Maybe this'll be the year it hsppens

Btw can I just say it’s absurd how good the first episode of Columbo is? And how wild it is that the first episode of Columbo was directed by an up and coming NBC intern named Steven Spielberg, who I assume went on to do other things after Columbo based off how great his work was here

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

Looking at online conversations about the pluribus finale, it really irks me how many people are made so sad by the baby goat. Yeah man. Can you imagine a species so callous it would make baby animals sad? Gotta get rid of those guys and put (checks notes) human beings back in charge

Binged all of pluribus today. Tbh, completely team hive. Like I think it would be a world historically monstrous act to undo the hive like Carol wants to. Great show. Really giving these questions the room they deserve.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a robot kicking itself in the balls - forever.

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Important reporting. All of these impossible registry requirements do nothing to help victims and only make us less safe.

now for my favorite Portland Christmas tradition: giving fentanyl to small children in exchange for their Christmas candy

I grew up around so many people who sincerely believed that the first amendment exists to protect Christians from intra-sectarian conflict, and everyone else is tolerated as an unfortunate byproduct but that the government should privilege Christianity above other religions...

This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Jesus is not everyone's savior in the United States.

"'We request that the government pause apprehension activities during the Christmas season. Such a pause would show a decent regard for the humanity of these families.' The White House did not mention the holiday season in its rejection of the Bishops' request..." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The luminarias, set up all over, are an echo of the invitation to the stranger, candles lighting a path to shelter. There's a very narrow reading: who wouldn't welcome the son of god? and a broad one: when we welcome any stranger, we are welcoming a human as divine as any other.

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

Please be aware of possible scams! My client, Mel Curth, is not seeking any donations at this time. She is grateful for your support and instead requests folks that want to help to donate to the local organizations of your choice!

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

There’s a lesson here about writing in the age of weaponized lies: Always precede false claims with giant red text, ideally wrapped in a <blink> tag, that says “THIS IS A LIE I AM REFUTING!!” But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?

apparently in the US the "Christmas pickle" is believed to be a German tradition even though it was probably just invented in the 1890s by American department stores

my body is a machine that turns disk space into not enough disk space

"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz

Step 1: Manhattan. Step 2: Everywhere else.

So in the UK, they'll arrest you for supporting Palestine, and now we find they'll also arrest you for supporting those who support Palestine. If you hold a Free Greta sign, will they arrest you for supporting someone who supports those who support Palestine? British Matryoshka doll-ass fascism.

when some people choose between a weekly injection or daily pill to regulate their hormones so as to align their body with their desired appearance i guess it's no big deal

Restoring Bivens rights: one bill "would allow citizens to sue for damages resulting from constitutional violations committed by federal officers," while the other "would create a cause of action against federal law enforcement agencies and police depts for constitutional violations."

OH MY GOD THEY DID

Many such cases. The most successful grifters must grift themselves

It feels like people are desperately seeking reasons to still think she sucks even though the facts don't bear that out. If hundreds of millions of people were saying something false about me and it ruined my life, I would want to respond!

I'd never give Amydog chocolate but part of me has never really believed chocolate is bad for dogs. How can two purely good things be bad for each other

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

Tokyo Godfathers is now available to watch on the Criterion Channel ❤️

i need to stop ruminating on things that make me sad and pick up a book or something

(weird guy trying to sneak in an amendment to Woke 2) this all sounds great, and what about if you make fun of chiropractors you get the death penalty

Yelling at the actors in this middle school play, demanding they stop speaking the name of my dead son Oklahoma

If elected, I will stop time once and for all.

Chloe Zhao's Hamnet was really good. The ending stretches credulity a bit but the emotion was there and the last line destroyed me. Also some of my favorite takes on scenes from Hamlet

The chapter in Naomi Kleins Doppelganger about the union between "the far right and the far out" is a great articulation of this phenomenon. The line between woo and fascism has always been hazy, but the pandemic made them tight bedfellows

In general, I think one of the most common fallacies in interpreting issue polling is that the public is usually polled on ends, not means, but people reading the result assume that if the public is in favor of the ends they're also in favor of the means. But those often do not go together

Important: Maryland senate leader refuses to redistrict to counter Trump/GOP, but Rep Jamie Raskin says if Indiana GOPers move, MD must act: "There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created." On the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2042...

Ryan Coogler explains why he declined the invitation to join the Academy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/m...

Basic foodstuffs are a pitiful fraction of the cost they were 200 years ago. Ditto for anything manufactured. But labor is *more* expensive, precisely because it got so much more efficient over time. Capital is pricier than it was in 1820 but way cheaper than before the Industrial Revolution.

In the 1700s, people would rent a single pineapple to show off at a party, not to eat (only royalty and the absurdly wealthy could afford to eat one), just to look at and admire such an extravagant luxury. Now you can get one at Walmart for half an hours minimum wage work. Less if you buy it canned

Shadow of the Colossus (2005)

In the 2000s and 2010s there was a sort of philosophical public debate over whether drones are actually meaningfully different than other types of warfare or if aversion to them over boots on the ground is ultimately just so much masculine posturing/cult of the operator bs, but...

As with crypto, ai seems like essentially an attempt to "correct" for historically low energy costs, like the fact that electricity is both widely needed and extremely cheap is a market inefficiency that they want to find a way to "fix" by finding a way to eat up "excess" supply

Dude I was 12 in 2008 listening to racist neighbors do the hard emphasis on Obama's middle name, now I'm almost 30 and we're still doing it?

You never want to hit someone with the nuclear "As stated previously" in an email but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do