Jim Henson's Folklore Baby

(sea monster bio)

You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic

me when a cowboy makes a spurious claim

Whenever a game goes to overtime or something the announcers are always like "you could not script this!!"

Sorry, but yes I could. I have the capacity to write down on a page "it went to overtime." Get on my level at scripting.

Netflix is apparently dropping alt-right slang on its app now.

a man in a clown costume is standing in front of a door ALT: a man in a clown costume is standing in front of a door

What I'm wearing to the Bluesky Valentine's Day Ball. How about you?

A vibrant, wide-angle photo of a colorful outdoor mural promoting the "Super Bowl LX Apple Music Halftime Show." The mural is painted on a long blue wall in a sunlit, tropical setting with real palm trees and bright pink bougainvillea flowers cascading over the top. The artwork features a playful, surreal collage of cultural and football-themed elements: Central Text: The Apple Music logo in bold yellow and red 3D lettering is flanked by "SUPER BOWL LX" above and "HALFTIME SHOW" below. Iconic Imagery: Large illustrations of a golden trumpet, pink sunglasses, maracas, dominoes, and a cup of coffee with a musical note in the foam. Football Elements: Brown footballs are depicted growing on palm trees like coconuts and resting on the ground. Foreground: A young girl in a yellow dress walks along the sidewalk in front of the mural, passing a small goalpost illustration where a green parrot is perched. The overall aesthetic is warm, festive, and celebrates a fusion of Latin-inspired culture and American football.

I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.

The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.

Follow along!

I am immensely sorry to hear this. All my sympathies to both A.C. and you.

I only visited Epstein Island for the articles, interviews, and short fiction.

It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.

Screenshot of the video for Anything Can Happen on Halloween starring Tim Curry, but I've photoshopped it to say Anything Can Happen on Groundhog Day. I added a top hat on Tim Curry, plus a big groundhog in the foreground, a VHS tape of Groundhog day floating in the sky to the left, the clock radio from the movie floating to the right with some music notes around it, and a black and white photo of Sonny and Cher in the background.

That makes me so sad (your nephew, not your comics). I teach kids ranging in age from nine to fourteen, the Golden Age of Santa skepticism, and I *always* aver my belief in Santa Claus, defending it against all comers. I figure there are at least a few children hanging on, and I'm in solidarity.

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

Idly wondering if anyone in the current administration would pass the Voight-Kampff test.

It's an Ape my Lord in a flatbed Ford,
Slowin' down to take a look at me.

How Lawrence & Crosby never made a road movie together, I'll never know.

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

Fuck yeah congresswoman

I am legitimately bummed that this is being advertised aggressively on NYC's shifting screens rather than more vandalizable static formats.

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
Perché avevo poca salute e una bassa potenza d'attacco.

Another murder by immigration enforcement in my district.

I am absolutely horrified that federal agents are targeting and executing our residents instead of protecting them.

ICE and CBP must leave Minnesota immediately. Kristi Noem must be impeached. Enough.

Use code WWIII and receive a $500 bonus when you bet on the fate of Greenland with DraftKings

Just because a lot of people are cruel, bigoted, and brainwashed doesn’t mean we have to find a “middle ground” with them or a “compromise” that satisfies some of their racist delusions. We just don’t.

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

friendly reminder

The things you believed were right yesterday are still right. They'll be right if they put you in jail. They'll be right if they shoot you. They'll still be right when these people are dead and dusted and gone.

which they will be

“But what do you expect Democrats to doo-hooo?”

1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore.

2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions.

3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day.

All Flesh Must Be Sweetened.