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we lost my dad on Monday after a long, long illness, and as ferociously as I miss him, I’m so glad he isn’t hurting anymore. but God, do I miss him.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

you and many of your followers have probably already seen this but I thought it did a good job laying out a list of targets and categorizing strategic considerations for each vis a vis scope and lift: www.thenation.com/article/acti...

I'm just going to leave this here. Be safe. Watch out for each other.

Violence is too often sloppy; it spills over. Misogynists kill a lot of men, racists kill white people, ICE in its attacks on immigrants and anyone who looks like them just killed a white US citizen. When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you're a gun everyone is a target.

the Post-Gazette has been more thoroughly desecrated than I thought possible. RIP to a formerly great paper.

In English: The NLRB and Third Circuit ordered the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to provide certain health insurance benefits; the paper’s owner tried to get a SCOTUS shadow docket order stopping that; when that failed, they announced they were closing the paper.

"how dare you, what a whimsically sad thing to say" - BFF providing me with an all-purpose blurb just now

I am sitting at my desk eating cold leftover pancakes out of aluminum foil with my bare hands, like a raccoon, in case anyone was wondering whether 2026 had changed me (it has not).

Mayor of Pittsburgh Corey O’Connor said in his inaugural address, “Public safety is not a statistic. It’s how you feel when walking down the street”. This is coded and intentional. Public safety isn’t dictated by your feelings. and policy shouldn’t be crafted by unfounded paranoia and fear.

my dad is twelve days shy of ten months of hospice, and I don’t think my brain will ever be right again.

(Desperately trying not to think of current events) Hey can you imagine a bluegrass tribute to Dave Matthews Band and how bad it would be

thinking about how, in the Russian history elective I took in HS, every time a tsar was facing domestic weakness the teacher would turn to the assembled students and ask "so what is it time for?" and we would chant "stunning territorial annexation!" and she would respond "well, DUH, girls"

January 1 might ring in a new year, but it's also a day when copyright protections expire for a bunch of cool old stuff that we can now freely access, republish, reinterpret, and revitalize.

Grok is not a source! Grok is not sentient! Grok is a machine woven into the fabric of a social network that made CSAM on-demand!

no ❤️ variety.com/2025/film/gl...

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

speaking as a Pittsburgher: we don’t claim Bari Weiss ♥️

You might question her methods, but credit to Bari Weiss: her leadership has pushed 60 Minutes into new formats and attracted a bunch of new viewership outside the normal broadcast audience.

why am I getting a Year In Review from LINKEDIN

Here is a map of the affected countries (excluding Tonga), to give you a sense of how much this new ban restricts immigration from Africa in particular. Of the newly-added country, Nigeria faces the largest impact, with tens of thousands of visas issued every year to Nigerians.

GREAT NEWS! This year’s Williams-Sonoma catalog is powered by AI! defector.com/the-2025-hat...

we know gods who use subtext they're all cowards

the right attitude

Jim just beat Gwynn in Legends: Z-A, and in response to her disappointed face I said “I am eleven or twelve years old and I do not need this.” and he wanted you all to know.

the club was like an Ediacaran sandbar: full of things that were technically alive, but not in a way you or I would recognize

not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

my targeted ads continue to deliver.

nothing like getting dressed to go out and realizing you and your partner are wearing IDENTICAL outfits (cat t-shirt, flannel, jeans, gray beanie/beret, fun earrings from the same artist)

the behavioral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards me becoming my fucking dad

My most-used words in 2025 were: 1. "find" (6×) 2. "seen" (6×) 3. "wedding" (5×) 4. "dads" (5×) 5. "simply" (4×) See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest

i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.

my top music summary, year after year

An astonishing letter published in the Times of London.

Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

In defining rape in law and public discourse, Catharine MacKinnon wrote, "The level of acceptable force is adjudicated starting just above the level set by what is seen as normal male sexual behavior, including the normal level of force, rather than at the victim's, or women's, point of violation."

this is far from the most important thing about the Epstein emails, but my God, that man could not type.

got a post auto-removed on r/pittsburgh because I included the word "selling," and I have just written a very earnest appeal explaining that I simply want some khachapuri and don't know where to find it. baby yearns for salty cheese.

unions forever.

🚨BREAKING: STRIKERS WIN! The order affirms what we’ve said all along: The PG’s lawless union-busting cannot stand. We made sure it didn’t. We’re taking back what they stole from us. We won this strike.

This also applies to health insurance. It’s important we discuss the details of what’s happening, but you have to bear in mind that the man literally does not know what health insurance is.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

it's insanely funny for people to be talking like this about New York of all places, the city with a big metal lady in the harbor holding a sign that says "we love immigrants"

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

this is objectively hilarious