okay but what about the improtant stuff, how much did the lawyers get paid? www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Honestly I thought Dunham's GIRLS had a good ending? A sort of little epilogue plot, akin to the Scouring of the Shire.

Nicole Kidman Retires Drag King Persona ‘Keith Urban’

That's a great idea. He should do that.

A thing in life is when there HAS to be an October Surprise, but the candidate is so squeaky clean that it's hilariously lame? Ocasio-Cortez once did a joyful dance on a rooftop! Brandon Johnson didn't pay some water bills on time! Mamdani referred to a woman as "aunt" who wasn't a parent's sister!

any openings for spice harvester operator or spacing guild apprentice?

in Soviet Russia, restaurant kiss you!!

I'm in collections court and it's all very jovial, very weird

one of the two racists is 70!! find something else to do with your time, maybe quilting? www.wifr.com/2026/01/05/s...

Casper bringing the Baby Jesus bitcoin and Mary is like "yo wtf is this"

Sorry to report we are in the mirror universe. Start growing those goatees.

Last Epiphany my friend who worked in catholic school in little village sent me this meme and I've had a sensible chuckle about it every week since

Well he turned his head sideways surprisingly and sang a song so what can you do

Social media opening up new fronts for research on legislative history and intent, for arguments about statutory interpretation.

later in January, the Davis Theater will be screening TERMINATOR 2, HER, and BRAZIL lmao somebody is thinking here

Imagine that one and a half centuries after you start a celibate sect, Amanda Seyfried portrays you in a movie, lmao

Housing for Kazakh oil workers

... I can tell you that much

My BIL who was literally a resident at U Pitt was like "yeah I enjoyed it", I'm squeamish though and I've fainted enough recently

In the same way Haile Selassie was Emporer of Ethiopia from an estate in Bath

Have to figure out what to get for the birthday of my youngest sister, the mother and small businesswoman who has everything except free time. Honestly if you have something brilliant and nonobvious, don't hold back. We've just done the obvious ones until they got stale.

C went to talk to Maria today. Maria's husband has been in detention for two months. She is asking for signatures on a petition for his release. Maria says the block has been more neighborly since we and our housemates moved in in 2021, people say hi on the sidewalk more now.

Super-intelligent monkeys have accomplished a lot on this planet, perhaps particularly thanks to their unique ability to use words to communicate profoundly complex ideas. But even for them communication is not always perfect and sometimes Dog gets two dinners.

A dear friend is Sbux union leader through Workers United and she clued me into 3 things. Starbucks has not signed a contract with the workers for 4 years. Starbucks has more union violations than any other company in the US. Shareholders are demanding they settle. Keep boycotting.

How should art deal with covid? What's too soon? What's too late? I'm not really sure except that almost six years after is probably a good time for a self-deprecating funny short story about the discipline of lockdown and BDSM sex.

"forces will remain in the Caribbean" which, if your warship can't fit through Panama, is about as far away from the Taiwan Strait as you can get I would guess

going through boxes in my closets and omg please no more socks, I have so many socks I forgot about, do not buy me socks for the next decade at least

I have never heard someone say that the P in IEP stands for Program. It's always been Plan. Am I missing something?

$1000 x 12 x 35 x 1,500,000 = $630B so yeah basically Though all the money wouldn't be spent at once. Rate of rent increases versus rate of investment returns would be significant though idk in which direction!

If you don't have 🍾 please go shopping tomorrow, it might be waiting on you

Paid consultation this week for someone who wanted to monolog while I repeatedly said "wow that sounds awful" in my soothingest voice. Some people don't need a lawyer, they need a bored bartender. You can get a sympathetic ear for a few hundred dollars less, and be drunk at the end of it to boot.

When the news is bad, looking at fat squirrels can help.

Wow my friend who has been planning to move her family to Sweden, and they just all flew over there last week to move into their new house, had some pretty good timing! Actually I should text her to compliment her.

More information on the rabbit

Dog law

Went into the office this afternoon and am now taking the train back home. The same through-rider with her 30 cubic feet of belongings I rode with this morning is on this return train too. We are the only riders wearing masks.

none of this is funny for venezuela or america, but it's a little bit funny imagining some public defender getting the worst phone call of their life

Let's see in a couple of months if I'm right about this: nothing will come of this other than a change in the faces of Venezuelan leadership because the White House lacks the capacity to plan for occupation, if they even have the appetite.

Thank you Chicago Public Library

I'm Dokoupilled. I'm Weissmaxxing. I'm in my values era.

Arendt wrote that the Anglo-American two-party system is better. Each party must support the system because one day it will return to power. Parties in multi-party European systems pretend to power by claiming to represent the "average" person, leading to totalitarianism. Not sure that's convincing.

My explanation for Cuomo has been that it's surprisingly difficult to find quality individuals to run for elected office, at least for anything less rarified and prestigious than US Senator. But this theory has merit too.

This could lead you to an interesting reflection on language shaping human cognition. LLMs are perhaps revolutionary, in how they can interpret & generate natural language, including apologies. So (some) humans can accept that in a way they'd never accept a sparkler apologizing for starting a fire.

You could only make Pluribus today. If you made it in the past, it would be a wearisome metaphor for Communism.

* charge they phone * twerk * be bisexual * eat hot chip * lie

I definitely support transit-oriented development but can you imagine living right next to three train lines, one of which runs all night? I mean, I guess some people do already. blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/02/a...

Fukuyama writes about how England could hold its own against France in the 17th and 18th centuries, because England was better governed. In this century Rwanda and Congo are an even more extreme example.

Eric Adams's new role will be fighting antisemitism with... just somehow a bunch of Turkish luxury goods. We are not taking any more questions at this time.

C just learned that a character in THE BEAR goes to Al-Anon and she also goes to Al-Anon so now we are watching THE BEAR like it's 2022