Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo just had a terrible day and I think that’s beautiful

Wait you're mad at me? Sir or madam I will have you know that I am a dipshit, that anger is entirely a waste of your time and energy.

It’s too late, I have already portrayed myself as Chortling Bernie and you as Seething Eric Adams

Ebooks are reading. Audiobooks are reading. Graphic novels are reading. Pulp reading is reading. Adults reading YA is reading. It's all good, my friends. Don't let anyone tell you different.

Just flat-out declaring that everything Adams did as mayor after the indictment—in the final fifteen months and five days of his term of office—was presumptively corrupt, and undoing everything that's in his immediate power to undo with a single stroke of the pen. This is the way.

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!

Obsessed with this juxtaposition

Ah, my annual headache from sobbing through the Grey Havens scene

"There will be Palestinian New Yorkers in Bay Ridge who will no longer have to contend with a politics of universalism and then makes them the exception" receives ovation.

we were offered such a mean, bitter, small version of this city, and we rejected it for the idea of a big loving basket case. good for us no matter what happens next

Whew. That Mamdani has an exceptional speechwriter and is one of the most compelling politicians I’ve seen.

Mamdani: We will transform City Hall from one of "no" to one of "how" "I was elected as a democratic socialist and will govern as a democratic socialist"

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

LOLOLOL Jadakiss.

I am so ready for the Reagan era to finally end

I was late to the party and missed that this happened 😭😭

Bread and Roses being sung at the inauguration of the largest city in the United States

People are yelling TAX THE RICH.

Happy 2026

I’m overjoyed for NYC right now. A million obstacles are assembling themselves right now, yes, but this is wonderful new start. One of the most hopeful stories in a long time, in a place where some combination of corruption, mediocrity and downright evil seemed inevitable for so long. Hooray!

All other things put aside, the fact is that just a few years ago the views Mamdani holds on Palestine would have rendered him persona non grata and now they do not. The establishment has to contend with him. To what extent he then in turn has to contend with the establishment is still undetermined.

the speeches at this ceremony are just banger after banger, my goodness

day one in mamdani’s new york

I really just need everyone to get good with the fact that evil dumbasses live forever

Listen I know this will be hard for some of you but I think it’s better if we kill this new year while it’s still a baby.

For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction

When "confused" Trump supporters say "I thought he was just gonna deport the criminals" you need to remember we arent talking about criminals as a legal term. We are talking about criminals as a *social* classification.

My New Years Resolution is 480p.

You should be able to rev your shopping cart at people in the grocery store

RFK Jr. Warns Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-warns-mistress-that-condoms-cause-autism/

Flu season is off to a rough start this year, according to new CDC data. The virus is spreading faster than in previous years and the surge is likely to get worse. Here's what you need to know. n.pr/49yrLtt

absolutely the number one funniest and most predictable reason people got (and still get) mad at me on here

Oh my goodness, thank you so much! What a beautiful compliment to get--and perfect timing too because I just finished her today! 🥰

2025 recapped

before we found out about Al Franken, I saw Al Franken looking lost at the D.C. stop of Conan O’Brien’s 2010 comedy tour. I asked if he needed help finding his seat but we couldn’t figure it out, so I summoned an usher. he very kindly took a photo with me and then an usher guided him away

Did you know you can hate Trump and still be a racist antisemitic conspiracy-theory-riddled anti-science xenophobic piece of crap? Anyway, Marjorie Taylor Greene

If you live in Bristol, love horror and want to support local businesses, please consider doing some of your Christmas shopping at The Haunted Bookshop in Stokes Crofts. You may have seen Monika at some of our events and her shop is a wonderful sanctuary for those looking to find their people.

The “ableist” accusation from gAI boosters pisses me off so much. You know what’s really ableist? Telling my students they can’t possibly engage with difficult (or any!) text without the help of gAI. They prey on students’ crises of conference in a way that is truly disgusting.

In 2026, I hope that everyone will take opportunities to be with others however you can (in person or virtual). It offers energy and strength for what will be a rough year ahead.

no one: a cop’s apartment in a 90s network procedural:

how about we write poems celebrating what working people do for society instead of navel gazing and fretting about the apocalypse

I would love to see us lend considerably less oxygen to rage bait in 2026. Like just say no.

We can live without billionaires but billionaires cannot live without us, in the same way that a body can live without cancer, but cancer cannot live without a body.

Also the macarons @charlottereads.com commissioned @sarasbookmacarons.bsky.social to make for me for Christmas were perfect for the tea party!

Again apologies for being terrible at remembering to cross-post new bookish macarons over here, but LOOK I made A Girl of the Limberlost macarons for @charlottereads.com to gift to @soundoftheforest.bsky.social 🥰🙌 #booksky #bookishmacarons #macarons #cookieart

There are some great suggestions here, but I feel like Elrond deserved at least one F-bomb somewhere. “Men. Men are fucking weak.”

Speaks to something deeply wrong with capitalism that Lampert was allowed to annihilate the value of this company to less than nothing while still walking away with hundreds of millions in profits for himself from the saga.