an orange cat

"pre-vax, polio was a social death sentence. The disabled were expected to disappear into their limitations.... This might have been the story of Ed Roberts, paralyzed and consigned to sleep in an iron lung. But Roberts insisted on what all people deserve: a full life" Request from your library!

Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

extending lab leak to the spanish flu is fucking wild, tbh

Gift link. Thank you!

When you’re writing about a topic and incidentally happen upon a clip of James Baldwin pontificating on that very theme 💜✊🏾

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damn dubs disappointing

well this is no longer fun

From Ted Chiang's fb

when I die mix my ashes into a brick and throw me at a cop

What do these vintage aerial photographs reveal about the Bay Area’s ongoing transformation? Come find out... www.eventbrite.com/e/east-bay-y...

Between Asheville's slow recovery and the worsening conditions nationally, we're seeing sales far below those of previous years—and we've burned through most of our reserves to bridge the gap. The Q4 turnaround we'd hoped for didn't materialize and we'll be heading into late winter on thin ice. 2/

Now that we're in the 2025 home stretch, our collective is shifting from retail hustle to reflection. This was a tough year, on lots of levels, but our public messaging has mostly focused on political concerns rather than the difficult financial position we've been in since Hurricane Helene. 1/

this bookstore literally became the communal town hall/mutual aid hub after a major natural disaster and showed through actions what anarchism really stands for. please support them as much as you can.

You’ve seen (and loved, obviously) the stories we’ve published so far. But what about the ones we didn’t? Here are eight stories we never wound up doing but kind of wish we had.

Pay attention Be astonished Tell someone - Mary Oliver (This is a photo of a beautiful Heron light sculpture Every encountered a few years back... We were astonished, and now we're telling you!) ✨

Donald Trump: the president who destroyed ISIS in record time in his first term and also the president who is boldly taking on the ISIS terrorists in his second term.

[january 1, 0001] joseph: wtf just happened to the calendar? mary: um, no idea

That's 26,000 career points for Stephen 💪

Here are some translations from the genre of Anarchist Christmas stories. And, with a little luck, I'll add a few more, from "Le Libertaire," before I drift off to sleep tonight. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/tag/christmas/

Merry Christmas yall

excited for this game. Let's go Warriors!

every time I see a headline framing this as being primarily an issue of the student having controversial opinions, and not the student being an asshole with a right wing podcaster mom who wanted to ruin a trans person’s career for the clicks, I age another ten years

If so, I wanna take a moment to say how insane it is if the NBA is doing a “tribute to the troops” for someone “deployed” to 14th and K St. NW. Like he just came back from Antietam. If true, it just normalizes Trump’s fascist contention that our cities demand military occupation. Free DC. Always.

youtu.be/oYU2hAbx_Fc?... This is fascinating and eerie.

youtu.be/oYU2hAbx_Fc?... This is fascinating and eerie.

Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year. As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet

john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him

A large region of showers & thunderstorms, which may be strong to severe, is swirling toward SF Bay Area from the S/SW. There are multiple areas of strong low-level storm rotation offshore (blue outline), suggestive of waterspouts that could move inland as brief tornadoes. #CAwx

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni: “2025 was a difficult year, but don’t worry — the next one will be much worse.”

The weather service is so confident in potential tornadoes that it placed San Francisco in a rare marginal risk for severe thunderstorms three days in advance (both in yesterday's forecast for Dec. 24 and today's for Dec. 25), the first time the agency had done that for the city in at least a decade

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I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

Thread.

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Weiss is bad at this. It’s too big a stage. She’s the Kash Patel of journalism

JUST IN: Betty Reid Soskin, the beloved former park ranger with the National Park Service, has passed away at 104.

"For Avalon" by Daniel McGowan theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dani... "Saying goodbye to Bill Rodgers – So long Avalon – Gone but not forgotten – the fight goes on" by Friends of the Catalyst slingshotcollective.org/9fdaa3884370...

On this darkest night of the year, we remember Avalon, earth and animal liberationist and co-founder of the Catalyst Infoshop (1965 –2005). Avalon took his own life in prison twenty years ago today after being betrayed by a comrade turned informant. RIP Avalon, long live the Earth Liberation Front!

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…