Brian Halligan
@halligan.bsky.social
Writer and city guy learning about astrobiology, Gaelige, and health when I’m not doomscrolling. Upstate by my definition. He/him. #roc #speirghorm
Dick Van Dyke turns 100 and I guarantee somewhere Betty White is swearing.
December 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Dick Van Dyke turns 100 and I guarantee somewhere Betty White is swearing.
I declined a game involving lots of math, saying “I’m not good at math,” but I realized that’s not true. I took AP Calculus then up through Calc 3 in college. It just never came intuitively and by the end I was completely burned out on it. Now, doing fast calculations in my head gives me anxiety.
December 13, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I declined a game involving lots of math, saying “I’m not good at math,” but I realized that’s not true. I took AP Calculus then up through Calc 3 in college. It just never came intuitively and by the end I was completely burned out on it. Now, doing fast calculations in my head gives me anxiety.
Marvel Comics
WHAT IF…
Tampa Bay’s old creamsicle uniforms were historically accurate?
WHAT IF…
Tampa Bay’s old creamsicle uniforms were historically accurate?
December 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Marvel Comics
WHAT IF…
Tampa Bay’s old creamsicle uniforms were historically accurate?
WHAT IF…
Tampa Bay’s old creamsicle uniforms were historically accurate?
Ocean’s 11 V: Ocean’s 2
“When it comes to putting together a crew with the skills needed for a bank job or a jewel heist, a majority of Americans reported knowing just one or two guys, tops,” said lead researcher Jane Iannitello
Study Finds 80% Of Americans Lack Social Connections To Pull Off Heist
NEW HAVEN, CT—Shedding new light on a previously undocumented effect of loneliness, a team of psychologists at Yale University found that at least 80% of Americans lack the social connections necessar...
theonion.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Ocean’s 11 V: Ocean’s 2
This always blows my mind. NASA & ESA soft landed on a moon of *Saturn*—an average of 750m miles away—where the atmosphere is so opaque in visible light radar was used to uncover the topography. Can’t wait for Dragonfly mission to explore its methane/ethane lakes!
#PPOD: After a seven-year journey on board the Cassini spacecraft, ESA’s Huygens probe reached Titan’s surface, marking the most distant landing ever achieved by a spacecraft. During the descent, its cameras collected data on the dense atmosphere and took the first-ever images of the surface. 🧪 🔭
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This always blows my mind. NASA & ESA soft landed on a moon of *Saturn*—an average of 750m miles away—where the atmosphere is so opaque in visible light radar was used to uncover the topography. Can’t wait for Dragonfly mission to explore its methane/ethane lakes!
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Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
“The problem is that Death Caps look like the kind of artisanal mushroom a food blog would pair with goat cheese, but they are actually an efficient biological prank that melts your organs.”
California urges mushroom lovers to try grocery stores instead of dying boingboing.net/2025/12/10/c...
California urges mushroom lovers to try grocery stores instead of dying
California health officials have issued the world’s least‑hipster food advisory: stop plucking mysterious forest mushrooms and just buy them at Safeway.
boingboing.net
December 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“The problem is that Death Caps look like the kind of artisanal mushroom a food blog would pair with goat cheese, but they are actually an efficient biological prank that melts your organs.”
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Improv With a Twist
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Improv With a Twist
December 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Remember t̶h̶e̶ ̶A̶l̶a̶m̶o̶
Remember Ticonderoga!
5̶4̶-̶4̶0̶ or Fight!
30-Pack or Fight!
Remember Ticonderoga!
5̶4̶-̶4̶0̶ or Fight!
30-Pack or Fight!
Article about Trump's speech in Pennsylvania yesterday, in which he called for decreased pencil and doll consumption.
www.npr.org/2025/12/10/g...
www.npr.org/2025/12/10/g...
Trump's speech on combating inflation turns to grievances about immigrants
On the road in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, President Trump said he objected to taking immigrants from "hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries."
www.npr.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Remember t̶h̶e̶ ̶A̶l̶a̶m̶o̶
Remember Ticonderoga!
5̶4̶-̶4̶0̶ or Fight!
30-Pack or Fight!
Remember Ticonderoga!
5̶4̶-̶4̶0̶ or Fight!
30-Pack or Fight!
Marco Rubyrock Demands Return to Stone-Based Surnames
“We’ve forgotten our prehistory,” said Rubyrock. “We used to be quarry workers. We liked our dinosaur ribs tall and our soles—and our souls—roughened by the road. The only road, Rubyrock claims, that can lead us to a cog and sprocket-rich future
“We’ve forgotten our prehistory,” said Rubyrock. “We used to be quarry workers. We liked our dinosaur ribs tall and our soles—and our souls—roughened by the road. The only road, Rubyrock claims, that can lead us to a cog and sprocket-rich future
December 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Marco Rubyrock Demands Return to Stone-Based Surnames
“We’ve forgotten our prehistory,” said Rubyrock. “We used to be quarry workers. We liked our dinosaur ribs tall and our soles—and our souls—roughened by the road. The only road, Rubyrock claims, that can lead us to a cog and sprocket-rich future
“We’ve forgotten our prehistory,” said Rubyrock. “We used to be quarry workers. We liked our dinosaur ribs tall and our soles—and our souls—roughened by the road. The only road, Rubyrock claims, that can lead us to a cog and sprocket-rich future
Take adversity and turn it into a number one hit song that’s still played nearly a half century later. That’s how you do it.
