Good night from this furry liquid

December 28. And because I am incapable of doing nothing, clean sheets, de crumbing the toaster and polishing the grubby kettle to a shine. Also roller skating and making sure Boy 2 (AKA “Flaco”) consumes enough calories 🙄

Literally why I never travel during the winter holidays

The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14

Good night. May you be so loved 😻

Today I exchanged something at IKEA that’s been sitting around my house for months. I also bought some groceries, including a month’s supply of cat food for this ungrateful creature. Happy Boxing Day y’all

All three of my sons have received theirs. Vaccinate your boys!

Once a liar, always a liar! Why don't the stockholders sue him for misleading the stockholders. @teslatakedown.com we the people should be asking the stockholders why they are putting up with CEO THEFT.

This, from Boy 2, was Boy 3’s favourite present. Prepared with Boy 2’s signature humour 😂

Xmas day hike with Boy 3 and some #fungifriends

I love food shows. Not because I like watching other people eating, but because I love food lol

Silly silly @mcuban.bsky.social. Just go ask AI for answers to all the world’s most intractable problems. I’m sure asking experts in the field is pointless. They couldn’t possibly be as “innovative” as rich guys with micro-philanthropic intentions 🙄

My kids decided that they wanted mantı for Xmas dinner, as you do. So that’s what we did!

I just moved my music to Tidal and renewed my car insurance. Merry Xmas y'all

Please enjoy some (apparently slightly melted) Toffee, the rescue pup my aunt just adopted 🥰

#TeslaTakedown I mean Tesla taking itself down

Well, that just leaves it open for certain other countries to push *their* agendas in the region doesn't it. Good grief

NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...

People who believe tech bros seem to accept their vision that expertise, experience, and embodied knowledge work are meaningless. So weird. Why disrespect your own brain like that?

I used to hate Christmas in Vancouver because I grew up in Ottawa where December is usually snowy. Here, it's usually raining. But now I think it's kind of charming that everyone here still does Christmas activities in the rain because they're so determined to have a good time.

I have three sons so that means Xmas crafting involves stuff like customizing the mag on your Nerf gun 🤷🏻‍♀️

Public Service Announcement: If your donation platform doesn't work properly, I'm only going to try so many times to send you money before I give up.

My mom, who is 83, wakes up every morning hoping she has outlived that fucking guy. Pretty good resolution for 2026 if you ask me

Maybe not my finest work but I didn’t have the most helpful assustant

Please clap. I dug out the heart shaped pancake moulds I bought fifteen years ago and have used maybe four times. I consider this a major accomplishment

“Rather than monks, the Old Snowmass property will now house a tech billionaire enabling ICE deportations and attacks on Gaza.”

A really accurate description of what relying on an LLM too much can do to your writing

Happy winter solstice y’all

Has feminism failed women? No. Men have, tho

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Area studies. Of course. Because who needs to know more about our interconnected world? Who needs to have actual expertise on other countries? Ugh

Jug Island. Always worth it. Even in the bucketing rain. The clouds parted just long enough for the view 💜

Please stop having work-related crises the last day before most people go on vacation. Or at least don't expect an answer right away. Thank you for your understanding.

Yesterday, it was announced that starting Spring ‘27 SFSU TT faculty will have 4/4 loads (besides the ever/ increasing class sizes). Basically, the University decided to play Scrooge this year for the holidays, blaming financial exigencies and lower enrollments. Bah Humbug! #academicsky #SFSU

The Trump administration is planning to stop recommending most childhood vaccines. This is the Make America Sick Agenda. Children will die. RFK Jr. must resign.

#TGIF #catsky

The White House plans to break up a key weather and climate research center in Colorado, a move experts say could jeopardize the accuracy of forecasting and prediction systems.

Federal data shows military lawyers detailed as immigration judges ordered deportation nearly 80% of the time. One judge who didn’t? He was fired after five weeks on the bench.

Can’t wait for all that silicone to just melt

“Randomizing newborns to no hepatitis B vaccine at birth in order to evaluate “overall health effects” of an intervention whose primary benefit is already known is indefensible. When benefit is established, withholding an intervention is no longer neutral experimentation; [it is] premeditated harm”

It's the Kennedy Center, just like it's the Gulf of Mexico.

These two democrats are killing it with this rapid response video to the corrupt Kennedy center name change ‘vote.’ Wow. Keep up the good fight @repbeatty.bsky.social & @pingree.house.gov 🔥

I often feel like life is both too much and just not enough.

I just ordered $300 worth of children’s books that I’m using to prepare a World Literature-themed summer camp. We’re doing this!

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come.

In productive news, I finally met the ex at the bank to close the joint bank account, which I had been using, and open a new one. Now I get to manually reset all of my autopay thingies. Shittiest rite of passage ever LOL

I know exactly who needs to hear this, and I'll say it anyway: real expertise is a good thing, and makes life better for more people. It cannot be replaced by people who simply claim they know better. Because then this is what you get.

So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant

Breaking news: U.S. Coast Guard allows a new workplace harassment policy to take effect, downgrading the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to “potentially divisive” despite facing backlash over the new language.