting a reply shows I care even though I'm acting like I don't.

Calling this stuff "gutter racism" is an insult to gutters which are an important part of our infrastructure that remove standing water to prevent things like malaria.

Spotify says I listened to more genres than artists this year. I don't think they could even name 142 genres.

Mock Herron's "Clown Town" includes a very important idea: look up.

Duolingo gave me a sentence that would have been very useful to me in grades 1 through 6.

@profanity.accountant hej.

My sixth grade teacher had her classes do one of Shakespeare's plays every year. My year was Macbeth and, after she had taught us how to read and understand that text, she singled me out and loaned me a copy of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" because she knew I'd appreciate it.

To quote the current pope, AI "won't stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God's creation."

The only time I went on a holiday "cousin walk" my oldest cousin brought along a foam cup and a jar of gasoline which he used make napalm that gut stuck to his Converse when he tried to stomp out the fire. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Maybe it's an inherited "screw that. I'll do what I want" streak or maybe it was spending 8 years hearing homophobic jokes because I wore a speedo to play water polo, but I'm glad I didn't waste that much time on performative masculinity.

CS Lewis + menswear guy? Right up my alley.

Tough spot for JD. Do you follow the leading of your Lord and savior or the pope?

Most recipe blogs are just ad-delivery vehicles where the writers add a bunch of nonsense backstory to someone else's recipe to have more space for ad insertion, but this garbage is even worse.

Ran into one of these Wall-E bots the other night while walking the dog. They're mapping city sidewalks and paths for accessibility but I just enjoy seeing them rolling around looking lost.

I'll never stop reposting this ad when I see it. The message is about foster care, but I think it's for all parents and adults who have kids in their lives. Do the things they like and show them you care about who they are.

Without context, I absolutely would have bought that this was a post-ride photo of a pro cyclist at a cyclocross race in Belgium.

7 year anniversary of me taking this bad photo of the screen when my family appeared in the credits of Instant Family. I still love that my daughter insisted on a pink suit for her adoption because "tuxedos are what people wear for important stuff."

And in conclusion, America truly is a land of contrasts.

Middle of a good thread.

English has too many words. Trump is just innovating when he combines adopt and adapt into a singly word with multiple meanings.

I know most people like sitcoms that "make sense" with plotlines that resolve cleanly and characters who are likeable, but for anyone else, I'd recommend A.P. Bio which is probably the weirdest show to get 4 seasons from a network (though 2 were on Peacock).

Narrator: This is not, in fact, science.

He actually invoked the Laffer Curve which was a a joke all the way back in 1986 when Ferris Bueller's Day Off was released. Also, a big tell that he's lying is when he says incomes are up even though it's November and most salaried folk haven't gotten new annual reviews since Trump took office.

I'll take any excuse to share this photo I took of a photo of Michael Shannon at the Fotografiska museum in Stockholm in 2016.