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When I’m playing Fortnite

Ryan Hall reports 1,939 Dunkin Donuts locations are closed due to the storm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UTQ...

When I’m preparing to debut a new phase of my mid-life crisis…

Fantastic read.

Just please let one of these weirdos go to jail before I run out my time on this earth.

insanely good thing to say when you enter a room

One thing that may dramatically shake up our political life on this planet is the advent of a strong new El Niño. (Also our, you know, life life) billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

Honey is everything okay? You haven’t touched your Piven Experience.

This comment has an intended audience of one particular sundowning malignant narcissist.

This may include true information and indeed, it is clear that the tech firms driving AI and LLM products are hoping to--and may well be able to--proletarianize every information profession. But it also ends by recommending that you start paying for the products ASAP. :/ shumer.dev/something-bi...

Makes you think billionaires have no interest in there being an informed public!

I thought “democracy dies in the dark” was a warning not a prescription.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

This is a great example of what Marx called "the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour."

hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism

I’ve become a bore and a crank on the issue that “software all gets worse and worse and is ruining modern life,” but behold, this alert from Garmin, for my pricey Fenix 6 watch, which links to a TWENTY-FOUR step fix, which I will now have to hack through just to get it working like it did last week

In memory of the great writer Dan McQuade, I wrote about how we spent about fifteen years sending each other really stupid press release quotes. I'll miss him.

If you see this post, you are blessed with a prize from the FUN CHICKEN

If you've given biometrics to TSA (Pre-Check and Global Entry members) and you plan to attend a protest, you should wear a medical mask.

Wow -- incredible!!!

When I’m playing Fortnite

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

What will it take to get these monsters out of power

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Real talk

The Rock deserved an Oscar nom for The Smashing Machine, specifically for his passive-aggressive reaction to the way his wife made his smoothie with the wrong kind of milk. I’m not joking about this.

A Reagan appointee: ‘Young used extraordinarily stark language during the hearing, describing Trump as an “authoritarian” while insisting that he was choosing the term carefully, rather than simply using a “pejorative.”’ www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

I saw an albino squirrel on my street the day before my birthday. Actually it crossed my path. Good luck or ill portent?

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

This is an excellent analysis of ICE and its abuses by a former law enforcement officer. Well worth your time.

Middle age means factoring digestion into your plans for the day.

My nominee for most undercovered story of 2025 www.google.com/search?q=hom...

Five years ago today, I was slated to teach theories of play in a course called "The Performance of Politics." Instead, we sat and watched rioters storm the Capitol. A year later, I published "The Deep, Dark Play of the US Capitol Riots." I still stand by its conclusions. doi.org/10.1080/1352...

Shout-out to everyone else buying ridiculous quantities of FSA-eligible products today.

[Read in Ben Affleck’s accent from The Town] whdh.com/news/truck-c...

Ocean heating defies all earlier projections. We are on the worst possible track. Yet this has completely vanished as a topic of conversation in America.

A timely reminder about the importance of higher education from an institution being dismantled by neoliberalism. Full article here: jacobin.com/2025/12/new-...

Forget it Jake, it’s giving Chinatown

Avatar 3 has wildly high levels of white boy with dreads in loincloth

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”

Best Xmas grift ever!

Polio is coming back.

Feng Shui fell off. Nobody’s talking about Feng Shui.

I could see myself voting for someone who campaigns on “I will burn the current White House to the ground and salt the earth where it stood”

"universities are being infiltrated by a commercial industry that exploits students+faculty as data mines frenzy w/o consulting their faculty, collecting empirical data on whether gen AI is pedagogically useful, or pausing to inquire about the long-term impact" www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...