I watched curling videos because of the Olympics and now YT is trying desperately to show me as many sports videos as it can. It’s awful.

just a reminder that you already know everything you need to know about the state of the union and unless you will enjoy watching it there's a million other things you can do. you don't have to be "in the loop." the loop is a trash place to be tbh

Yet another reason to not keep idols, I guess.

What on earth could have possibly caused this?

"Unvaccinated people with the confirmed measles cases account for 94% of this year’s cases so far."

Ah. Of course.

I have followed a couple of them and it is helping. I think it might also just require a bit more patience than I was giving it 😅

That sounds like a delicious blend! I also love your mug!

Makes sense. I generally use YouTube for longer content, so I'm being shown a bunch of clips of videos I've already seen. :/

I've been using it a lot more since I deleted TikTok and removed Meta apps off of my phone, but I feel like I keep seeing the same videos from the people I'm subscribed to and even if I mark a video as not interested, I keep seeing similar ones. Any tips for improving the algorithm?

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The Project for Awesome 2026 livestream will be February 13-15, but what is P4A?

These are the #P4A2026 important dates to remember!📆

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Happy New Year everyone. Hope it’s better than the last.

It is a beast! It barely fits under our cabinet hahaha

Adding another vote for I Who Have Never Known Men!

From what I’ve been able to find, it looks like the 5.5 quart bowl-lift mixer still has the same internal parts. This is the kind that we have and I can confirm it’s been great.

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Can someone in #Nerdfighteria tell me how the Nerdfighter feed works? Do I have to use the hashtag or something else? I’m still not too familiar with how Bluesky works.

Do KitchenAid mixers have that reputation now? We got ours as a wedding present seven years ago and it’s been a workhorse.

I’m also looking to move away from Goodreads. Anyone else use Fable?

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My goal was 52 books this year, but I’m very happy with the 49 I read. Always looking for book recommendations for next year! #booksky

We thought we just heard our three year old say “what the hell” but it turns out he just has a deep southern twang about him and he actually said “up the hill.” #parenting

An excerpt from The Washington Post's interview with photographer Christopher Anderson: Question: "Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor?" Anderson: "I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, 'Should I smile or not smile?' and I said, 'How would you want to be portrayed?' We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, 'You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.' And I looked at him and I said, 'You know, you do, too.'"

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

Fifteen Years

i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

I used to be FIRMLY in camp “no Christmas until after Thanksgiving,” but now I am in camp “let people enjoy the simple things that don’t hurt anyone while the world is on fire.”

We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.

This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.

Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
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I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power

Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.

Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos (Magic: The Gathering) Audiobook on Libro.fm Strixhaven University welcomes you. Begin your magical studies on a faraway plane, encountering new friends, mysteries, and dangers, in this fantastical dark academia.Eula Blue was supposed to be a ma...

Should have clicked the link! It's on Libro.fm for anyone else who's looking: libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Will there be an audiobook? I've never read Magic fiction before but would love to start!

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

"A good thing to remember is that life
is an equal amount of doughnut shops
and roadkill every day."
- GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI