so now i just have 2 bskies huh

And folks are allowed to opt out of celebrating a Christian holiday. Or any holiday really, but especially a religious one. They're allowed to opt out even if the celebration doesn't include elements most Christians would consider sacred. They're allowed even if other folks opt in.

Basically: there's a difference between "not sacred" and "secular." The "right jolly old elf" from "A Visit From Saint Nicholas" is not a sacred character. Folks who venerate saints are not venerating him. But he's still a myth built into and into a Christian holiday.

I'm about to get ready for bed but at some point we need to talk about the difference between the intRA-faith conversation about the religious significance of Santa Claus (basically nil) and the intER-faith conversation about whether Christmas trees and the Santa myth are secular (no).

lrt room full of glory holes but the men occupying them are standing so close that their thighs are touching 😳

THE DARK ROOM is in today’s @oglaf.bsky.social and frankly this is the finest thing to have happened in human history

YOU AWAKE TO FIND YOURSELF IN A DICK ROOM

truly didn't have "Funko causes an incredible amount of damage to itchio and the thousands of game developers that publish on the site" on my 2024 list BUT HERE WE ARE

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

my fart post is going viral on tumblr and 3k people and counting have smelled the fart that sent my air purifier into a nuclear rage

Cognitive dissonance re: fact that people love this guy, which is that he might milkshake duck and turn out to be a white supremacist or something and we are living in really fucking strange times when my passing thoughts are "people shouldn't stan the assassin he might end up being a bad guy."

여러분 시위 못갔다고 죄책감 가지지 마세요. 저가 원해서 간건데 고마워하지 않으셔도 됩니다. 시위로 부심부릴 필요 없고 나중에 또 나가도 되고 가서도 1-2시간 있다 재미없으면 이탈하면 됩니다. 당장 저만 해도 표결 기한인 12시까지 기다리지 않고 국밥 먹으러 대열에서 이탈했잖아요ㅋ 운동에 몰입해서 일상이 무너지면 안 됩니다. 운동은 한 번에 드라마틱한 효과가 나는게 아니라 꾸준히 쌓여가며 빛을 발합니다. 그간 저도 몇 번 참여했는데 포기하지 않고 매주 광화문에서 윤석열 탄핵 집회 120회 열어주신 선배분들 덕에 오늘이 있었어요.

artistically respecting someone feels so nice. it's such an intimate sense of trust for a relationship so detached (creator - viewer). i realize this is why so many parasocial relationships start between an artist and their fans but i can't live without my emotional pantheon of Favorite Minds

my dick is exploding

piss cloud

lmao Jesse Singal has been on Bluesky for 5 minutes and is already crying—CRYING—because someone told him he drinks pee.

#themagnusarchives | this is a zine piece that's a few years old now, but y'know what, I still love how colourful it is! (Whispers to self... I gotta go back...)

‘Why are so many pro writers former members of X fandom’ This is a side effect of a large fandom having a lot of teenagers in it. In fifteen years we will be celebrating the literary work of people who right now are busy writing Minecraft streamer RPF. And that’s beautiful.

UnitedHealthcare tells employees to ‘shut up’ www.kenklippenstein.com/p/unitedheal...

I spent most of my birding time in South Carolina last week desperately scanning far-off, fast-moving swallows in the hope one would be a reported Cave Swallow (no luck) Anyway it made me appreciate the friendly close-up birds that took no effort, like the ever-present always-adorable Sanderlings 🪶

santa baby covered by a woman but with michael bublé lyrics because she’s lesbian

have we EVER hated a guy’s pussy more

I take every chance I get to share Bellingcat's pair of articles on avoiding vicarious trauma and maintaining mental hygiene when watching extremely graphic content because "OSINT" as a field is full of a bunch of idiot amateurs who think "work" is beaming snuff films into their eyeballs

meanwhile, just a few blocks away, Samantha had her sights set on a rich CEO as well

still wild to me that the last time something like this happened was in 1980 and the government shot and tortured its own civilians including middle school-aged children in its own streets. for reference 1980 is the year the shining came out. it was not at all long ago for a massacre so brutal

good morning! it is finally over and martial law has been lifted. i still do not know what the fuck he was thinking but we are about to find out. thank you all for tuning in and hopefully this impeachment is very funny to show for it

it literally cant be that simple

“No worries if not” -President Yoon Suk Yeol

and on the road to hell there was a lot of waiting

그러니까 녹화된 걸 트셨다?

idk why but this is worrying the shit out of me lol when exactly did he record this. did he know it wasn’t going to go down the way he wanted. do we even technically know his whereabouts right now. he STILL hasnt technically canceled the situation himself he just said he would

i keep worrying that he’s fled the country fkskfkkdjf

entirely true that the current army is made up of young men who have never seen combat however i also do not put it past a generation of men raised by korean 4chan to want to be the first soldier to explode a civilian’s head

o wow the military apparently bust into the leader of the opposition’s office and tried to arrest him? this IS jan 6

there is context though. The Korean soldiers who massacred civilians in Jeju, Gwangju, Vietnam, etc. were hardened by Japan's imperial wars and then the Korean War. The majority of the current generation of Korean soldiers have not seen active combat and would have much more compunctions

bbc going “the question is: are korean soldiers willing to shoot their fellow citizens, their siblings, their cousins?” the answer is historically Yes and this year’s nobel prize winner won with a novel about the last time this happened

I guarantee you that in the following weeks, beginning tomorrow but especially this weekend, Gwanghwamun Plaza (site of protest since at least the Joseon Dynasty times) is going to be deluged with protesters. bsky.app/profile/anto...

Helicopters have taken off from behind the National Assembly, military ground vehicles have retreated from National Assembly Citizens outside shouting ARREST YOON SUK YOL I foresee a long winter of mass protests

The Office of the President has to convene to officially stand down martial law but there is no official statement from the president currently.

too tired to type this back out

LMAOOOO I THINK THEYRE GONNA RETRACT MARTIAL LAW NOW. it’s been like 3 hours but it passed by unanimous vote to cancel the emergency bc everybody was like this aint it chief

things i have been in each respective country to witness - brexit - jan 6 - This

hey so this is kind of really scary!

this is the funniest timeline [said with twelve cigarettes in mouth]

lmaoooooooooo the korean president just declared a national state of emergency and like. in the US that doesn't mean a whole lot practically iirc but here the last time we had martial law the government openly killed a bunch of people 👍 so we'll see how this goes

statistically speaking, you

why does my bread cushion smell like a fart. who farted on my cushion

I don't know who needs to hear this but,

happy one-year anniversary of james somerton's canceling