This is Poto. Please do not disturb her, she is busy is yearning. 12/10 (IG: bbo.ddo.poo)

Apply as you see fit today.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

Another view from the drone of the wonderful Vestrahorn mountain at Stokksnes. #Iceland #DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro

Percheron draft horse. I've never met one that wasn't unfailingly chill and polite, and they're massive. The issue might be fitting through the door, though.

Oh god this made me laugh so hard. Watch til the end.

Mood over Kirk Fell

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

A video game where each run is Gordon Lightfoot going back in time trying to save the Edmund Fitzgerald from the evil gales of November

Unintentionally poetic text from my elderly neighbor, after the weather abruptly warmed up: "I feel like I'm going to live and finally there is a robin in the front yard."

Ah yes, the Edook Fublishing. That's what I've been missing.

I'm just so irked that 1) I wasted half an hour trying to do something that should have taken 2 minutes and 2) we're anthropomorphizing crappy technology as if that will somehow make us more forgiving of its crappiness. "Oh, that's Ashley for you! What a card."

After getting stuck in an endless loop with an AI assistant on the phone who couldn't help me ("I can do anything a human representative can do." "You obviously can't!!"), I finally got hold of a human who belly-laughed when I said it (the AI) refused to transfer me. "Oh, her name is Ashley."

Quietly, the Trump administration is now ending even the life-saving aid that they had promised would be preserved Reporting from @hana-kiros.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma

Apparently this is a Czechoslovakian wolf hound (??), but nothing in the world would make me ski faster than glancing over my shoulder and seeing what I would only assume was a full-on wolf chasing me.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

Unfortunately evergreen.

Annie French, born in Govan on the 6th February 1872, was a Scottish illustrator and one of a group of artists known as The Glasgow Girls. Her illustrations are both ethereal and beautiful.Via Carlyanne McConnel.

"Mr. Feldman has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes." new AI lawyer submission disaster just dropped and it's a doozy

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

KEEP CLEAR OF ME.

"passive consumers of unthought thoughts" is such an elegant way to put slop-eaters

The date for the next No Kings Day is set. But this is a save the date, not a “sit back and wait.” 🧵

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Alright 20’s you can stop roaring

if youre somehow still following this account please stop

The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

It was the omg what now of times, it was the omg what NOW of times

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

Crossing my fingers for this silver lining! "Admittedly, the door is only open a crack, but it’s been locked tight since the turn of the century. When it comes to a better technology future, 'open a crack' is the most exciting proposition I’ve heard in decades." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My goals for 2026 are simple. I shall be: 1. Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn! 2. Treacherous as the Sea! 3. Stronger than the foundations of the earth! 4. All shall love the new me, and despair!

Anyone Else Here xkcd.com/3188/

A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News. Homicides in NYC... 1990: 2,262 1993: 1,927 1998: 629 2001: 649 2013: 335 2019: 320 2021: 488 2024: 382 2025 (as of 12/28): 302

More time has passed between the release of The Phantom Menace and now than passed between the two World Wars. Think about it

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Amen.

In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity. Do listen. I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...

I just posted this Internet Archive link to Facebook, where the aunts & uncles, grandmas & grandpas who watch 60 Minutes after football games live. It’s important that this story doesn’t just circulate on Bluesky.

Wee skrunkleton. Postcard from my collection, 1955.

The most annoying thing about genAI is that eventually the genAI proponents are going to get to the end of the novelty of it, realize its limitations, and then claim to be the innovators of doing things the long way without genAI. Call it "slow productivity" or something.

“What I see as a labor economist is we have starved everything to feed one mouth,” says Ron Hetrick, Principal Economist at Lightcast. “These are now three years that we have foregone development in so many industries as we shove food into a mouth that’s already so full.”

Get a load of this. 😆

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.