"AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies." Sam Altman For whom? Macquarie Dictionary has announced that 'AI slop' has been chosen by its committee and voted by the public as the Word of the Year for 2025.

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Cry harder about ruining an American institution we used to be proud of, you stupid quisling bitch.

And yes, it’s the Department of Defense, and the Gulf of Mexico.

Your happy reminder that Marianne Faithfull was born on December 29, 1946; Patti Smith on the very next day. The universe speaking to us, through song.

Ron Johnson is kind of an idiot, isn't he?

"When it happens, Republicans will object (and you can only imagine the meltdown Trump himself will have on Truth Social). The response Dems give should be simple: *Too bad. We have the power now.* A strong message must be sent to the country and future generations that Trump will not be honored."

If Donald Trump was a Russian asset, what would he be doing differently? If your answer is “nothing,” then ask yourself this: If the US President is a Russian asset, what should *I* be doing differently?

This Jan. 6 we can expect Trump to mark the day by praising the MAGA terrorists who committed that terrorist attack in pursuit of Trump's goal of ending our Republic.

The latest step in Trump's enstupiding of America while grabbing for greater political control of the scientific enterprise: www.science.org/content/arti...

As Daisy Rockwell puts it, “Norman Rockwell was antifa”—literally. So you’ll understand her indignation when President Trump began hijacking her grandfather’s legacy to promote what she considers modern-day fascism. www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...

"Your decision to withdraw at the last moment..in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure — is classic intolerance and very costly to a non-profit Arts institution" Wear it. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Inauguration or installation? bsky.app/profile/atru...

"Given what the US has become under Trump, and what Trump is inflicting on the world, what kind of relationship with the US do Australians want and what kind of alliance does the country need?" www.smh.com.au/national/why...

50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person. This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle. Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities. This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist

"As we look back on 2025, we’re hard-pressed to find a corner of society more tormented than the American media. We have a president who is trying to disassemble an essential component of our democracy, piece by piece, reporter by reporter..." How bad was 2025?.. steady.substack.com/p/press-onward

FFS. “Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed,” Trump said. Trump made his fondness for Putin clear, ignoring Putin bombarded Ukraine with over 100 drones on Christmas Eve and early Christmas Day, killing at least seven civilians. And Biden started the war now. www.thedailybeast.com/zelensky-cra...

The Lumière brothers gave their first public movie screening on December 28, 1895, at the Grand Café in Paris. Their directorial debut attracted a small number of paying visitors, but after word spread of the incredible experience, thousands wanted to see the moving pictures...

Yesterday was Michel Piccoli's birthday, his 100th. Today, I learned Brigitte Bardot has passed. Tonight, it has to be Le Mépris. Enough of 2025. Fritz Lang: One must suffer. Paul Javal: That's for sure.

Michel Piccoli 🙏 #BOTD (27 December 1925 – 12 May 2020) "I have never been self-sufficient, unlike many actors. I like extremely discreet actors, who thus open up the imagination." Michel Piccoli

Brigitte Bardot 🙏 #RIP (28 September, 1934 – December 28, 2025) “J’ai été prisonnière de moi-même toute ma vie.” Brigitte Bardot

Social balance theory confirmed 80 years later. According to the theory, four rules — an enemy of an enemy is a friend, a friend of a friend is a friend, a friend of an enemy is an enemy and, finally, an enemy of a friend is an enemy— lead to balanced relationships. scitechdaily.com/physics-unra...

Trickle down economics

DON’T. PRINT. LIES. IN. THE. NEWSPAPERS. Every damn day. It’s exhausting.

You almost have to feel bad for an ugly old man with no family or friends to keep him company on Christmas Day that he makes 200 crazy posts ranting about everything under the sun. Almost.

This is Kristina Solovyova. Russian terrorists killed her in Zhytomyr striking residential buildings with drones on December 23. She was only 4🕯

Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair." One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

If Bari Weiss really wants CBS to "win back Americans' trust," she should resign and tell the pro-authoritarian, anti-free speech Ellisons to let real journalists do their jobs. www.thedailybeast.com/cbs-boss-bar...

Kennedy is on a mission to destroy all the vaccines that has helped to keep us all safe. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Of course he does. 🙄

"Everything you learned in school about the world is intellectually incorrect...except a Palantir degree. If you work for Palantir, everyone knows you're good." Alex Karp, CEO Palantir, Feb. 19 2025. He created Palantir in 2003 with Peter Thiel. Yep, fuck off.👊 bsky.app/profile/rodm...

Chris Rea 🙏 #RIP (4 March 1951 – 22 December 2025) "I have found out who are my real friends, thanks to the illness and hospitals." Blended blues, pop, soul and soft rock on over twenty studio albums. He beat pancreatic cancer at 33 and suffered health problems for the remainder of his life.

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

Celebrated as the author and illustrator of a series of children's books, beginning with The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902, she is also remembered as a fierce campaigner on local conservation issues. Beatrix Potter July 28, 1866 – December 22, 1943

Images from films shot by cinematographer Freddie Francis - BOTD in 1917 The Elephant Man (1980) The Innocents (1961) The Straight Story (1999) Glory (1989)

"Warner Bros. Discovery owns CNN, whose coverage Trump views as hostile to his administration. So he is abusing the government’s merger-approval power in order to insist that the next owner of the venerable outlet mold its journalism to his liking." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Amen. Which should not be construed as a wholesale endorsement of Our Streaming Future.

There's always a Tweet.

the way people talk about AI is like it's a stalker you ought to be nicer to

They moved Maxwell, who is now seeking a commutation, and they gave her a fucking puppy. And no one has asked Trump to explain why. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

If Donald Trump is OK with Pam Bondi making him look *this* guilty, the Epstein Files must have lots of outrageously damning evidence about him.

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.

'The Riviera of the Middle East' Jared Kushner and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff have a $112.1billion plan to reinvent the Gaza strip into a luxury destination. Could begin in two months, they first need to clear some 10,000 bodies. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Mrs. Danvers: Look down there. It's easy, isn't it? Why don't you? Why don't you? Go on. Go on. Don't be afraid...