Chinese and sufganiyot donuts for Christmas, and friends visiting from Philly. A lovely and relatively warm day.
A well-slept baby who calmly sat with us at the table eating his duck and noodles and Chinese broccoli and quietly listened to people taking about Chomsky and origins of language.
I don’t really need much else – it was pretty perfect.

going through year’s photos today

“Debunking the myth of higher pay in Silicon Valley”

imadeit-davidjanes:

TL;DR the cost of living in KW is way lower than the valley. Come to Canada ‘eh, or just don’t leave us.

Is someone really trying to nudge me?

the-future-now:

An Ebola vaccine could hit the market in 2018

An experimental Ebola vaccine was shown to provide 100% protection against the deadly disease, according to a new study in the Lancet.

The vaccine, manufactured by Merck and
tested in a large trial study in Guinea, appears to be a major
breakthrough in preventing the virus.

Ebola left more than 11,000 people
in West Africa and a handful of other countries dead during an outbreak that began in 2014. Read more

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All I can say is that this sucks unimaginably. Living in our liberal bubbles, we never fully appreciate the bravery of free thinkers living in conservative areas. I honestly admire and am inspired by people like you.
People like you matter for simply existing, and gives us all hope.

https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/29898153/stream?client_id=N2eHz8D7GtXSl6fTtcGHdSJiS74xqOUI?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio

yowhatsthehaps:

Gruff Rhys – Post Apocalypse Christmas

Now this is some seasonal music I can get behind. (From the the Atheist Christmas EP.) Oh, how I love you, Gruff.

Made a mistake of looking at FB last night. Even though I limited myself to 30 minutes of that poison, all I could think about afterward was how we are doomed, trump’s economists are delusional, and how a war between major powers is highly likely.
Doesn’t make for good sleeping.