My public service announcement for today is that America’s Test Kitchen, which is infinitely better then NYTimes Cooking, has introduced a new gift link option that has no limit on how many you can share and each link lasts 30 days.

Y'all are gonna make me mute the word "pie," aren't you?

I'm making Beef Wellington for Thanksgiving. I wanted a project, and boy have I got a project. It's a beast.

the only good thing about genAI is that it got me to really love seeing bad art, because I know a person put in time and effort, made themselves vulnerable by showing it to others, and is trying to improve. I value that more than anything now

I have an inspiration for this year's holiday card. It's not a great idea, but it's something that might be a fun challenge to make. It could take me several days of work, and I am confident that a significant percentage of people who see it will assume it's just generative AI. So maybe not.

Don't remember my first CD. Never bought a lot of cassettes, but... Cassette: Dead Milkmen, "Big Lizard in My Backyard" Vinyl: Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense" and Elvis Costello "Armed Forces," bought on the same trip to Appletree Records in Normal, IL.

(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect; (B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning; (C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer

"device hoarding" is a phrase that would have made my grandparents become the Joker

Being John Malkovich, but with Muppets. John Malkovich still plays himself, but all the other parts are played by Muppets.

Bed Bath and Bewildered

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes

If you want to feel old, we are now further from the formation of the Kenorland Supercontinent than the formation of the Kenorland Supercontinent is from the formation of the Solar System.

If you know anything about autism politics, you know this is a BFD.

WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...

Oh wow, the person who fueled the moral panic about trans kids is doing the same with autism. Big shock.

All I'm sayin' is that we didn't bail out Ty when Beanie Babies crashed.

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Charlie Brown.

What I heard on the video: "cook the mushrooms 4 to 5 minutes." What the recipe actually says: "cook the mushrooms 45 minutes."

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti He's nervous, but on the surface, he looks calm and ready

Unless a disaster happens in the next few weeks, this year US farmers will have a record corn harvest and record soy yield (they're related, but not the same thing). Sure hope some malign force hasn't screwed up agricultural export markets. esmis.nal.usda.gov/sites/defaul...

It sure would be handy to have some way for the government to buy this surplus up, putting money in farmers pockets, minimally process it, pack it up in bags covered with Stars and Stripes, and use it to feed those most at risk of hunger at home and abroad, huh?

I've never had a trans woman tell me to get back in the kitchen, or make a "joke" about how women shouldn't be allowed to vote. I've never seen trans women outside the planned parenthood calling women murderers and whores. trans women have never dogged me out for incorrectly performing femininity

It's Chinatown, Charlie Brown

While 90% of reasons why people hate turkey definitely come down to skill issues, it is also true that even the best roast turkey you'll ever have is still just gonna be fucking turkey.

Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem

"You don't have to accept this future." Preach.

In other news, I made it to room 46 in Blue Prince last night! Now apparently I just have to figure out what the actual goal of this game is. (No spoilers please!!)

Planning the Thanksgiving meal with friends, I mentioned that I don't have a nice wood cutting board to serve the roast. Ten minutes later, a different friend texted me out of the blue to ask if I wanted the wood cutting board he's giving away. Life's bizarre and wonderful sometimes. #PlateOfShrimp

One of those days when I know I have the right words muted.

oh dear it's that "I just logged on and people are making vague references to something I haven't figured out yet" feeling

Burning CDs was easy, real ones know the arts of making a mix tape by pausing the recording at the exact split second where the song is still playing on the radio but before the DJ or commercial cuts in

It's hilarious that Trump always 100% agrees with the last person he happened to speak to. The problem is that 99.9% of the time, the last person he spoke to is either a professional bullshitter or some deranged moron whose entire concept of politics was derived from right wing facebook hoaxes

Trump just threw Elise Stefanik under a bus that Mamdani just made free.

My take, and I know it's dumb, but it's mine: he's trying to retroactively convince himself he endorsed Mamdani so he can feel like a king-maker again.

Calling something "scientific orthodoxy" rather than "established fact" or even "scientific consensus" is so incredibly damaging.

He's not challenging "orthodoxy", he's ignoring data. Stop dancing around his disinformation campaign and call it what it is -- an all out attack on Science and America's place in the scientific world.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Somehow, people are still deciding that it's better to acquiesce to this clearly crumbling despot than to fight back. I have no idea what political calculus they are doing to reach the conclusion that this is a guy whose favor they need to curry.

Prog bands that fuck. King Crimson: yes Gentle Giant: yes Genesis: only Peter Gabriel Yes: no Emerson, Lake, & Palmer: have you seen the cover of Love Beach?

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

So that means they're going to stop receiving their publicly-funded healthcare coverage?

CDC website edited to say that anesthesia is not recommended during surgery because over 300 people die of anesthesia every year, and studies promoting anesthesia-free surgery have been ignored by science authorities.

CDC website edited to say that there are only four elements: earth, air, fire, and water, and that atomic theory is not evidence-based.

CDC website edited to say that maggots spontaneously generate from spoiled meat, and all studies demonstrating this fact have been ignored by science authorities.

CDC website edited to say that the Sun revolves around the Earth, and the heliocentric model of the universe is not evidence-based.

The story of the rings and the quote: In 2001, on the breakwater in Provincetown behind the house where his family had taken their August vacation every year for decades, Steve got down on one knee and asked, "Will you marry me?" and I said "Of course I will."

Tattoo Thursday! This is the Whitman quote from Song of Myself that we had engraved inside our wedding rings. I had "every atom belonging to me," and Steve had "as good belongs to you." He was anti-tattoo, but I warned him, "within a year of you dying, I'm getting another." So here it is.

that the phrases “intentionally destroying the economy” and “worst economic president of our lifetimes” arent being said everywhere right now by dem politicians makes my head want to explode

#NameThatFoodTruck - Po' Boys Don't Cry