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Hey folks, despite negative home tests, baby Margot just tested positive for influenza A at the pediatrician. Be aware there may be a strain going around that doesn’t show up on home tests

Comics with dialogue on the cover >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>comics without

Portland!!! I'm in town for three shows 12/30-12/31! Come enjoy my new jokes and raise a local IPA (or some such thing) to the new year! portland.heliumcomedy.com/shows/342084

Seattle!!! I'm so excited to tell you a whole lot of new jokes at The Crocodile on 12/28! My pal @andyiwancio.bsky.social is opening the show! Grab your tickets now: www.livenation.com/event/rZ7HnE...

There is no part of worker protections that includes "having to work with people who use hateful racial slurs." Being in an abusive environment that a co-worker makes is shitty! Workers should not have to tolerate that!

an accident which not seldom happens

Can someone explain the whole "sign stealing is evil" thing in baseball? If your signs are basic enough that an opponent can crack them thats kinda on you, isn't it? Git gud

I wonder why these states? my first thought was states that voted for Harris in 2024, but I see Michigan and Pennsylvania in the mix and they went for Trump. and for that matter, I don't see Illinois (as of right now anyway) which did vote for Harris

get hip to east village radio they’re great and this show is a real pleasure www.mixcloud.com/EastVillageR...

Same magazine that pushed the Bell Curve too like dog come on lol

oh gee whose attractive illustrated lyrics book has been named a vanity fair best book of the year? hmm? Could it be the man with the gentle curls and the highlights? The prince of posting? The demon of the discover tab? Yes I am that dude www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

Trying to re-establish my gym habit. Today I saw me former trainer I haven’t seen in a while. He was working with somebody, so I just went by and fist-bumped him and said “Proof of life.” And he raises his eyebrows, smiles and says, “I’ll see you.” Basically this exchange was perfect, no notes.

if you are cashing a check from a billionaire to write lukewarm hogwash that trades on your self-identification as a socialist while meaningfully misrepresenting important issues around solidarity, dignity and workers’ rights, maybe ask yourself… why is a billionaire writing me a check for this?

literally just the villain of a Midsomer Murders episode

I have gotten a lot better at writing reproducible, modular code, and implementing stuff like error handling loops. Now one of these days I'll actually start using github...

love having to go scouring art shops for supplies instead of doing my actual job because this champion has realised on Friday afternoon that he has a project due on Monday morning and the universe wants to avenge my dad apparently

Love how Bluesky has deleted every share I had this week I think 🙃

Love being that age when you serve wrong once at tennis and suddenly you can't move your arm for 3 days

Season 2 is confirmed!!!!!

This is a good piece; it’s frustrating that my cited post resonates beyond the bubble of people who like my work & yet that resonance will not, cannot, move the tech people actively making things worse. Not one of them cares. Their vision of the future is “we make more money.”

Stop replying to the cinnabon lady should be free do do racism actually Atlantic guy, this is literally why he's doing it, all the engagement is just data he uses to go back to his rag and get another byline pushing more inflammatory garbage

This feels like a psy op because one of the big anti-union lies that companies use to discourage organizing is that any union would make it de facto impossible for them to fire employees who are documented to be racist or otherwise abusive

think it's great we're allowing Sam Altman to harm kids in exchange for millions of dollars everyday so that he doesnt have to get a real job

it's worth noting 1) that there's a longstanding tradition of trying to play solidarity against basic self-respect and 2) that the Combahee River Collective's coining of the term "identity politics" was directly in response to this

Carry him gently to my fairest chamber, And hang it round with all my wanton pictures. Balm his foul head in warm distilled waters, And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet.

A weird thing about seeing people speculate on the sexuality of the leads of Heated Rivalry is how Jacob Tierney noted there are *Canadian labor laws* that don't allow asking about this during hiring. I also remember what BD Wong said when I interviewed him in 2018 for GQ: www.gq.com/story/bd-won...

All this new grey fur is KILLING ME 😭

If you’re a labor leader, I also imagine you have enough problems without workers’ rights being equated to shielding people for yelling slurs in a prominent prestige publication.

