New Japanese users! こんにちは! Welcome to Bluesky! "Alf" (1986-1990) was a television show about a puppet space alien who wanted to eat cats. "Hog" is a euphemism, or slang that (thread, 1/47)

Happy New Year, Bluesky.

THE BEST LABELER OF ALL TIME

I love that this website is ushering out the year with the traditional culture of our people (Alf hog)

This poem in the Paris Review really spoke to me on this very "winter is forever" kind of day

Everyone is very worked up about this but does not seem to be clicking/reading the article. This reg change is codifying the longstanding reality that postmarks are not always applied immediately. This is not a new practice or a change in policy, and the skeet is inaccurate

New Rawayana album on Thursday, I am pumped as hell for this

Driving the 8/9 year olds to winter break lego camp and they're comparing notes about their favorite Christmas presents. The most popular gifts were a polaroid camera and a wearable blanket. I no longer know what year it is

One thing that James Cameron is getting exactly right is that three movies in, this series still has an extremely uncomplicated plot. Nothing is overexplained. "There's a magic vortex sucking stuff into the sky." Why? Who cares. No one gives a shit

This bitch (complimentary)

Seated for Avatar with a bottle of malbec

Six weeks till the Super Bowl, it's time to commence your Bad Bunny education if you haven't gotten started yet

Apparently I have decided to spend my winter break learning how to make a variety of tiki drinks Joe made orgeat today and we just acquired Jamaican rum and dry curaçao Watch this space for updates

Further proof it's impossible to get drunk on Medallas: Joe drank an entire bucket of them last night. And then ordered two more when the bucket was empty. Completely unaffected this morning

I survived Christmas week and my reward is going to be a schmancy dinner date followed by several mojitos in a dive bar where I will sing reggaeton songs loudly until my bedtime

Christmas dinner was Ottolenghi's butternut zaatar tart and a brussels pomegranate salad

If you celebrate Christmas, please tell me the funniest/silliest/most idiosyncratic gift you received today

Merry Christmas from our fluffy doofus to yours

My parents, who have been in town a week and a half and are retired, are still wrapping

Join us in celebrating this blessed event

Very mixed feelings about shorts and t-shirt running weather on Christmas Eve

The Christmas bath has traumatized us but we are very fluffy

Someone doesn't want to go get his Christmas bath

It would not be an exaggeration to say that I have watched at least 50 videos of J. Balvin popping out of that stage

I will never apologize for how much I love Olaf's Frozen Adventure

J. BALVIN REUNITED WITH BAD BUNNY IN MEXICO CITY LAST NIGHT 😭😭😭 this is a true Christmas miracle 😭😭😭😭😭

Every year a different line in "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" makes me laugh. This year it was "You're a crooked jerky jockey and you drive a crooked hoss." They simply don't make insults like that anymore

Good luck to anyone trying to top this incredibly relevant to my interests holiday gift from @volcanojw.bsky.social, thank you friend 🍹

We may be in our 40s but we still know how to party (we got the cops called on us last night because we were singing Celine Dion too loud)

Leaving @oconnell.bsky.social's holiday party at 1:30am with a bag of ham bones, 10/10 perfect night no notes

Love waking up on a Saturday morning with so many holiday related tasks to accomplish I don't even know what they are, while also simultaneously feeling like I'm already behind on them

Old Town Books loves to see me coming

Happy Friday Alexandria! It's our last ALXtra of the year and @oconnell.bsky.social and I are getting all Zebra up in this bitch as we recap the Good News Only from 2025:

Finally, an event that treats me and @beckyhammer.bsky.social with gravitas and respect that we so richly deserve and continuously expect.

Who did this

Just logged off a large Zoom meeting that included a woman who was casually wearing a snake around her neck

There’s a great expression from Argentinian Spanish about someone who’s sticking their oar in that goes vos no te peinés que no salís en esta foto. It means “don’t comb your hair because you don’t appear in this photograph.”

Hell yes, need to add a link to this in the spreadsheet

Statistically they may use AI less than younger generations but anecdotally it seems like every boomer in my life has replaced their doctor, travel agent, accountant, and mechanic with ChatGPT

Okay ALX whose house are we partying at for New Year's Eve

New hangout spot for the most annoying people in DC just dropped

Happy Hanukkah!

I almost never do this but I decided to DNF the Anne Tyler novel my book club is reading. Her work is just not for me. I've spent the last 5 days actively dreading picking up this book and it's time to move on

Belated cookie post from yesterday Coconut snowballs for the girl scout troop, gingerbread cheesecake cookies for the grownup cookie party

Baking cookies and watching the city council meeting livestream, as one does

We watched Wake Up Dead Man last night and I think I would have liked it more if it weren't a Knives Out movie It was very good as its own thing but it didn't meet the expectations that I have for this series (lots of humor, stronger use of supporting cast)

1993. Jurassic Park. Midnight preview for staff + friends before opening night bc my sister worked at the theater Projector light went out, but not the sound. We thought the movie had stopped. Until a T-Rex roared and everybody lost their shit

Highly recommend putting an entire bottle of wine into the pasta sauce

CHARLIE: There's something wrong with me. I just don’t understand Christmas. I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel. LINUS: Charlie Brown, you are the only person I know who can take a wonderful season like Christmas and turn it into a problem. Maybe Lucy is right. Maybe it is because of woke.

Saw one of the new delivery robots in Old Town North today! Just sitting on the sidewalk next to Washington St not moving. Probably terrified of getting mown down by a Maryland driver