It must be time to post our Festive Christmas songs mash up again. This year, if you pay to download it, all the profit goes to FareShare, a charity that helps those in food poverty. spymania.bandcamp.com/track/festiv...

i stopped making "trans people are the canaries in the coalmine for fascism" analogies when i learned that miners would actually try to save the canaries after they passed out instead of going "wow, 1,000 more canaries and i might start to worry!"

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

There’s a lesson here about writing in the age of weaponized lies: Always precede false claims with giant red text, ideally wrapped in a <blink> tag, that says “THIS IS A LIE I AM REFUTING!!” But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?

Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

Crews are directing cars on the westbound side of Interstate 80 to turn around.

Arthropod Photo of the Week: December 24, 2025 Leaffooted bug and ant Chariesterus moestus Hemiptera: Coreidae By Alberto Sánchez Herrera, Guanacaste, Costa Rica #arthropodPOTW

A friend tried on a photo of me where I hold my 3DS. They could remove the 3DS and make me hold a cat instead, and giving me sunglasses instead of my normal ones. This is really too scary guys, I hope they delete it. (Or people use it against Elon in that case so it could get removed faster.)

"This doesn't affect you because you animate, so you are fine." No. This sucks and this is really dangerous. In solidarity with all artists, Please be cautious. I know many will remain on Twitter because they have mostly everything here but be aware this time it's worse than the other times.

On Christmas Eve 1968, in Lunar orbit, the Apollo 8 crew took this photo: “Earthrise." I'll never forget how inspiring the Apollo missions were to my brother and me as kids. They showed us what our country and humanity can accomplish when we work together toward a common goal.

Yes father, I shall become… a Christmas tree.

🎶 Out on the road today Saw a Propaghandi wrap around a Cybertruck Little voice inside my head said Dang that sucks, that could never not suck I thought I knew what punk was What did I know Those trucks are so fashtastic I hope this one gets towed... 🎶

Uni Claus delivering presents 🎁

Mini tree all decorated. 🌟 Best wishes to you all - may warmth and love be your companions despite the darkness we face, and may you have your needs met with abundance and joy (if not now, then very soon). From me & mine with all our hearts: Happy Holidays!

Tiny Tim, who did NOT hit her. He did not. Oh hi, ghost

I for one welcome our new purring overlords 🐈‍⬛

🐱🪀🎅

if you're wondering why your trans friends everywhere are a little on edge right now, it's because a story about a radical conservative christian student abusing rules and processes to deliberately target a trans instructor consistently gets reframed to omit the entirety of the anti-trans bigotry

twitter: new update, every time you post, elon musk is literally going to break into your house and shit directly into your mouth users: that sucks but….i mean i HAVE to stay on there…..

It's a true wiki, it even has a "Featured agent" section.

Everyone just smile when your mom tells you about that ne’er do well cousin who says he’s a “project manager” for “building data centers” who says he uses chatGPT for his job. We all know he sells pills out of his girlfriend’s dad’s basement (which is a real job)

67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - Rosetta - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/RmwTum

Happy hols from Diggory (awake, left) and Jackson (asnooze, right)

Hello. It’s me again. Please take a look. Bebo got boosted by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Rachel Maddow. Head to Chicagoshovels.org and let’s make this happen.

Lots of you saying you could beat up a baby. Um, not a MAGIC baby.

Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions. Apple doesn't recognise unions. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. The big corporations are not on your side.

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

Dear Santa, for Christmas, I want all these people trapped out in floodwaters in the California desert safe. Thank you, and good night.

It is hilariously pathetic that they have to do this because gigantic scalper manbabies wont let kids have fun

Taro is now a Snail

Nothing says Christmas like a whole wheat kitty loaf warming on the radiator. Photo from my collection, ca. 1970s (in case you can't tell by the rainbow of browns).

Immediately and excitedly agreeing with the Green Goblin mask to the point I make it uncomfortable and it stops wanting to talk

🏆🎄👍🎅🏾🩷

Typical Americans, pretending that Tiny Tim living is a happy ending. You realize that kid has to live in the Omelas basement now??

I don’t know if I’d call what I felt gender envy, but I was certainly gender impressed. Whatever their gender might be, they’re doing it better than most of us.

While out walking the dog I encountered a person of indeterminate gender at at indeterminate point on the goth-punk spectrum. They wore long flowing black robes, silver chains, black lipstick, and had a shaved temple. They were rolling down the footpath on pink and white roller blades.

The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore

Merry Christmas! :) <3

It's hot every day, let's play in the pool カワウソなのでお水遊びが大好きですっ☆

my biggest 2025 achievement 😂😂

Got a little bit of light reading for the holiday (holy SHIT the art in this!!!)