Yes but he definitely has to use a bidet

Yet again, thinking about this

Evergreen statement: I am not watching the video. I will take others' word for it that it is horrifying. If you are not up to watching the video, you do not have to do it. It is not "looking away"; it is protecting your sanity. You do not have to watch snuff films to be a good ally.

Every time I talked to other people with my complaints about behavioral task measures of impulsivity, I heard "Oh yeah, we tried those in our last data collection and we couldn't find anything." I heard it so many times. And the bullshitters convince the rest of us we're doing it wrong somehow.

Yup. We, as a country, did this. We, as a country, have to deal with the consequences. On an international scale, there is no room for “but I’m one of the good ones.” I’d be hurt if my good Canadian friends personally blamed me, but Canadians writ large? Makes perfect sense.

First day back on the mats since recovering from the flu and I got paired with a 17 year old heavy weight high school wrestler and man…

I just want you all to know that my research was not included in that study where they fed your research papers into an LLM. You know, given how many people have announced that they were included in it, thought it might be nice to let folks know that I wasn’t.

Related: Blood Meridian hit different this January than it did the past four times…

For the past 5 years, I’ve read two Cormac McCarthy books around the holidays, or, in recent years, in January: Blood Meridian + something else Just finished The Road, and despite seeing the movie and knowing the ending, that book wrecked me far more than any other McCarthy book

My god that last five minutes aged me

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Look, Bluesky is a Twitter byproduct that exists as a community because Musk bought Twitter and killed it and now has X wear it as a skinsuit. No one is here really because they believe in the fediverse, we're here because of what happened to Twitter. This is twitter for opting out of Musk-Twitter.

Every Chotiner interview boils down to making blowhards look foolish, but sometimes the blowhard isn’t the one being interviewed

it is both true that dem leadership statements suck and also true that if you are vomiting in anger over them are you are very definitely reacting to the wrong thing right now.

It’s 1990, I’m 1 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state It’s 2004, I’m 15 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state It’s 2026, I’m 37 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

Every time someone posts the words “general strike,” a puppy dies.

Well, yes, and that’s what makes this so terrifying? We are still, by orders of magnitude, the most powerful military in the world and that’s not changing in the next several decades

and that’s enough internet for today

A lot of you didn’t have real contact with “conservative” white communities when Obama was elected… that’s when everything snapped and, for almost two decades now, we’ve been dealing with it

Definitive, non negotiable ranking: Knives Out Wake Up Dead Man Glass Onion

The good news for the SEC is that they can’t lose the next game

Speeding discourse is one of the quickest ways to see that many, many folks on the left also have a bit of a libertarian in them There is no coherent argument against aggressive and heavily enforced vehicular safety regulations that doesn’t boil down to “nuh-uh, you can’t tell me what to do”

Top contenders so far A man who confidently makes an assertion that is plainly false is _________ - brofessing - floofing - concockting

That’s should be 3/4/5 on B-S-D or 4/3/5 on SBD Benching 4 while only squatting 3 would be hilarious though

2026 Professional: Funded/fundable NIAAA grant One new student Personal: 3/4/5 plates on my SBD (currently 2.5, 3.5, and 4.5 on them respectively; basically repeating last year’s goals) Familial: Memories/trips/games and also successfully managing the transition to having a teenager

for me, 2025 was a year full of days. 365 by my recollection. there were 12 months, and I did all of em. I expect much of the same in 2026. thank you for reading

Middle age pregaming for NYE festivities

We used to be a society

Please accept this quote post as the closest to an apology you’ll get from me

blanket apology for all the emails I forgot to answer this year, and for all the emails I will forget to answer next year

32, which is low for me, but it involved a re-read of Wheel of Time (14 books) and a first read of Malazan Book of the Fallen (10 books), both of which are high on the word counts

Maybe 2026 will be the year it* finally happens *Cthulhu decides we’ve suffered enough and ends our pain, or, you know, the other thing

One of the best things about living in the Mountain Time zone is getting to do an East Coast New Year’s with the kiddos and then still getting a good night’s sleep

My 12yo has only ever seen Hugh Jackman in Les Mis and Greatest Showman and she absolutely did not believe me when I explained that he’s Wolverine and it took several clips to convince her

"If you *only* used SAT to admit to elite colleges, share of admits from top 1% income falls 15.8% → 9.9% and representation from <$200k rises by +8.8%, with no reduction in post-college outcomes."

Glad to see the conversation continues to grow and data speak to the enormous class bias that is built into bans on standardized testing, which end up only exacerbating them more. x.com/garrytan/sta...

And this is why I’m happy to stand side by side with Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney in defense of democracy, but continued rabid antisemitism and conspiracy theories and transphobia are not things we need to welcome with open arms More simply, there is no pro-democracy version of MAGA

Scored the free upgrade to first class on LAX to LAS and was sitting directly behind Stevie Wonder; I pretended that everyone boarding and looking excitedly in my direction was happy to see me sitting there and celebrating my first class upgrade with me in spirit

Perfect album from the 90s you say

There is a panoply of sacrilegious jokes that I’m just a little too Christian to make right now

You are butt dust.

Next up “Shelob’s Basement Designs” and “Ungoliant’s Lighting Solutions”