In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The eastern halves of the United States and Canada are experiencing a sea change in the public health threat posed by ticks,” Jonathan Mingle writes in a guest essay. “Humans are in retreat from this bloodthirsty enemy.”

i really wish veggies would be the star of the show more often in western cuisine. like, there are so many more flavors and textures, and unfathomably delicable experiences that are achievable through a well prepared vegetable than could ever be achieved with meat alone

The Creepy Caller Problem Protecting library workers from inappropriate (but not explicitly obscene) calls americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-sc... #publibs #skybrarians

You never know what you'll find at #alaac26. I absolutely loved the cute names for the teas,... Mar-tea-n Luther King, Fred-tea Mercury.

Should have had a Bigfoot in an Uncle Sam top hat named Sesqwatch. PUT ME IN CHARGE!

Anyone remember the Christian Reese Lassen artwork on folders and trapper keepers? I had them in middle school, that art was next level.

’80s animatronic band proves a hit at Volo Museum; ‘it’s pretty much the holy grail’

Andy Merrill (Brak) is an Amazon delivery driver. Carey Means (Frylock) got CHF from/exacerbated by COVID & was recently working as a restaurant dishwasher. C. Martin Croker (Zorak) died of sepsis from an infected tooth he couldn't afford to get treated. Capitalism destroys both art & artist.

it is in absolutely everybody’s best interests to develop some hobbies aside from Phone

Protect wildlife by eliminating invasive plants

Strong Bad after December 2010

Opening up a bottle of soda to discover I'd won a free 20oz bottle could up my serotonin so high right now. Flipping the cap to reveal nothing shows the vastness of what we have lost to modern advertising methods.

I feel like the Little Rascals when they tried to get a loan

For US Residents, there's a pre-order campaign for Dungeons & Dragons Crochet that includes a chance to win a stash of Lion Brand yarn & get a free early download for one of the patterns! Enter here: sites.prh.com/dnd-crochet-...

so funny when people get all upset about genres that other people DARE to enjoy. these big think pieces about ROMANTASY or COZY HORROR or DARK ACADEMIA and how dang upset they make the writer of the article. bud who cares what other people like youll be fine. let people read their books oh my god

On this 6th anniversary of #covid19 , I miss all the things we did when we actually had time to spend at home. I silently mourn making pretzels and bread while 3D printing PPE, visiting friends islands on ACNH and donating stuff to their museums, and figuring out how to do drive in movie in a field.

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Had to update my professional bio for a conference presentation. Instead of a job history, I put my most interesting, albeit ridiculous and unrelated, publications instead of the titles of other presentations/ publications. I hope people show up because the subject is cool. Do people care about bio?

Rod Serling is probably the coolest guy of the 20th century. Looked cool, sounded cool, fought Nazis, hated John Wayne, wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes. Honestly dunks all the hell over any male influencer guy.

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country. The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives

With short-form video now dominant on social media, researchers are racing to understand how the highly engaging, algorithm-driven format may be reshaping the brain.

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

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The thing about Catherine O’Hara is she is so hilarious and talented that I forgot she was mortal

Third book finally on its way!

When Trump promised to withdraw from WHO, a Pew analysis found more than half of Americans said the U.S. benefited from membership in 2024.

Don’t accept evil in your life #MLKDay

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

I honestly don’t think there’s a single figure in American history who has fundamentally shifted the way I understand the world I live in more radically than Fred Hampton. once you know the story you can’t un-know it and you see it repeated everywhere

This is something that all countries should practice! America needs this desperately! apnews.com/article/fake...

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

i can’t believe it has been 2016 for ten years

"Readers bought about 184 million print adult fiction books this year." Sharing a gift link to the NYT's survey of the industry's health, which is more encouraging. That's a LOT of books. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...

Hell yes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/25/c...

Rewatching Idiocracy as a refresher just in case 2026 doesn't go how it should.

I keep seeing people's top ten horror reads of 2025 and they are putting old books on instead of current. Where's @chucktingle.bsky.social Lucky Day? Where's @sarahgailey.bsky.social Spread Me? Do not sleep on these.

As we enter holiday season where infrequent guests might encourage pets to escape, I want to remind everyone of @theoatmeal.bsky.social idea to beware of cats with orange collars, kitty convicts. If you see a cat with an orange collar OUTSIDE, it's an indoor cat that needs help. kittyconvict.com

Someone intercepted the birthday package I sent my mom and stole the valuable items, then delivered the pilfered box. I get that we are all hurting right now financially, but imagine being the elderly lady who opened up the only birthday package she got, only to find it empty. USPS, do better.

@crobertcargill.bsky.social If you're trekking out to the suburbs, I like Fair Game in Downers Grove. If you're also visiting comic stores in the city, go to Challengers Comics.

June is #PrideMonth, but it’s also #RainbowBookMonth — a celebration of LGBTQIA+ books, authors, and stories. Find reading lists, tools for libraries, and graphics to help you celebrate: bit.ly/4kKOkOg Read with pride, in all of its colors. 🌈

Honestly at this point it just feels like a roadrunner keeps painting the same picture of a weekend on the side of stress mountain

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

I don't know about the rest of you, but this is the year I'm embracing my grandmother's depression era survival skills. I'm repairing holes in clothes, messing around with the garden, and baking weekly bread.

Things I did waiting for my hair dye timer. Read the instructions several times. Clean all makeup brushes. Clean spouse beard brush. Label all contacts right or left individually. Contemplate the bathroom wood placard on the wall- "I like you just the way you are" with a 70s painting of a tree.

I have to say I'm disappointed the Criterion Channel didn't take the opportunity to highlight women directors in March for women's history month. They could even have used the films they already had. So here's my Women's History Month Criterion Channel Collection. 31 films, for each day of March.

Why does this punk look like the guy who stole Pee-Wee Herman's bike?