...this is more or less what has happened with the Christmas cookies and candy in our house

Kind of want to know more about this "Buzz" music now

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.

This new year, I am continuing my tradition of low-stakes, no-failure, happy-making resolutions, and will: 1. Continue to seek out new noodles to try 2. Try some new types of cheese 3. Do more unusual-for-me fun things

I have 3 axioms that help me decide when to talk to people I disagree with: 1. To debate a subject is to concede that the subject is debatable. 2. To reason with a person is to concede that the person is reasonable. 3. To ask for evidence of a claim is to concede that the claim might be true.

that's a lot of gender affirming care Nick is looking for, there.

Kinda want to make up sandwiches to match these now

Well that sucks

The results of family cookie decorating, including a biblically-correct angel with a probably-biblically-incorrect mustache

Huh. My insurance just decided not to approve my T. If it's because they decided not to cover trans care, I'm pretty sure my doc would be down to prescribe me T for *wink wink* menopause, and my insurance will probably suddenly decide they can cover the exact same dose they refused before 🙃

Reminder that you don’t have to traumatize yourself, you’re not obligated to do that as long as you’re staying informed and engaged. Many people will watch this and write about it and tell you the important things to know and it’s ok to protect your heart as much as you can

There once was a widening gyre And a falcon who kept flying higher The best all felt cruddy The tide was all bloody And a rough beast just kept slouching nigher.

Annabelle Lee and The Cremation of Sam McGee have the same meter and rhyme scheme and my insomnia hobby is swapping lines between them. Twas many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, lived a maiden fair whom you may know by the name of Sam McGee.

Prufrock is difficult. I grow old…I grow old… That rough beast’s hour is foretold. Shall I take up falconry? Do I dare the goshawk’s screech? I shall wear thick leather gloves and walk along the beach I have seen the falcon’s gyre widen out of reach I do not think mine will return to me.

This is just a note to say that I have eaten the falcon in a widening gyre and that you were probably saving for anarchy Forgive me it was delicious so rough and full of passionate intensity

I want to talk about the numbers here: $2.25M is not huge in the philanthropic world. We have food pantry CEO's making $500K. Everyone wants to target the billionaires but lots of people can make a difference. The neighbors are pitching in for renovations. This is neighbor-ing. We can do this.

I would very much like to just go about my boring existence without needing to constantly justify my right to exist and worry about my safety, thankyouverymuch I don't regret anything about my transition experience, but DAMN I miss my existence being boring!

I just described Judith Herman's Trauma Theory as "a handful of theoretical chunks in a trenchcoat" and I am absolutely sorry not sorry about this 😂 (the chunks all connect to each other, but there's no way to actually test the whole thing together)

A thread of how to say “nobody asked you” from around the world, starting with this one… A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”

19 (I've surprisingly never had an AOL address--I jumped straight to my university's Pine system)

I'm currently hiding in the back of the library with coffee to channel being a doctoral student so I'll do my grading even though I'm still exhausted from grant writing 🙃 I'm pretty sure I'm not the only professor in here doing this, either 😂

THE GRANT IS SENT OFF AND MY BRAIN IS COTTAGE CHEESE! TIME TO GO CELEBRATE WOOOoooooooooooo.

FINAL DAY OF GRANT WRITING THIS YEAR LET'S GOOOOO!!! Current "I hate all of everything and want to go herd goats in Iceland" music selection (cheerfully despotic!) "No more bad news / So you can sleep well at night / And the palace of your mind will be briiiiight!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_n...

Callisto-cat is so cheerfully and determinedly incompetent at burying her shit in the litterbox. I swear you could give her a whole beach and she'd STILL manage not to bury it. You can practically hear Nebula (our Snooperviser-cat) grumpily muttering as she goes behind her to clean up.

As someone with a BSW, the idea that my prof would be expected to be knowledgable in both Family Systems Theory and field medicine is absolutely insane

This is a responsible person. All the same, that people think (rationally) that they have to prepare for mass shootings must, necessarily, lead to its own mental distress. That is, they're victims before the fact.

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????

Meanwhile, my gender-affirming low-dose T prescription that I've been on for years is currently delayed because my insurance claims that it needs to be "reviewed."

JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis Discuss the appropriate amount of women for a fantasy book youtube.com/shorts/KuLc6...

This is from Shein, so I have no idea when (or what) it will actually arrive, but I will hopefully soon be the unashamed owner of my very own horrifying screaming goat pillow cover. It's going on the guest bed in my office because it makes me laugh until I need my inhaler, so visitors beware?

Today is the 33rd anniversary of The Muppet Christmas Carol! We hope you're celebrating by attending a party at your local rubber chicken factory.

"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

Holy crap....this is a Pumpkin toadlet and it is the best

I would 100% use that every damn year in my class exercise on doing mini mental status exams 😂

Ok, let’s do this A Warren Harding thread!! Wherein I reveal A. The coolest thing about him B. The nickname he gave to his most favorite appendage (yes, that one) Buckle up kids, Warren Harding was a real piece of work (that’s what she said)

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

This is truth

When I lived in west TN, you could tell which party people were voting for by how long they stayed in the voting booth because NOBODY was on the local Dem ballot. It shouldn't be like that. It should be like this. Even if "they don't have a chance," there needs to be presence.

I don’t really like cooked celery (raw is delicious) but this was very interesting history nevertheless: www.epicurious.com/ingredients/...

this is horrendous but also kinda hilarious

After some savory grilled cheese, Chef Eilif is here with something #sweet. Check out how to make #homemade Norwegian #CinnamonBuns – with some American icing. Don’t forget to follow us and Chief Eilif (@chefeilif) on Instagram for more delicious stories! tinyurl.com/44e4h75r

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

first time I've been sad bsky doesn't have an algorithm because how did it take a month for this to show up on my timeline

This is so accurate it causes me mild physical pain.

since we're doing USPS discourse again, a reminder of what Dems should be saying

Ridiculously simple Universal Design stuff that instructors can build into their courses, a thread: 1. Provide digital feedback using comments so they're accessible to screen readers and translators. Don't make your students read your cramped scrawls. Plus, who wants to lug a pile of paper around?