Ok ok ok, hear me out: Breads of Prey cc: @brettc.bsky.social @verbingnouns.bsky.social (Side note: BrettsOfPrey, BirbingNouns)

Oh, we know

The changing meanings of symbols. We actually talked about this example in the latest @lexispodcast.bsky.social with @mashedradish.bsky.social! BBC News - How frogs went from right-wing meme to anti-ICE protest symbol www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Remain in life www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zGf...

[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care

In 2026 let’s normalize masking for public health. If we could admit that with healthcare being gutted, vaccine access restricted and previously eradicated diseases coming back… having an extra layer like a respirator makes good sense. Let’s also normalize not mocking people who mask!

Dear Jon Stewart c/o @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.

Infected Mushroom I’m sure there are much worse but that’s what’s coming to mind at the moment

2026 goals

BREAKING:

This is true. At best, you can come up with food-names that are too long for casual everyday use (such as “Ris de veau à la financière”), but that just opens up a wealth of potential nicknames (Riri, Fifi, Nancy, Veaubot, etc.), and the full version is ideally suited for admonitory purposes.

He did find Nigeria roughly on a map, but he did not save Christians from ISIS.

My #BlackFeministBookClub picks for 2026 have been selected. Some of them are new reads. Some are rereads. All of them are beautiful and critical texts for this moment. Learn more on my Substack at jennmjacksonphd.substack.com. #BlackFeminism #Blackbooks #BlackAuthors #BlackSky

Oh dang.

Make a Bond movie casual Dr. Nah

Breaking Mews: Tension developing between orange factions over suspect holiday delivery. More details on this progressing story at 11.

My theory is that he left late Dec 25th and that's why there is no Christmas post with his wife, as there has been every previous year of his presidency. He also talked to Witkoff and Kushner at length today. I don't feel good about his security down there, but he's gonna do what he's gonna do.

I saw Joyride. I want more Joyride. Give me another one.

Japanese posters are so much more organized than Americans lmao: @catclub.bsky.social, which runs the #blueskyねこ部 hashtag, requires users to register their cat's name and birth date before receiving a virtual membership card that allows their cat photos to be seen by the broader audience lol

If there is drama on the internet and you don't see it, does it really happen?

I wonder! But the sad thing is that some Nigerian Christians actually asked the US to intervene, and some are now jubilant that this bombing happened. The Nigerian govt even said it's collaborative. Never mind that it's on Xmas Day & that there might be innocent people caught up in the maelstrom.

Um…. UM!?

PLEASE tell me you've seen this: youtu.be/fgNzmw42FmU?...

Sounds about right! #2025

Merry Christmas! If you'd like to spend 45 minutes celebrating video game history with me, we're about to debut The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I worked on his ALL YEAR, and I genuinely think it will reshape how we all think about the system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvp...

People who put little antlers on their cars: we aren’t stupid, we can still tell they are cars

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

I mean…

So many new Japanese artists migrating here

This Christmas I’m watching John Candy movies. The fifth movie in the marathon is Uncle Buck Movies so far: - The Great Outdoors - Summer Rental - Planes Trains and Automobiles - The Last Polka - Uncle Buck

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, and very best wishes to everyone for the festive season. 🎨'Cat and Christmas Tree' - Inagaki Tomoo.

Japanese artists are fleeing Bluesky because Elon just made all of their work editable by GenAI bsky.app/profile/hele...

UPDATE: We may see the first time English is displaced as the most popular language among Bluesky posters as soon as Americans head to sleep tonight. Japanese users were close to achieving that feat at 7 am Eastern Time, and their activity is increasing at an exponential pace. This is remarkable.

I love this and I will take it up with celebratory gusto if our weather ever gets proper wintry again. 🫠 This morning woke up to 61°F. The joke around here is that Idaho has two seasons: Winter and June. So we’re down to June now!? 🥵

Is she looking extra Gollum here or what

If you’ve ever loved an animal like family, you’ll understand this. Luna needs urgent surgery so she can eat and live without pain. I hate asking, but I won’t stay silent while she suffers. Please help if you can. 💛

Sesame Street taught me to count to twelve, but in the most dramatic way possible

North Pole Update: the Reindeer backup crew has arrived, please ready some hot cocoa and direct them to their landing pads!

Yes. Also when there are diabetes meds shortages and you have to call every pharmacy in town to see if you can get it and when! Also when your sensors get recalled but you already had 5/7 duds since August and two more last night but they can’t send you anymore. Yep everything’s fine here. 👍🏽 🗑️

Momotaro (Peach Boy) is a Japanese folktale about a young boy who was found floating down a river inside a giant peach. He grew up to be a hero who defeated a band of fierce oni with the help of his talking animal companions (a dog, a monkey, and a pheasant). 🎨Suzuki Harunobu, 1890. #MythologyMonday

(Heart)Breaking:

Happy Solstice, whichever side of the planet you happen to be on. 🎨1. 'Treasure Ship and Rising Sun' - unknown artist, ca. 1920s. 2. 'Miyajima in the Snow' - Tsuchiya Koitsu, 1937. #JapaneseArt #solstice

REJOICE in my post about crabs and shrimps that live in SEA CUCUMBER ANUSES! #crustmas #echinoday echinoblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/crab...

Merry #Crustmas everyone! 🦀 Some of my art from a while back... #Crabs

Whatcha looking at, bub? How many color receptors do yout eyes have, eh? Three? Bah! No wonder you think everything's monochromatic! Peacock mantis shrimp 🦞 #Crustmas

Around these parts amphipods in the family Pleustidae can be found readily by dock foulers and tide poolers who care to look. Some are as big as your thumb nail (like a mature female Thorlaksonius) while others like this Micropleustes require magnification to appreciate. #Crustmas

Pie tax / galette tax

Anybody have any fun things they like to do with the apple noodles that come from a manual peeler? Sometimes I eat em as is, but I was thinking like slaw or stir fry. (Lookin at you, Lauren Appleman! 😝)

unsolicited advice: 1. post about your book 2. put the TITLE of the book in the post 3. put a LINK TO BUY THE BOOK in the post 4. consider a cute graphic or just put the cover of your book (with alt text!) in the post 5. post about it as if this is the first time someone's learning about it/you