Merry Christmas! Let’s go kill Skeletrex

FWIW: what I've said here is mostly reiterating reporting I've heard on NPR and read in other outlets - I don't have links handy but the TL;DR is bad flu year, get your shot, make sure your kids get their shots.

Wishing all billionaires a pleasant Three Ghosts

Bluesky

the age of men is over. the time of the peanut butter jelly has come

One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT

[me telling my story how I survived a plane crash and lived on a deserted island for a year] it was crazy [friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?

a slow news week, such as one where the world's most famous pedophile's suicide note where he accuses the president of pedophilia was released

it really is christmas

Apologies to @brandyjensen.bsky.social for bringing this up, but it was true then, and it's true now

holy cow that’s dumb and bad

Buon natale! (Source.)

“Building Trust” lmfao

it’s actually weird but Spotify doesn’t play some albums i instruct it to

at first i didn’t want to engage with the Sasse discourse but man, if you are knowledgeable and want to throw your lot in with one side, this really is the parable for you. this is how it ends.

who up betting on losing horses

The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work. This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

Worth repeating this with every new Epstein document drop. The party of Denny Hastert is the party of Jim Jordan is the party of Matt Gaetz is the party of Donald Trump. Looking the other way and protecting child predators from the law is their brand.

The sandwich generation, alt definition: stressed about screens for our kids AND for our parents. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

@joekatz45.bsky.social hope you’re doing ok

not something you ever want to hear from past CDC leadership, but it’s the truth

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

folks if you’re gonna post about a movie or piece of media please NAME the media so i can look it up and promptly forget about it TIA

I'm a millennial who grew up with early digital tech and loved it, I was a tech optimist for so long, I would in a tech-adjacent role, and what finally made me a tech critic was just watching and experiencing what these companies actually do. It is demonstrably causing a lot of real harm.

I want to take a moment of reflection. I don’t post a lot of threads anymore (bc really who wants to read them) but this seems like a good time to make a few points about wins & losses & surviving & fighting during the Trump administration’s siege on democracy. Especially as 2025 comes to a close.

Remember the seasonal pleasures of Christmas on the computer, when you were a kid and the Internet was still fun? This is a thread for YOUR nostalgic memories about holiday-themed internet sites, applications, and video games. Here's some of my own favorites, from SimTower to Mac Addict CDs:

keeping this around for the next time i'm asked what Bluesky is

"I am deeply worried that President Trump has brought about a collapse in the governing capacity of American political institutions...But I am no longer worried that President Trump has created a durable political economy that realigns the electorate." newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/everything...

we are a stupid country

please imagine its christmas so this meme pops off PLEASE

In the hallmark movies where the lady goes back home from the big city, they never talk about the game she must play pretending that the ethnic food in the small town is anywhere near as good as her family thinks it is. Just grimacing while eating mid Thai food.

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

This is "I know that Jesus is a magic demigod, and the important thing is to show God the respect that he deserves", but actually the story of the Nativity is, "I don't know who this stranger is, but I can see they need help, and I'm going to be compassionate whether he deserves it or not."

I've been working on bringing a sports hub to @skytube.video. Starting with @nba.com since they're active with the new season starting. All of this is powered by post data and helps you keep track of game scores, highlights, and updates a little more easily. #atproto #atdev

One of my favorite aspects of my life is that I have truly forced “singing terrible improvised songs” to be my brand and I will not budge on this Anyway new vid! Merry Christmas! youtu.be/sscRbyty8SU?...

"exclude generative AI ham"

Biases as a trans person aside, I think at some point we need to make a stand simply because Republican affirmative action becoming the norm will make it functionally impossible to teach.

Every policy has winners and losers. The goal of good policy is to maximize the winners while minimizing the losers. Congestion pricing does this remarkably well a) given the stats on who drives into Manhattan and b) how it offers remedies such as tax credits to low-income drivers.

Weird weekend, huh? Took a crack at breaking down the whole Clair Obscur genAI situation, and its bizarre fallout, as best as possible. My main takeaway right now is that people really need to figure out exactly what they're criticizing or it's going to get messy. www.polygon.com/clair-obscur...

i’m sorry i liked your post in anger

i would not be watching the Porsche ad if they didn’t claim it was artisanal, so pretty much:

It's all gone downhill even faster since the courts decided cops have no constitutional obligation to save you

not to be a handwriting truther but i can co-sign this skeet that if it was forged, it’s not a half-assed forgery:

A gritty reboot of ducktales where huey duey and louie help mine workers in south africa unionize and overthrow flintheart glomgold

*waking up first thing in the morning* what if i post