Underdiscussed point: how much responsibility Substack bears for Bari Weiss being in the position she is now in. Fuck substack

Minnesota! I am obsessed with how adorable this dog is. He is still available for some reason. And you can trust John. Please consider bringing The Professor into your family so that you can supply me with pictures of him forever.

“Who made you the pope?” I shout dismissively, to the pope.

Season's Greasons! An image homage to Seuss. Sketched up this evening, drawn fast and loose.

bloody hell LinkedIn TAKE A BREAK

Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983

Devastated. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r840...

Ah, the traditional Christmas morning cry of "who's put tits on my Xbox controller?"

Merry Christmas Sir.

The best thing about Joe Biden was that we almost never had to hear about what he was doing or saying or thinking. It was so refreshing. Somehow the media turned that into a liability for him.

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

Dying at “(mostly, Christians, although sometimes with the slightest pinch of "Judeo.")”

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

The condescension and moral preening are getting all the glory in this email, but don’t sleep on the new head of CBS News declaring that the last 7 days were a “slow news week.”

To add to this, Miller is most likely lying, experts on CECOT have said the guys with face tattoos have likely been incarcerated for years; ie they are not the ones the administration deported. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

What up, I wrote the essay. The amount of problems with AI Data Centers is actually wild, and the fact that they target predominantly low-income and BIPoC neighborhoods is actually evil. And yet, people believe the lie that it "creates jobs" & "is no worse than your commute to work" Meanwhile...

BREAKING: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena. The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses. New, at Law Dork:

#TodayInQueerHistory December 25 (2016) Remembering George Michael; pop star and all around good egg who passed #OTD. George did a lot for charity. Royalties from hit Jesus to a Child supported Childline. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me supported HIV charities. He often donated anonymously too.

Well this should be a bigger story! Why is a bank weighing in and lobbying ministers on who should be swept up in terror charges? www.thenational.scot/news/2571663...

George Michael died on Christmas Day in 2016. He will be remembered for his incredible songwriting talent, his gorgeous vocals and for the greatest non-apology video of all time, following his arrest for cottaging.

Best take on the postal service

We sure do fall for the fallacy that a guy who has made a lot of money doing one thing, suddenly must have a holistic understanding of the entire financial system! No, man… he just got rich doing one thing and repeated it.

Mike I'm beginning to suspect she might not be good at her job

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

OH MY GOD you cannot just toss normies into the RPF fanfic pool. That's like handing a toddler a machete and dropping them in the middle of the Amazon rainforest.

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

See also: a knife is not a dish. You do not need to try to slow its momentum with your foot.

As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year: A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.

Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”

Despite the title of this week’s @bigissue.com column , it is more about my love of Manchester than resigning from Monkey Cage - but here it is www.bigissue.com/opinion/robi...

The Positive Climate News You May Have Missed This Year by @davidfickling.bsky.social Some Grids Have Almost Decarbonized: "in some parts of world, decarbonizing electricity is approaching its endgame. Roughly three-quarters of power generation in UK & Europe this year came from non-fossil sources"

I love the fact that the mail is wasting online print space on Polanski. As if anyone reading the Mail was ever going to vote Green. What are they going to do. Not vote for him twice while shaking a fist!?

Lunatic spouts kindness

A coalition of 19 states and DC have filed a lawsuit challenging the Kennedy declaration seeking to ban gender affirming care for trans youth by fiat by creating a federal "standard of care" based on pure pseudoscience. ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

Sarah Shitum is more like it!

I was just reminded of this - how a felon and convicted sexual abuser stole money from children with cancer but enough USA citizens thought he was the sort of person who should lead their country that he is President FOR THE SECOND TIME www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

Since I just started a chonky book that I won't finish before 2026, my 12 favorite reads of 2025 (in publication order): Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes (1926) Nathanael West, A Cool Million (1934) Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time (1951) Tewfik Al-Hakim, The Tree Climber (1962)

Can't imagine why the horrible bigot who played a large role in the UK's anti-trans moral panic thinks people should be required to stay in touch with toxic family members

My money is on Weiss spiking the story on CBS but not knowing she had to alert the international broadcasters who already had their copies of the show with the segment, so they simply aired/uploaded it. No their fault Weiss is unqualified and incompetent.

The notion that Canadian media should tidy up messes for the media of the country threatening our sovereignty is adorable. That Canadian citizens shouldn’t leap at the opportunity to embarrass that same country is comical.

anyway hilarity aside, the implication that Canada is a vassal-state of the US and so their non-state-owned media is not supposed to make Americans look silly is just such a damning statement if you like freedom of the press.

"Since they are Canadian, I would not rule out treachery" is such a hilarious line because it is in fact 100% backwards. You can't be a traitor to a country you're not from??????

Related: one of the indie bookstores near me did a "wrapped" post on one of the other sites. Top sold genre of 2025? Romance.

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

why don't you go keep glinner company, sarah. i'm sure he'd love it.

50% of phobe columns in the national press (of which there are SO MANY) are 'it should be illegal for me to have to see a minority I personally find Icky' and the other 50% are 'also it should be illegal not to like me and feed me bonbons and tell me I'm always right'

Beyond the politics of it — I can’t imagine that for the majority of artists there’s any benefit to being on that site. The algo kills outside links, you have to pay to reach your followers, it suppresses whatever it sees fit, and now it’ll eat up your artwork…??

one of my most popular designs