Have YOU listened to the Jethro Tull Christmas album yet this year youtube.com/playlist?lis...

"He's an immortal avatar of a moral absolute, he sees everything, he brings gifts, Elves help create the gifts and ensure they match the fleeting mortal desires of the recipients," I mean come on

One of my favourite little tidbits in all this is that many people learned this line from the Muppet Christmas Carol because of Gonzo's amazing line-read, but don't know he's literally quoting the original story:

guess what i’m doing wikipedia themed comedy/trivia shows again! i think you should probably come!

Merry Christmas! got you 16gb of RAM as a gift

seriously tho, are we going to get endless reporting on how they're draining the healthcare system and we should torment them because they choose to smoke and should just take ozempic? or is the issue with fat people not really health related?

“Like prime, but with human beings”

Clearly, this Coati isn't a fan of mine. At @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #nature #wildlife

He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

1.28 million Syrians have returned from neighboring countries since 8 Dec 2024, and the map shows the intended return locations by governorate. Countries of departure: Turkey 42% Lebanon 35% Jordan 18% reliefweb.int/report/syria...

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Yes. That’s why I say “don’t stop commenting” on SCOTUS decisions and practices. It matters.

The people who showed up to vote for a write-in dem candidate in a Trump+50 special election 2 days before Christmas are democracy's strongest soldiers.

get everyone gambling on their phone and then charge them for losing is actually pretty funny

i posted this to badsite on 2018-07-28: "I've been mulling for the last two years the idea that the GOP's Southern Strategy was like the Bene Gesserit's Kwisatz Haderach breeding program and Trump is Paul Atreides fucking it up for them and they don't know how to put the sandtrout back in the qanat"

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

One generous serving of orange loaf. Still warm

this is postmarked 3 aug 2019. Epstein died on 10 aug 2019. sure is wild that right before he died epstein was like "YES LET ME PUT ALL THIS STUFF INCRIMINATING THE PRESIDENT IN WRITING AND SEND IT TO OTHER KNOWN PEDOPHILES". nothing suspicious about his death or anything to derive from that

if hypothetically there were a very common and well known way to screw up redaction and if I hypothetically were a disgruntled FBI employee hauled in to do redaction I didn’t want to do, I might familiarize myself with that common screw-up

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

If you know who is sending out the takedown notices at or for CBS tonight, let me know! Signal: crg.32

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ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

Nary a brain cell between the two of them.

this story has been designed in a lab to confuse foreigners

Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.

FYI, if you're outside the US, you can come here and just collect $3,000

Trump: If we build more housing, the price of homes will go down, and homeowners will lose their wealth.

Not trying to “I told you so” anyone in the media but I stood by my reporting on Trump targeting Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind despite countless Beltway pundits telling me privately I was wrong because “Republicans like that one” MAGA culture is not about “all of the above”

Here it is, your moment of zen

i am the soyface pointing guy at every act of moral bravery

This time of year can be pretty challenging even when the world isn't so on fire. I hope you'll enjoy these very puffed-up snow buntings from my walk around Castle Island yesterday! #birds #borb 🪶

It's about ethics in video news journalism

Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants

The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision. "The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Time for a CBS boycott.

If brain surgery has taught me anything it’s that life is far too short to think about Matt Yglesias.

always jamiroquai never jamiroqhowareyou

First real-world usage of Garmin's emergency autoland system. avbrief.com/autoland-sav...

Nothing Bari Weiss censors is going to reverse this.

The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"

nothing i can say about these people is crueler than their behavior toward each other

Should Regular Car Reviews have a midday slot on lib Fox News? YES.

Remains absolutely wild to me we have a functional cure for HIV/AIDS.

Jim Beam Whiskey will shut its distillery for 2026 thanks to plummeting sales amid retaliatory tariffs from the European Union after Trump's tariffs and a bourbon boycott from Canada. www.kentucky.com/news/busines...