CBC Radio One had the briefest mention of it on The World This Hour just now, but I find the website rarely updates overnight.

The transepted passage grave of Keriaval in Carnac (Morbihan) had 2 chambers on either side and a terminal cell. This card was published by Neurdein in Paris before 1902; the fence in the background does not feature on any of the later cards.

I am calling upon China to lead all civilized nations in creating a cordon sanitaire around the imperialist aggressors

Think I'm gonna log off this and the other sites for a bit. For the month of January maybe. I reserve the right to return early if it happens.

LRB podcast has been pretty good lately

it is time to undue to mistake that was the reconquista and usher in a second al-Andalus #Deconquista

SCOOP: Nine RCMP officers broke into Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam’s house on Christmas Day. While they were executing a search warrant regarding his stepdaughter, Adam says they seized and damaged his property. www.albertanativenews.com/rcmp-break-i...

I liked that Pluribus shunned easy melodrama to try and tackle ideas, an approach that most tv has completely abandoned, including Star Trek, which used to be great at that sort of thing. Sadly all of the ideas Pluribus has are dumb as rocks

as the prophecy foretold bsky.app/profile/emat...

Looking forward, looking back adamsnotes.substack.com/p/looking-fo...

[voice barely reaching you from the other end of 1.6km of empty server room that makes underground parking look cozy by comparison] open concept

2025: what will be your leftist job after the revolution 2026: how will you renovate your own personal abandoned data centre after the collapse

Captain K and the Bran Warriors is pretty fun, if you're nostalgic for a classic Saturday morning cartoon, but it's a little weird that the PSA after every episode is always about abstaining from masturbation

Some surprisingly good shows streaming on the Kellogg's app. My only complaint so far is the Toucan Sam show. Trying too hard to be edgy. I know he's a parrot and they repeat things they hear, but I don't think he should be allowed to say that word.

Woman captain of a ship sailing through a mysterious fog

What actor's facial expression in a movie/TV show will stay with you for the rest of your life?

Louis *who* now?

13:27 Dec 28 2025 YELLOW WARNING - COLD - ENDED for Northern Alberta Expires: 14:27 Dec 28 2025 Extreme cold conditions are no longer expected. ... Visit https://weather.gc.ca for details

Just got the news there’s a new Geoffrey D. Morrison novel coming May from Coach House. The Falling Hour was a fave.

The passage grave of Les Trois Pierres in Kervignac (Morbihan) has lost all of the passage but, despite its name, the surviving chamber has a capstone still on 5 orthostats. Card by Villard in Quimper in print by 1904.

My uncle, who dresses like a pirate in a prestige TV show, looks down upon my aunt's husband, who dresses like a pirate in a comedic opera. My uncle calls him a "flamboyant ass and embarrassment", the narcissism of small differences I suppose, but sad to witness.

Sorry this is going to sound corny, but Avatar has had a huge impact, it's just that people carry it in their heads and their hearts rather than buying the merchandise

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436039

everything was filled with sperm, except the captain’s pantaloons pockets

One last push, brothers, we're nearly there. The war on christmas is almost won

It is so funny that Bill Maher won’t tour anymore because he’s afraid he’ll get assassinated

I had a globe when I was a kid, and on top of it was this little metal disk, I guess for longitude? Anyway an older kid told me it was to block out the location of Santa's workshop at the North Pole, and that maps of Gotham City had something similar over the Batcave

fellas its time to start christmas shopping

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, diversified and radiated after the event and gave rise to a whole new clade of Tims who briefly ruled the whole Earth before going extinct at the end-Anthropocene.

For about ten years I've thought about what a Tom Waits TV Christmas special produced in the early 80s would have been like. It's almost real to me. The set is a Depression-era shack he built and a stream of celebrity hobos keep knocking on the door and Tom goes "I wOnDEr WHo tHaT cOuLd bE"

Jimmy Fallon’s Satyricon

A court summons issued against Reginald D Hunter has been quashed after a judge said Campaign Against Antisemitism misled him when bringing a private prosecution against the comedian. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/d...

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Is the Epstein letter to Larry Nassar real? Smoking gun if so

Being bad is the only reward of doing art. That gulf between idea and deed is the only place you are truly alive.

do people still do these? go.bsky.app/VkSFrjj

check in on your friends

Don't really have an issue with people wanting to inject cadaver fat into their ass, have at it, but sourcing cadaver fat is going to turn dying into even more of a business. Used to be that dropping dead was the one thing you were allowed to do for free

"Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn" by Raffaello di Giovanni Santi

The Modena State Archives, for example, "contains a shelf system about 30km long with 280.000 pieces and 17.000 scrolls dating back to a period going from the 8th to the 19th century."

RIP James Ransone. The Wire and Generation Kill both incredible series.

Winter Solstice reading for you! It's my very favorite Clark Ashton Smith story, "The Abominations of Yondo!" Neat monsters...and NEAT GEOLOGY!? geoliminal.com/2025/12/21/t...

Just got to that part on Pluribus where the guy takes hospital workers hostage at knifepoint until they let him pay the full price of his hospital bill. God damn if Vince Gilligan hasn't once captured the soul of America on film.

Moby Dick? You mean Salò on a boat?

NILES THIS IS THE WORST IDEA YOU’VE EVER HAD