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Hope your best day in 2025 is your worst day in 2026.
December 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Hope your best day in 2025 is your worst day in 2026.
"Read between the lines, and then you see the lie"
December 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"Read between the lines, and then you see the lie"
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Thirty years ago today. The most beautiful, hopeful farewell.
December 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Thirty years ago today. The most beautiful, hopeful farewell.
Favorite five books I read in 2025:
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad
Bad Company, Megan Greenwell
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones
The Last American Road Trip, Sarah Kendzior
The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman, Niko Stratis
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad
Bad Company, Megan Greenwell
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones
The Last American Road Trip, Sarah Kendzior
The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman, Niko Stratis
December 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Favorite five books I read in 2025:
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad
Bad Company, Megan Greenwell
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones
The Last American Road Trip, Sarah Kendzior
The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman, Niko Stratis
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad
Bad Company, Megan Greenwell
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones
The Last American Road Trip, Sarah Kendzior
The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman, Niko Stratis
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I've waited 3 years to make this post
December 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I've waited 3 years to make this post
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AmericaFest is Decadent and Depraved - New coverage on the ground - unicornriot.ninja/2025/america...
AmericaFest is Decadent and Depraved - UNICORN RIOT
I descended the escalator into the bowels of the Phoenix Convention Center and was thrown into a writhing sea of red and white hats and shirts. Several media outlets compete with each other to be the ...
unicornriot.ninja
December 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
AmericaFest is Decadent and Depraved - New coverage on the ground - unicornriot.ninja/2025/america...
They've spent their entire lives steeping in right-wing media and social media, which has drained their empathy, critical thinking, and capacity for sincerity and good faith, if they ever had any of those things to begin with.
This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books.
Why are these people such freaks?
Why are these people such freaks?
December 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
They've spent their entire lives steeping in right-wing media and social media, which has drained their empathy, critical thinking, and capacity for sincerity and good faith, if they ever had any of those things to begin with.
Roger Ebert has not one, not two, but three book-length compilations of scathing reviews. Legend.
December 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Roger Ebert has not one, not two, but three book-length compilations of scathing reviews. Legend.
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if you venture deep enough into the Parkway Central Library in Philadelphia, you can meet what’s left of Charles Dickens’ pet raven, Grip
December 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
if you venture deep enough into the Parkway Central Library in Philadelphia, you can meet what’s left of Charles Dickens’ pet raven, Grip
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O to be a little bird flying through the water with my friends
🐧🧊 Incredible underwater footage of penguin life, shot from the first person of one of them.
🇺🇦 This beauty was captured thanks to Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Station in Antarctica, who put a GPS tracker and a tiny camera on the bird.
🇺🇦 This beauty was captured thanks to Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Station in Antarctica, who put a GPS tracker and a tiny camera on the bird.
December 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
O to be a little bird flying through the water with my friends
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The Internet Archive has a playable version of the NY Times Crossword Puzzle app from 1992. It ran on Windows 3.1 and included a few hundred puzzles. (Click on Game/Open to select a puzzle.) [archive.org]
The New York Times Crossword Puzzles (1992) : SWFTE International, Ltd.
The New York TimesCrossword Puzzles
archive.org
December 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The Internet Archive has a playable version of the NY Times Crossword Puzzle app from 1992. It ran on Windows 3.1 and included a few hundred puzzles. (Click on Game/Open to select a puzzle.) [archive.org]
“When you have a group of kids,” she said, “you pick the one that is the most well behaved, that always does everything right, and you beat the living shit out of them. Because then the rest of them are like: ‘Oh, man, holy shit. If Dad does that to her, what would he do to me?’”
Sorry but you do not, under absolutely any circumstances, gotta hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
‘I Was Just So Naïve’: Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
“When you have a group of kids,” she said, “you pick the one that is the most well behaved, that always does everything right, and you beat the living shit out of them. Because then the rest of them are like: ‘Oh, man, holy shit. If Dad does that to her, what would he do to me?’”
This is the beginning of a story about a plucky librarian who spends their days teaching privileged teenagers about information literacy and digital inequality, their weekends navigating the world of Manhattan real estate, and their nights looking for previously-unknown Epstein files.
ATTN Librarian job seekers:
The Dalton School is seeking a High School Librarian, Grades 9-12.
The Dalton School is seeking a High School Librarian, Grades 9-12.
December 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This is the beginning of a story about a plucky librarian who spends their days teaching privileged teenagers about information literacy and digital inequality, their weekends navigating the world of Manhattan real estate, and their nights looking for previously-unknown Epstein files.
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Dive into today’s Exhibit of the Day: the Museum’s Sperm Whale & Giant Squid Diorama! The winner of this encounter? Likely the sperm whale. Scientists have discovered parts of squid inside sperm whales’ stomachs & scar marks on whales that match the suckers of a giant squid.
December 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Dive into today’s Exhibit of the Day: the Museum’s Sperm Whale & Giant Squid Diorama! The winner of this encounter? Likely the sperm whale. Scientists have discovered parts of squid inside sperm whales’ stomachs & scar marks on whales that match the suckers of a giant squid.
Harris also won every county in Hawaii.
There’s a reason the political right wants to keep people dumb.
December 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Harris also won every county in Hawaii.
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December 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"This is 1993. In quite possibly the greatest example of corporate shortsightedness, Sears shut down it's mail-order business in a cost cutting measure. It spins off Allstate that same year, and soon dumps Dean Witter and Coldwell Banker."
December 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"This is 1993. In quite possibly the greatest example of corporate shortsightedness, Sears shut down it's mail-order business in a cost cutting measure. It spins off Allstate that same year, and soon dumps Dean Witter and Coldwell Banker."
“A Christmas song for people who are lonely at Christmas! We need a song like that.” - Joni Mitchell
December 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
“A Christmas song for people who are lonely at Christmas! We need a song like that.” - Joni Mitchell
Here's an oldie but a goodie:
Is there a Santa Claus?
www.straightdope.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Here's an oldie but a goodie:
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Librarians find themselves on the frontlines of a national battle. Across the US, they face the impact of uniting against library collection standards that include restrictions on race-related & LGBTQIA+ content. The Librarians explores the implications for education and public life, Feb. 9 on PBS.
Independent Lens | The Librarians | Trailer | Season 27 | Episode 6
Librarians across the U.S. examine how the review of library materials is impacting communities.
www.pbs.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Librarians find themselves on the frontlines of a national battle. Across the US, they face the impact of uniting against library collection standards that include restrictions on race-related & LGBTQIA+ content. The Librarians explores the implications for education and public life, Feb. 9 on PBS.
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
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December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
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In honor of MLK Day and Black History Month, DC Public Library presents Freedom and Resistance—an exhibition inspired by The 1619 Project, created with The New York Times Magazine, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and The Pulitzer Center. https://bit.ly/44xUfkm
December 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
In honor of MLK Day and Black History Month, DC Public Library presents Freedom and Resistance—an exhibition inspired by The 1619 Project, created with The New York Times Magazine, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and The Pulitzer Center. https://bit.ly/44xUfkm
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How to identify #AI narrated books on Libby app #libraries
How to avoid AI audiobooks on Libby
Doing just a little digging keeps AI voices out of your books.
mashable.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
How to identify #AI narrated books on Libby app #libraries
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“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”
Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
Renowned sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom says that AI is a tool for the rich to cement control over society.
futurism.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”