couple of these folks have taken some serious L's over the past year but they'll always be able to say they helmed one of the single greatest cuts of the era youtu.be/EvlQOjK0MPk

What "boys will be boys" (gender neutral) is meant to refer to

Let's Compute magazine was different. For one, it was aimed at kids. For another, its articles explained electronics and computer science. Here, The Gadget Shop column tells kids how they can build a computer pressure detector plate in order to find when Santa's sneaking around. (Source.)

that being said, kinda h8 even more the tendency I'm seeing now for influencers to utilize screenshots of Google's hallucinatory SERP Gemini output in their "educational"/"news" videos 🥴

Here's a goodie that didn't make the Mail Bag: For my final KEXP interview, I had the unreal pleasure of getting to speak to Gina Birch—artist and founding member of the Raincoats(!!!). www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwkk...

Speedily running towards an expansion of mass incarceration.

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

and now he's a gd pro fisherman! andscape.com/features/ben...

Along w/ giving this the proper post that it deserves, big shouts to the good folks at @stereogum.com for including the link to the Reddit post that has the link to the... well, just click. Christmas came early. ❤️

in case you missed it yesterday, i had a short story published, and it's up for a contest reedsy.com/short-story/...

Taste

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If you bet on Trump as permanent realignment by doing something like showing up to the inauguration to sit front row, personally pay for his vanity projects, or let him dictate your syllabi and admissions policies, or personally served to cut off foreign aid to fatal results, you have to be sweating

Never thought of it like this. Also makes me think of Tumblr and Instagram before they started messing with them. A nice mix of texts and pictures on Tumblr and IG before the algorithm and stories. Just scroll and appreciate. Keep it moving.

this is even funnier than the NFT flippers who'd get steamed whenever someone right-click-saved their lil $100k-contract jpegs for free

Look, the Beatles were HUGE for me as a kid, and I still love them as much as, if not more than, the next #BeatlesGuy. But I’m BEGGING someone to put this kind of energy into the KINKS, for the love of god

YOU CANNOT TAME A TIGER INTO A KITTEN BY STROKING. YOU CANNOT NEGOTIATE WITH AN INCENDIARY BOMB

It's the least important element to this, but I find it fascinating on an aesthetic level too. Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.

fondly recalling how many hashtag abundance types and Dem lawmakers supported Burgum's nomination as if he hadn't demonstrated throughout his career that he's just as radical and fossil-fueled as any other Republican slate.com/technology/2...

Vince Zampella, video game developer behind ‘Call of Duty' franchise, killed in crash www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/v...

Someone trained Google Gemini Pro on "69 Love Songs" lyrics, and for that and that only, I salute them

"Alberto" is hard at work cutting broccoli in Salinas. "It's not easy working in a windy damp field. We wear chaps or rubber rain pants in order to avoid getting wet. The season is ending soon and I will be out of work. I worry about this as I need to feed my family." #WeFeedYou

We got @gamersnexus.bsky.social holding tech oligarchs to account and @lataco.bsky.social documenting DHS misconduct. This makes me feel optimistic.

Big Chungus has lasted almost 20 times longer than the Confederacy

It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now. It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

next best thing the @pbs.org / @frontlinepbs.bsky.social documentary that came out earlier this month

Lions :\

wait is Saquon a double-space typer??

The deadly floods that killed 1,750+ people across Asia were not normal. @wwattribution.bsky.social scientists found #climatechange supercharged monsoon rains, making downpours up to 160% more intense. As Dr Mariam Zachariah says, cutting fossil fuel use is essential to reduce future extremes.

At a TCA event for Gen Kill, Ransone asked me if I thought he was good enough in it that people would stop thinking of him as Ziggy — a great performance that he felt typecast as at the time. He's wonderful in that, too.

when candace owens posted these texts between her and charlie, i had a gut feeling nicki was going to show up at a turning point event. i wouldn’t be surprised if she reached out to erika immediately after she saw them.

dog they're doing thirst traps at a re-creation of the tent where Kirk was killed 😭😭😭

one of our greatest living humans, undoubtedly

Happy 83rd birthday to Carla Thomas! youtu.be/7jmFF_c4P6k?...

This is a dumbfounding guideline. Absolutely a destructive and incompetent recommendation that was clearly made by people not qualified to judge such decisions.

wwwooooooooooowwwww

The "Batman Beyond: The Movie" DVD release first hit shelves on this day (Dec. 21) back in 1999. The acclaimed, fan-favorite cartoon's first DVD release included the two-part "Rebirth" series opener plus four extra episodes from the show's first season. #BatmanBeyond #Batman #DVD

the "LOTR Bands" prompt becoming a trending topic here feels very 2011 Twitter (nonderogatory)

My first for @unicornriot.bsky.social — with assists from @paulpaz.bsky.social x @nitishpahwa.com x @philiploring.com x @merirei.com x @mozilla.org senior fellow Paz Peña

don't forget he also "wrote" one of the single worst songs I've ever had the displeasure of listening to (and yet somehow got Gucci Mane to hop on a remix, ugh) horriblemusic.miraheze.org/wiki/It%27s_...

basically a confession that "I don't know or care how biodiversity and natural ecosystems work and thus can't be bothered to understand how their optimal functioning *also* contributes to human prosperity, health, and well-being"

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

you know, during the last influencer-saturated DNC I'd tried warning ppl about these exact tendencies with some creators (the lack of factual rigor + the beliefs that do not fall within political-party lines) but ofc a lotta folks missed the point and just yelled at me slate.com/technology/2...

'Though completely eclipsed by Don Quixote, Cristalián de España, which was first published in 1545, has a unique claim to fame. Its 800 pages, bristling with swords, sorcerers, dragons and damsels, make up the earliest known work by a female Spanish novelist.' 1/2

Right now NYC’s end to gas in new construction is in force and has been… without any complaints. There’s no big money campaign to trash it, so there’s no astroturfed opposition or pr work to influence msm coverage against it. It’s “uncontroversial” politically.

It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng