BIG HEART EYES www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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"Well, what shall we hang? The holly, or each other?" Now that's a Christmas movie. From 'The Lion in Winter' (1968). With the brilliant Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole

Oh, you're a big fan of myrrh, huh? Name three uses.

Nap with LOTR in the background > all other naps.

LOTR. All day. Merry Christmas to me.

Double feature with the fam...One Battle After Another, followed by Frankenstein. We loop in Riley from Tennessee and watch together on speaker lol.

And Tiny Tim, who is often treated as a punchline but who had a concrete aesthetic program and whose version of “In the Pines” is fucking HAUNTING AND POWERFUL,…

Please enjoy this festive pic of the tiniest dog in our house, Jasper. He shows his toof when chuffed.

My oldest, Riley is stuck on his college campus, which had us sad. He told me he's spent the last several days in the music building. Open 24 hours, with all instruments, including a Steinway and a stage. He says it is magical.

Via @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: 'There is no Christmas for separated families': Pastors tend to immigrant families in crisis —> religionnews.com/2025/12/23/t...

It's a weird world when dutifully regurgitating a bunch of carefully curated information that the world's richest man gave you is "fearless journalism," but reporting on how the government is kidnapping innocent people and sending them overseas to be tortured is "not moving the ball forward."

Dear readers, I have suffered a complete drought of creative expression for the last three years. The first three years without it since I was a child.

Check out this author discussion I did on @religiondispatches.org with @niac.bsky.social about her gender transition memoir, I Hardly Knew Me. Very timely stuff here 👇🏻 religiondispatches.org/the-trees-do...

Swoon www.thecut.com/article/rama...

Boss gave me 8 free meals at Cane's Chicken. I feel seen.

So my therapist did a Therapy Wrapped session yesterday and my vibe is Stressed Eldest Daughter Raises Daighters and Self While Exhausted.

"When corner stores give way to big-box retailers miles away, when schools require driving rather than walking, when social spaces exist only as isolated destinations rather than chance encounters, community itself attenuates." -Andy Boenau

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Laugh/cry. reductress.com/post/4-gifts...

She's 18. Hallelujah.

Bury them in the ballroom and we can dance happy jigs on their graves.

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

Sometimes you just need to listen to Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend (1991).

This is a fun way to listen to music: radio.garden

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

What's your Album of the Year? The album that stayed on repeat.

For no discernible reason, my nervous system is acting like I am trying to outrun a cheetah. Why brain, WHY.

My youngest turns 18 on Saturday and holy crap where did the time go?

Show me how your 2025 went

Ahem. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

This absolutely broke me. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.

"“The way I feel about it is from a really humanist point of view,” they said. “I wanted to capture something that’s hopeful, but also human. It’s less about the politics and more about the value of life.”" rvamag.com/art/street-a...

This Reiner story has gotten inside my head. I cannot stop thinking about the horror of being stabbed to death and your partner stabbed to death...by your own child.

Little Wing | Stevie Ray Vaughan youtu.be/Rj_NUS9hwxA?...

#birdoftheday #heronsandegrets

The year is 2382. All physical and digital media was lost in a great cataclysm that humanity has gradually rebuilt itself from. The village gathers for festivities and drinks. A travelling musician plays a song passed down in folk tradition for centuries. It is called the YMCA. Everyone joins in

I was obsessed with Mary Poppins and Bert, the Chimney Sweep since my preschool years. Still have my album. I can sing every word to every song and I am not ashamed. Surely, this is when the bisexuality was activated in my young brain.

how do women not die of rage aneurysms every single day

Hey people in my phone. Hope you are finding some grace for yourself and others today.

Read dis www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy." Thomas Merton

One underrated pleasure of using public transit is when the public is laughing together at some nonsense.

🌟 Billy Strings is on Tiny Desk this morning! ⤵️ youtu.be/WgqaxMOKfnI?...

What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann is streaming in full for free.

#SomeGoodNews A former Dyson engineer is rolling out a revolution for household chores in deprived communities after inventing an off-grid, flat-packable washing machine. The Divya washing machine operates a 30-min wash cycle where it completes a 5kg load needing only a few minutes of manual turning