Sure, I wanted to do a leg of lamb again because it came out great last year. Of course, last year it didn’t cost $50.

The AI grift is convincing suckers up the chain to invest billions in barely functional edtech when they could spend the same money paying human professors and teachers a living wage and get actual results.

I'm a comics creator. Every time I lead a workshop with kids, I see their absolute joy in drawing with their OWN HANDS. If you deny kids that joy by forcing them to type prompts into a computer, you're failing as an educator. Shame on you for this.

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

Depends, are there three other plates?

Of course they fucking will.

I hear he knows the story of "A Christmas Carol" like the back of his hand.

No one who is serious about educating students should be calling for AI usage in classrooms let alone investing the funds of millions of educators in it.

It's that time of year again for the ol' awards eligibility post. I promise to make it short. (-: I had one new work this year, my novella "The Chronolithographer's Assistant" in the July/August issue of Asimov's.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don’t we?

Well, I think I found my culinary breaking point there at the end…

This is a model for what actual masculinity should be. Men don’t need to spend more time in caves beating their chests with other men; they need to take their daughters to a meaningful thing and talk to them about it. Relatedly I think the biggest cure for toxic masculinity is platonic women friends

Hey. Bullying fascist fucks actually works. Let’s keep naming fascist shit after these justices.

1) alcohol 2) a cleaning service 3) a second bathroom 4) gifts of jewelry, furs, and unguents 5) a platypus 6) a private detective for the inevitable murder (see 1) 7) a topic of conversation that is not politics or weather. eg your recent messy divorce, or the TV show Shining Time Station

Yeah the fuck it isn’t. Especially given how large bills tend to be this time of year.

IT’S HERE!! The 8th Annual DOUG JONES 60 SECOND CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!! Stay until the end, because if the singing isn’t horrible enough, the dad joke will be. #merrychristmas

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Hey I am here to remind you that trigger warnings might be widely maligned in pop culture but they are up there with alt text on “things you should do on social media” particularly when the triggers are infanticide and rape

Shipwreck? Probably. Cursed? Well, I wouldn’t try to wear them, let’s just say that.

So much of Dickens would like a word… (Scrooge is entirely reactive throughout A Christmas Carol, for but one seasonal example.)

"Write what you know." Oh, you'd love that, wouldn't you? I'll just incriminate myself, shall I? I'm saying NOTHING. And I don't mind spending a trilogy to do it. No, wait.

One last day of work before I am off for six days and wow do I not want to. (I did make a coworker promise that if they called off they had to let me know because we’re already short-handed and at that point just NOPE.)

I do appreciate that there is now an entire sub-genre to Damon’s career where he is either trying to get home, someone is trying to bring him home, or both.

If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.

This is why I am still on social media.

Wait, what??

I cannot begin to express to any of you who have not experienced it just how bad our station is. It’s the kind of station you’d expect to find serving a city half our size, at best. And don’t get me started on the parking.

Some holiday safety tips for cats by Alley Cat Allies

This, boys and girls and bots, is the color of deliciousness:

MCU “fans” have become the new “Star Wars Bros,” judging by the comments. I’m excited to see what they’ll do with this. (And it’s not like Evans had to come back. His entire filmography outside the MCU strongly suggests he takes the parts that interest him.)

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)

As a visual for how much juice they put out, it’s kind of impressive.

I’m gonna make “Trying to Bari a Story” a thing or die trying.

also in my top 10 favorite films of all time, anyone who loves this film should give this a read, Priscilla fills it with love.

Ask me about the time a fellow expat got a little drunk and a little loud in a bar and the state security officers came around the next day to make sure he hadn’t said anything untoward. That’s how it works.

Billionaires are billionaires. Period.

We all need to learn the words to “O, Canada” now.

I need to share this with someone

Well of course SCOTUS fucking did…

I don't like people. They fuck me up.

Well that got dark fast…

Annabelle Lee and The Cremation of Sam McGee have the same meter and rhyme scheme and my insomnia hobby is swapping lines between them. Twas many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, lived a maiden fair whom you may know by the name of Sam McGee.

YES I AM AN "A.i." ABOLITIONIST. Root it all out. Shame those who push it on kids. This is trash that hurts us all. gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...

Historians At The Movies has something special for the final film of the year. This week we are talking about drugs, policing, Los Angeles, and one of the great film noirs ever made. Join us on Prime Video this Sunday, December 28 at 8pm eastern for DEEP COVER. #HATM

Don Quijote just called, asked what the hell is wrong with this guy.

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

I know why The Muppet Family Christmas doesn’t stream anywhere (Hensen properties being scattered across three different companies now), but it was good stuff. Doc slowly warming up to the Muppets (and asking his dog if they’re anything like the Fraggles he keeps going on about), for instance.

Here’s the thing: we don’t have to use AI. And every day we don’t, you preserve skills that other ppl are progressively losing. We are also keep the tech bros from making money on this garbage. And it’s eating them alive that they can’t coerce us. We have the power to ruin them.