I hate this stupid game.

You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Trump just said the United States is "going to run" Venezuela until there's a transition of power — raising immediate questions as to whether he will order U.S. military deployments.

This is the first time in history that a County Clare hotelier has kidnapped the leader of another country

Ireland, you have the chance to do the funniest thing ever.

On New Year's to-do list: email organizations I'm a part of and asking them to stop using X. www.engadget.com/ai/elon-musk...

Will X being the platform for AI csam finally be the thing that gets people who should have quit it 2 years to leave. At a certain point (now), if you are a public figure hanging on there, you’re endorsing all of this.

Between this and Trump chomping down Aspirin like they're chiclets, 2026 is already shaping up nicely.

Me every time I put up Christmas decorations: How beautiful and festive! I'll be so sad when it's time to put them away. Me every New Year's Day: I cannot look at anything Christmas related for even one more minute. Back into the boxes and down to the basement they go.

I'm confident that people in Ireland will tell this walking canker sore what he can do with his "national party".

Please welcome the Irish #FamilyHistory Society to Bluesky! #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy #GenHour

Anyone being sued by Matt Taibbi deserves our support. I just bought his book (not at Amazon) and I hope others do too. bookshop.org/p/books/owne...

I hope South Park gets another Peabody. ew.com/south-park-w...

Think how many millions of public school students have created glorious holiday art with their own minds and hands this month. Weingarten could be sharing actual art and celebrating actual human kids whom the @aft.org is supposed to be serving. But no. She's sharing "A.i." garbage based on theft.

If only someone had been screaming this from the rooftops for the last seven years. 👋🏼

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

The perfect Christmas Eve movie.

Santa Tweet! Santa Tweet!

It's like the anti-science anti-vaccine mindset is its own kind of infectious disease popping up all over the place. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

About a day after you stop using X, you'll wonder why you waited so long. @seancasten.bsky.social @whipkclark.bsky.social @congressmin.bsky.social @repericsorensen.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov

Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.

Not a single one of my maternal ancestors was here before 1880... And every one of them-Greek, Slovak/Rusyn, and Scottish- gave up their traditions and willfully "Americanized". So I say: fuck those white-supremacist Mayflower-descendant assholes who thought everyone needed to assimilate.

British Quakers are refusing room bookings from terfs as policy. If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends. Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.

I'd like a note at the start of any book that is the first in a series about what I'm signing up for. Last night with only a handful of pages to go in Stephanie Garber's The Alchemy of Secrets I had that familiar "wait, is this a series" realization. Now I have to wait for the next one. BOO.

Like many people I watched Spinal Tap for the umpteenth time. It is brilliant and funny and a brisk 1 hr and 22 min. Then I looked up the run times of Rob Reiner's other movies. When Harry Met Sally, Princess Bride, Stand By Me - all around 90 minutes. Let's bring back reasonable movie run times.

The New Republic's Greg Sargent is a member of team #ResistanceGenealogy. This is a remarkable piece about how the person running the White House has completely turned his back on his family's history. A must read for all genealogists who know that immigrants made our country great. #genealogy

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Why do the wrong people keep dying? ew.com/anthony-gear...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities say they will release person of interest detained in Brown University shooting that killed 2 and wounded 9.

if these kids were conservative influencers, it would not have been "things can happen"

The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns. The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.

Everything about the shooting at Brown is horrific & should make America ashamed of the slaughterhouse we’ve become. But I’m especially holding in my heart the parents who were eagerly planning for their kids to get home for break. Getting them holiday gifts. Planning to cook their favorite meals.

My kid is sheltering in place a block from the Brown campus, 20 people may be dead and the commenters on the Fox News website are making jokes about gender studies. WTAF is wrong with people.

I certainly love nothing more than learning about what life was like for my Irish ancestor who fought in the American Civil War. A perfect gift for the family historian in your life. #IrishGenealogy #Genealogy

I am not thrilled by this. I am the opposite of thrilled.

I learned a new word today - casualize- and I don’t care for it.

from a state party director

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I'm listening to the ACIP meeting. In a new high water mark WTF moment, the anti-vaxxer lawyer doing a presentation about vaccines (its own WTF) is arguing that getting the measles and mumps is good for you. Okey dokey.

The world is terrible, which means I'm doing the only sensible thing to boost my spirits. That's right, I'm reorganizing my books. I'm making an Irish authors section, which will free up space on my general fiction shelves. Fingers crossed things will be better by the time I'm done.

One of the lessons you learn through #genealogy #familyhistory research is that this bigotry and xenophobia was hurled at so many of our immigrant ancestors. It was hurled at Miller’s Jewish great-grandparents when they fled violence in their homeland and sought refuge in the US.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

Book alert for all the #IrishGenealogy folks. I love O'Farrell's writing, and her next book is about a father and son working on the Ordnance Survey. Historical fiction is a great way to help us imagine what life was like for our ancestors. people.com/maggie-o-far...

"Among the options on the table to eradicate feral cats are poisoned sausage bait and a type of poison that would be sprayed from a device on a tree as they walk past." I understand they are problem, but poisoning them? WTF New Zealand www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/s...

Watching “Thoughts and Prayers,” an HBO Max documentary about the school shooting preparedness industry, and I can’t help feeling like forcing children to do drills reenacting shootings is fucking child abuse.

Way to go Michigan Board of Education!!! Hold on, maybe this wasn't a congratulatory post by the National Review.

I've written obituaries for several family members, but nothing really prepares you for writing your dad's. obituaries.reviewjournal.com/obituary/ger...