On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

I mean, there's no bad ideas, but personally I think he's spent too much time abroad lately, and should really plan on a couple of weeks helping out in the White House.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Snow on my lens made a ghost!

Just remembered the time in HS when someone asked what i was reading and i was like "Memoirs of an Invisible Man" and they were (in 2026 terminology) like "omg, James Baldwin? how woke (admiringly)" and I was like " No, H F Saint." and we just stared at each other in confusion for a moment.

My rottie is a dipshit with a job--attention span of a goldfish, can't remember her manners for more than a minute, also can't sit immediately when we leave the house because she has to monitor the area in detail before she relaxes her guard.

Who's super fancy? It's me! I have a story out today!

Any audio SFF listeners out there? Chirp's current on-sale SFF audio bundles are a little ridiculous rn. Too many fab authors to name them all, but Tamsyn Muir, NK Jemisin, Cherie Priest, Jeff Vandermeer, Charles de Lint, and T Kingfisher to name a few have books in. www.chirpbooks.com/s/sff-bundles

POV: you're in an apartment in NYC, looking

this is the kind of trick you expect from saturday morning cartoons

The two best ridiculous stories about capitalism which are going to be true any minute now are Kukla Boogie Moon by Eliot Fintushel (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #13) and the Robert Rankin story? in which a guy teaches himself to sleep with his eyes open to earn credits from the tv.

The moral of this story is write letters to scientists.

I don't want to sound paranoid but there definitely was not a cat toy on my bed before i went to take a shower, and now there is. Do you think it's a spawn point for lootboxes?

The very best thing about music is that sometimes i will hear a song i have heard at least 1000x before and it will still manage to be so lovely this time that i want to cry. Tonight, it was Booth and the Bad Angel, I Believe. Music that i can carry in my pocket will never cease to be a miracle.

"You’ve lived through several waves of feminism, and they’ve culminated in two women who were among the most qualified candidates in US presidential history losing to the same misogynistic con artist." #McSweeneysTop25of2025

We had a good run

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples; For I am tired of content.

The United States, with massive high-grade petroleum reserves, going after Venezuelan oil is like a guy who owns a licensed Michigan hydroponic grow with the best genetics available smoking ditch weed. It's like Prada mounting a hostile takeover of Forever 21. It's like Detox raiding Jiggly's closet

I said “it sounds like you’re just feeding municipal vehicles to the hill” and the mayor of Montreal started crying

There's a guy on Twitter who posted about Rob Reiner's perfect run of films and included North. Every time someone calls out North, he says "Not the time, 2 people are dead." It's making me laugh until I cry, and I'm confident Rob Reiner would have found it hilarious.

Mickey’s gonna have five fingers.

My family discussed an inaugural/ongoing contest/lottery resulting in sacrificing the last family member who catches 3 chickens before dinner each year. We all agree on the basic outrages so we have to invent new ones, i guess.

Then as now ...

You know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.

Anyone local (somerville MA) who needs a bag of good dogfood (Purina Pro Plan Sporting Salmon) the dog can't have because she's on a diet or a fluffy dogbed that both my cat and dog hate? Oh, also I've got at least one women's XL Landsend winter coat to get rid of.

wake up babe, new units of measurement just dropped www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

Guess I’m never going to hear about Trump and his “Big Beautiful Bill” the same way ever again.

the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

My favorite comment on the FT story

The email about this month's free prime books came, and the spacing of the list is just such that I wasn't totally sure which genre applied here. "Well, that's not really a romance cover? But maybe it's a @tkingfisher.com romance cover? It is pink and purple, and those are romance cover colors?"

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

All right stop: you know that I'm confident Oz is back with my eternal monument Trunkless legs standing up so vastly Rollin' on my foes like I'm Rick Astley Think that you're Mighty? Yo, I don't care Look on my works, and despair

The people who hate him the most are also the ones who don't answer the phone to pollsters, obviously.

I have ARCs! torpublishinggroup.com/the-subtle-a...

“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” @pkrugman.bsky.social

My favourite of the Cow Tools edits

i shall$ review all of Grace Burrowes's stories based on if they have the word inchoate in them or not. (1/?)

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

What happens in the group chat stays in the group chat…until it doesn’t. CONFESSIONS FROM THE GROUP CHAT IS OUT NOW! Want copies of my cozy Deer Hill Anonymous books of your own? You can order from anywhere, request at your library, or get a signed copy from my friends at One More Page.

Pro-regime media is funded by your wordle addiction. If you or someone you know is struggling with a NYT subscription please show them video games

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

As if everything didn't already suck enough, it turns out that the reason I feel crappy after eating Talenti lately is that at some point they switched to using skim milk instead of whole, and the processed milk protein gives me an MSG (visual) migraine.

Hey! Good job K'99!