Always good to keep in mind that Guardian has a partnership with OpenAI.

whatever 2026 holds i don't think anything next year will be funnier than Chicago Pope. 2025 was overall a huge stinker but Chicago Pope was an all time great B-plot

This. Our German relatives and friends have seen (and said!) as much for a long time.

I was wondering why he was standing and then I got to the end and... I really like this dude.

Why is this advice always aimed at children avoiding their parents, and never at older people belligerently and inevitably regurgitating Facebook opinions so offensive their own kids would rather skip Christmas dinner than endure them?

Sigh. Once again, if you are warning us about fascism while posting on Substack you’re asking us to do work YOU 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 WILLING 👏 TO 👏 DO.

WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.

“Like prime, but with human beings”

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

What if Mar-a-Lago was the real Comet Pizza basement all along?

This dude seems like the nicest, truly

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Makes me proud every time! Did you know we’re shipping whistles anywhere in the US? Email whistlerequests [at] proton [dot] me for your free 3D printed whistles. We’ve sent over 30,000 so far in December!

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

A tow truck driver who towed an ICE SUV that was blocking a driveway while the agents kidnapped Angelanos back in September was just found NOT GUILTY on the only charge against him (theft of government property). THAT'S ANOTHER WIN FOR "FUCK YOU; MAKE ME"

Conservative anti-urbanism has always been in large part about social and sexual control, particularly of women. In small towns you can be shamed for having socially-unapproved sex. In a large, anonymous city with cheap housing, you can have multiple partners without judgment or social consequence.

I've already been hearing faculty discussion adapting to this policy by basically writing stripped down syllabi that include *only* the required boilerplate and nothing else, with things like course themes, reading schedules and such kept in separate documents to avoid the university owning them.

Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974

Very cool how the Brown University shooting, with the gunman still at large, is completely gone from Google News' homepage.

Postcards from Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

fucking pathetic.

Unrelated but WTF is with the lighting? It’s weird, right?

it's not hard to just love your kid. entire world being dictated by people who simply do not love their kids as they are and want to invent ways for that to be morally justified, a way to hurt them or let them die for not being what they imagined... but ethically.

Hey losers leave trans folks alone

it is terrifying and awful that this passed the House with any Dem support at all (and once again, the continued leadership support for Cuellar is unconscionable) call your senators and make absolutely sure this dies in the Senate, lives are on the line trans people deserve so much better

28 Democrats voted yes on a bill that motherfucking TED CRUZ voted no on. It could not have passed without those 28 so check the list and if one of your senators is on it don't forget to write or call to tell them they're a bigot and a quisling and worse. Than. TED. FUCKING. CRUZ.

Man, that dude who looks like an electrocuted squirrel is not very good at this

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

until we teach the robot to suffer, it cannot make art! and i’ve seen enough movies to know that we should not attempt to teach the robot to suffer.

Reiner was habitually singled out by everyone from the right to South Park as an avatar of Hollywood activist cringe but he consistently put his money where his mouth was and had the courage of his convictions, which grifters and smugger than thou “equal opportunity offenders” resent above all

please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...

Mark Cuban is getting dunked on by Mallory Keaton

fuck right off with this too please. Chomsky has been quite clear that he doesn’t think his relationship with Epstein is anyone else’s business and we can and should draw adverse inferences from that. sorry he wrote some things you liked; bold thinkers can be monsters too.

"People who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble. As much as their resistance can appear organic & spontaneous...it’s supported by deliberate effort, an infrastructure working to help them expand their tolerance for taking risks." ❤️👇

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

An Anti-Defamation League that actually believed in its stated mission would savage Trump for his comments about Rob Reiner and his wife, but they are too busy trying to find out whether an Oberlin student said something critical of Israel.

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...

This entire weekend

GET READY

I’ll have what he’s having.

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Should have learned from their forebears that trying to invade the North in winter goes poorly

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

Racial profiling

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all i'm saying is that there were better options

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one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states