When the polite, cultured Dr. Pepper consumes a special draught, he turns into the brutish, monstrous Mr. Pibb.

#Juntos grassroots donation campaign is in full swing! Help spread community safety resources! Why not give $20 for Christmas? Juntos is a community-led, Latine, immigrant organization in South #Philly doing deportation defense, community care, and more. secure.actblue.com/donate/junto...

Only one person sent me revised files on Christmas Day. Progress! I am proud of you!

Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse says he doesn’t have much time left. Sasse is just 53 years old.

I've always loved this illustration depicting Joseph and Mary looking for a room. I am finding it especially powerful this year

I love you all to pieces but stop sending me files on major holidays! Please and thank you!

Beloved academics, this is your removed that schedule send exists! If you “must” draft things tomorrow or Thursday, please don’t send them on Christmas.

“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller) more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living” worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

Turns out MURDERLAND was a terrible audiobook choice for holiday tasks! Who could have predicted this. I gave up.

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HIRING: We're looking for a statewide editor at Free Press Indiana! Job posting here: www.freepressindiana.org/jobs/statewi...

The censored 60 Minutes' segment, Inside CECOT, is now available. Download from @ddosecrets.com: data.ddosecrets.com/Inside%20CEC... Download/stream from @archive.org: archive.org/details/insi... The original video was recorded by @jasonparis.bsky.social, and cleaned up by @emma.best

Caroline Fraser’s MURDERLAND is fucking grim, even by my standards. Curious what environmental historians make of it.

Ok for real tho: pls be thoughtful in what you post, word is that CSAM material has been redacted less carefully than identifying info for white guys, because of course. CWs and good judgement exist for a reason folks, don’t traumatize your feed

Slow news day huh

ELISE NAVIDAD

Gimme the keys or else

I found it. The Bari Weiss/CBS News town hall promo for feminism does indeed use a 1964 photo of Beatles fans.

I just wish someone would be honest and say “we are ending civilian science in favor of science that is focused on serving national security and war”

The 2024 eclipse game communities a once-in-a-lifetime chance to “welcome the darkening sky,” says my sister, Sarah Wolfe, a former eclipse director extraordinaire who appears in this inspiring book theeclipseeffect.com

vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans

My alma mater continues on being hellbent on devaluing its degrees (No relation to Patrick Wolfe)

Chilling if true www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

I regret to inform you that exercise really does help

I had been putting this off, but a weaving query last week unleashed the most unhinged AI suggestions I’d seen in awhile. You needed to know *something* about the type of weaving to understand why, but lemme tell you, they made no sense

Finally updated my search settings to eliminate AI results and it’s glorious, so calm and peaceful

wow that was stupid but i guess at least he didn’t declare war with venezuela

Reupping this as it may be helpful!

Maybe books are truly dying, IDK! But as long as universities require certain kinds of scholars to write them, it would behoove faculty members to explain how books work.

It’s not clear to me that scholars are taught to read books any more. It’s distressing.

My new book, THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY goes on sale TODAY! It is a NEW argument about TRUMAN AND THE ATOMIC BOMB, from Hiroshima through the Korean War, from HarperCollins. alexwellerstein.com/writing/book...

Well, this is an utter disaster for science. This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next. 🧪

This person issuing these quotes is still serving in the administration?

🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.

How is This Is Spinal Tap so perfect?

ever day I be like

So we’ve got the NYT asking whether diplomats need any expertise, whatsoever, and The Nation defending Chomsky for palling around with pedophiles the “right” way, and I am so fucking tired

But that said, people ask me to do crazy shit lol.

The thing about this terrible, heartbreaking weekend (personal in addition to the shared tragedies) is that it really makes it so much easier to say no to soul-crushing, thankless activities. More love, no time for the rest of it.

RIP Mass market paperbacks. Always my preferred format. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

You're saying you're looking more for this vibe?

When you want to learn card weaving but all the books are illustrated like this

Tell a friend you love them.

The Lt. Gov of Indiana trying to dress down his party members for not buckling in the face of threats is wild. Doing so publicly without realizing it makes him look like a toady rather than a leader is wilder. It’s also a sign there’s something about character and common sense that’s missing.

The Indiana Senate rejected redistricting and today is also the anniversary of Indiana statehood in 1816. So, here is a beautiful note with vignettes of hay gathering and a cattle river crossing from a fraudulent outfit that issued widely in the 1850s. Pioneer Association, Lafayette, IN, $5, 18--.🗃️

I cannot tell you how much Joe Normal hated this plan. Even Republican Joe Normals. It was all folks were talking about in October.

I have been offline all afternoon and evening so am only now hearing about Indiana, hot diggity damn, can’t believe the geezers at the pool room were right