If you're new to the Headline of the Year contest, it's surprisingly elaborate -- for the next few days, I'll be keeping track of reposts & likes on here and elsewhere (mostly here it seems at this point) and that will seed the top 16 headlines. Then-- a four-round knock-out battle for the title!

So did I!

As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson. Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa! [BIG ASS THREAD]

So here’s a holiday menu for defending democracy: a set of 10 concrete things ordinary Albertans can do starting today:

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

The Perks of Being A Hundred Wallflowers is about a teenager with the superpower to turn into an army of shy people. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/hundred PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

At long last we have created the Gattaca from classic sci-fi film Don’t Do the Gattaca Thing

Learn to lose to women without having a gender identity life crisis about it! Learn to be rejected by a girl without crumbling into a heap of failed masculinity! Learn to be in an equal partnership with another human being because you like them, not because of the gender role they reaffirm in you!

The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. Part 2 of 2:

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/red-3 #smbc

Celebrating an incredible coincidence of history today: #OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and 115 years later, to the day, Lucy was found. 🏺

If we ever want a truer interpretation of “Frankenstein,” we might need a woman to do it, E.B. Boyd writes. buff.ly/LeEegLe

Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications: Applicant names, profiles, demographics Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

I loved this movie so much. Run, don't walk, to your nearest YouTube!

Got so annoyed while waiting to vote that I wrote a substack post. open.substack.com/pub/lisayoun...

There are 11 recommendations in here. Recs 3, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10 are all good, require no comment - just do them! The rest I will talk about in this thread.

#OnThisDay in 1861, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything." n.pr/3kVZvon

an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny

Herdling is OUT NOW! We’re stoked to finally invite you on this journey 🐐🦬🐏⛰️ Get the game now on Steam, Epic Game Store, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S or Game Pass, links below! We’ll give away 5 Steam keys among everyone who reposts this 🎉🎉🎉

Just finished this book and had the same reaction. I can't stop thinking about it.

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo “I'm not a natural killer! See this? See what it says? I'm supposed to keep the peace, I am! If I kill people to do it, I'm reading the wrong manual!”

The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

My reading list for 2024. Highlights included @dunnettcentral.bsky.social (whose Lymond Chronicles series completely hijacked my August-November), and @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social and @travisbaldree.bsky.social, who also nailed the audiobook recordings of their works. New year, new reads!

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