Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴

My daughter when small used to call me her “Gatorade sweetheart” because it was the sweetest thing she could think of.

Please go

computer going to take my job? no. i’ll pour water on it

Kermit is very close to unionizing these rats

Dickens using Rizzo as a bellows is a deeply underrated gag

Michael Caine plays Scrooge 100% straight, as if he’s on stage at the Old Vic.
You get not one but two Marleys.
Original songs.
Gonzo as Dickens.
Rizzo the rat with an iconic line: “Light the lamp, not the rat!”

No one talks about how the beginning of a Muppet Christmas Carol features the kidnapping and trafficking of a wagonload full of sentient melons

EXCUSE ME?
Drop everything. Fix this today.

Some personal news

Weird ingredient but ok

a man with long hair and glasses is sitting in the back seat of a car and says `` live in the now '' . ALT: a man with long hair and glasses is sitting in the back seat of a car and says `` live in the now '' .

I stg if I see one more of you talk about someone “ratioing” someone on Twitter as if that means literally anything in the actual world, I’m going to just lose it. It’s 2025, my babies. Twitter is the Mos Eisley Cantina if it were set in 1946 Argentina. It doesn’t mean what you think it means.

Tell the authors in your life to check here to see if they are impacted.
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/?_gl=...

Court settlement with Anthropic AI for stealing my book (which took 4 yrs to research/write) + hundreds of thousands of others is done, at $1.5bn.
Works out to about $3k per book impacted, to be split among author(s) and publisher.
Not a lot of money per author, but I hope that dollar figure hurts.

Thanks for doing this. The history and through lines are important.
I also remain obsessed with how neatly this panic maps over the Anita Bryant playbook.

Where Did Anti-Trans Laws Start? How a Forgotten Houston Ordinance Turned Into a Massive, Nationwide Culture War In fighting for bathroom bills in Houston, Texas conservatives provided a blueprint for the rest of the country.

“Forgotten” lol I was literally talking about HERO yesterday
(This is not a dig on this outlet or piece at all; you should read it)
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...

and that country is YOUR MUTHA

Craig Newmark
Funds a journalism school, founding board of @19thnews.org, big supporter of veterans, cybersecurity efforts.
Refused to milk every last penny out of Craigslist so it could stay a community.

One Dose of HPV Vaccine Just as Effective as Two, Trial Finds Results support WHO recommendation for single-dose vaccination to achieve higher coverage

One shot to liberate your daughters from cervical cancers, and your sons from a bunch of other cancers. It's amazing
www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyon...

They are ok.
They also do not wear coats almost at all, despite their parents yelling YOU LIVE IN MINNESOTA at them.
Socks and Birkenstocks in a snowstorm also seen among my progeny.

A thing I love about raising my kids in Minnesota.

Almost 60% of the Somalis in MN are U.S.-born. 87% of foreign-born Somalis are naturalized U.S. citizens.
No one deserves extrajudicial treatment in our streets, but it bears noting that if ICE does here what we see them doing in other communities, they'll be doing a lot of it to American citizens.

real irony here in this crowd including 3 people with Italian last names, 2 people with Hispanic last names, and a guy with an Irish triple name laughing the hardest

RUFFLE HIS HAIR, JIMMY

this is the funniest sentence I have read in a while

does anyone else notice the giant lady doesnt cut up your hot dogs anymore!?

so we are just letting this terror happen in our communities?
no elected folks have decided that this is enough -- not just with a stupid tweet but with consistent, concerted, unrelenting messaging to the American people, and using every level of power and influence at their disposal?

Also it is really weird to shoehorn these two things into the same category.

It is super interesting. Some pregnancies do cause disabilities, but a blanket offer to all pregnant people would put a lot of strain on already too-few spots.

Also know you‘ll find it interesting that the model bill org is explicitly pro-natalist!