“whatever you did for the market economy, you did for me" (Matthew 25:40)

What do pirates wear beneath their clothing? Plunderoos

Oh no, they learned it from us. THEY LEARNED IT FROM US

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and will return in Avengers: Doomsday

An old thread is making the rounds again, so here's an updated version. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is one of the most enduring and adapted works of literature in history. But did you know that he wrote 22 sequels? Some are great! Some are trash! Some are bizarrely fascinating.

"Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian" The mom:

Seven seasons and a movie for @benjaminahr.mobi and @cutfortime.bsky.social 's Bert & Ernie show!

So, let's recap: 1. President gets elected. 2. President appoints self to Kennedy Center board, along with propagandists, his own VP's wife, and Lee Greenwood. 3. President offers himself chair of said board. Pretends to decline, but then accepts his own offer. 4. President puts his name on it.

The really sad part about this is that, really, only the names are fictionalized.

I get tired of looking it up to paste it places, so...whatever, go look up the "1984" quote.

Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)

It is beyond frustrating to me that the only alternative to Chromium is currently doing its best to try shoot itself in the foot. I've been using Firefox for most of my life, and to see a fumble like this when they're already on their backfoot is disappointing. Just switched to WaterFox instead.

Worth noting that he vetoed it because the bill was for a study, and he felt like it had been studied enough and they just needed to get down to it. I dunno @chicagotribune.com , that seems like a pretty crucial bit of context to go with this headline

Hey @mozilla.org / @firefox.com ? NO THANKS.

It's probably worth saying explicitly. Even if you did decide that you wanted to train a machine to replicate human judgment, you probably wouldn't want that machine using inputs from ALL humans. There are many humans who's judgement shouldn't be used for anything ever.

At Oak Lawn United Methodist Church’s nativity, Mary and Joseph are silhouettes, surrounded by a chain link fence topped with razor wire. Their halos are old bicycle wheels. A shopping cart and two metal bins, frequently used by the unhoused as firepits, flank the scene.

Quickest spoiled milk I've ever seen. The lettuce isn't even dry yet, let alone wilted. Total elapsed time: 0.05 Scaramuccis.

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

The ravenous, all-consuming narcissism that has rotted the mind of this man requires that every event, every tragedy, every circumstance be ultimately about him. Others in the world do not exist as fully human; they operate only to validate Donald Trump. This is a gross display of mental illness.

"May not?" It isn't. But that's the world we're in.

Sometimes my state does me proud.

In 1637, the Dutch East India Company hit a valuation of (adjusted for inflation) $10T. The company had a state-issued monopoly on *all trade from Asia,* and it used that power in support of a ruthless and brutal trade empire.

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

This makes me want to flip tables.

It's December 5. The statute of limitations on the kids' Halloween candy has expired, right?

When I first read this I just assumed it was some other organization that happened to have the initials "FIFA." But nope. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. ...Why are they giving out peace prizes? Is this a Guinness World Records/Michelin Star Restaurants thing?

If he's anything like this Area Dad, he's actually not getting new ones, he's just finding shirts he bought in 2011 in the back of his closet and bringing them into the rotation.

"With a strong safety net, the sky's the limit."

Abraham Lincoln, 1855. www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

It's amazing that people can still be this misinformed.

Another way to write this title could've been "devices are costing more than ever in an economy where more Americans than ever are making less money than ever, and it's costing the economy" but CNBC decided to blame the poors. "Make good purchases, make repairs, make it work, make do without it."

Look, this is just so profoundly *SAD*

Amazon Greenlights A New Stargate Series www.gateworld.net/news/2025/11... FIRST ON GATEWORLD: A new #Stargate series is now in pre-production for Prime Video, with veteran writer and producer Martin Gero at the helm. @primevideo.bsky.social

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

pro tip: innocent people don't work this hard to keep the files that prove their innocence a secret

I love that someone at my alma mater came up with this. Beautiful. It's getting pretty hammered with traffic right now, but maybe when it calms down check it out.

Huh, interesting. I wonder why that might be. Oh hey look, the Affirm CEO also said that furloughed federal employees are starting to lose interest in paying their mortgages and car loans, too. And they're feeling "meh" on the idea of prescription medication and groceries.

10/10 take. No notes.

Um Is...is he saying what I think he's saying? 🍴?

Look. I'm a big fan of freedom of speech. Love it. All I'm saying is, when someone makes a completely racist prediction, and exactly zero of it comes true, could we maybe see some modicum of consequences?

I like that republicans keep calling mamdani a “literal communist” because they’ve been calling everyone to the left of william mckinley a communist for a hundred years and they need to distinguish