Wordle 1,625 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Birdie, tied the 'bot. Whew, look at those first two guesses.

Connections Puzzle #903 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Solve order yellow-blue-purple-green, iirc.

Absolute pinnacle tv.

For the record, today is the actual first day of Advent, and if your calendar doesn't have a box for today, you got chumped.

Please boost! @Jed Hartman, Melanie Fishbane, Emily Tesh and Farah Mendlesohn talk about the fantastic, weird, controversial and now 50 year old! The Female Man. Free online, December 30th. Tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... or at facebook: fb.me/e/3F0xoFwPh

Wordle 1,624 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Par, tied the 'bot.

Connections Puzzle #902 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Solve order yellow-purple-blue-green (though my idea of the green connector was off, which made me think it was a harder group than it was).

Brother from Another Planet

"They fuck you up, your mum and dad."

Wordle 1,623 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Par, tied the 'bot.

🧵I often get mobbed when I say this, but it was a mistake for liberals & leftists to cede "western civilization" to the fascists. "The West" and "Western" are important political identities. Abandoning them is no smarter than refusing to offer a positive vision of American national identity.

This is a man genuinely terrified of hard working taco cart owners.

Connections Puzzle #901 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟩🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟪🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Hmph. Hard to tease apart some overlapping groups; not impressed by the purple connector, though it's definitely correct. And one of the green words is a *really* sketchy fit.

The penultimate gate falls The doom of 5e Glorantha is next Behind the titans the story games cower 5e Blades in the Dark 5e Apocalypse World 5e Fate Accelerated All futures are now possible 😉

If you can, if you need to, use this information.

There are multiple series in this that are each worth the $18 all by themselves (CURSE WORDS, SEX CRIMINALS, PROPHET, SATELLITE SAM, ALEX + ADA, HEAD LOPPER just to pick a few) and then there are another 20 or 30 titles on top of that. www.humblebundle.com/books/image-...

Wordle 1,622 3/6* ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Birdie, beat the 'bot by 1. Woo!

Connections Puzzle #900 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Solved as shown, did not solve purple.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times The Who REM Mike Cross Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper They Might Be Giants David Bowie Lake Street Dive (I listed 7 because these are the only artists I can think of I've seen more than once and it seemed unkind to play favorites.)

ACAB includes Elf on a Shelf and his hideous capitalist spawn.

Thread on the bigger picture of the Nuzzi-Lizza combination trainwreck/dumpster fire, up and down from here.

The greatest of all tweets for the greatest of all holidays! #Eatmas2025

And to be clear, I am not saying Republicans engaged in a false flag here - I'm saying that Republicans have little incentive to prevent terrorist attacks, because any terrorist attack creates a world of terrorist violence that terrorist organizations like the Republican party wish to create.

The "reporter" lady fucking sources and running catch and kill ops is a huge part of the issue with journalism but so is the corrupt sack of shit ex who knew about all this and said nothing till he felt personally betrayed and is now tossing out tidbits in planned instalments to have you pay him

🚨 COMMUNITY ALERT🚨 At LaGuardia Airport, there are several rumored and one confirmed ICE arrest of domestic travelers. If you are at risk of detention or not sure, exercise caution while traveling. Make a safety plan in case of detention and consult an immigration attorney.

Tachyon Publications creates some extremely good books. So this is a great deal. And it comes just as you're wondering what to get your bookish friends for Christmas. www.facebook.com/search/top?q...

Now available in my shop -- a PDF of Book I of my expansive new mythology of Christmas, encompassing the life, death, and rebirth of St Nicholas! If you've heard me mention my "Silmarillion of Christmas," this is it (NB they are only similar in scope, not tone) www.patreon.com/posts/new-yu...

Wordle 1,621 6/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Double bogie, lost to the 'bot by 1. After move #3, I had 3 possible answers and I hit all of them.

Connections Puzzle #899 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Solve order green-yellow-blue. Absolutely no clue on purple.

Yet another reason to get checked for sleep apnea. (Note that this study is far from definite, but it's a strong effect in the population they studied, and there's a clear mechanism for the relationship.) wapo.st/3XNNl6C

I have not logged into Twitter for a while but this was worth it

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

Can you imagine what a glorious Thanksgiving week or weekend we could have?

Here's a free Thanksgiving-adjacent cookbook that helps you reduce food waste, created completely without AI: ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte... Print copies support a food sovereignty charity!

We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, Charlie Brown (I knew I'd done this game before.)

haha oh god the consequences of this are going to be so incredibly grave in five to ten years time

In America they arrest you if you tell someone else not to commit a crime

Wordle 1,620 4/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Bogie, lost to the bot by 2. I had a 50/50 after move #2 and guessed wrong.

Connections Puzzle #898 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Solve order green-yellow-purple. Did not solve blue.

Wordle 1,619 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Birdie, beat the 'bot by 1.

Connections Puzzle #897 🟪🟦🟩🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Hit the trap (and I am sure it was a trap) and played it safe after that. Did not like purple at all despite solving it.

The Mesopotamians

Impeachment isn’t an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent. Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...

“Climate change isn’t everything“ is becoming a go-to justification for delaying action. This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with. 1/

"Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own, Charlie Brown?"

Wordle 1,618 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Par, tied the 'bot.

Connections Puzzle #896 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Solve order blue-trap-yellow-green. Did not solve purple. Wrote 'em down.

The greatest failure of the Democrats, over pretty much my entire life, has been a systematic failure to punish elite malefactors. Maybe, just maybe, the Comey and James prosecution will convince the next round of Dems that the fascists feel no reciprocal inclination toward granting impunity.

Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.* The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.