it’s the Sunday between Christmas and New Years anyway. make some cocoa, get cozy, and look out at the snow

dreaming of a day after these horrors end. it is coming. we will win.

"FEDERAL AGENTS NOT PERMITTED ON PREMISES" "NEIGHBORS SAY ICE OUT!" "LOVE THY NEIGHBOR RESIST" "PRIVATE PROPERTY NO ICE OR CBP ACCESS" South Minneapolis, December 2025

90% of bluesky posts, to me

This stuff is so good I might just eat the entire jar with a spoon 😋

Lots of Halal markets, Desi Bros (where I’ve shopped numerous times), and Latino markets. Go and check the list, if you like to shop at small, immigrant owned markets in the Twin Cities.

At the gpg.fail talk and omg #39c3 You can just put a \0 in the Hash: header and then newlines and inject text in a cleartext message. Won’t even blame PGP here. C is unsafe at any speed. gpg has not fixed it yet.

You could just mute that man. Really. Mute or block and get on with your day

Pro tip: shovel the sidewalk for the old lady who lives next door.

A thing I'd recommend is taking some time to write a letter to you in six months. Screw a new years resolution: resolve what kind of citizen you'll be in 2026. Making your decisions now helps in the moment when things will seem confusing. Write down your road map: what is good and valuable?

There is another way: I successfully connected with a bunch of well known people from my industry through the medium of unhinged shitposting.

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” - Ray Goforth

My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail

Hell yes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/25/c...

still one of the funniest redactions I’ve ever seen in the Titan investigation interviews MYSTERIOUS SUBMERSIBLE EXPERT: “well I’m sure you’re familiar with my film Titanic”

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

when we got married we asked my cousin about their four year old being 'flower dude' and they said "oh sure what fun we'll have to talk him into taking off his astronaut costume for once" and we said "the hell you will" which is how we came to have an adorable flower-naut leading us down the aisle

The aurora during a geomagnetic storm.

I honestly think James Cameron’s secret is that he knows he’s really good at what he does, so he does exactly enough of it to fund doing weird shit with deep sea submersibles, which is what he actually cares about. I respect this

Same energy

I'm featuring my favorite photo from each month for the final six days of 2025. Up first: January. This one isn't technically perfect. It's out of focus. I was running, with an iPhone, in the cold. But it was such a core memory. From the New Years Day aurora substorm. #yearinreview #northernlights

POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS: Normally, Earth's stratosphere is empty and transparent. This week, however, it is filling with rainbow-colored clouds. "On Christmas Day, I observed the first PSCs of the season," reports Fredrik Broms of Kvaløya, Norway. spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...

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🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (BETA-PIC). RGB Filters: 2550, 1500, 770 PI: Perrin, Marshall, program 05298. CRVAL: 86.829111, -51.067787 Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Was talking to a kid and she’d never heard of cooties. What a lucky generation. All those cooties shots worked.

45 years ago Minor Disturbance is the debut EP by the American hardcore punk band the Teen Idles, released in December 1980 as the first release by Dischord Records. #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #straightedge #teenidles #history #punkrockhistory

SPECTACULAR HALO DISPLAY OVER CANADA: Bitter cold and diamond-dust ice crystals combined to produce an extraordinary sky show over Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Dec. 22nd. Photographer Marc Toews: spaceweather.com/images2025/2...

I can’t say I’ve had a stress-free holiday but I’m currently eating halal BBQ while my kid is watching This Is Spinal Tap for the first time and laughing so hard he cries, so there is that

they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE

As a billionaire I’ve invented an entirely new form of philanthropy and the key difference is that it involves me not giving money to anyone

Rowan Clair -- Aurora borealis on a Winter Night #art #illustration #rowanclair www.instagram.com/rowanclair/

anyway i saw some aurora borealis

I still make this face

I’ve been to Michelin star restaurants all over the world and I’m still pretty sure the best meal anywhere involves throwing a bushel of crabs right onto a newspaper-covered table. Can’t beat it

My very Minnesotan child, looking out an airplane window: “Where are all the lakes? Where is the water? Looks wrong.”

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Absolutely wild pink nitrogen ribbon aurora burst last night here in Iceland. There was cloud cover, and I was worried the show would stay shrouded. Voila! The purpley-pink & white ribbons are much closer to us in the atmosphere than standard green arcs, and are fast moving. #northernlights #aurora

This is a great video about the growth of Flock's persistent AI-powered video surveillance system even as they demonstrate a fundamental incompetence at software engineering and little concern for security. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-...

It’s not Minnesota Nice anymore, it’s Minnesota NoICE! Art by me, please share, thx <3

as a Foreign Service brat I genuinely think the smell of National Airport is the closest thing I have to the scent of childhood home. It’s so deeply evocative for me. Proust would be proud

This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

Tis the season for infrequent fliers in large groups 🫠

got my adhd upgraded to ad4k

I don’t get starstruck very often, but 🤩

The intense red auroras of Nov 11-12, 2025.