Chic hits #1 today in 1978 with “Le Freak”, a song originally titled “F**k Off!” — and written after the band was turned away by the bouncers at Studio 54.
“We go back to my apartment really pissed off,” said Nile Rodgers, “and Bernard starts singing, ‘Ahhh, f**k off!’ .. and that became the hook.”
“We go back to my apartment really pissed off,” said Nile Rodgers, “and Bernard starts singing, ‘Ahhh, f**k off!’ .. and that became the hook.”
December 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Take adversity and turn it into a number one hit song that’s still played nearly a half century later. That’s how you do it.
Major accomplishments are fine, but meaningless accomplishments should be celebrated too.
For example, I am now the regular season champion of the 12-team office fantasy football league. That’s worth dinner at a moderately priced local restaurant or cafe!
For example, I am now the regular season champion of the 12-team office fantasy football league. That’s worth dinner at a moderately priced local restaurant or cafe!
December 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Major accomplishments are fine, but meaningless accomplishments should be celebrated too.
For example, I am now the regular season champion of the 12-team office fantasy football league. That’s worth dinner at a moderately priced local restaurant or cafe!
For example, I am now the regular season champion of the 12-team office fantasy football league. That’s worth dinner at a moderately priced local restaurant or cafe!
“Philip Rivers the Gray? I am Philip Rivers the Blue and White, and I come to you at the turning of the tide.”
an older man with long white hair and a beard is standing in front of a tree .
Alt: The head of Gandalf the White from The Lord of the Rings moves from right to left of screen as he brings up his left hand.
media.tenor.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
“Philip Rivers the Gray? I am Philip Rivers the Blue and White, and I come to you at the turning of the tide.”
Updated ending to Soilent Green:
If they make their ads with A.I., what do they make the food out of?
December 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Updated ending to Soilent Green:
If AI were logical, the Vulcans would’ve invented it.
December 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
If AI were logical, the Vulcans would’ve invented it.
Reposted by Brian Halligan
This is actually what pissed me off the most...
All of sudden they don't nitpick or care about the quality when a human being isn't behind it..
Like decades of these people doing "pixel" f*cking but now everything is "good enough" but if any of this work came from a person it would've been trashed
All of sudden they don't nitpick or care about the quality when a human being isn't behind it..
Like decades of these people doing "pixel" f*cking but now everything is "good enough" but if any of this work came from a person it would've been trashed
I feel the clients now using GenAI to do stuff and going "good enough" when they used to nitpick at every last detail is due to them finding out all those nit picky changes take time and work they cant be bothered to put in.
December 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is actually what pissed me off the most...
All of sudden they don't nitpick or care about the quality when a human being isn't behind it..
Like decades of these people doing "pixel" f*cking but now everything is "good enough" but if any of this work came from a person it would've been trashed
All of sudden they don't nitpick or care about the quality when a human being isn't behind it..
Like decades of these people doing "pixel" f*cking but now everything is "good enough" but if any of this work came from a person it would've been trashed
All right, who greased the football before the MNF game? Whoever it is, give them a raise. This is ridiculously entertaining.
December 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
All right, who greased the football before the MNF game? Whoever it is, give them a raise. This is ridiculously entertaining.
Reposted by Brian Halligan
“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.
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Sadly, the The More You Know star has gone supernova and left a dense compact object called a Should've Known black hole in its place.
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sadly, the The More You Know star has gone supernova and left a dense compact object called a Should've Known black hole in its place.
Reposted by Brian Halligan
Rewatching Battlestar and JFC it was prescient. Armed, masked thugs ripping mothers from babies, grabbing innocent people with no warrant. A self-important buffoon as President. Fascists stripped of humanity. On and on.
December 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Rewatching Battlestar and JFC it was prescient. Armed, masked thugs ripping mothers from babies, grabbing innocent people with no warrant. A self-important buffoon as President. Fascists stripped of humanity. On and on.
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Here it is, your moment of nez.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Here it is, your moment of nez.
She’s been keeping me company while I recuperate on the couch. She’s getting some dog treats for sure.
December 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
She’s been keeping me company while I recuperate on the couch. She’s getting some dog treats for sure.
An síofra, in Irish. A changing baby substituted by daone sí (fairies). “My child was perfect, this must be a changling.”
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
An síofra, in Irish. A changing baby substituted by daone sí (fairies). “My child was perfect, this must be a changling.”
Sitting here imagining Bonds’s face when Kent got voted to the HoF before him.
December 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Sitting here imagining Bonds’s face when Kent got voted to the HoF before him.