I respect this swearing in because I also would immediately want to go see all the secret hidden stuff.

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1753

A New Year’s cover by Owen Smith, from the December 27, 1999, issue of the magazine. #NewYorkerCovers newyorkermag.visitlink.me/0hNHog

Happy New Year!

Amazing subdivision name in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Does this make me picky?

hello milwaukee and chicago

Saw Bluesky described as where elder millennials go to retire from the internet, and immediately felt the peace that passes all understanding wash over me. None of have to struggle any longer. We completed our time.

One small thing I've started doing to improve my life just a bit is diligently filing all my photos with friends in their own little album in my phone. Every time I look at them I am reminded of a nice time I had. SORRY THIS IS BASIC AND EARNEST BUT IT'S TRUE!!!

🎄

I immediately heard the pause music.

Worth watching 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' in any of its versions, as a reminder of what CBS has been. Or 'The Insider,' about 60 Minutes in particular. This is really, really bad.

Goldilocks waking up:

@bencollins.bsky.social The Onion ("America's Finest News Source" - trademark) stays in business by offering festive holiday discounts on subscriptions to old-timey ink-on-paper editions of The Onion delivered directly to grateful subscribers by the equally-old-timey United States Postal Service.

There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Bank of America

It is time for my annual shout out to my favorite Christmas album, some say the best Christmas album ever, that more people should know and listen to. Kermit Ruffins: Have a Crazy Cool Christmas! www.basinstreetrecords.com/product/kerm... (On Apple, Spotify, and bits of it on Youtube)

Frankly amazing thread and we should bring all of these back.

I don’t fangirl much, but I absolutely lose it over Dennis Scott. This man is one of Chicago’s greatest treasures.

Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow chicagoshovels.org

Requiescat in Pace

Cover illustration for TKC magazine, December 2025 issue. TKC全国会の会報誌『TKC』2025年12月号の表紙イラストレーションを担当しました。 View on Behance: www.behance.net/gallery/2406...

Iceland Was Practicing Christmas the Right Way By Ezra Klein

Celebrating a legend.

Garden of Earthly Delights

This entire weekend

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

This is why Pynchon has so much fun with detective novels.

this is a difference you see between more "traditional" detective stories (holmes, poirot etc), where the dapper detective is more removed from the action itself, and noir and hardboiled detective fiction, where the troubled, traumatized, alcoholic detective shapes and is shaped by the plot

If you need a stocking stuffer for a youth, Ultimate Confections in Wauwatosa has you covered.

Can confirm as others have noted that this is maximum Minnesotan rage.

Watching 2001 at a sold out theater at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social, discovering how HAL is straight up pure comedy. It’s a Wonderful Life at the Music Box as well. Watching my kids dance in the aisles of The Oriental Theater at a showing of Stop Making Sense.

Art Institute membership is by far the best way to spend money if you live in Chicago. And coming here for the members' hour is the one thing I ought to do far more. Even if the Monets make me homesick

The Turin Horse, 2011, directed by Béla Tarr.

Current* conditions near Empire, MI:

You will be visited by three spirits

Movie you’ve watched more than six times in a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Marvel.

true story

I’m gonna start using this quote from the character Settembrini from Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain in reply comments.

The CTA holiday train is on the Brown line tracks today, so it’s game day if you want a shot at making this photo

This is so f’d up—people being singled out, essentially for their race, on what is supposed to be a joyous day of their citizenship ceremony and being told they can’t proceed

Round 2. Dig in.

it's how we end up talking about Sinners and Nope like they're naturally aligned, instead of talking about how Nope, Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Sinners together mark the dawn of a new age of existentialist blockbusters

I donated $20, you all should too! gofund.me/5405c6eb5

XKCD's role is not to make me cry, but it did. xkcd.com/3172/

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