You do not, in fact, have to put other people’s lives in danger to enjoy yourself in a rural area, and no amount of “you city folk just don’t understand” will change that.

Wishing everyone a full recovery from this very frightening Christmas tree fire in Maryland. Please continue to water your real Christmas tree and if you are using vintage Christmas tree lights, check to make sure they are in good condition. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/c...

And people are like “it’s not that hard to drive people, just pay attention to others on the road” … but I’m pretty sure all of the concerned parties are like “we have been paying attention to this and no one has any clue where to drive to not kill some cyclists”

@chloedenmark.bsky.social @nikolaidenmark.bsky.social Box O Rocks

When the "jump to recipe" button doesn't work

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you have a wonderful day and get the presents that you always wanted.

Christmas Eve.

Excellent history lesson from @enbrown.bsky.social All reasonable English-speaking peoples should commit today to singing “Fill the meadcup, drain the barrel” reason.com/2025/12/24/h...

Was 5 hours round trip to the airport. If you get the chance to drive to JFK Airport on Christmas Eve, I highly recommend that you don’t. It’s great to have them at our house for the holidays though.

Just spent 3 hours wrapping presents for my wife, girls, in-laws and my Mom. My wife still has to wrap presents for the same group, except my mom, while I go to the airport to pick up her parents.

For those who don’t know, merry Christmas means having alcoholic drinks while happy Christmas is a sober Christmas. So for all of those of you who drink, I hope you have a merry Christmas. And for those of you who are sober, I hope you have a happy Christmas.

Today, people consider "Yule" synonymous with "Christmas." But centuries ago, Yule meant something different — a pagan mid-winter festival, dating back to pre-Christian Germanic people. n.pr/3YaZPp6

hello yes I’d like to volunteer I am very experienced with Acrobat I can totally permanently redact every mention of Trump in these files pls forward as many as you need

Also: Im a little drunk

Quote post with your favorite picture of yourself from 2025. Without modification, this is the most fun picture. It is of a packed basket that I made and the first basket that I’ve ever made. The design goes back over 2900 years in New England.

both new Auburn HC Alex Golesh and OC Joel Gordon — separately and combined — have had a consistent track record of strong quarterback play in their offenses …especially when compared to what the Tigers have had in recent seasons www.auburnobserver.com/p/auburn-foo...

probably my greatest talent is that i am Just The Right Amount Of Mad At Notre Dame at all times

For those of us warning about democracy's potential disintegration, the decision by CBS to pull an exhaustively researched 60 Minutes piece, critical of Trump, is another red alert moment. When truth disappears as the media gets coopted by the regime, there's little left.

Remember SomeEcards? You picked a vintage background and wrote some text. I made this a million years ago and posted it on FB. Thought I’d bring it back for today. Happy winter solstice everyone!

This always gets a retweet from me.

It would be awesome if "noon kick off" actually meant toe meets leather at noon. RETVRN

Notre Dame fans have to be losing their minds currently 🫠

Someone asked what's happening here - the watered tree is lit on fire a full 30 seconds before the dry tree, but you can barely tell because it's burning so slowly. The dry tree goes full inferno in a matter of seconds. Water your tree. Make sure you have working smoke alarms in your home.

I love this for my neighborhood so much, and the cost per unit is way less than new construction Convert more office towers! We have the technology!

You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?" Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.

My family trying to figure out who ate all the damn candy canes is just like that scene in Clue where they try to figure out how many bullets were left in the gun youtu.be/O5ROhf5Soqs?...

Still plenty of time to buy safe gifts for kids!

Someone just came into a public bathroom talking on the phone in speaker mode and took a piss while talking. Then left without washing his hands!

Like I had no idea the President was addressing the nation tonight, please don’t tell me what he said

2/ For continued up-to-date information on this evolving crisis, visit Mayor Pernerewski’s Facebook page, call 311, or contact the the Emergency Operation Center at 203-597-3444 www.facebook.com/waterburymay...

This feels like an underappreciated problem: "Of more than 700 locations sampled, 61% exceeded aquatic life thresholds set by the EPA...60% of samples blew past the accepted healthy drinking water standard."

Oh shit good you’re taking it DONTTELL THEM MORE THAN “I would like My start date to be2/2”. YOU DINT OWE EXPLANATIONS

new Auburn HC Alex Golesh’s Year 1 staff is complete, and the assistants have combined for 172 seasons of coordinator or position coach experience in college — including 93 in power conferences and 49 in the SEC alone that’s a significant increase from the last two Year 1 staffs

I was waiting for the punchline on this, but no, it’s just a fancy term for people speculating on cryptocurrency. I fear crypto’s only legitimate use will be harshly educating its users on why the financial regulations of the New Deal were a good idea.

If you have a real Christmas tree, be sure to keep it watered. And at least once, take it to a space well away from any structure and set it up and strike a match against it. Within a minute it will be hard to stand within 30’ and flames will be 20-30’ tall.

Water your tree.

ANYWAYS, as our pal Leo said “all happy families are the same; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This time of the year is rough for a lot of folks (myself too sometimes). Always here for folks who want someone who gets it (or for people who want to talk about literally anything else)

War Eagle Mobile, the only thing letting you down more than the football team

Street safety is *not* a shared responsibility. Rather, it's a responsibility borne by those who have the greatest power to make streets safer: Car companies, policymakers, and road designers. Stop shifting blame on those walking, biking, and driving. www.kqed.org/news/1206717...

For grins, I just pulled a random CFP sim from my big odds doc. SPOILERS: 1R: OU > Bama, Oregon > JMU, Ole Miss > Tulane, Miami > A&M QF: Indiana > OU, Oregon > TT, Georgia > Ole Miss, Miami > Ohio State! SF: IU > Oregon, Miami > Georgia! F: IU > Miami Guess you don't have to watch now!

Raise your hand if you remember the phone directory.

Never miss an opportunity to say I love you to those who you love. You never know when it might be the last time you get to say it. I often say it to my teenager who completely ignores it at best or is annoyed with it at worst.

programming note: no Observer newsletter today, but we should have one Wednesday my wife’s grandmother passed away last night, and we are so grateful that we got to make it over to see her one more time yesterday just take some time to talk to your loved ones today, if you can

In conclusion, babies are expensive and it is laughable that this country claims any semblance of pro-life

I just came out of the briefing with Sec. Rubio and Sec. Hegseth on the military strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Here's what I learned. Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.

The FDA says four major retailers including Walmart, Target, Kroger and Albertsons continued to sell ByHeart baby formula products for days or weeks after the Nov. 11 recall. n.pr/4rQtjGm

What if I told you I’d like a second season of The Residence before another Knives Out movie.

"Many voters who spoke with CNN [about their opposition to Trump's map] said they did not want to be named because they feared being vocal about the issue could also subject them to threats." Remember, the threat of violence is key to Trump's power.

Time travel. Not for kids!