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Like 12 years ago my friend sent me this picture from his work and it immediately, permanently changed the name of this utensil in my head. The bytes were fully overwritten. I don’t remember the former name of this item and frankly I don’t care

If you’re stressed out by the news, I assume the idea of not following the news makes you more stressed out, but also: you know that thing about how you need the serenity to accept the things you cannot change, the courage to change the things you can, and the wisdom to know the difference?

The twins’ classmate brought bracelets back from her winter break trip for the whole class. She decorated them with a reference to the class’ name, the “ice cream pandas,” which is very cute but also has somewhat unfortunate initials.

When you declare a common behavior to be immoral and incompatible with being a good leftist, you convince people who aren’t going to change that behavior (whether because they can’t or who just don’t think it’s a big deal) that they apparently aren’t a leftist and so should vote for the other guy.

Spent the morning going through in my head how different 90s rappers would deliver the line “let your haters be your waiters at the table of life.”

This gets funnier every time I watch it.

The administration keeps doing political science field experiments. This week’s is “do you get a rally around the flag effect if you do zero groundwork outside your base?” Looks like no!

Cackled at the idea of every single AI summary for anything including the caveat “other contributing factors: tower of Babel”

Did we talk about how that food delivery app post on Reddit everyone got mad about was entirely made up? www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

Some tests with the #feedback patch last week turned out much more musical than I'd anticipated, and now you can hear them. (Now you're in the loop.) $0/name-your-price at snwv.bandcamp.com/album/feedba... #maxMsp #originalMusic #darkAmbient

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

A great piece, clear and specific about why W was like that (eg his MBA cohort). I wish social media certainties about politicians’ motivations were this grounded in evidence. If we do care about that (though we don’t have to!), we need more than parallelism, analogies, and standalone fanfic.

I understand that Pluribus has limited screen time, and I love the tone. That said, I don’t understand how there’s not at least one character asking the weirdos about every piece of hidden knowledge they can think of (who killed JFK, what happened at Roswell, etc.).

The great thing about having a folder called RIFFS for all your riffs is that when you take a video and your phone is like “do you you want to save this to RIFFS” you can be like “hell yeah” and hit the RIFFS button.

Hey all, I'm now a published writer! Here's me on the Synchronicity album, and horror themes and narratives across The Police's discography. Been looking forward to sharing this with everyone 😁

My wife was having trouble waking up and I was like “let me just read you some headlines” and that did the trick.

Anyway I hope the next time people start saying that this admin is finished, kaput, etc. we can all remember this demonstration of how American institutional power operates independently of public opinion!

MTV going off the air with “Video Killed the Radio Star” is very appropriate insofar as it evidences the total lack of vision and originality that caused them to go off the air.

Got overly snoopy about a Maryland nudist colony and accidentally joined their events calendar. Looks fun!

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Scrolling Reddit and someone posted a list of how many times they pooped each month in 2025, and I need people to understand that, before social media, this sort of thing would happen to you maybe once and you’d tell the story for the next decade.

Watching Shrek for the first time, in case you were unclear how old I am.

3D printing the Pacific garbage patch, so the Atlantic can have one too.

Very weird to drift off when the “people we lost” montage is Diane Keaton and Ozzy and then the next time you look up it’s Dick Cheney.

Had Rilo Kiley’s “A Better Son/Daughter” playing and Girl Twin went and turned it up real loud. Is that bad

This is a great story, and yet another reminder that -- for something that felt like a fun goofy feature when it launched -- as we lose more and more actors, the AV Club's "Random Roles" has turned out to be an amazing oral history project.

My four year old sees “I put all my exes in a group chat” and raises “starting a video call with a messenger thread from 12 years ago that includes approximately 37 people I have never met in my life.”

In trying to get the kids not to wake my wife up this morning, I inadvertently created a bit of post-apocalyptic environmental storytelling.

“Hear Enema of the State like never before,” a Facebook post suggests to me, and it sounds like a threat.

My two favourite notes that I’ve left for myself are “funky behemoth,” and “big, luscious stank.” One was scribbled in the margins of a draft, the other left in bold, block capitals and highlighted at the bottom of a word doc. I did, eventually, figure out what I meant by each 😅

My chaotic neutral fix for the US electoral system is to still have geographic-based voting, but each zip code is randomly aggregated with other zip codes from across the country until you get roughly one district or state’s population.

Some local kids write & sell their own newspaper called The Morning Moustache every few months. Last edition, I wrote a letter to the editor about a fruit & veg safari. This edition, they printed the letter & followed up with some replies from the editorial team. An extremely fun correspondence.

“67” is fine, at least my kid isn’t saying “sussy” anymore.

i got a bit obsessed with the modern lovers this year & attempted to assemble a complete-as-possible 1970-1974 live chronology. it's far from complete, but found lots of fun stuff, including a setlist for what might be the 1st gig & ads for their shows in bermuda. jessejarnow.com/2025/12/the-...

Excited to note that since “Steamboat Willie”’s copyright has been liberated from corporate control, it has been used for the righteous purpose of advertising a predatory law firm. youtu.be/bYkHlxCg6ok?...

Opened Threads briefly and almost got sucked in by an 3ric Alp3r prompt, smh.

“No one wants to see your butthole,” I say to my beloved child, folllwrd a few minutes later by “we are not playing ‘spit hands.’”

Our only Christmas tradition is this all-timer of a Kevin Kline performance. youtu.be/Lud3bgEJeTg?...

Fairytale of NY regrettably has just enough hoi-hoi-hoi-me-boyo for someone who feels ambivalently about his Irish Catholic heritage to fully enjoy.

One year ago and a day, my sad Christmas story about aliens appeared in X-RAY! I still like it a lot. xraylitmag.com/skies-of-ame...

Look the fuckin’ baby just didn’t like the fuckin’ shoes okay.

It was very common for people in my grandparents’ generation, and even my parents’, to stop talking to family members for decades, often for reasons no one could remember by the end. Great-uncle Harry and his cousin had a falling out over a horse in 1957 and haven’t talked since, etc.

Editor: Hey Charles I feel like you lost track of the Tiny Tim character, could we resolve that plot line in terms of his illness Dickens [in the middle of typing a sentence] Ugh FINE

Found on tumblr, cackled.

It’s helpful to have this very unambiguous example of what “minimum viable product” means and why it’s a bad idea.

Harrison Ford! From the Wiki for Adam Sandler’s “The Chanukah Song”:

Mariah’s technical skills are so good they’re literally unbelievable. Minnie Riperton hits the whistle register and you can visualize her singing it. Mariah hits it in “Emotions” and it sounds like someone pressing a key on a synth, just a pure tone.