My cousin brought cookies.

my son got two different toy fire trucks for christmas. two. and despite being considerably more familiar with their purpose and operation, i didn’t receive a single fucking fire truck

Blue Winter Birds 💙❄️

had an absolutely lovely queer found family Christmas with @exmanhater.bsky.social and now am about to rectify an egregious situation with T—idk how it is possible to date me for 6 years without seeing Breakfast With Scot but it's not gonna get to 7

something i learned when a fact checker hired by @swordsjew.bsky.social called me is that books only have fact checkers if the author insists on it or even hires one themselves. you can put anything in a book. that was the only fact checker i’ve ever talked to but i’ve been quoted in other books

Just in time for Jewish Christmas, we have a new TTRPG 🎲: The Vatican Stole the Menorah and We're Going to Steal it Back! TVSTMAWGTSIB is a dreidel-powered heist TTRPG about reclaiming the Temple menorah from the Vatican. Itchfunding a print run till Jan 1! 📆 🔗: jumpgategames.itch.io/tvstmawgtsib

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

It's awards season! I have two short stories I'm most proud of this year. If you only read one thing of mine, make it "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything", a piece Locus called a "sharp satire" which should give you lols and catharsis. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1... 1/4

okay!!!

I think it's sweet that the oldest surviving printed book in the world - the Diamond Sutra - is also the oldest creative work explicitly released into the public domain, with a colophon at the end that says it was created for universal free distribution. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond...

filled out the SFWA survey and added this in one of the freeform fields. someone making decisions about the awards is either not sufficiently informed or not sufficiently inclined to act in the best interests of writers, and that's not okay

New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

We cannot bring you the #DailyDoggo because there is NO DOG here.

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.

that the Whos celebrate Christmas suggests some knowledge of Christ, but whether this is our anthropic Christ or a distinctive Who-Christ remains obscure; some have argued Christianity was introduced to them during their refuge with Horton, which of course turns us to the matter of Elephant Religion

Everett and JT on the call tonight (with John Forslund doing national Monday Canadian duties). We've had Ian Furness on the call in the past who has been very good, but an Everett and JT all-POC commentary crew just hits different (as a POC myself).

Every tech bro in unison seconds before turning into gollum

jfc this whole thread is BONKERS. I knew the guy in charge of the big covid data repository was sketchy, but I did not realize he was making up entire identities and pretending to be a World Cup skier and ghosting on million-dollar debts?? wild stuff O.O

Happy Solstice 🦉 #kidlitart #watercolor #gouache

Yes hello, former senior dev here: Every time someone says “AI does [useful thing]” you can place a safe bet that what they actually mean is “a machine learning algorithm trained on very specific high quality data does [useful thing]”

imagine if Peter Thiel and Bari Weiss were the only queer people you knew anything about. homophobia would almost make sense

angrily and repeatedly turning up the volume on this calming music playlist so it'll work faster

why is "fiery" spelled like that. look at it. what happened there

seventy-𝙖𝙩𝙚 🤌

I can not stress this enough: 1) The Telegraph misrepresents our paper (“inactivate within an hour”) 2) They claim this discredits the zero-covid community 3) They ignore our much more impactful follow-up article that contradicts their claim

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Lost Music, II, by Agnes Pelton, 1950 (rotated), 📸 by Eric Hiller

in case anyone else has been super fucking frustrated trying to parse all the fallout and discourse surrounding this, none of which actually specifies who it was (why?????)

I have one of these but each cord is coiled up with a twist tie and labeled with masking tape and organized into categories in ziploc baggies which I think makes me Neurodivergent Dad

T is puttering around the house singing "what is loaf" to the tune of What Is Love XD

the conclusion I must draw from this is a number of the decision makers high up at the NY Times have their own Epstein pictures waiting in the wings and so want to act like it's not a big deal

My response to anything over the next two weeks

hey, join me in making things a little more bearable for trans kids: www.transanta.com

listening to Running With Scissors for the first time since I found out Weird Al isn't Jewish and urf, there are a few lines in Pretty Fly for a Rabbi that hit different

This is the most interesting thing I've seen in ages. If intra-cellular membrane-less hydrogen ion gradients are biologically meaningful/useful things then so too might be membrane-less gradients of everything else - from bigger ions with discrete point-sources through protein complexes.

Here in Kansas people said about KS SB 180 "oh there is no way it'll pass" It passed and now I am legally banned from ANY gendered restroom, so uh, at this point I might not trust people's assessments about which bills are "never going to pass"

I am FLABBERGASTED by that Snapchat number. I genuinely did not know it still existed

Every few years there's a bunch of "pivot to video" discourse about how creatives should all start making videos instead of doing text-based work. And every few years we discover again that the supposed "popularity" of video is based on fake audience numbers created by the video platforms.

I think if you're sitting right on the glass next to the visiting bench and you get caught on the broadcast during the third period of a tied game staring at your phone DURING A FUCKING PENALTY SHOT you should be legally required to give up your seat to someone who will fucking appreciate it

T and I painted a posterboard to look like water, intending to use it as a background for something else, but we liked how it looked so much we just hung it up on the wall. very calming and peaceful, and I like that we did it together :)

I’m shaken by the shooting at my alma mater #BrownUniversity. Remembering my time at Brown by studying my textbook from Chinese class. One of the gifts that Brown gave me was my own culture. Thank you, #BrownUniversity. Love, Henry #EverTrue

Become ungovernable

*extremely exhausted sigh* so what are we using instead of firefox

HEY did YOU know that the ONLY way to improve your mental health this stressful holiday season is to read at LEAST 3 hours of fanfiction smut per day? This is a REAL science fact, provided to you by a LICENSED PROFESSIONAL.

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."