Reading an article by Emily Strasser in Popular Mechanics in which she interviews a scientist in the secretive organization that sets the time on the "Doomsday Clock" every year. Was his biggest fear nuclear war or climate change? No. It was "the breakdown of shared reality." Sobering way to put it

In the midst of the slow-motion train wreck, it's nice to have a chic young political power couple to fuss over. We need some Camelot vibes in here

“Rama wore a vintage Balenciaga coat & archival earrings, rented during a single marathon day [in NYCs] best small, circular fashion businesses… I love that she’s added a new chapter to garments that have already lived many lives—and that the next wearers will get to share in this piece of history.”

Happy Public Domain Day to Nancy Drew, Golden Bat and The Shadow!

Starting a new thread in the Public Domain Characters of 1930 sequence of posts. HC Bailey's Joshua Clunk: 12 novels 1930-1950 beginning with GARSTONS. Joshua Clunk is the most crooked and amoral lawyer in England. He is the lawyer that the worst criminals hire, knowing that he will get them off.

I'll take it

*Climbs solemnly to the top of a pile of smoking rubble, sword in hand, to address the crowd* The threat of dense fog has ended

Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

Going into 2026 like

#topten books I read in 2025. Counting down from 4 to 1. 4. The Bird King by @gwillow.me 3. Radiance: A Novel by Catherynne M. Valente 2. The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson 1. Service Model by @aptshadow.bsky.social

The @globalvoices.org fundraiser is so close to $10,000 - can we get there before midnight? Global Voices is a platform for news, essays, and analysis from around the world, with an emphasis on digital and human rights. We mentor journalists and translators and support under-resourced languages!

Sometimes I have to remind myself that she's not real

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

Anybody have a current list of humanitarian aid groups that are still permitted to operate in Gaza? Is there anyone left?

Over the holiday week, my sister and I decided that A24 needs to make Eaters of the Dead. Riz Ahmed as Ibn Fadlan. All the Skarsgards and Sarsgaards as various vikings. More Neanderthal stuff. Make it as weird and unnerving as the book. Redeem the somewhat Disneyfied 1999 Antonio Banderas vehicle.

...hwat?

biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.

Urban heat island effect: even when the air temp is below freezing, the ground stays pretty warm, so we’ve got borage trying to bloom on December 30.

Got a bill for $225 from my PCP’s office for a standard yearly physical. (Height, weight, standard bloodwork.) who should I contest it with first: the billing department at my PCP’s practice, or my insurance company?

With only a couple of days left in 2025, here are some stories we wrote @sciam.bsky.social looking back at some of the fun and exciting scientific news from the year, starting with the brain: (by @parshallison.bsky.social)

FINALLY SOCIAL MEDIA-OFFICIAL

This is a good reminder to always use drop boxes (if feasible), and if you cannot, fill out and mail your ballot as soon as you receive it.

Reply with your resolutions, y'all. I will sprinkle whatnot magic on 'em. And whatnot.

I am no political scholar, but if the kinds of arguments Americans are having with each other at the dinner table and on social media are any indication, a Dem sweep of the midterms (far from guaranteed) will just be a bandaid on the necrosis. Public trust and social cohesion have collapsed.

Tartar sauce. In fact tartar sauce even when ketchup is available. I go out of my way to find the tartar sauce dispenser in the food concourse at sporting events

Connor Storrie really acts his lil heart out

Studies have found that wolves in the Midwest and Canada not only keep deer populations in check, but they also alter deer behavior in ways that help prevent car crashes and save human lives. wapo.st/4peEOoI (gift). Lots of pictures and videos in article; a few include dead deer. 🌎

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Happy Nichelle Nichols’s birthday to all who celebrate!

And even chicken pox is far from being some benign childhood illness. After you get it, it lives in your nervous system for life, and pops up again in your later years as shingles, which can be excruciatingly painful and lead to blindness.

Marvel’s Most Unexpected Duo Is Back in Black Cat #7 & 8 from @gwillow.me @GlebMelnikov8 #SpiderMan #BlackCat #MarvelComics comic-watch.com/news/marvels...

Since we are Tolkienposting, did anyone else ever get the vibe, in a 2-hour-long YouTube theory video sense, that we are meant to understand hobbits are descended from the Entwives? They were smaller, more humanoid, loved to garden, and disappeared mysteriously at about the right time

Rashid Diab (Sudanese, born 1957). Out of Focus (2015, acrylic on canvas).

Pivot to video was bullshit the first time why are we replicating it.

It's 70 degrees in Colorado and we are all (myself included) out here wearing bulky winter jackets like we have full-on climate Stockholm syndrome

Was chatting w/ a friend from Western Mass today and got thrown when she kept referring to her doctor as "they." I assumed nonbinary doctor until I realized this was a Boston They. I forgot that ppl from western mass do not specify the gender of anyone who is not immediate family, spouse, or BFF

Here are the latest trends in comics censorship from 2025. As you might expect, more comics are being targeted and in particular, manga is feeling the heat. So, too, are adaptations, women's non fic, and more. Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights. bookriot.com/trends-in-co...

I would like to believe in rehabilitation. And I imagine a lot of these guys didn’t start out as evil people. But once you’ve been part of something like this, I think you are probably past saving and should be carved out of society on a permanent basis

Good morning! It’s new STRANGE TAILS day! #2 features that most dastardly of bovines, HELLCOW, and is out now! Written by me, art: @bailierosenlund.bsky.social, colors: Ian Herring, letters: VC’s Travis Lanham, Edit: Farah Javed & @alannawrites.bsky.social! 🐮🩸 www.marvel.com/comics/issue...

Excited to celebrate the 20th anniversary of 2006

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Merry christmas, Peace and good will to those who deserve it.

Winter dusk in the culvert. Colorado foothills.

I posted to MetaFilter about the football match supposedly played on Christmas Day 1914 between opposing sides of World War One. The best examination of the evidence for it happening was on the It Was What It Was podcast.

Harley Quinn 57, with a cover AND 10 page story by Rachel Dodson and me. Out now from DC Comics #harleyquinn

The final word on this debate honestly

Poor lonely thing

Read a preview of Harley And Ivy: Life And Crimes #2 from DC Comics, written and drawn by Erica Henderson.

Three months ago, my dear friend Hani was murdered while trying to feed his family. His sister Faten has cancer, and sleeps in a freezing tent with her hands, feet, and eyes swelling more and more every day. I love this family with all my heart. I can’t keep watching them die. gofund.me/2550fc5e2