Recasting “costing money” as “losing money” is some real subtle-dystopia shit

I signed this.

"Imagine if we reverted to a world without antibiotics. We would lose modern medicine as we know it." - The King's Fund share.google/Qu5vv3GlYtSU... 🧵1/4

I’d tap into my Catholic upbringing. Church incense, those old-style Christmas lights the size of walnuts, old ladies singing “Go Tell It On the Mountain.” #HorrorWritersChat

Death of Rats looks so delighted with his pie!

Happy Hogswatch Eve to those who celebrate

Wanna know who isn’t on the Epstein list? Trans people or drag queens. Turns out they aren’t the danger to children MAGA has pathetically attempted to make them out to be.

Watched Muppet's Christmas Carol, and 13yo son said "the scariest part is when the doorknob turns into Bob Marley", and now I DESPERATELY want to see that version #ScroogeMon

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a... dormouse?

It's also amazing to consider that this virus has plagued humans for at least 45,000 years and now we have a vaccine. Science, it works bitches!

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

It’s not “losing money” any more than air traffic controllers or public highways or street lights or fire departments are “losing money.” It is a government service. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. It’s supposed to reliably deliver to anywhere in the US, even the unprofitable places.

We're simply having a wonderful Christmastime

Day 24 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. We place miniature ceramic bee hive on the tree. Time to tell the sleeping bees all our news, tell them of the year. All its joyful arrivals, all its harrowings and sad exits. We sing them the land and ask for honeyed blessings.

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

Agreed. It's heartbreaking when I see teachers telling kids to "just use AI for the art part" because it can do it "better" or "faster". It can't. Please don't do this to kids. You have no idea whose artistic spirit you're crushing. Same with writing. Help them figure out how to do it THEMSELVES.

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a little Christmas baking inspiration

Good. Next step, propose travel bans for any US official or legislator seeking to interfere in or undermine the democratic processes of the EU and/or its Member States, please.

Um, Amazon, we need to have a word about that secure location…

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

Happy (almost) Christmas. Here is one of my favorite things to happen this season.

L'inculture scientifique (en sciences naturelles comme en sciences sociales et historiques) est quand même vecteur non négligeable de la fascisation actuellement à l'oeuvre, et avec la destruction de l'éducation publique et de l'ESR, ça n'est pas prêt d'aller mieux...

Here's Cernunnos, wishing you all a merry Yuletide, however you celebrate! The name Cernunnos appears in an inscription on a first-century CE Roman pillar from Gaul, associated with a horned figure.

Go Greg Pak . go Greg Pak go.

Military history is more important than social history, art history, or anything else because it's FOR BOYS and I'm 12.

Someone's had a nightmare here 😂

Like the in-house app that Fred the Intern spun up over a weekend 15 years ago that just works, is C code that appear to have been written in Klingon and the only copy of the source is in a Rar file on a mis-labeled 3.5" floppy? Oh and its utterly load bearing in the day-to-day of the enterprise.

microsoft *used* to remember that this is the use case for windows: That One Fucking App that is Utterly Load Bearing like, Raymond Chen remembers it. wondering about the rest of these fuckers tho

Delete that shit right now friends.

enjoying the quiet but critical work of "former entertainer"

Was a big fan of the monolith from 2001, had no idea it visited Epstein Island. Donating my Blu-Ray to charity.

Oh GB News. Have a day off and enjoy a mince pie. How dare I talk positively about migration & refugee rights at this time of year that should be about *checks notes* good tidings and warm wishes. Tune in at 3pm to watch and judge for yourself. Merry Christmas everyone!

WTAF??? FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr announced that they will be hiring a "bias monitor" at CBS "who would report directly to the President." Literally will be State-run TV. smfh Make sure everyone sees this.

All sorts of weird folklore gets rolled out on Christmas Eve. Animals speak, house hobs demand apple brandy. It's the one night when the winged dogs that climb and perch in churches can change positions. Magics and strangeness always seems thick today. – Nancy Appleyard #VOH

This is about control. You can’t control whether your kids have kids but there are generations for whom “having grandkids” is a massive deal and who think having a LGBTQIA+ kid means “no grandkids”. The rest is bigotry but that’s a much smaller slice than it looks at first glance:

The US is now censoring those whom our officials have deemed ideological enemies in the name of fighting "censorship." The rich irony would be almost humorous if the end goal wasn't so sinister. This is an astonishingly un-American decree.

I love how deranged the comments are. Here someone arguing about news website bias, here someone talking about Glastonbury ,there a drama, here an orchestra, everywhere a cluck cluck. No one can get their head round the purpose of the BBC, least of all the director general

I wrote about Yule Logs for @thespectator1828.bsky.social: “While the Yule Log may have pagan origins, it is perhaps better understood as the wooden equivalent of a goose or turkey – a special treat for the Christmas season, relieving the misery of midwinter.” spectator.com/article/the-... 🪵

Remember that time a museum I was working for stole a bunch of artefacts from another museum and nobody noticed for about fifty years and I only figured it out because the archive ghost kept throwing a sheaf of paper at me

Why don’t they just name names? Why didn’t she go to the police? Where were her parents? Why was she alone with him? This is what sexual assault survivors have to go through. No one asks why the man chose to rape or why rapists aren’t punished. The victims are blamed.

In the past month 3 transport routes have collapsed - but they aren't roads so don't make national news. All 3 have the same root causes, climate change, and Tory austerity passing responsibility for critical infrastructure on to charities and councils. This will happen more, and people will be hurt

Nobody has ever experienced as much physical pleasure as a cat getting exactly the right bit of their ear itched. Is it really possible to levitate? Yes

Sanofi annonce l’acquisition du fabricant de vaccins américain Dynavax L'entreprise commercialise notamment un vaccin contre l’hépatite B pour adultes et un autre contre le zona

I can see Blu-ray and DVD taking off again as the generation who've grown up with streaming start to experience favourite shows/films vanishing overnight.

Hmm I should probably get dressed?

Blessed Yule and a very Merry Christmas to all you lot. Thanks for continuing to make this such a welcoming, inspiring and humourous space. Hope you all have a fantastic holiday.

Just saw someone say the Bondi Beach massacre wasn't antisemitic because the killer was motivated by "the Zionist policies of Israel as a state". If your response to the policies of the Israeli state is to go and massacre some random Jews who are not Israeli, then *yes you're fucking antisemitic*