Why read past headlines: It may not initially seem obvious why Mar-a-Lago face, incels, Elon's pregnancy fetish or the Epstein files are linked. But this is a year in which MAGA showed they are very weird about sex. And it's hurting them. www.salon.com/2025/12/31/t...

Anytime someone is like “no you don’t understand getting people to invest in a business is very hard” you need to understand that the rules are different if you’re a white man connected to the levers of power.

There are red earrings called "Rocket Powered Bees" with bees and coffee bean beads, and they are half price now too. www.etsy.com/listing/4343...

In November, a conservative website published an explosive claim: Al-Shabab is largely funded by money stolen from Minnesota. But the story's only named source who connected fraud to terrorism told me the story is “bullshit": www.startribune.com/city-journal...

Pisces: Today you will mistake shibari for shiba inu, making your experience at the local fetish club more surreal than expected, but very cute and snuggly.

I mask in large groups and when people ask me why (and btw that BARELY happens), I smile big enough to crinkle my eyes (so it shows), and say: "I say this with love of course, but I just don't trust you whores."

I am lonely so deer came to visit me

“Butt Phrenology” was not on my 2025 Bingo card.

it's time again to remind everyone of the (admittedly very old now) studies about how men perceive a place to be female-dominated when 1/3 of a group is women. the numbers may have shifted over time, but clearly the phenomenon persists.

And Tiny Tim, who did not die, had the time of his life, no, he never felt like this before, yes I swear, it's the truth, and he owes it all to Scrooge

The first law of thermodynamics states that Tiny Tim is NOT destroyed, and can only be converted from one form to another

My parents have no cats but the ornaments keep ending up on the floor somehow so I think my dad is being visited by Christmas ghosts every night and ignoring their message

Looking for a Christmas miracle for a kitty (aging parent situation) for Baltimore pals: (1/2) ""My mom can no longer keep Angelo (alas!!!) and we are looking to rehome him. Angelo is a total sweetheart. He is 6 years old, gentle, playful, friendly, and a lovebug."

This is so good 😭

I watched the alpaca Christmas movie so you don’t have to

We've had the first few offers, and it's going well so far. It's fine to make a low offer, or a high one. (Some people even pay more than the list price in order to give me room to offer bargains to people who need them. You know who you are, and I love you.) Come play? (Or catch the sale later.)

I was looking through old permits, like I do, and came across a whole ton of cards with wrecking on them, all in the 60s and all around 17th St E. It was for the freeway, and they were all for apartments, multi-unit buildings, etc. The freeways displaced the maximum number of people for the space.

The Most Worrying Bits from Bloomberg’s Worrisome AI Bubble Q&A with Jason Furman gizmodo.com/the-most-wor...

a thread of beautiful cat art. also the cat did come home, no need to have anxiety while admiring the art.

When you can't tell if the fortune cookie is encouraging or throwing shade.

Does it really count as a "fan theory" if you have to check with someone who knows the lore to find out whether it contradicts canon?

well, i think it's absolutely true that they don't intend to lose power and also that they have plans on how to get there. but also they're very incompetent so it's very doable to keep them from succeeding in any of this. (and also they're incompetent at how they're trying to sink this story)

Couple fun little pieces I've done lately for sticker designs. The ghost skull actually started as a sketch for a full painting of a Necromancer that I ended up hating everything but that part and wanted to salvage it. The other is my take on the Necronomicon with a dash of mimic #digitalart #artist

Yes -- I strongly distrust any narrative that says "the kids are not ok in NEW and UNPRECEDENTED ways we should be scared of" if only because it's so easy to find examples of these narratives that go back as long as we've had language and bc if we wanted to help youth, we'd start with gun control

Arthur: I mean if you know this hot lady is gonna trap you under a rock couldn’t you like avoid it or uh Merlin: listen Merlin: Arthur: Merlin: no

We have all made it through the longest night.

The fact that major media outlets keep platforming the “Loud, Overconfident, and Wrong” class while simultaneously saying we’re fresh out of ideas is just such an embarrassing self-own.

I did not notice until this morning on my Netflix that for the Jake Paul/Joshua Moses fight Jake paul is described as a “boxing disruptor” and it’s the perfect metaphor. Showing up, picking a couple easy fights, and the being sure you’re better than people who stick to the basics. Then finding out.

Like we literally do not have to take these fucking jagoffs or their thought experiments seriously. And when you tell them they’re full of shit they can’t function because they’ve only ever been told they’re exceptional

The way other people talk on social media is not yours to control. If your plans for success rely on how other people talk about politics on social media, there are some levers you can use to effectuate that, mainly having such a compelling message other people want to echo it.

Don't give up. Fascism works by trying to convince you that there isn't any hope. But I've seen how easy it is to change someone's mind just by trying. Be loud and fight back for the people who can't

Shout out to everybody who’s hosting their family holiday dinner this year. This etiquette refresher might save some lives. www.tiktok.com/@theleighann...

Whenever some dude says "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain", it seems like we should probably take a peek behind that damn curtain

Stream great MN artists for free. If you have an @hclib.bsky.social library card, you can download songs to keep. #music #Minnesota www.hclib.org/about/news/2...

Oh. My. Fucking. God. You must listen to this.

My novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster is just $2.99 in all e-book formats today. (Kindle, Kobo, Nook,etc) This is the book of my heart. It's a queer mother-daughter story about healing and forgiveness. It's got 18th century lit, riot grrls, and filthy weird magic. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The only good thing about "AI" is that it has wiped out my embarrassment about typos. 100% human, errors and all.

I'm sorry, is this the greatest escape ever? Totally bamboozled em.

not all heroes wear capes

Minneapolis has FIFTY YEARS of inclusive laws protecting trans people, allowing them to self-identify, and ZERO cases of trans people attacking women in the bathroom. ZERO. Over FIFTY YEARS.

I found out yesterday that there’s a holiday romance novel about fucking the Ghost of Christmas Past. I think we’re doing okay on the idea front. (No, I don’t know the title offhand.)

Fact-checking legacy media on transgender healthcare was remarkably easy to get into as a non-scientist with no credentials because all you have to do is ask "How does this work in non-politicized medicine, and is transgender healthcare different?" 999/1000 times, that's your fact check.

Do you know how much you have to suck to make most of my friends root for the Catholic Church?

It's clear from the article that ICE is *miserable* here. They're freezing their asses off and being harassed everywhere they go. Property managers aren't allowing them access to rental properties and people know their rights and aren't letting them in. KEEP IT UP.

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.

Check out this awesome Defensive Baking art!

"I ask chatgpt for parenting advice" really underscores that what our society needs is stronger human connections and social capital, concepts these tech assholes don't understand. One of the core problems with mass AI is its rejection of those connections. Have a conversation, not an AI prompt!

TeePublic is on sale today, which means you can get my seasonal designs in time to shock and disappoint your entire extended family! www.teepublic.com/user/chekhov...

Revised Definitions of the Verb “To Google”: supposed to be SATIRE but eg, "To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong." That's just reality now. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rev...

I just got the cutest new mouse pad!