Happy New Year everyone! Remember, it could happen any day this year! I'm taking a scrolling social media break for at least January, see y'all on the other side! Don't have too much fun while I'm gone! =)

Since I dumped some really bad news on y'all I wanna tell you about the other side of social media. It's children of anti-vaxxers turning 18 and filming themselves getting vaxxed.

DC Statehood needs to be a Day 1 priority, the one place the Guard aren't being withdrawn is where there is no federalism to protect citizens from presidential overreach. This can never happen again.

We also solved peak period city congestion with remote white collar work, and then just said “nah, Jamie Dimon hates this.” We keep finding new ways to solve this problem, and then finding new ways to say “nah.”

“it was rude and unfair of Obama to run an actual campaign, so we had to respond by nominating the worst person alive” is truly one of the all time post genres what does it look like inside these people’s heads

if people on the other site think Obama was mean, i don't think they're ready for Reconstruction 2

I’ve been wondering for the last year when we’d get to the library destruction phase and here we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

WE NEED SOME ORCAS We're holding out for some orcas till the end of the night They gotta be strong and they gotta be fast And they gotta be smooth black and white

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

This is right. You can’t earn this kind of money. You can only steal it.

More evidence for the “oh you can’t get laid? Have you tried being normal?” theory of men being down bad

I will convert to Hellenism if Poseidon does us a solid.

Because AI was an attack, just like I said

RIP 2025 2025-2025

I think it’s gotta be “you cannot kill me in a way that matters”

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

Fun fact: the Philippines still has adultery laws and it’s different for men and women. If you guessed it has harsher standards for women than men, you would be right.

I said chatgpt doesn't have a soul and got put on this list

I don't get it. I don't understand why "it's putting kids in danger" isn't enough. I thought we were all on the same page for that, at least, even if we disagree on what 'danger' is. I thought that transcended politics and religion, just a base human need. I don't understand why it's not.

It’s pretty crazy that Cindy McCain got appointed to the World Food Program and has since done genuine advocacy for Palestinians in Gaza while her useless daughter is always saying shit like “if my father were alive today he would say the 14 words.”

Yo what the fuck short form videos are bad Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714 Ht: HowTown

New Bluesky class project just dropped. We can get started overmorrow since that's New Year's Day!

This is how you do it folks

One of my favorite Star Trek moments is when Riker has a space jazz concert at the ships bar and Troi is there and specifically requests a song she knows he can’t play. An inexplicably mean thing to do that also is exactly what two life partners should be doing to each other.

Hard same. I could even go higher if it was getting me a truly functional society in exchange.

tfw you forgot to register the domain name, and someone else snatched it.

Russia’s pipeline gas exports to Europe have collapsed to just 18 bcm in 2025, the lowest level in nearly 50 years, according to Reuters. That’s a 44% drop from last year, and far below the 175+ bcm peak of 2018–2019. Soviet-era infrastructure is now barely functioning as a Kremlin revenue source.

This is pretty straightforward for me lol. Once you've tasted decent consumer and employee protections it's real hard to look elsewhere. Combine that with the weather and anything outside California doesn't really appeal, but there are a couple of spots where I have dear friends where *maybe*...

Putting Miss Rachel in the same category as Tucker Carlson has hobbled the fight against antisemitism for probably a decade to come

I believe this meme speaks for most in healthcare, science, public health, global health, research, and anyone wanted a return to precedented times.

at least tomorrow’s the first friday of the week

Bill Barr had the reporter who broke the Epstein story surveilled. Nothing to see here, folks.

My beautiful friend, a nurse, died at 31 last night. Her cancer treatment was delayed because a visitor did not wear a mask and she became terribly ill for weeks with the flu or COVID and following infections. If you're wearing a mask, thank you.

Ummmm …. 😳

There’s a line from a movie that I think of in times of bowdlerizing those who become the recently departed: “death did not endow him with any virtues”.

Ruin two bands by combining them: Lady Goo Goo GaGa Dolls

This is what I've been saying. You have to fight this by destroying his legacy. And doing it with prejudice. There needs to be spectacle made of the destruction.

That’s like 3 lobsters in trumps America

More recently, the median liberal who doesn't know much about Palestine has gone from "Israel is a democracy and I guess that's good" to "I don't know who is right in the big picture but surely they didn't have to kill so many kids"

“why won’t Chappell Roan weigh in on the 2024 presidential race or politics more broadly??” Sometimes, pop culture icons are not very well-informed, and we should probably not make a habit of looking to them for civic guidance

The ceiling of Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran (1611)

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing/

Dedicated to all the readers I know but particularly my book club peeps 😁

There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship

It's way too early for me to be laughing this hard. 🤣

One downside of the dearth of Cletus safaris to the left (construed broadly) is that the political mainstream and the right have little idea of how angry the (broad) left is and why it's angry. E.g., the better-than-polled results of 2025 shouldn't have been surprising.

if I were elected mayor of a city I too would insist that every ceremony took place in an abandoned tunnel or secret passage of some kind

it took the Tories 15 years of fucking everything up to obliterate their party. Keir Starmer did it in 18 months

If only Americans had a recent way to know how crucial immigrants were for the success of the Manhattan Project. A big Hollywood movie where a lot of the nuclear scientist characters speak with accents and talk about fleeing Europe that makes tons of money and wins a bunch of Oscars, perhaps.