“We will not have Walkers [Crisps] in our studio. We will not have them in our houses, and we will not have them in our dressing rooms. They’re the fucking evil empire.” Quietus Best Of 2025: #ManicStreetPreachers Interviewed buff.ly/PELB73o

Charles Sumner was a leading voice in Congress for abolishing slavery and Reconstruction. Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to expect from an ambitious historical biography written by a law student. It ended up being my favorite book I read in 2025. www.powells.com/book/charles...

2025 recapped

This is great, "Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death," a story where Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who administers the lottery from "The Lottery" archiveofourown.org/works/733964...

Goat down! I repeat: Goat down! www.dn.se/sverige/stor...

Today’s delight - www.tiktok.com/@5wcvb/video...

"You there, boy! [slurpy inhale sound] What day is it?"

still my favorite christmas post

I love New England Christmas so much 🦞🦞🦞

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Boston taps into ‘spirit of rebellion’ as it resists ICE’s immigration crackdown

Oh no I’m going to miss him so much 😭

“make art”

Having a cat is so cool. There is a little creature in my bed who loves me and vibrates like a tiny motorcycle and is so fuzzy and wants to snuggle. How could I want anything else

wow i do really need someone to reproduce this card and i will send them to all my friends and family

kafka really transcended the "would you still love me if I were a worm" paradigm into its more revolutionary form, "would you still make me go to work if I was a big bug"

This is the funniest thing I've seen all week

watching live TV right now

They went to deliver care packages to the people detained at the ICE facility in Burlington, Massachusetts - and they were arrested. https://bit.ly/3MF1gK4

For your collective delectation this holiday season: Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!) loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...

there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke

many minutes of sleuthing later, i found it!

does someone have that tweet where gaston's mom got killed by a bookshelf and gaston was like "if only i were roughly the size of a barge"

I may be on Bluesky, but my culture is still Tumblr. I want to find out through a Destiel meme as God intended.

first day at my job as thomas cromwell. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the king. buddy, they won’t even let me fuck him

honestly in cambridge i'm not sure this is a guarantee

At last, a chance to repost my favourite ever font-related controversy with alt-text, now that Calibri is back in the news.

"there's a new serif in town"

A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community. From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991. From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

A CDC Advisory Committee is now trying to rollback decades-long recommendations that have protected newborns and children from diseases and saved lives. We believe in scientific evidence, and families with any concerns hepatitis B should discuss them with their health care provider. (1/2)

hi i'm a billionaire my company, which will definitely not murder everyone, is named SauronMurdersEveryone Inc after the beloved jrr tolkien character sauron whom i have always admired for his disruptive use of world changing technology and for murdering everyone

When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health. Found these mid-century lobotomy tools in a drawer while I was playing a house concert tonight and it seems about right

Grateful that "Strangers in the Land" was included in @newyorker.com's Essential Reads of 2025 list, featuring 12 nonfiction and 12 fiction and poetry picks. www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...

It drives me crazy to see parents insist Big Pharma is getting rich off of forcing babies to get the Hep B vaccine

Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.

Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

"when did you start playing?" (I feel like I have to follow up by explaining that my parents weren't tiger parents lmao) "what's the difference between a violin and a fiddle?" (Some ppl do ask this in good faith but others just want to make a stupid joke and I can't always tell which is which)

it is the first sunday of Advent so i, as i do every year, welcomed in the season by listening to Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols by candlelight. may this Adventide fill us with a joy & hope for a future that is possible & a future that is free, alleluia 🕯️❤️

giant pacific octopus at the national aquarium in baltimore 🐙 #photography

OK, who narced?

Just saw this exhibition and can't recommend it enough!

This adorable whale butter dish is probably of interest to almost everybody who follows me shop.spoon-tamago.com/products/wha...

This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...

Star Wars (1977)

Holy crap this isn't a joke