Althouse: They're already 5 hours into the new year in Thailand.

December 31, 2025

They're already 5 hours into the new year in Thailand.

Happy New Year 2026 Thailand 🇹🇭 pic.twitter.com/tc4oJkEMYt
— Pretty Cities (@PrettyCitiesX) December 31, 2025

It is 2026. It's okay to go to bed now.

27 comments:

Jaq said...: So it's OK to pass out on the couch now watching football with a beer in my hand? Good thing!; 12/31/25, 4:07 PM
Breezy said...: Amazing display!!; 12/31/25, 4:26 PM
Mark said...: Sure looks like AI to me.

UAE's firework and drone display was clearly real and far, far more spectacular.
https://www.youtube.com/live/S8g0lsl77Ew?si=TNl9eHpXC_9J4Dj9; 12/31/25, 4:42 PM
rehajm said...: Drone swarms are the new fireworks…and military weapons; 12/31/25, 4:54 PM
Leland said...: Yeah! Instead of bed, going to go finish Season 1 of Landman, then maybe Season 2, if not bed earlier.

Happy 2026 to the Althouse, Meade, and the commentariat.; 12/31/25, 5:07 PM
rehajm said...: I’d like to publicly give myself props for making it another year. Hooray for me. I also checked in on my prediction post from this time last year- the censors and/or algorithms surgically removed it and the comments about it shortly after the 2025 new year but fortunately for me I screenshotted. A bit of a mixed bag as while everyone was still kind of giddy over the Trump ascension, based on my pessimism someone said someone must have had peed in my corn flakes. I thought I was just being realistic. I think I did a great job predicting Congress would run their mouth but do very little except spend money- way right there but that was an easy one. My other big idea was that DOGE would be booted from DC by St Patrick’s Day and I was way off- they showed themselves the exit shortly after Valentine’s Day. No credit…

This year I’ll give myself a coin flip on making it to next New Year’s Eve to review this lame post…I predict there will be no meaningful work from DOJ except accepting more ‘referrals’, billions in corruption dollars will continue to be exposed in multiple blue states, making Minnesota’s effort look like couch money. Unfortunately, some lawyer somewhere will declare all the corruption had been ‘authorized’ by Congress so no foul. Go away. CBS will yank the football away from anyone who bought the farce they were trying to do journalism, Democrats will spend most of the year crowing about a blue wave in November then fall flat on their face, and this post will disappear faster than the ball dropped…Happy New Year and Best Wishes in 2026 Althousians…; 12/31/25, 5:20 PM
narciso said...: Except there are doge detailees at treasury and state among other agencies

The possums collusion with the swamp in preventing accountability doesnt surprise sadly; 12/31/25, 5:32 PM
Original Mike said...: I'm not buying drones.; 12/31/25, 5:33 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Minnesota video : AI Sean Puffy defends daycare against allegations

A body-language experts delight.; 12/31/25, 5:41 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: “Go to bed” is a de facto open thread.; 12/31/25, 5:42 PM
Josephbleau said...: Yes, Pattaya, the old old days at the corner of Soi 16 and walking street, at the blue parrot.; 12/31/25, 5:49 PM
Big Mike said...: I think I’ll wait the 5 hours and 30 minutes until midnight Eastern Standard Time. Happy New Year, everybody.; 12/31/25, 5:53 PM
Big Mike said...: …5 hours and 5 minutes; 12/31/25, 5:54 PM
Captain BillieBob said...: Happy New Year!; 12/31/25, 6:35 PM
Caroline said...: Happy New Year to all of you! I am wiped out by Christmas travel and family visits so we are having lobster Mac n cheese and champagne in our athleisure, watching the Jane Austen marathon I taped a few weeks ago on TCM. I will cop to being not ready to usher in ‘26. God Bless us every one.; 12/31/25, 6:40 PM
narciso said...: There was also the standalone ncis spinoff tony and ziva that was cancelled on paramount; 12/31/25, 6:44 PM
narciso said...: Today they had the marx brothers; 12/31/25, 6:44 PM
rehajm said...: …we had a srf steak, truffled tots and a Cayuse- ‘The Lovers’, now we pj up and watch the last Stranger Things fireside then off to bed…; 12/31/25, 6:49 PM
tcrosse said...: Happy Hogmanay and Slàinte mhath!; 12/31/25, 6:49 PM
rehajm said...: If the good guys win Louisiana by Summer, there’s an opportunity for more constructive things to happen. We’ll know the good guys won because two weeks before there will be much more rendering of garments…oh and extra death threats…; 12/31/25, 6:53 PM
narciso said...: https://youtu.be/H03LdXWc8HE?si=xGxjGjxYvYMDx7B7; 12/31/25, 7:03 PM
Peachy said...: Happy New Year, all.; 12/31/25, 7:12 PM
Breezy said...: Happy New Year to all, and to all a Good Night.; 12/31/25, 7:21 PM
mongo said...: My Indiana Hoosiers play in the Rose Bowl tomorrow for the first time since 1967. I never thought it would happen in my lifetime.; 12/31/25, 7:33 PM
narciso said...: Happy new year all; 12/31/25, 7:35 PM
john mosby said...: Tcrosse: May your first footer have a birdlike appetite! CC, JSM; 12/31/25, 7:45 PM
rhhardin said...: Used to be Kwajalein but they moved it to this side of the date line (Kwajalein Day) to line it up with Vandenburg AFB that shoots missiles into it.; 1/1/26, 7:14 AM