Happy Last Day of the Eric Adams administration to all who celebrate!

this was a fun read with bonus cute dog, cat, and goat pics!

So it should surprise no one that City Council is using the recently commissioned Transient Lodging Study as yet another excuse to expand its long favored program of allowing short term rentals to destroy neighborhoods. www.instagram.com/p/DS553dplNz...

If you want to get into fountain pens in 2026 and you don't want any fuss, you can get a Pilot Varsity (pre-filled) for about $3

The title of this 🫠

This concern is appreciated and warranted, but to clarify: 3 out of 9 regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers have had their funding frozen (DOI won’t approve their 5-year renewals). 6 regional CASCs are still (mostly) funded. We haven’t given up on restoring funding for the full network.

From the series "Covid Drawings, 2024": "Shaken", graphite on paper, 8x10", 2024- $250(Cdn). #art

If we lived in a just media landscape, this would now be a trilogy.

Read it and your day will get better. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

I used to be annoyed to know that if I was unexpectedly killed in a car accident, my posting on Twitter and Bluesky would be mentioned pretty high up in any obituary. Then I realized it was a pretty notable thing I have helped so many people, and there are far worse things to be known for.

Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.

presented solely with this statement, I would literally never be able to guess the context that inspired it

You mean to tell me that one of the densest urban areas in the country has thousands of daycare centers?

Somebody sent this to me and it's completely false. Murder is falling because shootings are plunging not because emergency medical technology suddenly improved in 2023.

You believed this guy in everything he did which is the highest praise I can give. Big time actors often play themselves but in the trenches actors don't have that luxury and I bought Isiah Whitlock as everyone he played

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This is literally one of my meditation techniques

…. She was chasing kids calling them lairs about being shot at, and still makes racist jokes about Black women But cool sure

An absolutely wonderful, versatile, powerful and powerfully funny actor who enlivened everything he was in, and a huge loss. I'm not going to say the word, but we're all thinking it in his honor. RIP Isiah Whitlock. deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

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The NY Times just goes through the same Rolodex of voters who help them build the narrative they want to create. Rigged journalism.

Today, @npr.org ran a piece on this flu wave & spent most of the time on how this year’s vax isn’t an exact match, then closed w/ advising hand washing, and “one expert has even started wearing a mask in the subway,” as if that were the extreme last resort instead of the 👏obvious 👏first 👏move.

This. The best thing you can do to avoid complications from the flu & the other respiratory viruses surging right now is to avoid inhaling the virus. Yes, get your vaccines; then: Avoid crowds & enclosed public spaces, Wear a well-fitting, quality mask (KN95 or better), Stay home if you’re sick.

If you want to get into drawing in 2026, here is what you need: Steal printer paper from your mom. Steal a pen from your bank. Steal a pencil from the CLUE game in the closet. Ta-da! Now you can draw.

At the 2022 NY Young Republicans gala, Marjorie Taylor Greene said about the attempted coup and January 6th attack on the Capitol: “…If Steve Bannon and I organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ARMED.” [Emphasis added.] www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

Just recently, he was very funny in THE RESIDENCE, one of my favorite shows of the year. Plus THE WIRE, obviously, plus a *lot* of trips to the Law & Order universe, and on and on. A fabulous, versatile presence.

Terrible, always a total magnet. His story about getting cast in Goodfellas, basically his first movie, is so charming www.avclub.com/isiah-whitlo...

I just realized that my older standup special is available for free (with ads) on Tubi! A lot of my favorite old bits are on it, plus some real weird stuff I came up with while doing Zoom shows in 2020!

Newly unsealed docs show DOJ moved to prosecute Kilmar Abrego Garcia for smuggling only after it became clear Trump might not be able to deport him. Sure looks driven by a desire to punish him for fighting back against Trump/Miller lawlessness. Trump had to be right. www.cbsnews.com/news/abrego-...

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I also think some of them are slowly realizing that what they wanted is not what they wanted. Like when I begged for years to get chef boyardee and when I finally got it it was the worst thing I had ever eaten and I had to either admit my error or save face but I could not do both.

So I skipped right from spinster to divorced? Awesome!

lol I am still very flabbergasted that this happened like what the helly

Cherry Blossom Moth Kittens [ #art #illustration #mothkittens ]

All available evidence suggests the flu vaccine is about as effective as it ever is. Get vaccinated! And try to avoid this virus as much as you can.

“Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.” ― Lorrie Moore

“Joel F. Habener, a Harvard University academic whose research paved the way for revolutionary weight-loss drugs Ozempic, Mounjaro and others…died Sunday in Newton, Mass. He was 88.”🧪🩺 I didn’t realize the discovery of GLP-1 started with anglerfish

ᶠᵘᶜᵏ ᶠᵘᶜᵏ 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤 ᶠᵘᶜᵏ 𝒻𝓊𝒸𝓀 𝒻𝓊𝒸𝓀 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝒻𝓊𝒸𝓀 𝗙𝗨𝗖𝗞 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤 ᶠᵘᶜᵏ 𝔣𝔲𝔠𝔨 ｆｕｃｋ 𝔽𝕌ℂ𝕂 𝗳𝘂𝗰𝗸 Fᴜᴄᴋ 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝒻𝓊𝒸𝓀 ᶠᵘᶜᵏ 🄵🅄🄲🄺 ᶠᵘᶜᵏ ᶠᵘᶜᵏ f u c k ᶠᵘᶜᵏ

"What does science matter when the health secretary openly peddles unfounded conspiracy theories?" "What does research matter when evidence-based medicine is treated as optional, or worse, as ideological opposition?" Essential reading. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

There's more to say about this open letter, unfortunately, but bear with me, because I think it's important. For example, this response in the File 770 comments by SFWA board member Jonathan Brazee. In essence, Underwood gives cover to SFWA and vice versa. But both their positions are crap. 1/?

My former colleague @jnaleccia.bsky.social has been reporting about this for years centerforhealthjournalism.org/our-work/rep...

We're in a great place in society when Doctors Without Borders are being labeled as "terrorists" for trying to aid a population under genocide, and media just nods along in agreement.

Other things that beat the Trumpy KenCen Fauxnors last week: In viewers/demo: ABC's rerun of HOME ALONE: 3.7M/0.50 A18-49 In demos: NBC's rerun of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (0.35 A18-49...and 2.943M viewers, i.e., not even 75K fewer than KenCen) TBS's A CHRISTMAS STORY (0.24, Wed. at 8)

I said chatgpt doesn't have a soul and got put on this list

As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu. If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.

loved the phrasing here

I was remembering him from Law & Order, so checked and he did five episodes of original Law & Order, three Criminal Intents, and six SVUs.

Rest easy, Isiah Whitlock Jr. 🙏🏾🕊💙

I need a carbon fiber holster for my USB-C adapters. Tactical night vision battle-hardened asthma inhaler. i can unsheathe my knife perfectly silently so that no one can hear it on this zoom call.