🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...

Last Call for Submissions! Best of self-published horror from 2025! www.uncomfortablydark.com/post/12-15-2...

Well, this looks like a very good chance to finally get a marker for PCD. If the gene can be isolated, a test may be possible in the future. I've known Snotty. Most of us have. Let's do this in her memory. I will add $50 to any donation until the goal is met. 1/2 #UglyDogs #MusherSky

When you hear, may their memory be a blessing, stories like this are what that means.

Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.

This entire weekend

Trauma recovery that doesn't prioritize us feeling safe in our own skin, inside our own head & heart, isn't sustainable. Creating realistic safety inside us starts w/ doing what we need to do so all the "parts" of us of which we're aware feel seen, heard, believed, & valued.

What election is this?!? I want to see Oreo's Policies! (I know the Bike Path Mayor was elected in September so surely this is different and not election creep.)

Things we learn: 1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban 2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal 3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants And much more. Read it.

if anyone needs to see a dog in the snow

To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.

This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.

time is running out to get an adorable handmade crocheted plushy, bag, or hair accessory for the holiday, made by my very talented nibling! www.etsy.com/shop/FiberAr...

🧪🏺🦣 Strong case for *oldest fire-starting* 🔥 capacity, before 400 Ka, suggested by multi-stranded analysis: geochem, magnetic, sedimentary evidence of anthropogenic burning, + heated lithics + remains of iron pyrite. Behaviourally heading towards #Neanderthals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Have to be in Boston to get mom to a fancy doctor and clinical trial. Absolutely a white knuckle drive until Concord. But only stopped for one sleep attack for 30 minutes, so that was good. (Slightly sad that I still know a nap spot at every exit but glad that I am comfortable with Kenmore Sq.)

Repeated lesson by guides on this trip: Always Maya. Never Mayan. Maya pyramids. Maya calendar. Maya people.

Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it

Are you near Durham tomorrow? Or Thursday or Friday? GO FEED KIDS! (Stares intently at The Cousins in Wake County.)

This summer, a Kuwaiti official boasted that the number of citizenships that had been revoked was near 50,000. Older explainer about how arbitrary and bad this is in a country with a huge native-yet-stateless population called Bidoon. www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

Making recipes GF is always a gamble, so I share results. I made Yankee Cornbread (has flour) for a party using this recipe and substituted Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Measure for Measure Flour for APF, by weight, and it came out perfect. sallysbakingaddiction.com/my-favorite-...

The complete MAD WORLD CYCLE, with a mosaic of four related novellas of superpowers in a city on the brink of madness. A stand-alone entry point for the world of Cobalt City. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

WEIRD TEENS IN NORTHERN WISCONSIN ALERT!

Some have argued to me strongly that even if Loeb is wrong, he’s getting people interested in 3I/ATLAS and that’s a good thing for science. But Loeb isn't just wrong, he's recklessly following an old playbook that got 39 people killed in 1997. sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...

Wanna help Philly biodiversity? Do you enjoy socializing with people? Do you enjoy soft pretzels??? I have the event for you. I need help packing native plant seeds into wax paper bags for free distribution next Wednesday! Come lend a hand. I need all the hands I can get! luma.com/o3sladpu

This is your occasional reminder that, if you like Neil Gaiman's stuff, but can't bring yourself to like it anymore for justifiable reasons, Tanith Lee is the author he is credibly accused of extensively cribbing from, and her work is on Audible, and AMAZING.

I don't have a cute graphic, but I can tell you my Top 5 Podcasts from this year. I get excited when I see a new episode up. 1. @swindled.bsky.social 2. @nogodsnomayors.com 3. @wtyppod.bsky.social 4. Boyfriend Material by www.youtube.com/@MidnightSna... 5. @canuckisaslur.preg4pay.biz

The hardest thing for my mind to grasp is that this is molten rock. Magma is a Bingham plastic liquid - it acts like a solid until it gets so much pressure (yield stress) that it must move, e.g. toothpaste. So this is 800-1200°C liquid rock toothpaste and it is *splashing*.

A crew harvests and packages the last grapes of the season in the Central Valley. In a few weeks time, the leaves will have fallen off of this vineyard and another crew will be back here pruning and shaping the vines for next year. #WeFeedYou

Heads up, if you use an Abbott FreeStyle continuous glucose monitor, visit www.freestylecheck.com/us-en/home.h... to see if your specific device is under recall

I asked for earrings, gold. You gave me slippers, grey. My mother said I had to write a note to say how much I liked them, not much. (Judith Viorst, Thank You. Which I may be misremembering a smidge after so many years, but not how they lightened my little kid's soul with honestly.)

Today in 1972, as Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, and Ron Evans were rocketing toward the Moon, one of them looked back and took this iconic photograph, the first to capture a fully-illuminated round Earth and the only one taken by a human being.

Proof that the NHGOP’s Robin-Hood-in-reverse school voucher scam isn’t serving children of low-income parents who want an alternative to public schools, but caters to parents who can already afford to pay to attend private schools without taxpayer help. #NHPolitics indepthnh.org/2025/12/06/n...

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

This is stomach-turning, and giving Chinese Exclusion Act

I offer the joy of Aether in a box, the tranquility of Scooter sleeping, and Jinx having fun.

Catie is listing her full back catalogue here! She's an incredible writer. I especially recommend her cozy series when you need a satisfying comfort read, and her YA books for anyone who loved THE DARK IS RISING or CHRONICLES OF PRYDAIN.

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last. www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...

Kaden went into toxic shock syndrome after getting the flu & strep throat. He had heart, liver and kidney failure, resulting in his legs having to be amputated Listen to the kids. Many of them take infectious disease more seriously than adults 💔 people.com/7-year-old-b...

I absolutely loved this book!

Impeach. Now.

Really, the yearly "oh god what's in canned pumpkin" is merely pulling back the curtain. NOT to reveal the nefariousness of food companies, at least, not in this case. No, it's to reveal that behind the curtain, botanic taxonomy is chaos.

A singer-songwriter friend would like people to know that while boycotting Spotify is great, it was also 16% of their income that is now cratering. So if you're cancelling Spotify, please pair that with buying music, merch, or live tickets directly from your favorite artists

hello! day 2 of paperback sale has dawned!

Do Colleges Provide Too Many Disability Accommodations? No. Next!

I don't want to be in an organization that doesn't allow women. If you ask me to stipulate my assigned gender at birth to be in your club, (a) you're too f'ing nosy and (b) I don't trust you. Women should be the default not women (AFAB).

I'll be there! 💜🧡 #BMoreGoat #FreeDC #Blueskyvets

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:

Stay safe Orange County

My county and state announced a new alert service for public safety items. Desperate to know when the roads through the mountains are closed, I signed up. Did I get an alert when the eastbound road was closed last week b/c car accident on snow? NO. Did I get an alert for snow yesterday? YES.