Underway.

McMuffins are way too expensive nowadays

the beautiful game

Anyway, we will never speak of that game again and I'm now watching my Montréal Victoire, of whom I am famously a lifelong fan.

Treachery?!? Shall we, gentles, tolerate this vile slander pon our names and honour Do we consent to be so treated by such misbegotten wantwit rogues and addlepated fools? IT CANNOT BE BORNE!

How I'm turning up to the BlueSky Christmas party:

In Winter Wonderland, when Bing sings “To face unafraid, the plans that we've made,” he’s talking about arson and insurance fraud.

My least attractive hockey fan quality is that, when I perceive an opposing player as dirty, I root pretty openly for someone to knock his teeth out.

I mean, the dancing didn't occur to me at the time, but sure.

AJ Mleczko just called Florida "the new State of Hockey" on a national broadcast, so I assume the entire state of Minnesota will be rioting shortly.

Dictator shit

watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race

Robert Schumann will haunt you the the grave

He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

Last day at the office for 2025 didn't disappoint

When there's Tchaikovsky on the concert program

“Oops, sorry, I thought everyone would name the weird racial profiling stops that get people thrown in concentration camps after somebody else.”

The only Christmas special I recommend, and I recommend it every year

lots of you were mocking ‘people who watch 60 Minutes’ yesterday, but 60 Minutes and PBS’s Frontline are the only two news programs like this left

Trump’s latest exploits in Latin America are just the latest expression of a bloody ideological project to entrench US power and protect the profits of Western multinationals, writes Eric Ross. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Just want to add: Being convicted of a crime in the U.S. wouldn’t justify sending someone to a foreign gulag to be tortured, and arguably violates separation of powers since the “sentence” they are legally bound to serve is one issued by a judge, not Stephen Miller (i.e. the factoid is irrelevant)

In retrospect, it was a pretty big mistake to invent a system of representative democracy that had no mechanism for toppling a terrible government before the end of its scheduled term. That's on us, def a whoopsie on that one.

CHOTINER: and when you're in water you PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right. CHOTINER: And this is because PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

beethoven had many many great virtues but I really don’t think he was this hot

Why didn't anyone tell me Caravan Palace put out a new album a year and a half ago

The one note of caution I’d have is he had similarly dismal numbers in 2017. But hopefully this go-round Dems won’t decide to pivot to kitchen-table issues. The entire MAGA movement must be crushed into dust and the earth where it grew salted. No hesitation this time.

you will be visited by three spirits

CBS could have been on the cutting edge of this one...

As anyone who works in the nonprofit world can tell you, this is a very, very bad sign.

Ah.

The coffee thing is so bizarre to me, and Tressie is right that people are so weird about it considering that nearly every culture on Earth has a different way of preparing it!

The vandalism continues www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...

Whatever else I might say about them, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, and Somalia all have long standing and mostly warm relationships with the United States. Nigeria and Cote D’Ivoire are keystones in West Africa. All of this is incoherent from a strategic standpoint (because this isn’t about strategy).

"average American eats 225 lbs of meat a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average America eats 0 meat per year. Spiders Katz, who lives in deli & eats over 10,000 lbs each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

There is a vid getting reposted endlessly on the other platforms that starts with the premise that classical musicians are "trained for compliance, not creativity," and I am trying to be zen about it and just scroll past every time, but it is driving me a little nuts.

Molly Ivins once said that government is like a hammer - it can be used to build or destroy things - and that while you can argue over the building/destroying plan, it's a bad idea in general to give the hammer to people who don't believe in hammers. Anyway, I think about that a lot these days.

This is so bad, but just the immediate points that come to mind: 1. Conflating white men with white population to open the argument is a major red flag. 2. The entire justification of DEI was reparative and restorative justice, not discrimination of white men for the pleasure of it. 1/x

Brilliant from @adamserwer.bsky.social: the Roberts Court's attack on the Reconstruction Amendments are "consistent with the Antebellum Constitution’s narrow definition of who “We the People” are." Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

US policy in the Western Hemisphere is now extraterritorial justice and extrajudicial killing. Quite the combination.

mindfulness

Men will throw an entire tantrum where they smash their heads against the plane wall because they spilled their soda instead of going to therapy

My unpopular Christmas take is that the reason everything on the internet is incest porn now is that none of you ever shut up about that Folgers ad

"The project—[Bari Weiss's] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new liberal media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." (This is a gift link, from October) defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

They should invent bars you’re allowed to take a nap in