Heated Rivalry

Heated Rivalry

Pepper partied a little too hard last night and has a catnip hangover to sleep off

4 of these 8 people are working directly with the president of the United States.

According to the World Bank, we added between $2.1T and $3.2T to the world economy. This means somewhere between 60% and 90% of all gains went to 500 people and 15% - 22% of all world wealth creation ended up in the hands of a literal *billionth* of humanity.

Especially liking the top left and lower right

Because if you just want to complain, I’m not interested, and I’ll just mute you. Like I said, screaming despair in a public place is actually toxic, self-fulfilling behavior. But also? I bet if you say “ok, I’ll do this one thing,” YOU’LL feel better, and less doomery.

And to the doomers showing up in my replies, as they always do, to defend their cowardly preemptive surrender, I say this: Don’t just tell me what’s wrong. I know all this. Tell me one concrete thing you will do this year to push back against the darkness. Just one thing.

“We stand a very real chance to be stuck in polarization hell, perpetually cycling between fascists who can’t quite go the distance on the one hand and a do-nothing Democratic gerontocracy on the other. What our moment needs is Reconstruction Democrats.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...

New box!

Scott Adams pressing retweet on the dumbest shit imaginable as the light fades from the world:

if you love these movies, just admit you hate Redditors

Data poem: Family tree of languages Interactive, expanded. Click the + to grow each branch :) dr.eamer.dev/datavis/poem...

Help JOOLY TRECKSPUSHUP.

Outing trans kids to parents is evil and WILL lead to abuse, homelessness, suicides. If it was safe to come out at home, the kid already would've done so.

For anyone curious about the overlaps between Bipolar I and II and ADHD, ASD, PTSD, BPD, [etc], I just made some updates to this interactive with requested definitions of terminology. I'm not a medical doctor, so none of this is advice, but this specifically is my published research area

Marjorie Taylor Greene is Pete Buttigieg's Leslie Knope.

erika kirk and JD vance planning the first annual Charlie Kirk Memorial Charity Gala

Any Madden players care to weigh in on this?

I'm not a real Inuit But l'm the proxy-Inuit for these dictators to yell at because they're too devoid of principle or integrity to yell at who they're really angry at

Reminder if you are not demisexual do not say big titty Alf

I will never vote for Bari Weiss.

Beware the false morel!

Since I’m bragging about my long-term food projects: This is one gallon of hot sauce made using the same basic process as Tabasco sauce but with all super-hot peppers (Carolina Reaper, Ghost & Trinidad Scorpion) aged for ~6.25 years now. The plan was to age it for 3 like Tabasco sauce but I got lazy

Happy 11th birthday to my Keifer! Got a starter for Christmas from my brother in 2014 & it’s still going strong.

I think about this all the time! What even was Thai or Korean food before chilis?

Awww, a trip to the hospital is all he asked for this year. Good for him

“We saw you from across the bar and like your vibe”

Seasons greetings from Hermana & Pepper

And to all a good night and enjoy the fish.

Synthesizer christmas music is the best christmas music zachtenorio.bandcamp.com/album/synth-... omnigardens.bandcamp.com/album/christ...

All I want for Christmas is an obituary notice for Donald Trump choking to death on a dildo carved from a single giant crystal of capsaicin.

Trump causes the illness and then eases the crisis of his own making. I believe psychiatrists refer to this phenomenon "Munchausen by Nazi” (pardon my accent) www.childrensmn.org/educationmat...

Equal parts fascinating, creepy & really cool looking:

if Santa ever turned against us we'd be fucked

If you haven’t seen this video yet it’s pretty wild. Hard to explain it any other way than he’s just done a lot of cocaine

Whole album is a banger but this song fretting about the kids finding out that Santa is “stoned out of his mind” from smoking mistletoe is the standout. open.spotify.com/track/4HBMfj...

Hi my name is Julie and I want to see my son this Christmas. I lost my job in February and I was unable to be there for his birthday this year. Missing the holidays would mean it would be a year since we were in the same state gofund.me/4fd1c660a #helpsky #fundsky #MutualAid #MutualAidrequest

Remember the 1980s when all music had synthesizers, which were co-developed and pioneered by Wendy Carlos, a trans woman?

Refers to Aux armes et cætera, in which Gainsbourg went to Jamaica & hired Sly & Robbie, the I-Threes, Mao Chung, Ansel Collins, etc. to tear down his songs & rebuild them as dub.. while he croons over them in French. It’s one of the weirdest records ever made but it totally works.

(Gainsbourg at the door, whisky sweat, smoking, with Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Aston 'Family Man' Barrett & several other rastas) WAITS: Well it's my old pal Serge, bonjour GAINSBOURG: Je suis allé en Jamaïque pour apprendre comment provoquer l'orgasme grâce aux basses SCRATCH: I AM THE THUNDER

The floofy menace has a new sister now. I hope Yellow is as happy in her new home as Pepper is in hers. #CatsOfBluesky

Someone just liked this post from exactly one year ago that I have zero recollection of having written. Always a bit disorienting when that happens

During Christmas, a time when so many people are spending time with family for the holidays, I always notice that a disproportionate number of service industry workers who are covering those days tend to be queer. It always makes me a bit sad why this is likely the case.

@catssurname.bsky.social check these two goofballs out!

My kitten Pepper’s latest album. Probably some sort of indie-folk singer-songwriter music?

Look at this great picture @laurenpdx.bsky.social took of our cats Hermana & Pepper