I'm so appreciative that Jacob Tierney took the time to chat with me a few days before the #HeatedRivalry finale about finding the right cottage, those new end credits, his broad ideas for Season 2, and more:

Only one new but a lot of classics #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

THE THIN MAN is a Christmas movie

May you all have as relaxing a holiday as Astro here

New astrology: what song are you in @themountaingoats.bsky.social’s THIS YEAR? I’m Color in Your Cheeks, Bug is Going to Dallas, but my mom wins because she’s Wizard Buys a Hat

All people means ALL people. (Anybody who says different and wants to make exceptions to that ALL people is invited to take that up with the angel of the Lord, but just be warned the response you'll get won't start with "Fear not.")

To me, my X-Mas!

Another year, another ornament from Zach’s aunt reading “The [HisLast] Family [Year]” We’ve only been married 12 years, can’t expect her to remember I didn’t change my name

So far: - candied cranberries - roasted potatoes and cooked bacon for twice baked potato salad - made cinnamon rolls (rising overnight in the fridge) To do: - bake gingerbread cake layers - prep sausage balls - shred cheeses for mac and cheese

Hallmark movie about a couple who discover their marriage isn't legal because the ceremony was conducted by a snowman impersonating a cleric.

When I set out to write about Charlie Brown a few weeks ago, I thought it would be a feel-good column about the man Garrett Boone hired to clean the storm-drain tunnels in which Charlie lived for years. In the days since, I've learned enough to know I know nothing www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Show me how your 2025 went

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, eventually found himself on a planet called Third Earth, where he had a long-running quarrel with a group of anthropomorphic cats

Rama Duwaji, congratulations on your everything www.thecut.com/article/rama...

"Him?! HE'S the one you were talking about when you said 'O come let us adore him'?! Rude, imo."

I’m not at all a swiftie but imagine criticizing someone for donating a million dollars to Feeding America

My favorite Christmas thing of all time are the cats who take one look at the holiest scene in Christendom and say "That baby's in my spot."

Camped out here on Two Things Can Be True Hill: 1. The romance genre has a history deeply entwined with white supremacy, ableism, and the most reductive kind of stereotypes. Like every genre. 2. Painting all romantasy readers as “zombies” is also a reductive stereotype, and misogynist to boot.

My favorite sentence in Woodworking has always been "When you build a prison, you also create its escape route, no matter how hard you try to safeguard its walls." Other people have gotten out. You can too. Merry Christmas and etc. (4/2)

Five people for Christmas (us and my parents), somehow we ended up with an 8+ pound turkey breast

I haven’t been on Tumblr since Bug was born but I could probably quote this entire thread from memory

Bari Weiss is innovating entire new dimensions of failure. She's failing in ways hitherto unconceived of. A pioneer of failology. A faileontologist. Whole career is a Fail Mary. She's beyond the fail. The Daily Fail. She's on the quest for the Holy Fail. Making tomato and Fail Salad.

Merry Christmas Adam, everyone

ok we’re really all doing politics this morning and we need jokes. here I’ve got one: what did the Epstein files say to the person who, to please the admin, spiked a story about state-sponsored torture of prisoners charged with no crime? “I can buy you some time I guess — maybe sixty minutes”

Nativist italian americans are so funny. Wym your whole personality is being italian and then talking about immigration the way people used to talk about your ancestors

SGA yr game

My 7yo has also mentioned this alleged meme reset, we shall see

*slams laptop shut until January*

How is there no content warning for a possum on this week’s Make Some Noise

Enjoy the quiet moments of beauty, like these winter bell jellies, this season.❄️🔔🪼 There’s wonder in ocean life, and caring for it helps us all.

Whether she's crossing a picket line in Pittsburgh or destroying CBS News, Bari Weiss is still the Uber Shonda. So embarrassingly inept, the ancestors cringe.

bluesky: there is no notification when your post is promoted to the Discover tab me: then how will I know if it happened full legal names with no avatars: you posted "happy winter!" but I don't like winter, also it's summer in Australia, whatever happened to critical thinking bluesky: you'll know

"How do I get romance money without anyone thinking I'm Vapid Like Those Bitches" is the eternal question each author of romance adjacent books they take Very Seriously must ask themselves in a think piece at least once.

Woof, Kentucky

Couldn’t even wait a year before whipping out the gold sequins

one of the things being a romance reader has taught me is that purity culture (all sex is bad) and porn culture (all sex is salacious/emotionally hollow) are just two sides of the same coin, and it's really not worth fighting with either group of people.

biblically-accurate Terry’s Chocolate Orange

More of this kind of rich person, please.

I’m making: - sausage balls - cinnamon rolls - twice-baked potato casserole - macaroni and cheese - gingerbread cake Zach is handling the main and we ordered a few sides and stuff to snack on

Totals for Christmas cooking/baking: - almost a pound of butter - two pounds cheddar - 12 oz cream cheese - various sugars, creams, and spices that we already have so I’m not doing the math

“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of

Googling various Real Housewives to see if they’re still with their various terrible spouses

I'm sorry, but 'yer da shouts at hotels' is the best sticker ever made

This goat said ACAB

Lots of media complainer men are angry at Tulane and JMU for taking up postseason spots that could've gone to programs that have frequently proven themselves in big games. In unrelated news Oklahoma's 4-11 in BCS/NY6/CFP games since 2002

The Oklahoma coaching staff has otherworldly Nightmare Church Youth Group Retreat Leaders energy

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

He’s a piece of shit! He should be in jail! Unredact the rest of the men in suits!!