My favourite thing about this is just “tin foil is purely functional”. “Can we be arsed to say it symbolises, I dunno, angels or something?” “Nah.”

And Nicolae Ceauceacu ... ...who DID die!

a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.

[Rod Serling voice] “… Like all good writers, Carol Sturka knew that any horror can be spun into happiness with enough flattering words and deeds. But no matter how close she thought she was to heaven, there is no escaping the hells of our own making… in the Twilight Zone.”

I love this country and its traditions, perhaps none more so than how Smithfield butchers are treated like rock stars on Xmas Eve

My favourite running gag in the very underrated Billy Eichner vehicle Bros are the increasingly absurd LGBT-themed Christmas movies, my favourite being “A Holy Poly Christmas”

Anyone in the West who is content with the current state of affairs should be ashamed of themselves, both for the disservice they're doing to their own country & for the betrayal they offer Ukraine

Hot take: the West has already won the war with Russia in Ukraine, in that its objectives regarding the conflict have long since been fulfilled. The West has so far failed to win the next war by plainly demonstrating to the world & to Ukraine that being the West's proxy is a worthwhile bargain

sometimes this site is good

Steve Rogers will return in GOLDFINGER

Yep. It is in fact bad that people are addicted to a 24/7 Bad News Machine

In general, it will strongly benefit you to experience art the "wrong" way from time to time. Watch a sequel first, read the funky scanlation, play the shitty port. See what you get out if it, and how that differs from what people normally get out of it.

I genuinely think there's not more damning of the way our political and media class is crammed with people who think high school is the apex of civilization that were even talking like this

For all his faults, Clinton can put out a statement on social media that's CORRECTLY FORMATTED LIKE AN ADULT WOULD DO. None of this "center aligned" Instagram baby stuff you constantly see out here.

LLMs really are the end state of "why should *I*, a participant in society, understand how it works" thinking

Intergenerational living is a very natural, and for many quite desirable, mode of living. ADUs, duplexes, etc. make it possible! www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The Canadian Tories spent Justin Trudeau‘s entire time as PM taunting him for being a former drama teacher and everyone just pretended they weren’t saying why they were clearly saying

Every single thing in the conservative turn from 2010s on can be explained by homophobia becoming less socially acceptable, except homophobia, which is about mysogyny

minaj is on the verge of having her $20M home forcibly sold by the court to cover a $500K debt, in case you wonder what’s going on here

This is how cults work, by the way. They convince you to buy deeper and deeper into the cult’s project and cut yourself off from friends and family, who might help you to realise your new mates are roasting your brains.

Yes, this is bog standard Trumper stuff: people who are just normal stroppy arseholes finding friends online and driving each other completely insane, alienating their own friends and family as they become increasingly wacky and difficult to be around.

"Lemon, we can't afford another costly failure during the Holiday season. Kabletown still hasn't recovered from the Jimmy Fallon Holiday Vinyl Debacle."

i now support Trudeau/Katy

We may uh want to have a conversation about the fact that the majority of popular gay male romance is written by and for women

I remember watching Jake Paul fight Tyson immediately after the election in 2024 and thinking an inability to laugh Paul out of the ring was a great example of the rot in America that led to Trump coming back, it was good to see Anthony Joshua do that. It felt like the culture starting to shift back

oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003

I’m sick of these types of platitudes. We should not be representing ourselves through people who clearly view themselves as Temporarily Embarrassed Americans.

A lot of people don’t seem to realize that publicly accusing someone of being a sexual predator based on second had gossip is pretty much the dictionary definition of defamation and libel

Relatedly, whenever we circle around this stuff in my digital media classes one of the things I suggest my students do is turn off notifications from any news apps they have on their phones. The immediacy is generally not necessary & all it does *esp in the Trump era* is cause you extra anxiety!

Wow today really has been a banner day for whitewashed reports full of lies

It’s been an open secret for years that Walliams is a monstrous bully and a sex pest. Between that and how insanely racist so much of his works are, it’s really messed up that he was allowed to reinvent himself as a beloved children’s author

Excellent thread this. The NYT interview made me think we need to rediscover shame in the modern world - that is to say, if your reaction to the Coldplay kisscam was anything other than to laugh and go 'wow, what a way to get caught' and thne move on with your day, you should be ashamed.

“The way people are being vile and rude to me is actually unacceptable and is disproportionate to what is in reality a very mild critique” is actually a fucking killer sarcastic copypasta.

On top of all the other problems with this article it’s just very poorly written diatribe. So meandering and condescending it‘s hard to parse what exactly the thesis and argument being made is. Reminds me a lot of Thomas Chatterton Williams or David Graber in that respect

'globalize the intifada' is motte-and-bailey shit, it's mostly people who want the thrill of being associated with violence but a deniability option when questioned.

this is essentially a horror story, an old guy interacting with an alien entity that has taken the shape of a friendly helper that always agrees with him and coming away with the lesson “it’s my buddy!”

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Heated Rivalry really is just 50% softcore porn, huh

My outfit for the day it happens

Social media polarization story is a story of elites! It’s the elites and para-elites driven insane by online, and it trickles down to the masses.

You can tell how popular and financially viable AI is that it keeps getting forced onto ppl despite them literally saying multiple times they dont want it

lol at the investigative incompetence, but also, it’s a little weird that the reason the internet wants him to get away with it is because they specifically know he committed the murder

Whenever someone starts complaining about us here on Bluesky I'm going to think about the end of Wake Up Dead Man when the Substack novelist looks out on his book-signing that's filled with guys who look like Walter from The Big Lebowski

Outright pro-Russians are a very small cohort of the general obtruseness brigade in European Ukraine policy. The real issue is defence antivaxxers: people who insist that there is no real problem that defence spending is the answer to, eleven years into some real obvious evidence that there is

The linked post is extremely instructive (and depressing) but what always struc me is how the behaviour and mentality of these “estranged parents“ is often indistinguishable from a severe delusional or personality disorder

absolute lad