Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

New set of divorce guys chapters are ready a little earlier than I thought! Featuring Ed & Stede's adventures in being "just friends" and perhaps my favorite media chapter so far 👀💜 archiveofourown.org/works/702434...

Remember the neighborhood school board election I was so worried about? Here's an article about it. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/12...

LA Worldcon Will Offer Poetry Hugo Award

Have we considered the possibility that the great evil antagonists of every faith—your Satan, your rakshasas, etc—are all actually amassed here on earth, garbed in suits, riding segues and chatting on podcasts, as the leaders of Big Tech

There is truly more that unites us than divides us, by which I mean “everyone in this country wants to carve Pete Hegseth up and serve him tableside and half of them are saying it on television”

An easy way to explain luddites: Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand. And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before. That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

It gets even better in the comments

for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan

Today is World AIDS day, and the current US govt refuses to acknowledge it, for the first time since 1988. Here’s a memory I’d like to share, to show how in even the worst of times, people came together to support each other. May the memory of those we lost continue to be a blessing.

101 years old Marshall Allen of Sun Ra Arkestra doing Space is the Place with Messthetics, Luke Stewart, Janel Leppin, Lady Myrhh, Bob Boilen and others here at the dc space reunion event @ Atlantis in DC . Will share video later

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦

UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts. If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split

AO3 authors: If you get a spambot comment on a story, AO3 has a specific reporting path that lets them get rid of your spammer in hours rather than weeks. Turns out that following these steps REALLY WORKS. First, here's the link with nice context: archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/...

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

Indigenous celebrity Eileen Miles getting disrespected by ICE, her relatives actually being detained by those idiots, right here in the Land of Microsoft.

AO3 authors: If you get a spambot comment on a story, AO3 has a specific reporting path that lets them get rid of your spammer in hours rather than weeks. Turns out that following these steps REALLY WORKS. First, here's the link with nice context: archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/...

May they reap the (Marilyn) Whirlwind. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

All of this. Write. Make. Create. Try. KEEP TRYING. Do new things. BE new things. Reinvent yourself every second Tuesday. Reinvent Tuesdays. Change your *name* to Tuesday. There is no age limit on becoming more than you once were, loving more than you once could, or being happier and more fulfilled!

"With each passing scene, the giant birds taunt me. As Steve Martin races Kevin Bacon to the cab, I wonder, 'Why not hail an eagle instead?' As Neal furiously rants to the car rental lady, I'm reminded: 'All those fucks could've been avoided with an eagle.'"

Seasonal content: Well There's Your Problem's episode on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Aka "The Day the NYPD Killed Barney." Put it on in the background while you mash the spuds. youtu.be/VbkNOnX-PUQ?...

Happy Hibernation, Darth. We'll do our best while you sleep!

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the most dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with over 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed strong antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.

Hey #RightToRepair activists, they are trying to hobble the military Right to Repair legislation that's moving thru the approval process. Bother your legislators about this!

Hi friends! Remember how I said I was born into a cult? This is it. The Jared in this article is my brother!

LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST? ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?

I LOVE HIM YOUR HONOR

Over on Reddit, r/sewing just banned genAI content after months of monitoring the situation. It's urgent. It's so discouraging / wasteful/ expensive to start a project from an AI-generated unbuildable pattern.

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

Home Alone makes changes to the Die Hard formula that render it hard for me to enjoy. The McClain character should feel overawed. And in theory having Kevin be a child versus adults achieves that. But the thing is: Kevin is a god. It's not just Tom & Jerry. This is some random punks versus Anansi.

the last 24 hours on X, summed up:

Today's #NewAtNoon looks at the history of Japanese American resettlement in Washington after World War II. www.historylink.org/File/23408

CBP reportedly pulling out after a week in Charlotte.

Who's going to buy US weapons in future when it's clear Donald & GOP will cut you off if your invader bribes them as part of a "peace plan". Art of the deal.

Reno’s Gay Rodeo is back Nearly 40 years after an armed sheriff, anti-LGBTQ activists and a judge’s order shut down the Gay Rodeo Finals, this year the riders came home.

“if I can suck up their time” Ladies, nerds of all stripes, neurodivergents of every variety, when I tell you how MADE you were for this moment

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Riffing on this idea: When you have fantasy creatures that have substantially longer lifespans than typical humans, and who reproduce at least in part by transforming mundane humans into them? Smart groups would target new recruits for valuable skills.

Also, I kind of really want a werewolf story where a biologist turns and then has to inform the pack that they are working off of a very outdated understanding of wolf social dynamics.

HAITI ARE INTO THEIR FIRST WORLD CUP IN HALF A CENTURY ❤️

Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.

People have largely tried to act like ICE/CBP failed and retreated from LA and that is completely untrue. If it weren’t for the relentless coverage of places like @lataco.bsky.social these stories would be completely under the radar.

It was Miami Herald local reporter Julie Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social who actually covered the Epstein story and blew it wide open. She cared about the victims and Epstein's crimes, not access. National outlets not only didn't, they refused to. They thought it was tawdry and beneath them.

The Treasury Department has its own Epstein file containing thousands of bank records. My investigators reviewed a portion of those records last year. I've demanded the Secretary Bessent produce the file for further investigation. He has refused repeatedly.

You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution. That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk. Wow.

I committed to funding Planned Parenthood in Washington state after a cruel attack on reproductive rights from the MAGA Congress and Donald Trump. While we have a challenging budget, we are upholding our values and ensuring that women can access critical health care.

NEW: Brad Lander says he wants a trial, not a deal to drop his charge stemming from an arrest by ICE.