The only reason Tom Hanks has had the career he’s had is because Michael J Fox got sick

I think they should put the Thiomersal back in the vaccines, it doesn’t cause autism, it’s an effective antifungal and antiseptic that mass scale vaccination drives cheaper and more efficient and ergo more accessible

I had a roommate from PA who got SO MAD when she found out she'd have to use chains if she and her (also not Oregonian) friends wanted to go through Willamette Pass to stay at some cabin for the weekend. Just absolutely refused to believe they were necessary

Our snow conditions are fundamentally different! There’s a lot of ice and hills and narrow roads cleaved into the sides of mountains with 300+ ft drops! PUT THE DAMN CHAINS ON.

It’s finally snowing up in our mountains which means the Govy 500 is in full swing (the stretch of highway that spans Zig Zag and Government Camp yes those are real names and all the ski lodges along the way) and people are being predictably stupid

I’m in a mixed family with Christians and Jews and I’m just gonna come out and say it: I don’t like receiving Christmas presents. I love and appreciate the gesture of gift giving, but please do me the honor of looking up when Hanukkah is and trying to get a gift to me around then

If the Bears make it to the Super Bowl and win do they get to meet the Pope?

Ent-wives have Pixar Mom asses

Under The Pink is a holiday album no I will NOT explain

roll a deception check with disadvantage

That Epstein/Nassar letter is bringing out the worst true-crime-fan instincts in a lot of folks. It’s okay to say that you don’t know if it’s real, and that you have neither the data nor the expertise to weigh in productively.

Using the word “faith” as a synonym for religion, which so many people do without even thinking, reifies a post-Enlightenment culturally Protestant idea of what constitutes religion.

This is no joke how body positivity feels often times when you’re living in a body with chronic illness. I’d be grateful if this bag of meat if I didn’t have to constantly bully, train and coddle it into performing the most basic functions without drama and discomfort

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

New: Months before Bari Weiss pulled the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, her outlet The Free Press was joking about the megaprison Trump has lawlessly deported people to. "The hottest campaign spot…the new Jeffrey Epstein jet…the place to see and be seen." @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Objectively funny that Trumpists have used the foregone conclusion that Bill Clinton is implicated in the files as an excuse for not releasing them and then Bill just rolls up like “If I die I die”

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

This is why I keep harping on about her. There are lots of shitty, unethical journalists. Plenty of people have had affairs with politicians. But this affair knocked over a set of dominoes that set public health back 50 years. Children will die of preventable diseases because of her.

i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead

There are some things money can't buy. Like making a rich asshole see the spectre of Death Herself for the first time in his life, and know true fear.

Rumors abound that there was a No Knockout clause in the Jake Paul Anthony Joshua fight (I know I know) and Joshua broke it which IF TRUE means that Joshua didn’t care about getting paid, this fight was about putting Paul in his place, Joshua broke Paul’s jaw gratis

at the risk of being corny, I was thinking a lot about this line from A Christmas Carol: “Darkness was cheap and Scrooge liked it”. it’s a clever merging of his solitude and his spendthriftiness, but it’s also applicable metaphorically: it’s easy to be grim, takes work to create light.

That’s what makes me so frustrated with the current state of boxing. It’s a HARD sport with a shit ton of skill and nuance, and we got fuckass YouTubers LARPing real athletes and promoters letting them because they care more about making money than pushing the sport forward

It's that time again.

no fuck YOU (last night of Hanukkah)

when one of the only two pro hockey players (neither NHL-level) who have come out, who now spends his career *trying* to change hockey culture, said that he loves the show but that it isn’t going to change the conformity & toxic hypermasculinity in hockey, fans acted offended or like he attacked it

Closeted queer NHL players are not going to feel excited seeing “how feral we are about the Skip kiss” or by the knowledge that you being feral about two hot actors kissing on TV “would 100 000% transfer to them”! They don’t want to become sex objects/romance projections for random strangers!

and if your other recent posts are about me…like…I’m not crying about sportsball or asking people to respect it. the NHL is worthy of intense criticism and disdain. I’m asking people to not conflate an aspirational story imagining how things could be better with the deeply shitty reality

Again, I truly *loved* this week’s episode of Heated Rivalry, but IT IS A WISH FULFILLMENT ROMANCE. The success of a gay hockey romance TV show, largely watched by people who are neither hockey players nor hockey fans, is not “proof that the world is ready and all we would do is love you”

[preparing to get screamed at] I think I officially don’t need to know if you’re mad that an article is paywalled. Perhaps that can be an Inside Thought

The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"

One thing that gives me a lot of hope for the future of feminism is that 80% of the time when you bring up Andrea Yates the collective response now is “fuck her neglectful, abusive husband, he belongs in prison”

One more night

Caleb Williams with the game on the line.

love the tl rn

"Footage raises questions" is never a good sign www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-wes...

This is blasphemous.

STEVE WE LOVE YOU

California's first state constitution in 1849 was bilingual. Spanish has been spoken in large swaths of the US for much longer than English. These people are racist asshats.

I think a lot about how hospitality was considered a vital public virtue for millennia and I fully believe that the corrosion and displacement of hospitality as a pillar of healthy social order is a not-zero part of why shit sucks now

You otter light those candles

in this house we cherish the holiday classics 🎄

I am generally a “don’t talk to the cops under any circumstances” person but like. ok yeah there are exceptions, a mass shooting is one.

I am generally a “don’t talk to the cops under any circumstances” person but like. ok yeah there are exceptions, a mass shooting is one.

You otter light those candles

No one who has ever witnessed a single faculty meeting could ever again claim that college professors are part of some sort of coordinated conspiracy to accomplish anything, let alone turn the entire US into a Marxist utopia/dystopia with an assist from their great pals in corporate boardrooms.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons