wait I can't believe I forgot to tell you guys about the hilarious dream I had last night where Barack Obama decided to write a cozy murder mystery and gave me an advance copy to review it and give him feedback and I didn't know how to tell him it was really, really bad

If their genius is not recognized after they come to the convention with their manuscript in hand, surely it must be because they are white and male. Couldn't be anything else. They will go and tell people this was their experience at the convention. They were excluded. Tale as old as time.

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

Is this true!? Even considering, well... Steve?

#GVerse Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social shouts at a guy in a Darth Vader costume in Hollywood “Dad I told you don’t follow me to work!”

Today I helped someone at the library who didn't know you could borrow items for free. She gave me her library card and $40 to pay for the books. Was delighted when I said everything is free to use. I'd never encountered that before. I assumed people just knew library items were free and public.

He's considering it...

He is making it known that he is displeased with me.

Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus Censorship. Bari Weiss

Wow. Last used ~1934, inherent contempt would in effect bring Bondi to trial in the House & by majority vote empower the House to put her in jail. Far more effective than other options (criminal referral to her own DOJ or endless civil litigation), it'd be a huge bipartsan stand against the Admin.

when he gifts you a vintage book for Christmas 🥵🥺

The wren is the emblem of the Holly King, who reigns over the period of shortening days and is ritually vanquished by the Robin (representing the Oak King or the new, growing sun) at the Winter Solstice to mark the turning of the year and the return of light. Art my own. #FolkyFriday #Folklore

Zohran Mamdani scares the ADL more than these guys and I think it's fair to ask why

For the first year we lived in our previous house, a large number of house sparrows would forage in our yard almost constantly, and they were usually joined by someone's escaped lovebird who seemed to adopt them as its flock. I tried to tame it, but I never could. #BirdOfTheDay #Groups 📷🌿🪶

The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)

This is a photo from the Vanity Fair article. Notice how they have to arrange it so Stephen Miller is on the end, so it isn’t obvious that there is no reflection of him on the mirrored table.🧛

Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu

Teens turn to a variety of online platforms, but YouTube continues to stand out. Roughly nine-in-ten teens report ever using it. TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat are the next most widely used platforms.

Watercolour painting in a woodland, with an interesting wooden footbridge over a stream. This is the second version: I gave the first version to the person who owned these grounds but she has since moved. I hope it's a nice reminder for her. #art #watercolour #woodland

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.” Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.

Muppets Christmas Carol is the best Christmas movie bc it includes a song with the lyrics, "your future is a horror story written by your crimes" & nothing says Christmas cheer more than that. Also Michael Caine deserved all the awards for that performance. Perfection. No notes.

I had overnight guests last night so it’s been very jarring to wake up to the horrors this morning. Why are there so many??? Can’t they take a weekend off???

Obligatory reference to Terry Pratchett's final book, The Shepherd's Crown

EEEEEEE!! IT’S SNOWING!!!!!

All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed. “Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”

We should bring back scrolls, books are great but scrolls would be cool

okay the WaPo editorial board has been an abject disaster since it was Bezosified but a literal “are we the baddies” letter is a fantastic bit, full marks for this one

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

insanely good thing to say when you enter a room

Not having read it in absolute decades, I’m reading a few pages of The Fellowship Of The Ring every morning & night in bed. Every now and then I stumble upon moments that feel like they gave, shall we say, something of a contemporary relevance.

It was like waving a giant white flag and announcing, "the people on the side of rule of law, democracy, and decency WILL NOT FIGHT AS HARD AS THEIR OPPONENTS. They don't have the grit or guts for it. Act accordingly." And readers ... they have acted accordingly.

#black-cappedchickadee #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

Constance the mouse does not know anything about the world except that sometimes it produces millet, and I love that for her.

Dissent is now officially domestic terrorism. From @kenklippenstein.bsky.social Full story 👇 www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...

hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.

my ideal presidential candidate in 2028 could be described, loosely, as "general sherman but for the supreme court"

This is what’s happening to immigrants doing it “the right way” in Trump’s America. We have been told about it happening here in Tennessee. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

We have an administration that takes absolute glee out of murdering people. No safety, no good policy, no peace can come from people who go out of their way to cause this much harm. Abusive people make abusive policies and engage in abusive practices. I wish more people had a lens on that.

Stranger Things **running up that hill intensifies**

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

people like Sabrina Carpenter saying essentially "decent people don't want the stench of ICE or this White House anywhere near them" to an audience of millions that includes a lot of young people helps empower them against ICE while reminding ICE agents that everyone hates them, both big wins