The crazy thing about firing all of these federal employees is that they tend to be underpaid, super hardworking, in it for the right reasons, idealistic people who could’ve worked in industry or pharma and made way more money but they truly believed in the mission and the good they were doing.

23andMe declared bankruptcy and the company is gonna be sold off for parts. That includes your DNA information and the only amount of control you have is to delete your info immediately. It’s very simple to do.

Gift link: wapo.st/4kUsBEF

May you live in uninteresting times. Like, the most super boring, mundane, watching beige-colored paint drying, mind-numbingly average times. Times that imprint no memory, leave no trace. Skull-fuckingly drab and stale, like watching curling. I want the curling of times.

Thoughts and prayers tonight for the parked cars, trees, and street level fixtures of downtown Philadelphia.

My grandmother’s handwriting (she was Norwegian) and this is the old family recipe for meatballs from the old country. My mom is 99, and remembers her making them as a little girl from this recipe. 🍜🍽️

When my kid was 8 he announced that Santa isn’t real because “if Santa was real, poor kids would get more presents than rich kids.”

new version of A Christmas Carol where health insurance CEOs get haunted by the ghosts of everyone whose coverage they denied in the past, everyone’s coverage they are currently denying, and the future ghosts of everyone they will deny unless they change their ways before Christmas Day