Whoever invented Santacon needs to be drowned in a festively decorated vat of suburban vomit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

If you think your job is not to tell the truth but to "challenge your audience's assumptions" if the latter is in tension with the former then you're going to end up lying. bsky.app/profile/larr...

This is why I support freedom of expression. Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing. Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.

This headline and story cannot be too widely shared. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

A now- infamous review, hysterical and worth a cheer up read

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

"The Barnes and Noble in York—where Fetterman was born and raised—had sold zero copies. The Barnes and Noble in Philadelphia had sold two copies. An independent store in Pittsburgh and an independent store in Philadelphia each told me they weren’t stocking Unfettered" defector.com/john-fetterm...

Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?

once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

Same! So much saner to live without the firehose of toxic bot blather.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

CNN has a panel talking about Epstein and the host just mentioned (almost as an aside!) that one of the guys is a lawyer defending Ghislaine Maxwell. And rather than being a guest who's grilled about the case, he's treated like any other panelist who just happens to be minimizing the crimes.

It’s just wild to me that there has never been an easier time in history to be human and a few groups of lunatics are determined to undo that.

Buffalo tries to lure back Canadian visitors Canadians are not having it. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Just the NYT calling the areas where Mamdani most won votes - "The Commie Corner"

Details and story: Viral White House Prayer Ignites Debate Over Faith, Politics, and Trump meidasnews.com/news/viral-w...

Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy

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real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time

Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.

If only the New York Times had made this big of a deal in December 2022 when Trump called for “termination” of the Constitution. (That ran on Page 13. Yes, Page 13.)

@nickofferman.bsky.social is the absolute best 💜 Be more like him, and less like that weirdo he quoted

When you want Americans to be arrested for helping America's allies fight America's enemy, that can only mean one thing: You are one of America's enemies.

The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--

Pete Hegseth’s Defense Department tried to bar a CNN journalist from serving as a pool reporter for an upcoming foreign trip. Other reporters threatened to boycott the trip. Guess what happened next. The Pentagon caved. Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/pete-hegse...

These are both in the same story. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

Owner of loudest peep machine wonders why there no peeping.

On this date in 1721, Maria Carillo - the oldest soul killed in the Spanish Inquisition - was burned at the stake for openly returning to Judaism after suffering a compulsory baptism. "I'm 96 with not a fuck left to give," she said at her end. "So light it up and go eat a bag of dicks, assholes."

important tribute from adam sandler to morris, the alligator from happy gilmore who just passed away at 80+ years old. rip.

every interview with this guy makes me tear up

some personal news! www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

This was a top-of-Page One scandal in 1997: "President Clinton two years ago approved a plan under which the Democratic Party rewarded top donors with meals, coffees, golf outings and morning jogs with him and with overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom, to 'energize' them for the coming campaign."

It’s very strange that this article on the staffing issues at Newark Airport doesn’t mention the fact that DOGE fired 400 FAA employees a few months ago, and union officials warned about exactly these kinds of shortages.

It’s like Trump used the dinner fork instead of the salad fork.

READ. THE. SUBHEAD.

Mel Brooks brought an extra finger to his hand print ceremony. Because Mel Brooks. 😂

Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

Is it the official position of the New York Times that the pope of the Roman Catholic Church holds “the keys of the kingdom of heaven”? Really?

Our latest #crypto story: How the #$TRUMP memecoin funnels mysterious foreign money to #POTUS and his family w/@Anthony Cormier and @Leonardo Nicoletti tinyurl.com/4jzkdxrn

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Contrasted with NYT, here's a newspaper exercising responsible editorial judgment.

the contrast between the journalists at 60 minutes who are risking their careers for their independence and the white house correspondents chuckling at nerdprom about how they helped trump get elected is pretty jarring and infuriating