my apologies to anyone who received our christmas card in my handwriting (horrific, unreadable chicken scratch) instead of my wife's (beautiful, whimsical, professional comic letterer)

Turned 34 and immediately started getting nonstop divorce-themed ads on all my podcasts

yeah if you're Only using it as a weapon it should like telescope or break into pieces that snap together when you need them

this is actually the result of letting young people become wizards. 65 years of arcane study or bust. real wizards hobble

All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation The legislation hasn't yet passed everywhere, but all 50 states introducing some form of right to repair legislation is a "tipping point” for the right to repair movement.

New: All 50 states have now introduced right to repair legislation. A really amazing milestone for a grassroots movement. Wisconsin just became the last state to do it:

www.404media.co/all-50-state...

Google is tripe kosher All Images Videos Shopping Forums News Al Overview Learn more : Whether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow. Kosher meat can be ordered online, including kosher beef tripe. ~ Generative Al is experimental.

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

My favorite Kurt Vonnegut quote--"you are what you pretend to be"--comes from Mother Night, a novel about an American spy who pretends to be a Nazi propagandist only to realize later in life he was just being a Nazi propagandist

guys at the next table at the coffee shop all making fun of their one bro for how long it's taking him to find a picture of his girlfriend in his phone

January 2025 as a meme

don't understand no-knead bread recipes I love to knead bread I love seeing matter change quality and density and shape in my hands

The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers!

Read, print & distro freely!

Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:

itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...

Tweet from GL @gldivittorio: This feels like a whole lot of trolley problems for a country with hardly any public transportation

when I was a teen I came up with a very stupid concept about a train full of vampires that continuously ran around the world so it was constantly night for them. anyway this is the opposite feeling

flying east to west in the US is so crazy because no matter how long you're on a plane it's somehow still the morning

sorry but it was kind of funny of me to believe the Dems might win this year while the American public was reviving slurs in casual conversation that I hadn't heard in over a decade

kind of amazing to have zero followers again. what do you mean several hundred faceless strangers won't be looking at my tweets

yeah this is from my tinned fish newsletter. what about it

A screencap of an email from Tim Marchman of a tinned fish newsletter, the subject of which reads "For a good time, get some caramelized onion jam"

most "you're 32 years old" email i've ever gotten

thinking a lot about Edward Said, who observed that Israel isn't about righting the wrongs of the Holocaust--rather, it's an attempt to assuage the guilt of empires who did nothing to secure the safety of Jewish lives before and during that time.

For those who observe

"Sixty four years ago in October 1959, The Twilight Zone premiered. As my dad said: The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time."

Rod Serling's daughter, quoting her father: "The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience."

like, I know, right

checked into the punk rock flea market as a vendor after Aster was already here & the people running check in were like "omg Aster Santiago? they were just here and they're SO cute" & I was like yeah that's my wife & one of them went "wow great job fam" lmfao

people who like write on planes or do business stuff or whatever are absolutely baffling to me. all i ever do on planes is watching ten thousand episodes of the stupidest cooking show they have on offer

it's cool how we can travel through the sky thousands and thousands of miles in a few hours and also how the process of doing so basically pours your brain down the drain

BREAKING NEWS the air conditioning is OFF the windows are OPEN all of my papers were instantly swept off my desk by the autumn winds

In the same decade we came up with “metrosexual” and “bromance” to clarify that there is a special straight way for a man to wash his ass and have a close friend, respectively

The One Big Problem With Elon Musk’s Autism Announcement Elon Musk has Asperger’s. So what?

If you're thinking well, of course Elon Musk is an asshole, he has Asperger's and was bullied as a kid, you DESPERATELY need to reread this 2021 piece in Slate by #autistic journalist @slooterman.bsky.social. Every writer opinionizing about him should read it. slate.com/culture/2021...

I just love old union songs that were like "If you cross a picket line you're gonna fucking die tomorrow and then you're going to hell and the devil himself will go 'you never should have scabbed you fucking piece of shit' and then you go to superhell" like where is that energy rn