Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue tonight was 🔥. Earlier today at the U.N., Donald Trump was a childish, ignorant, narcissistic dumpster fire.

"oppugn" and "oppugning": cool words (which I missed, duh) from yesterday's Spelling Bee.

Readers of Dreyer’s English will be delighted to note that 20 across in the Sunday NYT Crossword was clued properly.

Well, modern medicine was nice while it lasted. The basic anti-intellectualism and anti-science of the right is about to kill a lot of people.

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

Common bluebottle (Graphium sarpedon) outside of the high speed rail station in Hsinchu, Taiwan

There's a fascinating initiative on Long Island to (re)introduce hundreds of bobwhites to help fight an explosion in the tick population 🪶

“With fear for our democracy, I dissent”

Thoroughly enjoying my Christmas gift from my wife, which I sorely need: "Dreyer's English". Signed, a serial over-user of all of the words mentioned in on the first page of the first chapter. @bcdreyer.bsky.social

Hoping to hear some interesting pronunciations of "a certiorari" on today's news shows..

The CDC seems to say that it is ok to go out masked five days after the initial positive test and unmasked after 10 days even if still positive. Really? (Assuming no fever and only mild to moderate cold symptoms).

"Individuals 5 years of age and older regardless of previous vaccination are eligible to receive a single dose of an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine at least 2 months since the last dose of any COVID-19 vaccine."

Good news!

Hello Bluesky, testing!