I can't stop thinking about a friend and colleague of mine who just dropped into conversation that they never get the flu shot.

Finally saw The Mummy. I can die fulfilled.

Tonight we talked a lot about what has made 2025 one of the very best years of our lives. The political/climate/job situation was so bad, we upended our lives to change jobs, work less, volunteer and socialize more, put more of ourselves into art & writing & relationships. Here's to more of that!🎉

Let's get one thing fixed in 2026! #RhymingResolution

I think of my inner resistance as an indomitable dragon within me, but still quite appreciate this:

"The crystal times, the silent times - I'll learn to love their quietness While deep beneath the glistening snow, The black earth dreams of violets - I'll learn to love the fallow way" - Judy Collins, "The Fallow Way"

These weren’t all huge hits, but here are my favorite mushrooms of 2025

Please spare me the year in review. Nobody wants to relive that horror.

I would like some barrels of cash please and thank you

Switching from "In the Garden of Beasts" (our return trip audiobook) to the news is so uncomfortable, because the Germans' (and international community's) wishful thinking is so like our own. And also because of headlines like this.

I am so glad to be home. 🏡

Please help all you can!

Someone please tell me who this is, that I may block them.

Tell me about hot flashes, yours, and I will tell you mine.

celestial bear lumbers across the night sky Ursa major #dailyhaikuprompt bear

make a Bond movie casual Goldpinkie

My dad doesn't like tiramisu or "Of the Father's Heart Begotten." I don't know who he is anymore.

This is my favorite ornament on the tree - a cheap red ball decorated with glitter. It was a gift that I've never forgotten. Merry Christmas open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

This.

And in despair I bow’d my head; “There is no peace on earth,” I said, “For hate is strong, and mocks the song Of peace on earth, good will to men.” 1/2

Feeling bad for everyone in my family whose job is not as cool as mine. 😁 My step-mom: "In almost 30 years of knowing you, I've never seen you so excited about a job!"

It was so cool to sing under him, because of both the excellence he elicited & his politics. My childhood church had a saints' window in the chapel featuring his father & uncle in one pane as they were being executed by the Nazis. That window went hard. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...

Prophecy (rhymes with "see"): noun. Prophesy (rhymes with "sigh"): verb. Prophesied: Past participle of prophesy. Prophesize: Not a real word.

There's an immature Adélie penguin who stares at me when I have reading room shifts. Poor thing. 🐧

What if I told you that you have a large language model sitting right in your head that’s completely free to use, runs on renewable energy, has virtually infinite capacity, and actually improves the more you use it

Feel good story of the day. abc7.com/post/man-acc...

I hadn't cried for the Bondi Beach victims until this song came up on my drive home. "Where there is hope then there is life. We'll always have our days of strife. Don't wait until the battle's won: shine on your flame, your piece of the sun." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k5x...

I started applying for academic jobs in 2008. I watched as many - about 3/4, iirc - of the positions I applied for vaporized in the wake of the Great Recession. Gone. This is why I'm an indexer and librarian.

Let's get this done, friends!

Two patrons came in to see Robert May's Rudolph statue and booklet. Just before I went downstairs to page the book, strains of a whistled "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" filled the mostly empty reading room. All the staff made eye contact and smiled. #Christmas

I swear, Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West predicted everything.

One day you’re like “huh, that’s a neat bird, I wonder what it is” and the next thing you know you’re trying in vain to get a good enough picture for Merlin and thinking about getting a pair of binoculars.

I was just telling a colleague about this book yesterday. news.daybreak.news/p/enthusiasm...

Fantastic thread, including the alt text.

Folks at my new job use Garamond for documentation. 😍

Prayers up for Syrian Australian Ahmed al Ahmed #BondiBeach and there’s a go fund me page now for him too: www.gofundme.com/f/australian...

The boys are chasing each other around the house. A friend is coming over to visit soon. Tim is making Chrismukkah cookies to decorate. The light persists. Happy Hanukkah, chaverim! 🕎

#CatOfTheDay Oden is only two and is #adoptable in Dover #NH! www.adoptapet.com/pet/46656353... #NewHampshire #Cats 😺

Waking up to news of not one but TWO mass shootings is brutal.

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Very good thread.

A friend called Malleus Maleficarum the most evil book ever written, so inevitably I started wondering what books you'd keep in the "evil" section of the library. Mein Kampf, definitely. Maybe also The Protocols of the Elders of Zion? What else? The Giving Tree?

Today I got to hold an incunabula of Malleus Maleficarum, a first printing of the King James Bible, and the handwritten notes of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It was a big day. I also had to correct the spellings of multiple words in this post, as I am completely frasking* exhausted.

There were no accidents on the way to work this morning! 🎉

Standard universal nuthatch situation #birds

This almost makes me want to grow my hair longer.

Just got to handle a letter by Oliver Cromwell regarding English defeat of the Scots in some battle or other. Decent handwriting; atrocious grammar.

Thread.

I was delayed coming to work for the third time in three work days owing to an accident. The roads yesterday and today were clear, good visibility. What is happening??