Weighing the disparate impact of facially neutral policies that result in racial discrimination — like with disaster aid — is forbidden under the Trump administration. Disparate impact analysis was never an example of woke excess or whatever. The harms were real: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amber jelly fungus, little wonders lit like lanterns by the last of the Winter sun at Lough Boora parklands @tocharstories.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social @peatlandecr.bsky.social

Quite an announcement video from @crockett.house.gov www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...

i'd love either of them, but...well, maybe if it's Paxton they're up against

Making these babies out of cupcake cases and pipecleaners. I love them! #Speirgorm #Speirghorm

The bones of Santa have been leaking liquid for 1,700 years.

🪶🌎🧪 WE'RE HIRING!!! Want to band fabulous birds on a far-flung island in the Western Pacific? We need to fill these 2 positions ASAP. More information here: birdpop.org/docs/jobs/Ro...

Trump just said John Deere tractors are crap and you shouldn't buy them.

Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.

Today — 30. November — is National Mousse Day. Ah, I hear the mating call of the chocolate mousse! [graphic, as always, by that ineffable chocophile @sandraboynton.bsky.social]

Check out this exclusive red band clip from The Mighty Nein, a new animated series from the team at Critical Role, who also created the critically acclaimed series, The Legend of Vox Machina. https://bit.ly/48ZNRos

When a group of blue state attorney's general submitted a strident defense of trans healthcare to Trump's FTC, no one in the media covered it. No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.

Another holiday #AMomentofJoy from @brassaholics (IG).

This creater puts "reading levels" into perspective in a really helpful way, so sharing it here.

with the holidays upon us please enjoy my favorite miss manners column (circa 2002)

Jennifer Hale has opened up on PlatinumGames' controversial decision to hire her and replace original voice actor Hellena Taylor for Bayonetta 3, admitting, "I definitely got thrown under the bus by that whole thing." https://t.co/Vuzma7VSAa

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

“But this is how everything broken heals. You must hold it close when it cries out and love it until it is holy.”

the jonas brothers christmas movies is ridiculous and far more fun than it has any right to be, lol

Here, a #painting to look at. "Lilac Sheep" I painted because, well I like sheep. And their shapes. And for a wonderful moment in my life I lived among them. This went to a good home many years ago. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar

People keep talking about Die Hard as a Christmas movie when Batman Returns is *right there*

The answer, in terms of 'what the Average Joe do to combat the attempts to oust trans people from society' is to just start new clubs that are renamed the inclusive womens institute, and let their crusty old clubs die with their members.

Our legal team has advised us to include this disclaimer: please do not put the "manroot" in your actual ass. It will not sequester carbon there and your ER doc will not be amused

Ursula is all prairie prairie prairie here but these grasses are indigenous to much of North America and there are so many more native perennial grasses that will ALSO grow these huge root systems! STOP PLANTING INVASIVE EURASIAN GRASSES stop having lawns rewild every inch of your property

The 14th Amendment is as clearly and unambiguously written as any law on the books. Politically it was intended to suppress former Confederates and prevent the conditions that led to the Civil War. To attack it is to give comfort to their heirs and cut into the seams of our society.

The land was at risk of being sold for beachfront homes.

Do not pick the mushrooms. They are not a gift of the Atmospheric River. They are not friendly. They will melt your liver. (That is not a metaphor.) apnews.com/article/pois...

There are certain pools whose drowned spirits sing of weakened sunlight, weed-dressed bones. Sing of mud embrace, decay's alchemy. At the threshold of their banks the witch may sing back of those things she wishes transformed in their waters. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Baking week commences- well, once i get home from the store laden with yearly purchases of molasses, cream cheese, and spice

Exquisite Roman glass cup signed by master glassmaker ‘Ennion’. AD 30-70. Ennion was the first glassmaker to ‘brand’ his work by incorporating his name into the mould’s design, some 2000 years ago! Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria 📷 Leonardo.disimone #Archaeology

The wind whistles over the ridges but I like it like that.

You may think you go hard, but do you go A.E. Housman hard?

Hey! Looking to talk to someone in Austin who has allergies for a story I’m doing. Let me know if you are willing to chat!

After 99 years, Michigan clockmaker Howard Miller is shutting down. The culprit: Trump's tariffs. "If the federal government had said, ‘Oh, it's a 10% tariff, constant,' … they might've worked things out," an employee said. "But no. It's just chaos." By @annaleighclark.bsky.social

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for the cloud-webbed blue of winter, when the sky sheds a single tear and it becomes not rain, but snow: wingssilverwork.com/a-cold-atmos....

Matthew Lillard is a national god damned treasure, not only as an enjoyable as fuck actor, but as a D&D ambassador and co-owner with his friends of Beadle & Grimm's (makers of the best D&D accessories on the market.) The only person who looks worse for Quentin shitting on him is fucking Quentin.

Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?

i don't want a unifying Dem who promises to return to good government. i want an angel of death who promises the government the reconstruction amendments promise.

the leader of a college republican group at OU says that the quality of Samantha Fulnecky's essay was "indefensible" and that the trans grad student who graded it graded it correctly: www.kswo.com/2025/12/05/p...

Yeah, this isn't hard youtu.be/vhPwtnGviyg?...

We restored the zip ties on baby Jesus. The #Christmas story is literally about an authoritarian ruler using violence, causing fear, and eventually driving the holy family to become refugees in Egypt. The parallels couldn't be more clear between scripture and our nativity. We're not going anywhere.

Listen, i just about started a riot last night at an office christmas party because i said out loud that a man isn't worth marrying if he can't buy his own clothes when someone insisted i "forced" my husband to wear a tweedy green vest that he sought out and purchased himself

We are told that, under stress, the humanities must be sacrificed. But amidst a war of aggression scholars in Ukraine have undertaken one of the most ambitious knowledge projects of our time. It's a privilege to be involved with Ukrainian History Global Initiative snyder.substack.com/p/ukrainian-...

Not having a Joann's in town has made the last three months so goddamn difficult- want to adjust a costume for halloween, no fabric store. Want to sew up some quick booties for dad's birthday at thanksgiving, no fabric store. Want to make some new pillow covers for christmas, no fucking fabric store

#ArtAdventCalendar “Kansas Sunrise” Quilted fiber art 2018 #beauty #fiberart #quiltsky

Today is a day for a good pub fireplace. #SpeirGorm www.weirdodublinpubs.com/weirdo-guide...