We as a society must move beyond “here, smell this” content

an unexpected side effect of dealing with an international move is I don't have time or energy for hate-reads

On Nas's new album, he refers to himself as "Mr. Cryptocurrency Scarface" and this is yet another reason why we have to keep AI out of music, so that we can understand how authentically embarrassing some of our favorite artists have gotten.

Never mind all that. Did you know that Ben Wickey’s “More Weight” is a very good comic book?

"Kidnapping is my job do not interfere with my duties"

GLORIA SWANSON stars in "the Biggest Show of the Week!" A GOLDEN SHOWER

“This shit SUCKS. That is why I will spend all morning pointing my 300,000 followers towards it”

Never mind all that. Did you know that Ben Wickey’s “The Weight” is a very good comic book?

Yessssssssss I can't waitttt!!!!!!

I agree, she should have been chased down the street with tar and feathers

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Guys that Atlantic story is obvious, low tier bait. in the year of our lord 2025 we do not need to be taking the bait. Share some good reporting about worker justice instead

Need to finish the French game to see how this story won every award in gaming

Damn, Missouri Wiliams' The Vivisectors is great so far. Out in May.

ok but thats enough about his ague

days like this I wish I was a reviewer

Some of the lessons I have been reminded of from the success of Heated Rivalry as a creative person include: -care deeply about your craft -no detail is too small -work hard but also have fun -find people who understand your vision -it's important to make work filled with joy -swing for the fences

New blog! An update on the Battlestar Galactica book I'm writing, other links & updates on what I'm up to, plus a few thoughts on the occupation on New Caprica--er, I mean, Chicago. On finding the darkness & the light at Broadview & elsewhere during the ICE invasion www.moryan.com/a-battlestar...

Trying to cheer up a friend who got a rejection by pointing out more people have read her submission than Nuzzi's book

Anyone see where it is this morning? It might've moved. I think.

People who use slurs at work should absolutely be fired, what in the world

Dream Jungle is a group exhibition that unsettles colonial modes of capture thru installation, video, literature & archival assemblage. Curated by my love @villarrecords.bsky.social. Jan 29-May 2, 2026 at SF Arts Commission Gallery. Put it on your calendar. www.sfartscommission.org/experience-a...

“If the complexity makes measuring the water use of a given data center difficult and contingent, isolating the effects at the level of a single user or prompt is nearly impossible.”

no I think working class racists are beyond the pale because I don't actually judge people based on their bank account

torn between "will releasing the photos even be helpful because perpetrators are way more likely to be photographing their victims than themselves" and "these fucking people wrote emails asking each other in literal terms when they were meeting to do pedophilia"

“Those of us on the left”

Again a big part of socialization in the US and elsewhere is a bedrock belief that Black people making *any* demands on your time, attention, resources, behavior or principles is an unfair imposition and should be handled as such whenever possible.

It’s funny man because people are running around playing Black friend to get at me for people who’d “like to think” they’d just be the bigger person in the face of racism. Clown shit.

visiting a pharmacy in USA: Person with 2 degrees in pharmacology says I cannot give you medical advice on any of this visiting a pharmacy/chemist in India: the 24 year old son of the shop owner who dropped out after a year of accounts has Strong Opinions on why you don't need any of these meds

This is written with a child’s (lack of) understanding of workers rights, at-will employment, and human dignity. As someone who has argued forever against at-will employment and for workers’ right to dignity, it is dismaying but not surprising to see the worst version of an important argument here

😇 in case I failed to mention earlier, The Originalism Trap is filled with both my legal analysis and my lil jokes bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

“I’d like to think,” let me stop you right there.

The author of this sent a delivery of Crumbl cookies to the office yesterday, and I had 1/6 of the most benign-looking one and got so overstimulated that my nose immediately stuffed up. Gift link! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Avery fancy literary magazine posted these pictures from their holiday party where all these very young, lithe white women in overexposed shots are posing with the magazine’s logo in temporary tattoos on their cleavage and lower backs, and I’m so tired.

