Ha! Here's something useful from the New Yorker: a German word Backpfeifengesicht, which is defined as “a face that deserves to be slapped or punched.” It's even hard to hard aloud without a dismissive, back-of-my-hand-to-your-'fact' wave. I will be using this one. A lot.

New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

So everyone's watching the 60 Minutes that was supposed to be banned and everyone who knows how PDFs work can unredact the Epstein files, it's like the Christmas spirit has irony poisoning this year

Sorry, my eyes aren't good with small print anymore. Does that say "USS Degenerate"?

Trump's in the Epstein files over 600 times.

Bravo! ...next can you do food? Food safety's going to get pretty grim by the time the current crew leaves office.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle

Okay, Kevin wins the internet today.

14yo: the Catholic Church needs to get with the times. No one cares about shamrocks anymore 14yo: they should say that the Holy Trinity is like a 3-in-1 shampoo, conditioner, and body wash 14yo: it won’t be great, but it’ll get the job done

Haven't flown with my GF yet, but this is her as well. She can walk just fine... but not quickly, or for any distance. In 2020 we walked 5-8 km every day. In 2021, she had to strategize her washroom trips, because those few yards wiped her out for hours. Rheumatoid arthritis sucks rocks.

Something sweet to take you into the weekend.

Me: (working on novel) Brain: Hey, got a great idea for a novel. Not this novel. Me: (typing) Not now, brain. Brain: Don't you wanna know what it is? Me: NOT NOW, BRAIN Brain: I'm not gonna lie, it's SUPER cool Me: LET ME FINISH THE NOVEL IN FRONT OF ME, BRAIN Brain: Okay, I'm gonna tell you

"If all goes to plan, investors and Virginia taxpayers will make the company's owners very rich over the next few years, before announcing apologetically that they've reached an 'unexpected roadblock' with this highly speculative tech that does not yet exist."

How the Los Angeles City Council is spending Angelenos’ money laist.com/news/crimina...

“Joe Campbell, a Pentecostal preacher who for half a century ministered to thousands of children across four states, has been arrested on child sex abuse charges, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday.“ Still not a drag queen.

It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.

happy hump day www.click2houston.com/news/local/2...

Happy Maple Syrup Day! Canada produces 80% of the world's pure maple syrup, and Quebec produces 91% of Canada's maple syrup. It is something that is quintessentially Canadian. This is its history. 🧵 1/12

Just learned that Gil Gerard, TV's "Buck Rogers" in my childhood, has passed away from an aggressive form of cancer. I don't recall seeing him in anything after Buck Rogers (which I was exactly the right age to enjoy), but apparently he worked steadily right up until 2019.

“At least six Canadian children, with birth years ranging from 2009 to 2024, were detained during the period. One Canadian child was held for 51 days — more than twice the 20-day limit set by a long-standing U.S. court-ordered agreement.” Expert warns Canadians to not travel to the US:

Don't get it twisted. Those close-up Vanity Fair photos aren't mean. They're art. Hate corrodes the container it's carried in. Exposing evil and invoking a response is art.

I swear to fucking god mozilla, *everyone hates this idea*. Do NOT succumb to The Fear & the Monetization Disease. You don't need to have a "modern AI browser", at all, ever. You need to be th comany that respects user privacy, meaningful consent, & choice; the one w/ The Browser That Fucking Works

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

"Well that sounds stupid, you must be explaining it wrong." Readers, they were not.

Feverishly working on this

Today is the ONLY day the public can comment. Demand a PUBLIC HEARING.

Product listing: TEMUssolini (TM) Made for the Caucasian person who's "dictator-curious," but not quite ready to commit to a real strongman. Sounds persuasively threatening, but it's loaded with safety features: * Limited memory and processing power * "Safe word" function: Will roll over and /

Sounds about right.

Vibert Douglas fought against gender discrimination in her field, earned an MBE for her war service, was a celebrated astrophysicist and one of the first individuals to receive the Order of Canada. This is her remarkable story. 🧵 1/8

I would like to say that pretty much every immigrant in this country is more of an American than anyone doing Trump’s bidding

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

My son watched his mom in an interview/conversation with Bill O'Reilly, and just commented "he's trying to mansplain capitalism to an economist." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi6H...

There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Fiddler on the roof, but with ICE agents playing the part of Cossacks. I know people think of Fiddler as a heartwarming story about a funny man doing Ya-ba-dibba-dibbas, but it's literally about pogroms like this

Things we learn: 1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban 2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal 3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants And much more. Read it.

Just want to eat latkes and play dreidel in peace, can’t even do that

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

It’s so wild that “a random online leftist said something I found annoying once” is legitimately a huge driver of modern politics in a way that “online right-wingers with significant sway over powerful people say literal Nazi things” isn’t and likely never will be

I’m but a simple country theoretical physicist, and I can say, in my professional capacity, “datacenters in space” is so colossally, monumentally stupid that it is difficult to know where to start with which laws of physics the idea is spitting in the face of the most.

This is pretty cool. Researchers have observed dolphins and orcas hunting salmon collaboratively. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Huh. Well this is interesting. I wonder if they'll pull it off? arstechnica.com/information-...

at this point AI is the equivalent of your friend eating something disgusting and asking 800 times if you wanna try it

Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read. They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.

This is the way. (Says the aging punk, remembering the zines of yore...)