giving myself the gift of no more news for the day. time to check in with my girl Carol.

cozy, fun Christmas with my favorites achieved

lighting the candles for you

to you and yours

Happy Christmas, comrades!

You will be visited by three spirits, and it will feel good.

It's my first Xmas without Coraline, in 14 yrs, & while there is much that brings me Joy, I miss her so very much Just want to say that if you, too, are doing your best & are grateful for Things but still feel the absence of someone keenly & your heart is filled w love but also loss I see you 🖤🫂

I am just going to come right out and say it, A Very Jonas Christmas Movie is hilarious and I loved it.

Have YOU listened to the Jethro Tull Christmas album yet this year youtube.com/playlist?lis...

impressed two people with my ol’ Jimmy impression today. what I’m saying is keep at it and don’t ever give up your dreams.

strega panettone has the cutest packaging

Tonight is Christmas Eve, when we in Iceland open presents. All the Yule Lads have already come down from the mountains, but tonight the Yule Cat arrives and he will eat all the children who weren't gifted any new clothes for Christmas. My daughters both got woollen socks so they are safe 🙏

they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE

I just posted my playlist, and there are some great ones, but the favorite is always

this was fun, and grading on a 2025 curve, I’m happy with it lol

*gingerbread house keeps collapsing* Actually, this is an allegory for climate change and how our housing stock is not designed to withstand the impacts of extreme weather.

did not have “lesbian porn” (said twice) on my family christmas zoom bingo card

it was christmas eve, babe

massive attack is misnamed they should really have been called gentle approach thank you I'll be here all week

The #Yule Goat or Gävle Goat has survived so far. www.youtube.com/live/P1VOrSo... #Nolliag

if you want to get your holiday cry on early today, here (yes really)

Occupied Ireland’s iconic murals offer a wealth of shareable holiday content.

my dog loves this (now, officially) tradition

2025****

I am telling you that a large part of their dysfunction is that several Trump officials imagine themselves, constantly, as being in a social media sizzle reel where they display status and dominance over others. Their online personas are driving their actual behavior.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, beat on, boat against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

They're online now. I'm going to 🧵 them here, starting with my editor's note.

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

As a holiday tradition, we should seek vengeance on our enemies. 😇

I’m listening to this now and it’s exactly what I needed. Lots of hope and heart. go get cozy and hit play.

Getting into seasonal SPIRIT: telling Ghost Stories. What a great time to remind you of holiday-themed haunts amidst my entire *career* of ghostly tales. "Not More Lovely Than Full of Glee" is my Christmas Eve sequel to Poe's "Oval Portrait", free via @pseudopod.org: pseudopod.org/2022/12/23/p...

Did you know that Pee Wee's Christmas special is available to watch on YouTube any time you want?? youtu.be/NRvtOGLzpvE?...

HEY SURVIVORS !! HEY ATTENTION TO ME beloveds you do not have to read or witness all of this . You do not have to re traumatize You don’t owe nobody nothing

May I grow to be this and well appreciated in my babies lives

me when it’s 50 degrees outside here

my (currently very tight) hips are telling me to make getting back to yoga a resolution

Not going to argue best Christmas movies, but I am going to recommend a few great films that ARE Christmas movies that either aren't well known enough or talked about enough around Christmastime: Anna and the Apocalypse LA Confidential Kiss Kiss Bang Bang On Her Majesty's Secret Service

the retired poster can always taste the spice of combat for a day by saying golf should be for everyone and not just the wealthy

watched this earlier, it was a lot of fun (& it’s on tubi: link.tubi.tv/pYylyOzKlZb)

scrolling is super jumpy tonight

"It will coincide with the increase in health care costs for many of these defaulted borrowers. The two will almost certainly put significant economic strain on low and middle income borrowers." Cruelty as a policy, again and again.

my first @theguardian.com: I wrote about this year's "Drag Queen Christmas" tour stop in Pensacola, FL, which from the 1950s-70s hosted America's biggest LGBTQ event; the state AG tried to get the "demonic" show canceled. I talked to Florida drag queens and supporters that refuse to go underground:

doing important business stuff, making lots of power moves

no, I do not like, actually

It would be cool if I could check a box score in a (non-gambling) sports app without scrolling past betting info first.

I am not a moral absolutist about gambling. I’ve been to Vegas and Atlantic City and several casinos in Connecticut and Maryland, and I used to play pick up poker with buddies in college. But the degree to which our society has expanded it in recent decades strikes me as a sickness, a rot.

Everyone realizes that people are routinely tortured in U.S. prisons, right?

Logging off until after Christmas, if you're feeling generous please donate to one of the Gazan families whose gofundmes I have been amplifying, no matter how bad things are here they are far, far worse in Gaza and a small donation will help a lot. I'm hoping for better things in 2026 for us all.