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We were in first place in this film award voting. A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours. Now it's personal. Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS. Reshare? VOTE! www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...

2025 recapped

sold jeph "questionable content" jacques a wallet, real pioneer valley hours

big star enjoyer

went to Bova's in the north end yesterday and i am still contemplating with due awe the guy in multiple items of tie dye sox attire who knew the staff and greeted them with "beautiful day we're in today" a phrase so infelicitous in sort of wraps back around to good

put vin diesel in a knives out mystery

in 2026 i'm getting homebodypilled. i'm indoorsmaxxing.

2025 Year in Review! -falcon hearing worse than ever -center losing 50 to 100% of holding capacity -blood-dimmed tide containment failure -the Worst with record high passionate intensity

This is New England's version of the Louvre heist. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Semiotic paradox alert!

be a tourist at home sometimes

joyeux noël

child on the bus excited as HELL when he saw a Raising Cane's and demanded of his father if they could go, and the flat cap'd dad intoned "who's cain and what do you wanna raise him for"

i like the muppet christmas carol as a muppet movie, but as a Christmas Carol it is vastly inferior to the george c scott version

For sale: Tiny Tim. Never died.

I guess it’s possible Randi wasn’t paid off by ai companies to push slop on our kids and is just a boomer who likes ai slop.

It's not the job of three different ghosts to teach you about the evils of capitalism beginning at the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eve, try using google

favorite book i read this year was Passan's The Arm, a book that lives in the perfect light nonfiction category of "let's zoom in on THESE weird guys." I want a version of The Arm for every position in baseball or every injury in sports.

every semester, i tell my students "flow is just structure" and every semester they don't believe me.

Glad to see the antinatalist movement getting more politically organized

it actually is worth doing a lot of things that are tedious. it is hard but so is life, and in either case you die regardless. write your own emails, read your own boring books, and so on.

Using the word “faith” as a synonym for religion, which so many people do without even thinking, reifies a post-Enlightenment culturally Protestant idea of what constitutes religion.

threw about a billion market basket flyers in the recycling today after they languished in the foyer for months, my little christmas gift to my neighbors.

i don't really have the energy to be appropriately conspiratorial to grasp our contemporary political situation, all of my limited brainpower is going to evaluate various jarren duran trade rumors

check out this idiot

i know i have Mariners-enjoyers mutuals on here, so please treat The Ref right.

bari weiss is in hot water, fielding accusations of both malice and incompetence, but it’s not too late for her to clear this whole thing up by sitting down for an honest, straightforward interview with isaac chotiner.

i try so hard to get my beautiful perfect boy to exercise, play with toys, etc, but the only thing he enjoys is chewing on elastic. he craves intestinal blockage

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.

christmas card possibility

Please don’t live in my city if you’re going to be walking in front of me. Thanks in advance.

someone was like "oh you watch so much british tv you must be a real anglophile and need i remind you all depiction ≠ endorsement smh

ten years ago, facebook reminds me, i posted "goodbye florida, see you never," as i left a relative's house. little did i know.

every year his majesty the King of Christmas accepts tribute from his advent throne

"he's just sitting in the friggin cah, tell him to sit in the cah ovah theah"

deleting signal off my phone for my mental health this Christmas

Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI. I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.

I don't think I've seen a slingshot planner since I moved up north

shedding boy

something poignantly funny about the two tough old boston guys in my greater organizing circle here absolutely not liking me even a little. It's exactly what i want from em to better live out the stereotype, but also i yearn for their approval lmao

It's your birthday, Duane.

traveling for the holiday, so I am engaging in a traditional holiday practice of frantically cleaning my house and then pretending I didn't so the cat sitter thinks that I am a clean person

I have no beef whatsoever with emphasizing DIY access to any kind of technology of bodily autonomy, but I do think that if we are specifically concerned about children, we want access to medical professionals for the same reason that we don't want ear piercing to happen at home or even at Claire's

And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.

Back when I was writing regularly about baseball, circa 2012, I crunched the numbers & the likelihood of becoming a tenure-track professor in one of the MLA disciplines was almost precisely the same as getting from a college baseball team to a MLB roster. Nothing has gotten easier since then.

Boston University's Creative Writing Program is searching for a senior fiction writer to fill a chaired position, the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. See the job listing here: