I have been thrilled by all of my battery-powered yard devices. Except for the slowblower, which is a piece of shit.

Minnesota is now lost to the GOP for a generation, but it was already light blue. But maybe Wisconsin (parts of it commute to the twin cities) is lost to them too. And that’s a swing state.

Weird to be in a polycrisis caused by a single man.

Never forget: www.lightningstrikeltd.co.uk/blog/the-pas...

To add to Cheryl's accurate assessment, if polio vaccination levels lag, and especially if the number of unvaccinated communities grow, the disease, eliminated in most of the world right now, could roar back much more quickly than people realize.

Hard to credibly do play-by-play when everyone knows you’re a liar 🤔

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

Can’t wait to hear JD’s smug lies tomorrow

Call me Ishmael.

These pens (unlike AI) are good for editing, though. A visitor from the Mitsubishi Pencil Company gave me a really good one. It even has a mechanical pencil inside!

Maybe I read too many spy novels, but euro intelligence agencies likely have their own Epstein files. Could this have factored into the Greenland about-face? IDK, I'm just a guy who likes to read John Le Carre while listening to old fusion records.

Huge congrats to the football stadium’s worth of voters in three midwestern states who made this happen

Interesting leak from a closed-door meeting. Sounds like someone in the room wants him to stick to this position.

I feel like he more than any other politician needs to find a donor who will let him borrow a private plane

to quell the unrest it's time to send in: the most unsettling man in America

maybe it's the Beck golden age, where it's just very sad

Who's writing about Minneapolis's effect on Wisconsin politics? MN was obviously targeted bc it's a blue state, but this bleeds into swing-state WI too. One of the Minneapolis-bordering congressional districts (WI-03, held by GOP rep Van Orden) was rated a toss-up two months ago. What about now?

A lot of people disagreeing with this, but think the underrated answer is: "the 'affordability' line hits different coming from a socialist insurgent as opposed to a multi-decade mainstream incumbent."

An important internet dynamic is that, across the board, people with jobs they can be fired from are less able to speak freely than people without said jobs.

The nervous-making thing about Greenland is Trump seems to be motivated by legacy lately. (See: secondhand Nobel.) And regardless of how the Greenland annexation goes (likely the dissolution of NATO, among other v. bad outcomes), that's the kind of thing that goes at the top of any president's obit.

"focused on the wrong priorities" buddy if you have a priority, the worst possible news is this guy has momentarily focused on it

My cat ❤️ the vent

He's not "focused on the wrong priorities," @cnn.com! The issue is that he is actively trying to dismantle everything good in the United States of America. That's why 58% of respondents to your own poll said he's "gone too far in using the power of the presidency". www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...

Anecdotal, but it seems likely that the older you are, the more perspective you’re going to have (built on first-person experience, not canned histories and received wisdom) on the current moment. Nobody to my knowledge polls the 85+, but they absolutely should.

Time for another pull on the arm of the good-news-or-bad-news slot machine (a.k.a. refreshing bluesky, and it’s always bad news)

Nobody is talking about how to adapt to an older society/economy. (Except me of course mitpress.mit.edu/978026204921...)

the smugness, my god

🤔

This is probably the best time of year for Christmas tree farmers. Time to kick back and relax for 11 months

really hard not to surmise from this that he was shown an AI video

A football stadium's worth of people across three midwestern states vote the wrong way in '24, yadda yadda, and now we're looking at the end of NATO. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/w...

everyone has their own moment when they sense reality shattering into a thousand pieces of stained glass. (For me it was a second ago when I discovered the existence of "Lindell TV")

this is going on your PeRmAnEnT ReCoRd

Buddy if headlines are asking *why* you just invaded a foreign country, it’s possible that you may have not spent enough time building domestic support for said invasion. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The number of people sharing this line. Instant classic.

Tremors, dune, beetlejuice. If you’re into sandworms these are the Big Three

Kwisatz haderach, give a dog a bone, this old man is watching dune

The Enemy of My Enemy is my Friend, but What if She is Also My Enemy? How Can a Friend be an Enemy? Oh No, This is Too Confusing and Now I’ve Gone Crosseyed: The Marjorie Taylor Greene Story

Billy Corgan: I’m gonna write a song that repeats a metaphor over and over again about being a rat in a cage. All anyone will be able to think about is rats and cages, rats and cages. Also Billy Corgan: I will name this song “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”

The hardest part of this whole debacle to believe? The notion that Miller enjoys music.

Vesuvius 🤝 Xitter Turning brains to glass

The only people who subscribe to paramount+ are trekkies. I’m sorry to heap this responsibility onto their shoulders, because they are a kind and gentle people and they don’t deserve this. But the fate of the nation now rests in their hands.

still waiting on my worrier dividend (I worry a lot) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

If you can’t find me, it’s because I’ve been dragged down to Davy Jones’s locker by the hundred AAA batteries I sewed into my swimsuit

“I mean, it’s one room, Michael. What could it cost?”

Department Q was a very good season of television. One of the best I’ve seen actually.

People forget that the matrix had this mysterious marketing campaign, so nobody seeing it opening weekend knew anything going in. Saw it on a whim that weekend (in what I recall to be a pretty empty theater). Teenage mind blown.