tomorrow's tuesday of the week but thursday of the year

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Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan https://theonion.com/cat-clinging-to-side-of-christmas-tree-admits-that-was-1849899567/

Do you want to come to an open house today? No thanks, I’m seasoning my cast iron pans 😂

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Want to try something different?

💥Linked to the pro-Kremlin Doppelganger disinformation campaign, the Russian hosting firm Aéza has been sanctioned by the US, Australia, and the UK and its founders charged in Russia. Yet despite operating servers in Europe, the EU has taken no action.

🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share! nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...

#BookSky 📖

Beauty and pain

Every once in a while I think about how we survived a worldwide pandemic to end up here 🤯

happy boxing day to all who celebrate

"We will lose. The public will lose." www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/we-g...

If you aren’t familiar with this guy, he’s been buying up domains with the names of various right wing figures and orgs and making his own websites for them and it is making them crazy. Here’s his insta www.instagram.com/wordclown?ig...

Influx of trolls today. Whew.

The king's words were followed by a performance by a Ukrainian choir, with members wearing traditional Ukrainian "vyshyvanka" embroidered shirts, and the London-based Royal Opera Chorus. www.cbc.ca/news/world/k...

Legend Imran Ahmed (CEO of CCDH) just sued the U.S. Government for the wildly inappropriate visa sanctions. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York just granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against this inappropriate government action. What a Christmas gift!

A more detailed account of the purchase by @ricksteves.bsky.social of a neighborhood hygiene center, his plans to help improve it further, and him calling out a failure to support vulnerable people. What a mensch. Be Rick. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

BITCHES, IT’S TIME!!!

The gift of knowledge lasts a lifetime. "These examples point to a broader movement. At least 18 states have now passed laws requiring or promoting media literacy education, with Connecticut, Illinois and New Jersey specifically mandating news literacy instruction."

Here for the panettone. Yum.

The deal is valued at just over €1 billion.

A Christmas miracle is getting up from wrapping presents on the floor.

Such an appropriate time to follow EUvsDisinfo - "We are the East Stratcom Task Force, a team of experts with a background mainly in communications, journalism, social sciences and Russian studies."

Aww #Hopescroll

SISU "The number of Finnish reservists will be around one million in 2031. This and our other measures to bolster our defence signal that Finland ensures its security now and in the future," Minister of Defence Antti Häkkänen (NCP) said in a government release. yle.fi/a/74-20201345

We're making a list and checking it twice because even our #CultFilmsonKanopy collection has holiday highlights. See gems like SANTA CONQUERS THE MARTIANS (1964), without ads or subscriptions, through participating libraries. www.kanopy.com/product/santa-claus-conquers-the-martians Available: 🇺🇸|🇨🇦

Ukrainian artist Andrii Kovalyk, based in Madrid, ‘Where the Winter Dreams Begin’

Willing to bet #hopescrolling results in more offline weaving of social fabric too.

Greenland Flag for anyone who is less aware. Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark

Lmao canada

On days like today I am reminded why people tried so hard to sabotage Bluesky

The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell and Olena Zashko report from a city living under anti-drone nets and constant surveillance, showing how everyday life, from hospitals and schools to aid deliveries and cultural events, continues under threat, and why residents refuse to leave.

“We have reprioritized and done work to ensure that our industry, FMV, and the Air Force’s work on this overlaps as much as possible, resulting in the original timeline shifting left as I am expecting us to be operational at a date considerably earlier than previously planned”

Thank you so much Lithuania🫂 Lithuania has transferred a thermal power plant to Ukraine. Thanks to the new equipment, emergency repairs were carried out in several regions of Ukraine where the energy infrastructure suffered the most damage from Russian strikes. 1/2

"The Russians continue to invest in these [naval] capabilities, and they’re improving all the time . . . we should take that threat very seriously, because the comfort that we take from being an island that is separated from continental Europe is a false comfort,” added Jenkins.

On days like today I am reminded why people tried so hard to sabotage Bluesky

Forgot how adorable Jack Black is in The Holiday

On reframing the coverage of recent funding for Ukraine and increasing European autonomy. From the unflappable @anderspucknielsen.dk www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiTN...

His performance truly helped make Generation Kill what it was. I don't think that miniseries works without him.

Can’t stop watching this 😂

France to build large new nuclear aircraft carrier President Emmanuel Macron confirmed the decision over the weekend, telling French troops that approval for the programme had been taken this week. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/france-to-bu...

The reality is that only a strong European effort can make a Russian re-invasion of Ukraine impossible

Delighted to talk to Kori Shake about her excellent and timely new book, The State and the Soldier, about the history of civil-military relations in the US, when these relations are going through - to say the least - a testing time. (Free) samf.substack.com/p/the-state-...

Police in South Africa launch manhunt after nine killed, 10 injured in shooting

“Rayons du Soleilen en Hiver” - Sunlight in Winter Happy #Solstice! The illustration below is from my copy of an early 19th century French textbook with an embossed College royal de Louis-le-Grand seal in its cover. Established in 1563, the school’s alumni include Voltaire & Victor Hugo. 📚💙

What else does an archaeologist do on 21 December but watch the livestream for Newgrange? www.youtube.com/live/lRgumO6... #NewgrangeSolstice

Well worth the watch. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_For...

At first I thought this was another improvised MLRS which would have been way cooler