Welp whatever's been going around DC has got me at last. Not flu or covid, but as far as I can guess from the symptoms and the estimation of an infectious disease researcher friend, it's probably parainfluenza. I'm past the worst of it, I think!

Mazel tov, Jedd. May the next year prove just as fruitful, if not moreso 💚

I'm making ZIMTSTERNE, aka étoiles à la cannelle. Little cinnamon stars from Alsace. They're almondy, a little stodgy, but very homey.

I feel like every time i watch a James Cameron movie i am confronted by another one of his kinks.

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If anyone happens to know the TA from the essay thing at at OU who got let go, I'd love to talk with her in any capacity.

Ah here we are

now this is the cyberpunk dystopia i signed up for!

It's the INSIDE CECOT segment. Thanks, Jason!! Great work capturing this.

This is such a good insight: we know what the subtle version of trumpism is, and it evaporated in 2021

Heard a Canadian analyst refer metonymically to Toronto as "The 905" in describing the NDP's fortunes this year and their voteshare lost to the LPC. I cannot wait to surprise someone in southern ontario by deploying this area-code-based shibboleth

I think there's room in the national imagination for a triumph of the new. We just have to throw a yoke round the thunderhead: find out what people want, and give them the opportunity to build it together.

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it is terrifying and awful that this passed the House with any Dem support at all (and once again, the continued leadership support for Cuellar is unconscionable) call your senators and make absolutely sure this dies in the Senate, lives are on the line trans people deserve so much better

Another unrelated, spoiler free thought about WAKE UP DEAD MAN is that Rian Johnson and I have kind of uncannily similar taste in music (maybe unsurprising for a particular kind of artsy white millennial man: tom waits, donald fagen, etc) but I'm pretty sure Father Jud is a Tom Waits reference.

The heart of the picture, to me, is the moment when Jud chooses to put the investigation on hold in order to to pastoral work with a parishioner over the phone.

Real-life friends hear me muttering this all the time: "Being a dipshit" is not a protected class under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act

Signal boost! Anyone know a virologist? Faith, would an epidemiologist also meet the brief?

Two days to get caught up on GIVE ME AWAY Season 3 before we drop the 2-part finale (wherein the insane reveals will flow like wine) on you this coming Thursday!

Really thought-provoking work here

No one fights like Gaston No one bites like Gaston No one extends Disney's trademark rights like Gaston

This is what was lost when they got rid of the character limits on Twitter

I would like to bestow upon the dem nominee a war-name. Like, you win the primary, and I'll give you a kenning like "Fiend-Abjurer" or "Rotspite"

Me: hey, Jib! You've heard of the Wife of Bath? Jillian: Obviously. Me: Well, you're looking at the HUSBAND of Bath. Cause *I'm* about to take one. Jillian: Uh huh.

I’m not saying that if he and his family suffer, then democracy literally ends forever. What I’m saying is if the trump administration gets away with this, they truly believe they can get away with so much more. That is why they’re fighting so hard on this as @andrewperez.bsky.social and I reported

Let's GOOOO. Bring my neighbor home.

At some point you just have to embrace incommensurability, right? Two millennia ago in Rome you could see live fatal gladiatorial combat in the Colosseum for free, which these days is not available for billions; but these days you can go to the zoo for the price of a lunch and see a capybara.

I got Jillian the lakrids by bülow advent calendar and I told some friends about it and NOW yours truly is getting bopped from all sides about his love of licorice, by cracky. We know it's weird! It's also good!

I got bearded vultures on the brain today

enjoying this thread of good birds.

*runs back into the room, out of breath* And you gotta get prior authorization for the onions

A SWEETER TIME IT WAS A TIME UNLICKED BY SAVAGE TONGUES WHEN RICHARD PLIED HIS PAINTS A THOUSAND TUBES OF POISON CANDY GONE TO THE GARAGE, NOW; GONE TO GLASS, GONE AND GUTTERING I REMEMBER IT ALL I REMEMBER IT NONE I AM OF THEN AND OF NOW AND OF NEVER

I am a ganglion of irreconcilable antagonisms Halp

Boutique humblebrag/complain: I cannot sleep. I have exhausted my stock of "podcasts i put on to fall asleep to". I have instead put on some French podcasts about politics, and i find, to my horror—I can follow along just enough to remain engaged!

Polyantagony

Returning to the REDWALL books after many decades away, and using it as an excuse to practice my tour-of-the-british-isles accent work.

movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: No Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

Hey. We saw you from across the bar and we wanted you to know: we hate your vibe

Letter of recommendation for intergenerational friends. You know what's nice about being a millennial with Boomer friends? The boomers ACTUALLY CALL YOU ON THE PHONE to check in. And you know what: it's NICE. * it's nice because he texted a few days ago to say "I'll call you soon"

You heard the man. We gotta seek out the goofs. The goobers! The good-time charlies! It could be you, if you will it so!

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Lauren, this is how we sort out all the people who loved playing Terran in Starcraft, because I'm pretty sure we're the ones who look at AVATAR and go "Oooo."

Criminalmeeeente 😉

I successfully named FOUR Canadian premiers today while chatting with a colleague, after he, a Canadian, identified a congresswoman I spoke of as member of the House Progressive Caucus. My colleague was pleased and flabbergasted; my fellow Americans, the bar is in hell!

A) this is horrific B) this feels like something that could have happened on DETROITERS

What are other movies you'd like to see *in space*? Star Wars is already at that sweet spot of war movie/western/samurai picture; I feel like YOJIMBO in space would be a helluva good time.

I showed this to my wife and she said "go to jail"