They're begging for belly rubs!

love to describe the world that we live in as "if tom clancy had a day drinking older brother"

Leverage. The first one, before Redemption. I mean, Redemption was good, too. One of the great things about Leverage is the season finales can be series finales if they don't get renewed.

Even the Patent & Trademark Office doesn't want the A's to move to Vegas. 😂

Pretty sure Denmark has universal healthcare because they voted for it and pay higher taxes and accept other trade-offs for it, not because they‘re hoarding a magic healthcare tree, but that’s too complicated for the ballcap-selfie-in-car crowd.

To be abundantly clear this may seem like Meta is “giving in to the right” until you remember their president of global affairs clerked for Scalia and I believe was in both of GWBush’s admins

Indeed it's not.

I don't know why I'm bothering to fact-check someone who goes on to screech about Jewish genes and noses, but this isn't remotely true. FDR's main foreign policy push in his first two terms was to unwind thirty years of US imperialism in LatAm and Stalin's whole thing was "Communism in one country."

FDR famously dragged his feet on going to war with Germany and Japan (whether he was eager to do so all along is another matter), and he died building the United Nations. He came up through the imperialist bureaucracy but when he finally got the chance to call the shots he all but pulled the plug.

Google’s AI “helpfully” summarizing a billing email telling me that I’m going to owe $11.68 when the amount in the email is actually $78.88 and I continue to wonder why exactly anyone thinks that this garbage technology is useful or good.

remembering how one of the nuns at my catholic high school once took our class to the school's back patio so we could all scream at the sky during finals and she screamed way louder and harder than anyone else. i could use that again

Meanwhile, a not insignificant number of the best XC runners in the world were denied visas for this weekend's world championships in Florida.

And it sounds like Ethiopia is not the only country that's had visa issues heading into Saturday's World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Tallahassee, Florida. www.letsrun.com/news/2026/01...

Promise?

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of finding one constructive real world offline thing you can do to use your particular skills in service of fighting fascism as a psychological defense against the constant drumbeat of fuckery

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

So, if you've ever had imposter syndrome starting a new job...

A devastating story about the life and death of Lia Smith, a transgender woman and college student targeted by conservatives online because she briefly participated on the school's diving team. Lia was found dead by suicide last fall at the age of 21. (Unlocked article below)

It’s admirable to try all sorts of art-type things, but it’s also fine not to persist in trying to enjoy things you find onerous, off-putting, tedious, etc. Even if they’re Certified Great.

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

I implore you to hit up CVS and get your flu shot. Please don’t game it with whatever else you heard. It’s real serious and we don’t gave any public health allies in the government now.

It’s January 6th! Happy klanniversary to all those who incelebrate!

you could probably capture our president by writing "nobel peace prize" on a pie plate and putting it under one of those boxes held up with a stick tied to a string

The white Christian nationalism at the heart of the January 6th insurrection is now rearing its ugly head almost everywhere in our republic. Once God has "chosen" you, then any action is permissible, from storming the capital to kidnapping presidents of other nations to any number of future crimes.

Also masking doesn't just protect against Covid! Get your shot and mask up!

No one I’ve admitted this year for influenza has been vaccinated.

this just so perfectly encapsulates the decades-long messaging failures by the dems

Literally the U.S. government’s position is “The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.”

Not crazy to say there was a much clearer criminal case against MBS, who ordered the murder of an American newspaper columnist, than there is against Maduro.

“how deranged could this be” I wonder, clicking on it … oh

We don't get 'em like this very much around here

"social media is good for disabled people" is not a counter argument. disabled people have been bullied into suicide online too. the existence of a benefit does not negate obvious downsides. I am so tired of this being used as a thought terminating cliche

it's all so bloody stupid

In addition to being evil, this is so genuinely incapable of understanding that other people exist and have wants and feelings and desires for things like self-determination.

Probably when I lunged in fencing but my toes turned in instead of straight & I rolled right over my ankle. The best part was going to student health & getting, "Are you pregnant?" "No, I rolled my ankle." "Could you possibly be pregnant?" "Are rolled ankles usually indicative of pregnancy?"

me @ 2025:

The goodest doggo

No, @nytimes.com, no. This is not going to be a standard question in interviews now. The last thing you asked AI should be "nothing" because you never use AI. It's not hard! I've never asked AI anything! I even skip over the summaries in searches! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/b...

OK, I know ABS as in Anti-lock Braking System and as in Automated Ball-Strike. I don't think either of those apply to soap dispensers...

The Republican playbook is to extract as much wealth from the country as possible over 4-8 years and then leave a mess for Dems to clean up. This has been the way since 1980.

In an administration full of low points, this is one of the lowest. Our country is an embarrassment.

…because the U.S. kidnapped him. This makes it sound like Maduro is saying something deceitful and self-serving when he is describing what unfolded before our eyes.

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

"The last era of imperial fights over 'spheres of influence,' scramble for resources, and control of the seas and colonies led directly to two world wars and the Great Depression. Now Trump is doing his part to revive that era without any awareness, or care, for the catastrophes that followed." ⬇️🗃️

Not disagreeing with OP by any means but I feel like a not-zero of wine moms are covert bullies and former Mean Girls and giving them a deserving target is a net good for society, like finally giving a border collie trapped in a suburban development 20 acres and a flock of sleep

why would they put the plane in a bikini

Also the only headline re: casualties in this thing has as always been "no Americans killed," so let's maybe keep reminding everyone that 80 people is a lot of people (and that Venezuelans are people)

People who are all "Wah, wah, then Vance will be president" simply lack a sense of fun (and immediate gratification).