People are sharing what they are proud of from 2025. I bought myself basketry materials for the first time in 25ish years and made some things and taught a few other people to make some things

The Veronica Mars mystery novel (first one at least) was a NYT best seller We did so much better with Heat 2 than I expected I realize this headline is bait but I am in fact the fish who swallows this particular bait as a bookseller, reader, and lifelong Cameron fan

So the whole movie was a rickroll?

My mom's house is filled with Things, some of them valuable (largely inherited from her mom's family), many of them sentimental. She likes her Things, seeing them every day, but the big factor in why she hasn't gotten rid of them is that her ethical code is Don't Let That Wind Up in a a Landfill

ULINE owner Liz Uihlein thinks it's bad that young adults can remain on their parents insurance plans as long as they can because it stops them being trapped in a terrible job working for her! img.uline.com/is/content/u...

I hope all the tourists buzzing my neighborhood in helicopters today get gout.

This sounds like a joke or a setup for him to escape custody but if I had hiccups for nine months I'd be too exhausted to run. The best cure I know is drinking water out of a cup with a paper towel tight over the rim. Better than the shark tank hiccup straw.

whatever 2026 holds i don't think anything next year will be funnier than Chicago Pope. 2025 was overall a huge stinker but Chicago Pope was an all time great B-plot

I knew this one was going to be bleaker because it's the Winter one but it still needed more humor. The details of the crime are honestly too convoluted and there was a missed opportunity for a reckoning with the shortcomings of the criminal justice system.

This is essentially the plot of The Sound of Music.

Oh this is good, from @jpbrammer.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/johnpaul...

I've been mainlining Agatha Christie novels since October, mostly for fun but incidentally gauging which ones it might make sense to put on the shelves for customers. Just got to Towards Zero and I was ready to order in a copy right up until the last two pages.

It's so funny what my 25+ year divorced parents still have in common (admiration for elaborately carved doors; Only Murders in the Building)

It's been felled by fire (a lot), water (thrown in the river), and now wind. How can we kill it with earth? (It has also been felled by a car ramming into it) (And by birds)

All I have to say about Avatar is that Cameron essentially admitted in the New Yorker that the whole thing was a vehicle for a battle between a helicopter and a pterodactyl and I support that premise. Everything else is set dressing.

A warning from the lawyer representing the unjustly fired Oklahoma TA! Beware of GFM scams: her client is NOT crowdfunding at this time.

My mom had left handedness beaten out of her at school in the 1950s!

This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids

Do yourself a favor if you have any phobias of critters (four legged, six legged, winged, etc) just don't read the replies to this post. Trust me. My anxiety dreams tonight are locked in but you can still be free

We have been making Nigel Slater's Christmas goose for several years. They republished the recipe in the Observer this year and it reminds me why Slater is one of my favorite food writers. observer.co.uk/food/recipes...

Looking through the Wikipedia page showing famous OU alums, I am wondering if @travismcelroy.bsky.social is the person to lead the charge for publicly shaming the administration here?

I get to not work for at least 40 hours in a row! Merry Christmas to me

This is a rare not bad idea in the NYT but please let it not happen until my mom dies because I would not be able to stand the bitching every time she comes to visit.

I really want to read this new book about the relationship between rent and capitalism but my brain is demanding a strict diet of middle grade fantasy and Agatha Christie

We have been remiss in watching the Christmas episodes of our favorite shows this year so I'm catching up with Sports Night, and it strikes me that (a) Jeremy is such a dick and (b) Isaac is a boss who manages to compare himself to God without being an asshole.

Did you know that they can burn the nerves in your neck until they are dead and you can still get a migraine In case you did not know that headaches and migraines are different things

We watched one episode of the gay hockey show and then realized we needed some actual hockey on screen so tonight we're watching Slap Shot

Hearing freshman and sophomore Brown students speak at a vigil, I just really hope they all have access to talk therapy.

I gotta say, having largely abandoned Lonely Planet in my travel section, this makes me skew it even harder towards Rick Steves.

Too many people are still sleeping on Check, Please!

For those who might not know, the book this is based on is called Three Bags Full

I love the fact of this headline.

Who would have guessed two months ago that the ungettable book of the season would be "anything distributed by PRH because their warehouses have stopped functioning this month"?

If there is any way your call to a retail establishment can wait until next weekend (e.g. you want to preorder a book that comes out in March, you want to have a casual chat with the owner) please consider waiting ❤️

What.

I didn't realize this was new information.

256MB file limit. Go wild

This guy was in a grad program while I was an undergrad. I'm going to be sick.

At the press conference by the police & FBI & ATF about the guy they say was the shooter at Brown, one of the dudes just said "these things happen" and I cannot understand how that phrase is considered appropriate for this context.

Vigil in Central Park on Sunday at 2:30p, organized by the Brown Club in New York. Gothic Bridge, near 94th Street

This list is a bit arbitrary and not in any order: Happy Endings, Spring Smackdown The Simpsons, Selma's Choice The Good Place, Derek Battlestar Gallactica, 33 Northern Exposure, Aurora Borealis

This is the thing. Early admissions will be announced tomorrow. Current students are hustling to change flights and trains to get home and maybe adjust plans for January (Brown doesn't start spring semester until 1/21) Kids are scared.

I realized today that the energy I will be bringing to 2026 is Giles smashing Anya's necklace in The Wish "How do you know the other world is any better than this one?" "Because it has to be"

It's probably like those phrases that all get attributed to Twain, but years ago I heard one from Picasso saying that if you want to be a painter, you'd better like the smell of paint.

Like we needed more reasons to get Chuck & Kirsten out of the Senate.

Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies

4/ Ventilation saves lives. Clean indoor air, through ventilation or filtration, dramatically cuts the spread of respiratory infections. It’s time to treat air quality like food hygiene: a basic public health requirement.

He went with a friend to the review session in Barus & Holley even though HE WASN'T EVEN IN THE CLASS www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Less abridged than the movie, more abridged than the print edition. A great narration by Reiner. 💔 share.libbyapp.com/title/122706