The “neck isolation” dance move. I had to watch the video to find out myself.

Here’s my whole Christmas playlist on spotify. Some folk, some oldies, some covers, some weird stuff, some new stuff. It’s been both expanded and winnowed every Advent for the last five years.

I can make a more Demento-like list, too, but these are ones I genuinely just like.

No, because I don’t go on any video platforms.

My top ten:

1. 100 gecs — “Sympathy for the Grinch”

2. Andrea Perry — “Fat Aunt Bette”

3. The Primatives — “You Trashed My Christmas”

4. The Barbary Coasters — “I’ve Been Naughty (and Nice)”

5. Fountains of Wayne — “The Man in the Santa Suit”

6. The Killers — “Cowboys’ Christmas Ball” (cover)

7. The Kinks — “Father Christmas”

8. Thomas Heinl — “Christmas Tree on Fire”

9. Emmy the Great — “Christmas Day (and I Wish I Was Surfing)”

10. The Reverend Horton Heat — “Santa Bring My Baby Back”

I’ll try to loop back through and add non-spotify links as I can.

My top ten:

1. 100 gecs — “Sympathy for the Grinch”

2. Andrea Perry — “Fat Aunt Bette”

3. The Primatives — “You Trashed My Christmas”

4. The Barbary Coasters — “I’ve Been Naughty (and Nice)”

5. Fountains of Wayne — “The Man in the Santa Suit”

6. The Killers — “Cowboys’ Christmas Ball” (cover)

7. The Kinks — “Father Christmas”

8. Thomas Heinl — “Christmas Tree on Fire”

9. Emmy the Great — “Christmas Day (and I Wish I Was Surfing)”

10. The Reverend Horton Heat — “Santa Bring My Baby Back”

I’ll try to loop back through and add non-spotify links as I can.

Politically correct answer: Neither, they’re inanimate, and gender is a social construct.

The early US was culturally and linguistically fairly heterogenous. That’s why they chose a federation instead of a unary government, and even that wasn’t the first choice, they tried a much looser confederation (not dissimilar to the EU) but it didn’t work well enough.

Consider yourself proven wrong.

Tetris, the original GameBoy cart.

That’s a problem you should fix.

that’s rude

Culture’s enough.

Obligation isn’t a useful reference point here. Any party interested in communicating must make the effort to both understand and be understood.

two big reasons:

• we don’t have replacement energy sources at scale (this is of course party caused by inflated demand eg. data centers, always-on electronics)

• energy production is heavily subsidized in that so-called external costs are paid by the public instead of the companies

Until we can both reduce demand and increase supply, while also making corporations pay the cost of the pollution they produce, we’re stuck with this shit.

Historically, no one has ever needed a reason to start a genocide.

Scratch, teach them Scratch. It runs in a browser, it’s designed as a teaching language, teach them Scratch.

Daley Plaza, same place we assemble for everything else.

Don’t make them compete for your respect and affection.

nah, fuck him, he still owes me five bucks

Life imitates art.