The thread you’ve been waiting for

Let’s closeout 2024 and begin 2025 with a long overdue open thread.  Now’s your chance to get that otherwise off-topiccomment posted at last.  From platetectonics to Hooked on Phonics, from substanceabuse to substance dualism, from Thomism to Tom Tom Club, everything is on-topic. Trolls still not welcome, though, sokeep it sane and civil.

Previous openthreads archived here.