Brian PJ Cronin

He may just be thinking of "winter" BUT sometimes yes it does get colder because of global warming! Warmer than usual air messes with the jet stream, causing the polar vortex to spill cold arctic air out across parts of the globe.

highlandscurrent.org/2025/11/28/w...

Racism, unlike AI, is a bubble that never pops.

(And, as the OP points out, I shouldn’t have had to accidentally discover this on my own! A doctor and/or pharmacist should have told me!)

Pro tip I accidentally discovered: Get the shots late morning and clear your schedule for the evening.

When you start to feel like a truck is barreling into your face in slow motion, around 9pm or so, go to bed.

Did this with both Shingles shots and it was fine. Don’t skip the vax!

One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

When I first saw the photos Annie took during the inversion, I immediately thought of historical photos from pre-EPA days.

But these were taken in 2025. The Trump EPA has halted rules meant to reduce pollution in this community and others. Here's what we found:

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

“Baseball” you say? Hmmm I don’t believe I’m familiar with such a thing.

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Opinion | Looks Like the Supreme Court Will Continue to Overturn the 20th Century

I don’t write the headlines but I do like this one (post-Slaughter argument roundtable for @nytimes.com with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social)

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

Tuesday's Headlines: Clearing the Air Edition - Streetsblog New York City We've been clear that congestion pricing is working. Turns out, congestion pricing was, too! Plus other news.

The first six months of congestion pricing reduced air pollution in the toll zone, the five boroughs and surrounding suburbs by 22 percent. buff.ly/SyWoccJ

Is it "better" that they buy Warner Brothers are opposed to the Trump administration, essentially? Sure. But you want me to "root" for Netflix? A multi-billion dollar company that now shows me ads? Should I wave a little pennant? Should we have a pep rally? Should we invite the Tiger King?

Look, I'm still mad Jawbreaker signed to a major label, I am absolutely not going to root for Netflix to do anything

Not watching the football game, but what I can gather from my timeline is that every single team that has ever existed is losing

(AP) — A federal judge has struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.

The best time to quit Spotify was several years ago, but the second best time is today.

Apparently making pizza out of glue and the word strawberry having 32 Rs is more realistic than our current administration.

The harm isn't just from the gross disinformation itself, but also resulting erosion of trust in federal science and guidance.

Rebuilding the latter will take far longer than correcting the former.

Tweet from Homeland Security with ICE agents wearing Christmas gear. The caption says "YOU'RE GOING HO HO HOME."

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.

Sea Cave Breathing I, by Julia Edith Rigby 23 track album

(Not kidding about the sea caves btw)

juliaedithrigby.bandcamp.com/album/sea-ca...

I know there is no ethical consumption under capitalism but I'm feeling a deep desire to just drop out of popular culture altogether. Movies, TV, major label music . . . .I only want to read academic press books and listen to recordings inside sea caves from now on.

Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.

Also do they realize that obsessively tweeting out memes aimed at children is probably not the best look for an administration that has been accused of being creepily obsessed with children in various ways

"AND THE AWARD FOR MOST ETHICAL ACT BY A POLITICIAN IN DECEMBER 2025 GOES TO..."

*pauses, squints at card, looks at judges helplessly*

"Really? Huh. Ok!"

This is New York, friends.

Local news outlet @highlandscurrent.bsky.social covering cancelled ceremonies in Dutchess and Putnam counties in NY.

bsky.app/profile/medi...

Also leave Paul Dano alone you sweaty freak

All I know about Lillard vs. Tarantino is that one of those dudes is so awesome that David Lynch put him in TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN and it sure as hell wasn’t Quentin Tarantino.

Ok, so, caroling? You just barge into someone's personal space and yell? But in a way you think is clever and artful? And then you demand recognition and acknowledgment? And if you don't get it you keep yelling?

Posting goes back a long way.

“The baby, like the Director of Health and Human Services, does not understand germ theory” is a true thing I just said to my wife.