It was in these moments that I was running with non-waterproof shoes on… Worth it! I love running in the fresh snow, even though I feel a bit guilty putting footprints in it

we’ve been over this we just did this in Massachusetts they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving

That time of year again!

It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk

Die Hard time!!!! I do not care if you do or do not think it’s a Christmas movie, it’s a Christmas tradition and my 5yo, who wants to watch “something normal, like Vampirina” is providing MST3k style commentary in protest, is giving it another layer of entertainment this year

Ghostbusters is one of the best movies ever made, and the last line before the credits (“I love this town!”) is a goddamn triumph that fills me with writerly envy

The world’s biggest fan of the @mbta.com Orange Line got a holiday wish! Merry Christmas, happy holidays, happy regular Thursday to you all!

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

Christmas Eve Eve

I just need like a week at home and I feel my real accent coming back slowly, like a comfy blanket. A comfy, non-rhotic fleece onesie.

We surprised kiddo with a visit to @savethebayri.bsky.social in Newport today. We told her she could spend as long as she wanted, so it was a full 2 hours by the shark touch tank, petting the dogfish. She was practically giving tours by the time we left. The staff and volunteers are ❤️

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

This whole thread! And why I’ve adopted the approach of calling things what they are, specifically. I learned this from experts!

“When I sing, I feel like my body is lighting up.” How did I end up with this one incredible firecracker of a kid? 😻😻

Love to block people who respond to thoughtful critique of a system and the people who uphold it with “you just spent 26 years meeting the wrong people, all of whom are outliers, European superiority is real and good and benign.” Folks, we’re all in this, it’s everywhere.

Not in a box. Not with a fox. I do not want it, Sam Am I. I do not want your gen AI.

I’m old enough to have smoked cigarettes on an airplane (legally). And yes, when people smoked indoors, everything was very smelly. Then, after the smoking ban came in, we also started to find out all the other things pubs stunk of. But I don’t miss waking up with smelly hair

I’ve often said that Sweden doesn’t need ICE because people already love to snitch on their neighbors, but now the government is stepping up “internal immigration controls” so it looks like we’re getting something ICE-ish anyway.

Saw a “real eyes realize real lies” shirt in the wild. It was even arranged around an eye of Providence

TIL that the Big Blue Bug on RT 95 in Providence has a name, and it’s Nibbles Woodaway

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

The Boston Museum of Science continues to be the best. They still have a lot of the best stuff from my childhood, but whoa, it’s 50x cooler. Nothing tops the Van De Graaff Generator, though

We called them programmers back when what they made were programs. Now that they make apps, they ought to be called appers.

Other things you can do instead of watching his rantings: • Give your cat a snack • Give your cat a snack • Or give your cat a snack

In case I needed more proof that my kid is an agent of (delightful) chaos, Josephine has declared that the orange line is the best T line.

I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill

Child is very into scary stuff, but the Icelandic Christmas Guys were a step too far for her 😂 I tried to get a photo of her with one that was roaming around Reykjavik but it’s just a blur of her fleeing (unintentional best photo of the month already)

Even UNICEF is like "yo, Australia, this social media ban for kids is a terrible fucking idea." www.unicef.org/press-releas...

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Happy anniversary to transatlantic wireless telegraphy to all who celebrate! This day in 1901 Marconi sent the first radio telegraphy message between Cornwall and Newfoundland. (I know I’m a cable gal, but i caught the cable bug via radio history)

LinkedIn still buries all of my posts, no matter what I do, but it also believes I’m a ferry operator, which is probably a compliment

cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight

Watching Muppet Christmas Carol. FYI it is objective fact that Thankful Heart is the best song from a Christmas movie in all the world

Anyone who didn’t manage to google “what is a CDN” a few weeks ago, now you have another chance

Did they let Sydney Sweeney pick it this year

Someone posted one of those interface design parables on LinkedIn, about an air disaster, clearly written with the slop machine. He illustrated it with a photo of a plane full of corpses. Corpses. In my LinkedIn feed. Good job, LinkedIn, and good job design community

If, like me, you missed this thread the first time around, do not read it in public. Actual howls over “gut broth” and reading the bullet points in a Chris Morris voice

These guys are so dangerous. I honestly don’t know why there isn’t a LOT more coverage of what’s happening right now. I’m gonna be real awkward and just start bringing it up as much as possible.

Welp @rusty.todayintabs.com has given us the best analogy for generative AI and but also ruined lemonade

I think a big thing I struggle with, and something that is an important thing for people of my generation to attempt to understand, is separating toxic nostalgia from knowledge of the actual ways in which American life has gotten appreciably worse in my lifetime

Wait, did Louis CK even get “cancelled”? I know that’s not even really a thing, but I didn’t see any evidence that he even experienced the thing people say is “cancellation”

Among the things I will never get over from this era is the courage of every day people compared to the cowardice of those in power. We'd already be done if our "leaders" had shown a fraction of these guts

I realize this is niche bc I don’t have a ton of followers in Sweden, but if you’re within a few hours of Kolmården, they’re crushing it at holidays. For both Halloween and Christmas, they have little musical plays, games, and enchanted forests. Super cute and really well done (half a day is plenty)

Our indy web agencies are struggling. I know first hand the incredible quality of Set Studio’s work and I’d urge anyone who needs a bit of website love (or indeed a new one) to hit them up. Likewise, if you’ve got a bit of learning budget kicking about, get yourself a piccalilli course.

Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?

This is explicitly confirming the allegation: that he's ordering the killings for their own sake. The logical implication of which is hit them again if there are any survivors, which is both exactly what the Post reported and a cold-blooded textbook war crime.

“I remember everything because the videos stay in my body.” My 5-year-old describes memory. Incredible.