It's always exciting when the forecast uses terms like "blustery."

Had my first iced sidewalk slip and fall of the season just this morning, so I guess it is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. (Ow.)

i don’t know, friends, maybe if france can’t take care of its precious cultural assets, someone else should get them. (preferably a former french colony.)

My one wish for 2026 is to not be white-knuckling it through December muttering "I'm going to make it through this year if it kills me."

rojo in the streets verde in the sheets

anyway good night

3. I appealed to the joy of doing science—and got the predictable question: Would you rather live in a world where AI cured cancer or live in a world where you personally get to do science? But that's not the dilemma we face at all. There's no cause to think that AI could do anything of the sort.

Me during my grading sessions for the writing-intensive class the last time I was an adjunct.

I really appreciate the alt text here because I'm just face blind enough that I otherwise would've thought those were just one guy, maybe two. ... unfortunately, four separate dudes.

I am not the originator of this insight, but: we do not actually know what is ADHD and what is post-traumatic stress, because our society does not produce untraumatized people with ADHD.

Still one of my mantras.

I want jobs for humanities experts to kill AI systems.

Thread...of GENIUS

I remembered today to incorporate the Madonna of Montevergine into my Global Queer History class. For 800 years people have commemorated the Virgin Mary miraculously rescuing 2 young male lovers who had been tied to trees by a mob & left to die of cold. uscatholic.org/articles/202...

I'm running a fundraiser for our local animal shelter in honor of our wonderful Fergus who passed away this year. I just really needed to do something to keep his kind and loving spirit alive by helping other shelter kitties like him. Please consider a donation if you can! ❤️ givebutter.com/n5l31M

Saw a video where a travel influencer missed half the Christmas markets in Cologne because they relied on ChatGPT to tell them the opening dates and you know what, sometimes I let my very German schadenfreude run free.

Hey what’s the normal number of snakes that normal people find in their house every month? It’s at least one, right? Minimum of twelve snakes a year?

I find the seemingly standard public education/reenactor phrase, "every Roman soldier was a [combat] engineer" more than a bit frustrating. Every Roman soldier could be a *laborer.* The legions also had much higher status specialist engineers, the praefectus fabrum or architectus. Different jobs!

"'But where else would one expect to find a right whale with Irish connections if not off Boston?' said Padraig Whooley with the Irish Whale & Dolphin Group." Attaway (attawhale?)

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I....seem to be making a lot of friends here lately.

A reminder that Iron Circus is gonna get WALLOPED with Baker & Taylor bankruptcy backdraft for the next several months, turning our usual distro payout into bills. If you'd like to help a small business making weird-ass comics weather the storm, a 💥30% OFF💥 sale is on now! store.ironcircus.com

The most frustrating thing about Heinlein is that he was so all over the place for decades So it’s so easy to find something in his writing that really connects with you …and then you get the entire rest of his catalog and feel uncomfortable

I will never not think about the origins of the word thagomizer.

So I have just finished working my way through @themountaingoats.bsky.social's lyric-annotation book of days THIS YEAR. (Which is, before I go on, an absolutely lovely book, thank you for it, John.)

In a modern retelling of Inferno, Dante will find The Pit Of Hasty Repliers, wherein are tortured all those who commented without reading the thread. They are chased through a maze by demons. They could escape the maze by studying the map, but each time they look at it, their eyeballs melt.

I love how people who follow me absolutely know what I'm talking about, and the discover tab people are wandering in here like John Travolta

In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.

it's not a Waffle House, it's a waffle home

Teenagers with comfortable homes and no bills should 1000000% use their power to quit jobs with no notice if their manager treats them like shit.

“You salute the rank, not the man.” This is Old Navy, not THE Navy. Chill the fuck out, Store Manager Tom.

I love Bluesky because if you post about something like the Sorites paradox you are going to get responses from DeanOfPhilosophy.Harvard/.edu and LeatherPupDaddy.Fisting/.org and both are going to make very in depth and equally cogent arguments on the topic.

These vibrant Roman ribbed 'rippenschalen' glass drinking bowls were made in various places in the empire. The most common color was the amber, shown on the left (made in the Balkans), followed by cobalt blue and purple (both here made in the E. Mediterranean). 🏺 1/ 50-100 CE. 📸 me (ALT for more)

anyway good night

playing with the idea that part of The Problems is that a number of things that were private have become social and a number of things that were social have become private

Anyway: If this year has taught you anything, I hope it's that white supremacy is fake as hell, fails without support, and requires extensive enforcement and blatant acts of favoritism and exclusion to survive. All-white/white supremacist spaces, political, social, and professional, are a choice.

Oh hey have I mentioned that I live with the most beautiful girl in the world?

Digging through my Aida cloth and found this bit of blackwork I designed. Late 2020? Early 2021?

"FIFA Peace Prize" has about the same level of value and cachet as "McDonalds Oceanic Exploration Award"

Hey, artist! Quote with your red art! 🔺

so if dogs see their owner as this big alpha dog do cats see us as these giant incompetent cats?

I’m legitimately really interested in the experiences of high-mileage minivans. If that’s you, drop your knowledge and lore on me. And if the Odyssey isn’t the move, lmk. I may reluctantly consider a dog-less Sienna

A new report on dietary findings in a select area of Pompeii likely inhabited by enslaved people came out in Scavi di Pompei. Many newspapers are now running w/a headline about Roman slaves “eating better” than free Romans. pompeiisites.org/e-journal-de... Let’s discuss why this is problematic

I have never appeared on the Discover tab and fuck yeah, ideal outcome, no notes

Artist must currently be suffering from spiraling intrusive thoughts. Artist must have wept spontaneously and uncontrollably in the last twenty-four hours. Artist must have lived with their parents for an extended period as an adult.

Watching “Pluribus.” As a fantasy romance author, I would just like to say that I would handle this WAY better.

And whatever you think you are seeing behind those branches and lights it most assuredly is not a Murphy Cat* *according to Murphy Cat

The face of a cat who assures you that the large black object spotted on the branches just moments before this photo was taken wasn't him

There must be a high-paying job somewhere editing memos & emails from senior university admin, since they don't seem to realize that their primary audience includes 100s of folks who fixate on grammatical errors & writing issues. Today, I briefly panicked over an email promising a "planful future."