This needed better alt-text (it had adequate alt, but it’s art, and art needs a description, not just attribution) It’s such a powerful piece of commentary.

My neighbors always listen to the best music. Whether they want to or not.

My friend @catholickungfu.bsky.social’s feature in @commonweal.bsky.social presents a compelling example of what I might call “theological liberalism” that isn’t necessarily therefore “liberal theology.” And it’s just damn good public theology too. www.commonwealmagazine.org/carpenter-an...

You can’t put the mushroom cloud back in the shiny metal canister…

In 1978, near a turning point in the Cold War, we got a Pope from behind the Iron Curtain. In 2025, just months into Trump 2.0, we got a Pope from Chicago.

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. This could go a lot of ways…

Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.

*My* New Year’s resolution is 0.5 cm-1.

For anyone worried AI will replace all of us. Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986” I dare you to find 10 things that are right.

Just a reminder.

finally

This week, Secretary Hegseth murdered four times as many people as the Brown University gunman. This month, he murdered twice as many as the Bondi Beach attack. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...

Let’s compare the post of the President of the United States after the tragic murders of Rob Reiner and his wife to what Rob said after the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk.👇

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit

“Drunk Octopus Wants To Fight You” hooks are the best hooks.

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

these mfers love talking about God while radiating evil like an unshielded reactor core

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesdaye grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee Yet Fridaye Ich do love Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich do love

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Truly a metaphor for our time.

Apparently, wobbegongs are also known as “carpet sharks”—which would be an AWESOME name for a band.

Norway, land of giants!

Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.

The enemy is always aristocracy. It changes shape to fit whatever society we’re in, but the desire for it is endemic for certain types of people. You must learn to hate it as much as it hates you.

I, for one, etc.,…

Two elements, both alike in dignity, on our fair table, where we lay our scene.

Don’t make me tap the sign!

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

I named my fists Lenin and Stalin because they’re going to leave some Marx

The alt text is the icing on the cake 🧁

you had to be bulletproof to survive the 70s

1 like equals one clove of garlic going into my dish

Seriously: You don't need to prerinse your dishes. Wirecutter ran 17 different dishwashers loaded with crusty, stubborn food stains. Even with zero prerinsing, each machine almost always did a fantastic job. nyti.ms/47Y1CDI

Last Christmas I gave you my heart Not really my heart Just somebody's heart This year If the cops should appear Please tell them that you don't know me

We could use this in Boston!

*Always* read the fine print.

Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore, Charlie Brown!

One sick puppy.

It's that time of year

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information! Silicon Valley, 2025:

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

W. T. A. F.

A fish rots from the head.

I’m done with the Take-out Trotskyites!

In San Francisco, anti-driverless car sentiment has been reignited by an incident in which an autonomous taxi killed a beloved local bodega cat. The taxi company, meanwhile, is like, “It is inevitable that one day one of our vehicles will kill a human being. The public will accept this.”