Busloads of migrants dropped off at vice president’s DC home on Christmas Eve

The Bible literally says not to do shit like this. Matthew 25:31 and following.

Feline Navidad!

Building a keyboard with a rotary dial instead of a number pad.

In rural Georgia, an unlikely rebel against Trumpism. By Stephanie McCrummen at the Washington Post.

Johnson, a 33-year-old white electrician with no college degree from rural Georgia, rejects hate.

I can’t decide whether I think this is a great profile, or whether it’s patronizing and elitist.

Fleece knobby dog, friends!

We watched the first episode of the first season of “Yellowstone.” We liked it. It’s like “Succession.”

There should be a Yellowstone/Succession crossover.

And it should have Doctor Who, too. Because everything is better with the Doctor.

I migrated my mastodon account to micro.blog but decided I don’t like micro.blog as a mastodon client because micro.blog doesn’t show boosts and I like seeing boosts. So I figured fine I’ll just use my mastodon account to read, and continue posting to micro.blog. But then I found that when you migrate a mastodon account the old account is disabled. So I re-enabled it and now I’ll just go back to what I was doing before and syndicate my micro.blog posts to mastodon.

Except now all my old mastodon followers are following me on micro.blog, which is what I wanted but maybe not what they want? But what’s done is done.

For my next trick, I will saw a person in half. Can I get a volunteer from the audience?

I’m going to use “Bomb Cyclone” as my porn star name.

While walking, the dog and I saw this tree. This is Christmas in a subtropical, semi-arid area.

From my journal, this day in 2013:

We still haven’t seen the two female cats we had that since we uncrated them yesterday, other than Julie seeing the shadow of ears when she looked under the bed. But during the night I heard meowing and felt little feet walking on me in bed. I assume that was the cats;Julie has never gone in for that kind of thing before.

We still have the cats. They are fully visible now.

I just migrated my mastodon.social account to micro.blog—which had the side effect of deactivating my mastodon.social account. I’m not sure I like that.

All of this is experimentation. The fediverse is in early days. We’re still figuring it out, collectively and individually.

McSweeney’s: A Parent’s Typical Day, as Envisioned by My Child’s Preschool

A 28-year-old Meta employee paid $300,000 for a 12-year-lease on a studio apartment on a cruise ship. Austin Wells will work from home while traveling the world.

I don’t think I am the target audience for Andor. Unless you’re supposed to fall asleep halfway through the fourth episode and then your wife wakes you up to let you know the credits are on and it’s time to turn off the TV. If that’s what Andor was going for, they nailed it.

A house down the street has a Santa hologram in the living room window, which I’ve never seen anywhere before. Either that or a creepy guy in a very realistic Santa costume.

We took one of the cats to the vet today.

“There is some kind of a creative power there, to have an unusual name.”

Johnny Cash did a song about that

The best headlines of 2022

Included:

‘How to Murder Your Husband’ writer guilty of murdering her husband

h/t kottke

What Happens When a Group of 12-Year-Olds Is Left with No Supervision for Five Days?

Jason Kottke: “After a brief attempt at cleaning, the boys completely trash their house, eat mostly sugar, divide into factions, and somehow trash the house even more.”

Who are the most influential and important people in history?

Jesus, Mohammed, the Buddha, Genghis Khan, Augustus Caesar, and Napoleon are 1-6, in that order.

Who else is in the top 12?