We would but it's been impossible ever since we killed the greeting card industry

noooo not the freshman shuffle

I just watched The Gap episode of Pluribus last night and a major chunk takes place in the Derien Gap and after reading up on it, I vote we create a Tropical Billionaires Sanctuary and Special Farm there for them.

Nonetheless, I'm willing to strip billionaires of all their wealth to allow them to shine.

Nearly every time somebody claims they made contact with aliens, the aliens are always SO incredibly technologically and psychologically advanced, but their advice for us is always just like “nuclear war is bad” and “maybe meditate? IDK”

Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent. We are about to go to war for oil, while citing a lie as justification. Again.

Wake Up Dead Man (Kidding, Don’t)

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

Imagine--really imagine--elon musk applying for a job

We do a major disservice to novels as a medium when we assert they MUST follow screenwriting conventions. They certainly *can*, but to insist they ought to is to overlook the strengths of the novel format. Novels are not movies.

Anyway these movies rock and this is probably the best one

I'm old enough to have seen a version of this story repeat over multiple decades. It's old and tired. It's also very gendered. If you're counting Coldplay as a rock act, and not counting Olivia Rodrigo, that's a you problem.

motorists regard other motorists’ aggressive behavior as obnoxious. as a cyclist i regard it as a direct threat to my life, because all too often it is

I know what. Let's kill our children.

Got an electric heated blanket for my little dog and she’s uninterested but man my feet are toasty

Got the dreaded ”we see something unusual on your mammogram results” phone call yesterday. Went back in this morning for another mamo and ultrasound. The radiologist looked at everything and said “You’re all clear!” Women, stay up on your yearly mamo. It’s not fun but it can save your life.

Got stuck in a lil traffic but I wasn’t bored

I’d guess I’m not entirely alone in having assumed it would continue to mean Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics…

Just the very idea that Trump was a Russian asset and that the threat never taken seriously is beyond me.

Holy god I want to eat so much cheese right now

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

Knives Around goes way hard

The people who are desperately worried about Russia invading us are the same people who are ABSOLUTELY FINE with the fact that Ireland has historically only ever been invaded by one country, again and again, who still occupy a quarter of the island. And I fear NATO membership won't help with that.

My transport plan is simple: a lifetime ban on driving for anyone with a DUI, turning drunks into a powerful constituency in favour of dense walkable neighbourhoods

i'll say this, though, i think habitual speeding and reckless driving offenses should be treated with the same kind of seriousness that DUI/DWAI offenses are, because, as a pedestrian, i'm far more likely to be hit by someone not paying attention or speeding while stone sober than someone drunk

whenever i watch an old timey movie and see the small handbags the ladies would carry all i can think is “that would never hide a rotisserie chicken”

look, the answer to Did It Happen is always no, it did not but maybe! it's always fun to dream

i laughed out loud

Just a reminder that ICE didn't exist until 2002. It's not some longstanding institution that must be maintained. It was created as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, and it could be gotten rid of as easily as it was created.

Finally, what we've all been asking for at long last is here: a steering wheel designed by someone who is not a human being, and has never driven a car. www.carscoops.com/2025/12/this...

THIS LETS ME BRING OUT THIS POST AGAIN

This is the entire thing

This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.

I think it's probably bad to be the president and have a lot of the country holding its breath in hopes that you're dead every time you're late to your own events

obviously not the major driver of his health concerns but it is very funny to read A Christmas Carol as an adult and realize that when tiny tim first says "God bless us, every one!" he's a severely malnourished child and they've given him a cup of hot gin

This is guaranteed to make smoke come out of Trump's ears. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has sued Trump alleging that he can't demolish the East Wing and erect his ballroom without congressional approval. TRO hearing in DC district court next Tuesday.

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

Javier, our new CEO, wanted to thank everyone for a fun and motivating first week. You all have made his transition process enjoyable. He has much to do but insisted on relaying that his initial numbers indicate that the dogs are all very good and will likely continue to be ❤️

Cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social.

what i mean is that miller has no deep commitment to "traditional" republican values; he doesn't care about low taxes, he favors large federal government over small, i'm not sure he even *believes* in personal liberty, he doesn't care about business, small or large, he's a single minded fanatic

to the extent that "republican" or "conservative" still mean anything, everything miller believes is in opposition. the reason that this seems so strange to read is because the median elected republican is neither conservative nor believes in republican values (or, really, anything at all)

The degree to which Republicans are just letting Stephen Miller do a what amounts to a national Prop 187 level hit on Latino voters is really kinda incomprehensible.

I'm searching Getty Images and found some photos credited to the Boston Herald that redact the faces of ICE/federal agents. They don't redact the face of the guy they're arresting. I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.

LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...

At least they had the decency to censor Bubba.

Sir you are the provider of bad news for Republicans

My politics are becoming increasingly "we live in a society"