"According to this month's housing report, sales of gingerbread homes for the month of December have shot up an incredible 2000 percent over the previous month. This breaks the drought of near-zero growth that has plagued administration officials for almost eleven months."

Me communicating with the new Japanese users.

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

Irish woman with green card, bounced 2 checks totaling $80 ten years ago. For this "crime of moral turpitude," she was held pending deportation, no bond, and put in isolation for asking for low-sodium food. It's great she's out. But also white privilege – 18 Senators wrote to Kristi Noem about her.

I just started Peter Heller's newest book, The Orchard (I got started with Heller when he ripped my heart apart with The Dog Stars), and it opens with this banger.

I followed these instructions, and it seems to have resolved the issue. bsky.app/profile/bsky...

Does anyone know why my account is suddenly labeled with "invalid handle"?

There is enough for everyone. There is enough for everyone. There is enough for everyone. There is enough for everyone. There is enough for everyone. There is enough for everyone. There is enough for everyone. There is enough for everyone. Today and every day.

Hello. It’s me again. Please take a look. Bebo got boosted by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Rachel Maddow. Head to Chicagoshovels.org and let’s make this happen.

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

mewl log

For the love of God, Montresor!

TIL caltrans has rain plows

john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him

something i learned when a fact checker hired by @swordsjew.bsky.social called me is that books only have fact checkers if the author insists on it or even hires one themselves. you can put anything in a book. that was the only fact checker i’ve ever talked to but i’ve been quoted in other books

everyone should read sharma's home rule and adopt her framework of people as *migrantized* by the world nation-state system, like how people are *criminalized* by state justice systems, to mark them as undesirable and disposable, targets for policing, trafficking, confinement, and liquidation

With atmospheric rivers, intense rainfall, and strong winds ahead, I’m declaring a state of emergency in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Shasta counties to activate emergency authorities and preposition resources to keep our communities safe.

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

May author JG Fahrety have the day he deserves. Believe the victims.

Classic reply. We spoke to Flock safety, the manufacturer of these cameras, about privacy concerns. "How is that being addressed?" ABC7 News reporter Luz Pena asked. "If you're not involved in a crime, you shouldn't be concerned about privacy," said Lily Ho, Public Affairs for Flock Safety.

Remember how on the first day of 2025 some guy blew himself up in a cybertruck in front of Trump tower

There are certain circumstances where AI-created is totally irrelevant to me, but for a lot of art the knowledge that a person made it (or that a video really happened) genuinely is integral to the enjoyment. Feels like some people are intentional obtuse about that

As Christmas approaches, it’s time for me to re-share my ancient illustration of Santa devouring one of his elves

This Xmas, 2 police officers would like someone to finally hang the legally-mandated Jan 6th police honorary plaque at Capitol GOP Congressional leadership has defied March 2023 deadline to do so So officers Dan Hodges & Harry Dunn filed this yesterday storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

1. The rich

okay!!!

Backgrounder: www.miaminewtimes.com/news/marco-r...

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

I will donate a shitload of money (within reason) to whatever conservancy organization sues the fuck out of this corrupt decision to keep the exploding rocket trade going. Laguna Atascosa is not only a crucial butterfly/bird migration crossroads but the home of OCELOTS.

“Trump’s pardons wipe out payments to defrauded victims - In addition to clearing prison sentences, the president’s clemency actions have erased millions in restitution payments.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

uh www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

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...

like, "trump bought a teen pageant so he could creep on girls in the dressing room" is an established thing he just said on the radio but all the fancy people are like, "i'll pretend i don't know that," because they live in an epistemic bubble where no one's *really* a rapist til they're cast out

“While our leadership was embracing state-sanctioned violence against marginalized ethnic groups, I was happily skipping through the town square singing nonsense… I could have used my privilege to sound the alarm many times. I chose not to.”

So in the UK, they'll arrest you for supporting Palestine, and now we find they'll also arrest you for supporting those who support Palestine. If you hold a Free Greta sign, will they arrest you for supporting someone who supports those who support Palestine? British Matryoshka doll-ass fascism.

The existence of this letter has been reported before. Just not the content. Holy crap. It might be real! From the Guardian in June 2023: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

In my book I tell story of grad student who was training as therapist at Oklahoma State University Psychological Resources Center, giving bargain-rate therapy to working-class locals. Antifa exposed him as influential neo-Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. The school then let him graduate.

Same energy bsky.app/profile/numb...

It would be delicious, and it has happened in the past, but not recently so much, it would be extremely surprising, and the account with the viral post, "Liam Nissan", is a frequent prankster and Photoshopper. I assume it isn't real.

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

The repeal of Section 230 would lead to the kind of regime-controlled internet in which reposting the CECOT torture prison video inside the United States would be impossible www.patreon.com/posts/146475...

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

I wish I could get a good video of my cat hunting moths outside at night. He just jumped a good 5 feet into the air from a seated start.

UPDATE: Paramount just successfully forced YouTube to block this Canadian video of the censored 60 Minutes CECOT segment on "copyright grounds." Man, the lawyers must've been paid a lot to work overtime

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube: