Watching one of the College Football playoff games, and it might be hard for those of you outside the U.S. to imagine just how big collegiate sports are here, how much money they make, and how big some of the universities are. The student body population of Ohio State University (including graduate students) is over 67,000. That's bigger than a lot of cities.

I really dig seeing the stuff Y'all create: photos, paintings, drawings, woodwork, ceramics, fabric arts, etc. You are a creative bunch and I'm grateful.

It's snowing a lot on Long Island, New York, U.S.A. where my cousin and his family live. His daughter is determined to make enough snowballs to "destroy the world." Should we be concerned about this child? 😄

I didn't realize that this afternoon was the Snoop Dog Arizona Bowl. Can we gather funds to get a Bowl game named after a Mastodon/Fedi personality? Bread Monkey Monkey Bread Bowl Alice is Slice Bowl Switch to Linux Bowl Grimm Punch (a Facist) Bowl Two Clowns Eating Pop Tarts Bowl The 420 Smoka Bowl Kierke Spanx Bowl Que Did not Come to Play Bowl The Future is Now FutureBird Bowl Ricki What in Tarr Nation Bowl LRRR OMICRON ALL CAPS BOWL CatSalad The Internet is Cats Bowl Bat Karen is not That Karen Bowl

Ya know how we tend to see faces in things? Well, I was looking at the Zoom Earth radar for this storm, and that low pressure parked off the coast, and . . . Holy shit. 😾

J is attending a funeral today for a friend of hers, and she mentioned that she hoped her mutual friends would be there, even though it's an hour* away and it's so close to Christmas. (J was raised by her grandparents, and she lost her Papa long ago, a few weeks before Chistmas. After funeral expenses, they had nothing left for Christmas at all, so 10 year old J got nothing, while having to see her cousins got a huge number of gifts. No one thought to make sure she wasn't left out.) *In the U.S. we express distances as units of time. This distance outside the U.S. would be expressed as 73 km. It's crucial to support the people you know who feel crushed by a barrage of messages about holiday cheer. The smallest gesture can really help them feel acknowledged.

In the U.S. if you received your new medical insurance premium for 2026, how much did it go up? And are you covered through work, or did you buy thru the ACA? If you'd rather keep it private, but want folks to know how much of a crisis this is, feel free to DM and I will add it as an anonymous reply. We get our insurance through J's work, and ours went up by $114 per month. I'm also curious if your premium stayed the same.

Is this . . . possible?

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