I'll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh,--

I know that people like to procrastinate about these sorts of things, but if you procrastinate any harder on this one you'll be postcrastinating!

In 2017 someone (I think it was Ta-Nehsi Coates) wrote a piece calling Trump America's first Confederate president and he's only been more correct every day since

this is literally happening because someone called Wu beat a failson named Kraft with 71% of the vote

The logical endpoint of class reductionism: solidarity demands that we support a racist “worker” and label anyone who takes offense at racial slurs as a decadent bourgeois.

“Why did arrest counts arrive clean and whole, while use-of-force data arrived fragmented and disordered, unfit for analysis? … police differentiate potentially embarrassing data on police actions from crime data …to support dominant narratives about policing” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'd be more into this if she talked about her party remembering it instead of history

I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me

For the record, these are not bad sales, they are beyond horrendous. A debut science fiction author with a social media following of 3 people would be expected to do way better than this. This is the literary equivalent of a quarterback getting the ball and immediately scoring against his own team

There's often a talking crow in first drafts of novels where a character is solitary. As if the person has to interact with *someone*. The crow always drops out once I realize, "Oh, there's this other person," but I think starting with the crow makes my subconscious come up with something else.

Here's today's birthday boy Edward G. Robinson with William Gaxton, Sophie Tucker, Robert Taylor, and Victor Moore at the Club Versailles in 1939. (Though if I'm reading the writing correctly, this was Sophie's birthday.)

documentedny.com/2025/12/12/l...

Happy Franksday.

I’m sure he will handle this with his typical chill

today's random theater photo: Norma Terris as Magnolia Hawks and Howard Marsh as Gaylord Ravenal in Show Boat (1927)

putting up missing flyers for the plot because it has been absolutely lost

Happy birthday to splendid Cathy Rigby!

Broken Windows but for cops

A colleague has been testing students on passages their students have to memorize, as in the older days of the college. Literally old school.

Worst use of special effects/CGI in cinema? 1. The Twilight Breaking Dawn CGI baby . . . n. Darkseid in DCEU

Well, sadly, that's Tallahassee for you right now. And then.

“This grotesque abuse of power, which has taken innocent lives, has been justified under the guise of fighting terrorism and drugs, merging two long-standing policies into one where wanton murder can be justified in the name of “protecting” people at home.”

[Sings.] “O’ the twelfth day of December”⁠—

MCU did Thanos better than the DCEU

If anyone can point out any point where I said this I’d appreciate it.

The internet is fast becoming so choked with this, it'll be unusable. We'll all be boats chugging blindly through the gloom and the muck, finding nothing, barely each other, uncertain what's true or even real anymore.

We were told ethnic studies, critical race theory, and the like was decimating the classics because people didn’t want to read old white men anymore, whole time y’all weren’t even reading the oh so precious old white men www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Also, it's #ArtAdventCalendar Day 12 -- photo by, duh, me

I should note here that Immigration Judges are actually executive branch employees, and Trump has been actively getting rid of the ones he fears are interested in, y'know, judging, as opposed to facilitating shit like this ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The more I have looked at the artist’s other work, the more I have become convinced that this is probably awkward and fake-looking on purpose.

BAD GROUPS (are the ones winning)

There is no genuine scholarly or historical debate about the birthright citizenship clause. What there is is disingenuous or outright fabricated bullshit by opportunists willing to aid a racist project for the sake of professional expedience.

Every now and again, I think about the fact the last team to beat the Thunder in a playoff series was the Luka Doncic-led Mavs, and we’ll never get to run it back.

My review of this very ludicrous apple, the Ludacrisp. (Also yes, Virginia, there IS a "Honeycrisp 2" coming, wtf.)

Every time I see this, some part of me thinks “good thing that AI is swiftly lowering the bar.”

Truly leave that man alone!

Tyler Perry may not be my cup of tea, but I’m not going to judge if he’s yours. Just let me do what I’d like with my tea cup.