Made a tiny Christmas tree out of fossils: the stars are crinoid ossicles, the trunk dinosaur bone & the branches are sharks’ teeth 🎄🦴

Please enjoy my parents’ ridiculously large and fluffy cat, who has just wedged himself into a small ceramic bowl.

Betty was one of the most generous people I had the privilege of interviewing. An extraordinary person who lived an extraordinary life.

There’s a difficult irony that many people would really rather not have to think about this (ie what started in 2020 that’s clearly still happening)… but willingness to confront it is also the best way to reduce your odds of ending up on this chart + having to think about it all the fucking time.

Just booked the last remaining ticket to see Casablanca tomorrow at a tiny cinema because honestly what else is Christmas for

What I’m trying to say is that part of why the VF shots are so striking is that we have a giant pile of flattering glossiness to the contrary.

Christopher Anderson’s VF shots show us how we could have been presenting these folks the whole damn time and I hope every photographer who polished up a Nazi for a puff piece feels like shit today. (And their editors too.)

However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more’s the pity.

These oily little half curls on Scavino, tho. bsky.app/profile/astr...

My favorite part about this (among many) is the way he’s situated in space—the huge expanse above his head, the lurking bulk of the door, the wonky angle of the floor—the whole world is on tilt and there isn’t a damn thing he can do about it.

It's very odd as a makeup person to watch the commentary on the VF shoot because some people are just doing a shitty makeup take with some misogyny and some people understand why showing THE TRUTH (of pores and extreme closeups) is protest in action.

"Normally we look for negative space but in this case the only negative space is in her soul." youtube.com/shorts/vrh6B...

As ever, Link gets to the heart of the matter with prose as succinct as it is wondrous.

This made me LOL but for real.

also, as is tradition, we will be soliciting some unsolicited solicited duck pics on Tues 6 Jan for next year's #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay. so, see you then. if you give a duck

welcome home to your parents’ house, the channels are Yellowstone, masterpiece mystery, and Jimmy fallon, btw someone from your high school died in a real weird way

Emily in Paris was never anything better than a cute way to look at clothes and Paris but oof this season is really suffering from the fact that everything that's supposed to make Emily cool (social media presence, marketing, girl bossing) has become a driving force for evil in our world.

I…am I interpreting my timeline correctly? Has the person my friend correctly terms, “the loathsome David Brooks” been Epsteined?

Morning. Birds Perched on Winter Branches, Maud Earl.

Everyone I see is either visibly murderous, or posting holiday lights and I don't necessarily think these things are unrelated.

Postcards from Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

I can’t believe it’s going to be 2026 soon. What an absurd number. Where are the spaceships. Where did the last ten years go. How am I living here in the future that is also somehow the distant past?

Absolutely fucking delighted to see substack being treated as white man cringe in this sketch. (There are many, many more starring this coffee shop/these baristas and they’re all very funny.) youtube.com/shorts/FEISn...

❤️ strippers ❤️

You will be visited by three spirits.

Watching Ocean's 8 and had completely forgotten what a good sport Anne Hathaway was at totally sending up the current public image of herself.

PSA: I don't know why it took me so long to learn about rug pads, but just in case you are like me: spend the money, get a decent rug pad (rubber on one side, felt on the other, at least 1/8 of an inch) to go under your rug. Stops it from moving, tripping people, protects the floor and is SO COMFY.

I have been thinking about this and puzzling over it and trying to stop myself from lapsing into conspiracy thinking about stochastic terrorism and the way the president has treated Brown etc. etc. I guess it took them awhile to find Luigi, too.

You have discovered a planet. The wind is dainty and smells faintly of sadness. It's a nice planet.

❤️

Watching Victoria bc I love Jenna Coleman and I’m learning so much about the Corn Laws and also about the startling number of times the English tried to assassinate various leaders, royal and not.

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And also donuts! So, you know. Six in one.

I don’t usually do a menorah but this year it feels important to put a light in the window.

Oh my heart. This gave me a full body memory of New York in a snowstorm and it’s been years and years.

Whoa. Imagine if the airlines actually promoted this instead of asking me every five minutes if I’d like something to eat or drink.

Pastel sketch on Charmouth beach where we regularly holidayed when child was small. Looking back I love the little details like the guy in the black socks. I have several of these old seaside sketches so maybe I'll feed them in gradually. #art #pastel #pleinair #Charmouth #Dorset

I really love this haunting, thoughtful series of comics and hope they’ll continue.

I say let 'em at it. *pops popcorn*

Reporting in from Ep 5 to say, goodness there are too many genres going on at once now but in for a penny I guess.

More slaves and ghosts from the AI team. bsky.app/profile/alys...

Wait, wait, wait…what?

Want boobs to appear on every web page you visit until the end of your time on earth? All this can be yours for the purchase of a single bra online. You can even return it later for a refund!

Uhhhh

I think about this installation so often. samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2025/04/nich...

Just realizing that the hefty “rape whistle” I was given during orientation week in college decades ago is now going to be my ICE whistle

Today I made a little felt penguin holding fishes!

“I'm not going to let them do what they think they can do because they can't.” Put him on the federal bench!

This is the Texas I know.

Workers should own the means of production and that’s why I support unrestricted abortion access