These fucking politicians need to STOP CONSTANTLY admonishing protestors to be "peaceful" while they are being brutalized regularly by the gatekeepers of the state. You should be up there telling ICE and Border Patrol to be fucking peaceful.

Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.

Just got the most mediocre news from the vet and I couldn't be happier!

I'm gonna repeat this: Amazon invented package theft. This was not a common problem 20 years ago. It is not a given that a healthy society needs to be able to leave boxes full of valuables on the street without anyone taking them. It's an absurd business and it's not our responsibility to fix it

Massive fire destroying plenty of people's homes in Ridgewood this morning gothamist.com/news/3-injur...

That last RT reminded me of a personal "AI nailed it" fav from 2025:

This is my favorite headcanon and it's a great example of how readers can offer a different reading of a text that the author never considered and did not intend, but is nonetheless validated by the text itself.

finally, we're living through precedented times

Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York City, called President Trump on Saturday to personally object to strikes the U.S. had conducted in Venezuela and to the capture of its leader, Nicolás Maduro. Mamdani accused Trump of violating international law.

i absolutely moved to NYC 27 years ago to watch it become the suburbs. So happy to still be here. Mother fuckers, just go to the Food Bazaar.

look at some point you gotta face the fact that not everything is a distraction from everything else and there’s just a lot of bad stuff going on all the time

Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.

They practiced on Gaza. A reminder to stand up against injustice and atrocity everywhere. Because it’s morally required of us. But also because if they get away with it in one place, they try it in another and another and another.

Um, has anyone seen Maduro?

okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."

Our cat, Hamilton, was sedated for a non-invasive procedure yesterday. He couldn't eat for the whole day and the sedative - especially in such a high dose - functions as an appetite stimulant. He woke me up howling at 6am and I was like, let me look at my phone, as a little treat. It was not a treat

The reported capture of Venezuelan president evokes previous eras when other leaders were seized by US.

I'm seriously stunned to see people reaching for a comparison that isn't Noriega but you all do you.

I fear we are going to have to say this a lot again: Int law prohibits bombing countries for the sake of democracy. FOR VERY GOOD REASON. It tends not to work. Attacking a country because its leader lacks legitimacy - whether as pretext or sincerely held rationale - is still just an aggression.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

To be clear, I provided a credit card when I made the reservation, and I assumed they would just charge that card.

I'm almost 50 years old and I have never walked out on a restaurant bill before. Last night we went to Decades Pizza and - for over an hour - watched everyone else get served before us, sat in the cold while hundreds of deliveries went out, and just left because why should we get treated like shit.

Having a newly elected official be sworn in at midnight of the New Years Eve just makes more sense than January 20th

When We All Get to Heaven is profound. I'm in the middle of such raw grief that I wasn't sure now was the time to listen to it, but listening to our ancestors hasn't failed me. I've never been so grateful someone didn't through away a box of cassettes. www.heavenpodcast.org

I had a conversation with someone probably in her early 30s the other day about Y2K and the profound misunderstanding that "everyone worried and nothing happened." I explained that nothing happened because tons of people put in tons of hours to avoid all of the worst case scenarios.

Marjorie hasn't asked for an invitation into your imaginary antifascist tent 😂

He continues to be the coolest guy in the room by being the most sincere guy in the room.

What. Is. Happening. Here.

A friend just offered to make an urn for Vicky and why do I know people who care like that.

Note: the movie is way weirder once you know about this conspiracy. Also, the 4K restoration was 🔥

Yes, this!: "this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning" I'm finding that I don't have just to change assignments. I have to **abandon my entire teaching strategy**, which has always been built around scaffolded independent projects across the semester.

I work in faculty development, and everyone around me keeps saying we should appear agnostic and not be boosters. No one seems to understand that I am absolutely *not* agnostic. (And that they are boosters.) I am so angry. Shove this shit in every class! Who cares about learning objectives!

Indiana State Senator wishes you a Merry Christmas by… posting images of himself assaulting Santa Claus. Are the fascists okay?

In my humble opinion, shy cats are the best cats. Someone please give these little ones a home!

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

We are seeing Eyes Wide Shut in three hours and I am just learning of this particular conspiracy. web.archive.org/web/20251223...

As I’ve said before, politics in New York City don’t fall along traditional partisan lines, they fall along the divide of inner boroughs and outer boroughs and the outer boroughs think they’re the only real New Yorkers. They all also have clearly melted their brains on the Internet.

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

If I see a rat in my fucking toilet there is no way I'm going to calmly close the lid and go get some Palmolive www.facebook.com/KCPubHealth/...

I am going to devour this like I devoured the book and then the handpulled noodles I made when I finished the book. Seriously top fiction read of 2025. Also noodles.

Congratulations to Columbia University for finding their new president.

"You need to stop being selfish and get over the fact we will kill you" is an insane official position for a political party seeking election to have and an even more insane one for liberals to actually echo

I can tell y'all ain't never been to Peg's Cavalier on a Thursday.

Here are some actions you can take to defend gender-affirming care in your hospital system.

Highly relatable: "I downloaded Apple’s new iOS 26.2 last week because I am a trained circus seal who will press any button presented to me."

This is possibly the most significant attack on trans rights in this country yet, and I can count the number of posts on my timeline about this on my hands. If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!