mz
@zwirnm.bsky.social
Just trying to get a hang of this thing. Same handle on the other site.
The only good thing about this execrable song is that meme that depicts the children enacting some sort of witchcraft in the verses before they’re interrupted and have to belt out the chorus that they’re “simply having a wonderful Christmastime.”
When NPR reaches out and says, “Hey, do you want to talk about Paul McCartney’s ‘Wonderful Christmastime’?” you of course say yes. www.npr.org/2025/12/01/n...
Is Paul McCartney's 'Wonderful Christmastime' simply… horrible?
In the decades since its release, "Wonderful Christmastime" has become a seasonal staple beloved by some but loathed by others.
www.npr.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The only good thing about this execrable song is that meme that depicts the children enacting some sort of witchcraft in the verses before they’re interrupted and have to belt out the chorus that they’re “simply having a wonderful Christmastime.”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
An unfathomable and illegal action by the Defense Secretary to personally order the killing of survivors clinging to a sunken ship.
An unfathomable and illegal action by the Defense Secretary to personally order the killing of survivors clinging to a sunken ship.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
An unfathomable and illegal action by the Defense Secretary to personally order the killing of survivors clinging to a sunken ship.
An unfathomable and illegal action by the Defense Secretary to personally order the killing of survivors clinging to a sunken ship.
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Industrial design goals: get promoted in a video shared by the Consumer Product Safety Council
Black Friday reminder - that product with a great price being sold by a company with a name that's just a bunch of random letters may end up on our website someday because it explodes.
November 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Industrial design goals: get promoted in a video shared by the Consumer Product Safety Council
Mirah
R.E.M.
They Might Be Giants
Pernice Brothers
Loud Family
R.E.M.
They Might Be Giants
Pernice Brothers
Loud Family
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen multiple times:
Game Theory
The Gits
They Might Be Giants
Fishbone
Origami Angel
Game Theory
The Gits
They Might Be Giants
Fishbone
Origami Angel
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen multiple times:
The Beths
Ratboys
Bad Moves
Weakened Friends
Letters To Cleo
The Beths
Ratboys
Bad Moves
Weakened Friends
Letters To Cleo
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Mirah
R.E.M.
They Might Be Giants
Pernice Brothers
Loud Family
R.E.M.
They Might Be Giants
Pernice Brothers
Loud Family
Canada, man.
My favorite show as a child was TV Ontario’s READ ALL ABOUT IT, about three kids who decide to start a local newspaper…and discover two sentient computers…and a portal to another dimension…ruled by a floating evil green head…whose alternate identity was the town’s mayor.
We watched in class, btw.
We watched in class, btw.
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Canada, man.
Sign up everyone.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Sign up everyone.
This is why economists shouldn’t be entrusted with children.
Just got to the airport with the kids and was pleasantly surprised to have gotten one kiddo upgrade. Problem: I have two kids.
So I'm holding an auction and they're each bidding on how many times they will unload the dishwasher over Thanksgiving. Highest bid gets the upgrade.
So I'm holding an auction and they're each bidding on how many times they will unload the dishwasher over Thanksgiving. Highest bid gets the upgrade.
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is why economists shouldn’t be entrusted with children.
A truly credible possibility
What if it was ChatGPT’s peace proposal?
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
A truly credible possibility
The agency receiving untold billions of dollars to do lots more of this
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | ‘The System Is Meant to Break You’: What ICE Is Doing to People Here Legally
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The agency receiving untold billions of dollars to do lots more of this
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Love the Free DC chants at the NWSL championship.
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Love the Free DC chants at the NWSL championship.
nailed it.
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
nailed it.
find/replace for all protest signs that misspell fascism as "facism".
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
find/replace for all protest signs that misspell fascism as "facism".
amazing to see white America get a clue
Generic Ballot Polling Among White Voters:
🔵 Democrats: 50%
🔴 Republicans: 46%
Marist / Nov 13, 2025
🔵 Democrats: 50%
🔴 Republicans: 46%
Marist / Nov 13, 2025
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
amazing to see white America get a clue
Reposted by mz
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
This is great stuff by @timcarman.bsky.social; I saw Chris Whitley a number of times in concert, in DC, Boston, and Portland. The last show I saw, he did "Pancho and Lefty" and Dave Pirner from Soul Asylum in the audience joined in. A truly legendary songwriter and player.
My colleague @timcarman.bsky.social has a beautiful essay on the music of Chris Whitley, who died 20 years ago www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | 20 years after Chris Whitley died, I can’t shake his earthy, gutting songs
After a brief flirtation with the mainstream, Houston’s Chris Whitley carved one of rock’s more fascinating paths. It’s time to rediscover him.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is great stuff by @timcarman.bsky.social; I saw Chris Whitley a number of times in concert, in DC, Boston, and Portland. The last show I saw, he did "Pancho and Lefty" and Dave Pirner from Soul Asylum in the audience joined in. A truly legendary songwriter and player.
Relevant to my interests (i.e. nuclear proliferation and new music:
The Bulletin welcomes Kronos Quartet as its inaugural Artist-in-Residence
thebulletin.org/2025/11/the-...
The Bulletin welcomes Kronos Quartet as its inaugural Artist-in-Residence
thebulletin.org/2025/11/the-...
The Bulletin welcomes Kronos Quartet as its inaugural Artist-in-Residence
The Kronos Quartet, which has challenged and reimagined what a string quartet can be for over 50 years, will be the first ever Doomsday Clock Artist-in-Resident at the Bulletin.
thebulletin.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Relevant to my interests (i.e. nuclear proliferation and new music:
The Bulletin welcomes Kronos Quartet as its inaugural Artist-in-Residence
thebulletin.org/2025/11/the-...
The Bulletin welcomes Kronos Quartet as its inaugural Artist-in-Residence
thebulletin.org/2025/11/the-...
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers to join Harvard Institute of Politics
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers to join Harvard Institute of Politics
I think we need a definition of “give away.”
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls
Elon Musk Gave Away $474 Million in 2024, Mostly to Entities He Controls
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls.
bloom.bg
November 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I think we need a definition of “give away.”
Reposted by mz
Donald Trump could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Donald Trump could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
Fishes, heads, rot, etc.
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Fishes, heads, rot, etc.
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