Needed this reminder today.

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

I found this, frankly, shocking.

For those of us who pay quarterly taxes or any other payment by December 31, this unheralded change in postal policy can bite you in the butt. This could have other unforeseen consequences (e.g., mail-in balloting), but for now, this is more timely.

Today I'm remembering one of my favorite comics from 2015. I understand, goat friend. I am also tired. poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/goat/

12/17/2025

I have a joke about Frank Blackmore, but it's a little roundabout.

Why are you polyamorous? Wrong answers only: It's clearly the proven successful strategy. If it didn't work, parrots would have gone extinct by now.

Welcome to the jungle Our work week's just 4 days And everyone gets medical Plus a good 401K And if you are harrassed In any way sexually HR will get on top of that With confidentiality In the jungle Welcome to the jungle My... My... My employee Oooh We hope you will succeed! *guitar solo*

Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends.

Gonna design a game where the goal is to see what's happening around you and choose the option that'll disappoint the most (non-hypothetical) people. It'll be a First-Person Schumer

Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:

If they think Union Busting is going to make them more profit on GTA 6, maybe they're right and maybe they aren't, but I'm sure not buying a single thing they've touched until they atone for this one. Frankly, I don't think they're capable of it.

Bali🐅 Malayan 🐅 Sumatran 🐅 Javan 🐅 South China 🐅 Indochinese 🐅 Caspian 🐅 Bengal 🐅 Amur 🐅 flat noodle

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Accurate but deeply upsetting

Potato expert here, they only do this when they're in distress

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

Testing a theory: reskeet if "every ICE agent will be unmasked and tried for their crimes" would get your vote

Fuck it, Bug Dimmadome

There is no democratic justification for withholding these files. This is a coverup.⁩

Very interesting algorithm analysis, which explains the repeated problems with content moderation getting in the way of social justice tldr: it's always good to block a TERF or a white supremacist or any other type of fascist original post: www.tumblr.com/chiptrillino...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

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New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Who is this woman at the telescope on the cover of Popular Science, Jan. 1928? Based on the article inside, about women scientists working as federal employees, it’s Eleanor Lamson (1875-1932) of the U.S. Naval Observatory. I’ve not seen a woman scientist from that era on a magazine cover. 🧪🔭

This should get WIDE circulation: MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.” gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...

I am quoting this post to point out that it is disinformation. If you already have the account blocked, feel free to drive on with your day. Uncritically sharing misinformation and disinformation seems to be the 2nd half of this account's goal, and my friends who follow it should be duly warned.

If you could get a crib in any five cities (five cribs) of your choice in the world, which would you choose? Boston, Portland (Oregon), Norman (Oklahoma), Albany (New York), and I'm going to flip a coin, it landed heads, so Dublin (Ireland).

looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out

Gonna keep posting that I am indeed still looking for a job. I haven't lost my current one but if you have a remote tech job available at your place of business, please keep me in the loop. So many of my coworkers are already gone.

Age verification? Dad and I used to go to the movie theater with coats full of 15 cent cheeseburgers so we could skip concessions.

There's an astonishingly "what could it possibly mean?"-coded piece around saying "people who understand more about AI are less likely to want anything to do with it" and I just want to suggest: what if it were sharks?

19. YOU WILL BE A BETTER PERSON IF YOU INTERNALIZE THAT IT'S ACTUALLY GOOD TO GO "OH DAM UR RIGHT MY BAD" EVERY NOW AND THEN.

Finally took a moment to hang up my headphone stand. It looks great and it's right in arms' reach, and I'm range of the charging cable.

"They get paid $174k a year with benefits for life and can't bother to read bills"

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

INBOX: MIAMI — Johnny Noviello, a 49-year-old citizen of Canada in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was pronounced deceased by the Miami Fire Rescue Department June 23 at 1:36 p.m. The cause of death is still under investigation.