“To paraphrase a great: The arc of racism is boring, and it bends toward repetition.”

Do read this excellent Code Switch response to that very unserious opinion piece from earlier this week about “how NPR lost America’s trust”:

view.nl.npr.org?qs=c1cd83147...

If you were visited by 3 ghosts on Christmas Eve, who would you want them to be?

oh christ look at the time

*pets him very carefully*

Things fall apart
The center can't (HOLD)
Mere anarchy
Is about to un(FOLD)
Up to my eyeballs
In the blood-dimmed (TIDE)
My falcon is missing
'Cause my gyre got (WIDE)
The hour's come round
So make some (NOISE)
For the Bethlehem birth
Of the BEA! STIE! BOYS!

Lots of people know that prehistoric sea turtles got big, but it can be easy to underestimate just how huge these things got. The largest verified specimen of a modern Leatherback turtle weighed in at 1,433 lbs, but this Archelon would have been closer to 11,300 lbs. #scicomm #paleosky #paleontology

couldn’t be more obsessed with the wikipedia page for the inventor of the saxophone

It is the 12th anniversary of the Sudden Departure. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.

[sitting bolt upright in bed at 1am] most of the ways the coyote tries to kill the roadrunner would, if successful, render it totally inedible

Nestling