Are you one of the 50 people I made this joke for?

Me lol Late 50s but I can enthuse about Minidisc anytime. Mass storage and streaming are better, but Minidisc was the best portable music format until those became viable.

24 December 1918 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Anna Marianna Grijsaart-Reens, was born in Amsterdam. In December 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- 📖 Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/

'Youre Wondering Now' by the Specials. Cap Black. #borrowabrother www.instagram.com/reel/DSpxqEZ...

Union Santa said fuck the milk and cookies. Go for the solidarity and cheese.

NO ONE WANTS TO GO TO SPACE TO WORK FOR BILLIONAIRES. ALIEN IS NOT ASPIRATIONAL.

A portrait of an Alexander Horned Sphere I drew for a professor’s birthday

My dear friend Jonathan I drew you with all my love and will keep it forever in my heart. I hope you like some of these loving touches for you. 🌹🍉🎄

Oh no! What a loss, one of the OG prog bloggers, Howie Klein, has passed away. 😔 Rest in power. @downwithtyranny.bsky.social Howie, spot-on, from 2019: 🌐 downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2019/06/how-...

i think the whole jesus story becomes a lot more tangible and relatable if you transliterate it into modern terms as: there was this random guy from, like, the appalachian hills named josh and he did some carpentry work sometimes & didnt make noise but then he got born again & realized he was God

Have YOU listened to the Jethro Tull Christmas album yet this year youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Cesar Chavez is greeted by supporters outside Monterey County Jail on Christmas Eve 12/24/70 after CA Supreme Court orders his release for refusing Monterey Co. Superior Court judge’s order to halt UFW boycott of grower struck during the lettuce/ vegetable strike earlier that yr

Tiny Paul Westerberg is a late entry but strong contender for the character find of 2025.

this is making me imagine a tiny paul westerberg singing in a falsetto, like a mouse begging for cheese

My good friend Howie Klein passed away today and I am bereft. He was a fierce progressive, music impressario, creative organizer, passionate world traveller and the mensch of all mensches. Howie always fought the good fight and inspired many to do the same. I will miss him terribly.

Tiny Tim, who did not die—-his format was merely discontinued because he was a minidisk edition of the album by The Replacements. Probably worth a lot of money now if you still have one…

This is beautiful. Love this comics shop

Artists are leaving Twitter again? Yay!!! New art to look at!!!

Ooo it’s the full thing! I don’t like Xmas stuff (because I’m Jewish and I like good music) but this muppets special is really sweet and fun.

Pile and Ren

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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, where the shadows lie, One Tim to rule them all, One Tim to find them, One Tim to bring them all, and in the darkness, bind them.

And yet, In Covid’s Wake quotes me as saying that “the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands” — literally the opposite of what I argue — to buttress their claim that the government was too busy censoring speech to adequately deal with the pandemic.

If you attack a Sunni mosque, and you say it is motivated not by hatred of Muslims as a religious community, but by opposition to the Saudi government as a state, you are still being Islamophobic.

One way to thank them? Wear a mask near them so you don’t get them sick on the job. You can be contagious and have zero symptoms.

this christmas eve, please remember that covid-19 is still an ongoing pandemic, and all of these professions have a higher risk of long covid.

someone saved us? i am still in my house

YES! We had a big and Very Angry cat get brought in yesterday with the finder claiming he'd been abandoned. The actual owner has been trying to contact us - he was NOT abandoned, just got loose. I cannot say it enough, don't assume ill intent when you see a stray animal. You never know. ❤️

you indeed cannot make art or class struggle if you're dead, which is why I await support for my class development grant proposals on "History of Agricultural Practices 1500-Present" and "Sanitation Work in the Byzantine Empire"

You have to be an absolute lunatic to say this to a child on Christmas Eve. (On the other end of the call, you can hear the mother desperately trying to end the conversation and hang up)

One of the biggest reasons this time of year is difficult is because of the Dakota 38. In total, it was 40 Dakota men. But the other 2 were killed later. 38 Dakota were killed, on the day after Christmas. Less than a week before Linclon signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

…For when you’ve sent fruit baskets and don’t know if they’ll arrive in time: (Cards by me).

Moomin Dance! A midwinter celebration of friendship

I got the lump I wanted.

Officially, seven people have died in ICE detention this month. Thinking about the way the Trump admin vanishes both people and data, I suspect the real number is higher.

I am ex Chabad and openly call it a cult. I also have no intention of blaming them or their participants for being the victims of a mass shooting. This is only hard if you are so caught up in internet culture that you’ve forgotten to have empathy even in moments like this.

This is especially confusing with blood relatives. I'm like "hey family! Remember that *I share genes with you* and I got permanently disabled by a virus in 2010. Pls act responsibly!" Then they say "that sucks, have you tried xyz magic cure?" and continue traveling and eating at IHOP

one of the most important videos on BlueSky right now and every single person should watch it, because as she said. It can, and realistically if things don’t change, WILL one day be you. If you’re doing nothing to stop it, how could your life end up any other way? Are you okay with that?

I recall Hobbes thanking a LC-minimizing public health pundit when the ep came out, too. This was all a choice

i'll just tap the sign yet again bsky.app/profile/ezra...

I hate this. I’m 65 and have been refused the vaccine even though I was Dx’d with HPV16 in 2018. When will it come out of dormancy again? I have to admit to myself every damned day of my life that I could transmit it to my husband, if it comes back out of dormancy.

Can any Maintenance Phase listeners with LC report back re that episode?

I’m hoping to post the new podcast episode tomorrow. Sorry for the wait. It’s really good but I had a lot of tech stuff to work out & work stuff to work on first. If you like podcasts where two people who respect each other, have a very different opinions of the show they’re reviewing come on down

not to pile on here, but to my knowledge no actual NHL players have publicly acknowledged Heated Rivalry, and the NHL itself only namechecked it this week because the show has noticeably led new fans to buy tickets. I kind of doubt it's moving the needle in terms of ingrained cultural homophobia.

I would prefer any immigrant with a face tattoo in my apartment overnight to Stephen Miller in my apartment for five minutes, so

Ummm and on a tougher note Withnail & I

how many more articles will you need to read to bring it home? perhaps you’ll find the ones i reference in this video to be impactful:

i just don’t understand how you can read about and understand the severity of the situation we’re headed for and still say wearing a mask to prevent needless illness in, at the very least, indoor public spaces is a bridge too far. is caring merely hypothetical to you? your body plays a role.

Ummm and on a tougher note Withnail & I

All the Henson era muppets movies