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This is the best video game music of 2025, as chosen by the composers behind it. A wonderful annual traditon continued by @matombler.bsky.social vgc.news/features/thi...

It’s great that 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi is coming right out swinging. Not having a second of this bullshit! I think coddled hacks like Bari Weiss have no idea what to do with righteous fury like this except, if anything, somehow play victim. Let’s see!

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40 years of A Christmas Story on TV.

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I keep trying to go back to Tron Ares and see if I can make my way through it but I get like... four or five minutes further in before getting disgusted by some aspect of it and turning it off again. At this rate I figure I'll have seen the entire movie by sometime in early 2027.

Fruity Pebbles uber alles, but the weird recipes Kraft would spam programming for 80s moms with were especially weird (“Merry Christmas! Here’s a basket full of room-temperature Velveeta slices and Parkay margarine!”): youtu.be/8wUtjDd3jEQ?...

Christmas goes awry in Ken Kelly’s cover art for Creepy, issue no. 86, 1977.

holy shit, this but also everyone go check out Pop Arena’s videos, they’re good, well-researched stuff, presented with with, warmth and good humor: youtube.com/@poparena?si...

angrily and repeatedly turning up the volume on this calming music playlist so it'll work faster

Okay, Stillers vs Lions was the weirdest end to a football game I’ve ever seen.

I absolutely see the logic in this (especially since cheese is also available in both spreadable and reconstituted sliced plastic forms, and both can be delicious!), but also, “slices of peanut butter” sounds disgusting.

I know it's been said before but no matter how rational I want to be, in my heart I still do believe killing mr peanut and bringing him back as a baby unlocked some kind of wretched demonic seal on human society

Hey artists!! Post some art you made from before Bluesky!! (This is probably a quarter-century old now)

Speaking of Worthikids, jesus fucking christ, how did I forget about this: youtu.be/UNsFdzRP-vM?...

The same set of voice actors (who operate under the collective "RASH A1M") apparently, who got on worthikids' radar for doing japanese dubs of bigtop burger and other fanmade dubs of indie animation (this also got them the gig to dub The Amazing Digital Circus)

Thanks to @grumpyturtle.bsky.social for showing me Punch Punch Forever! - a ridiculous online tribute to 90s anime (something I have absolutely no nostalgia for, but I can still appreciate the details of here): youtu.be/8ndBoc6R8_A?...

it’s the shortest day of the year… SO FAR

The Nick Fury of the Three Stooges.

A happy solstice and a Good Riddance to the largely putrid year of 2025

This is the thing that's ALWAYS driven me nuts about everyone who thinks catching any of these shitbirds in a lie is any kind of a gotcha moment: the whole fucking point is that they gleefully lie to your face, no one does anything about it, and they keep doing whatever it is they're lying about.

I had to look up the story of this place’s name and I wasn’t disappointed thejqs.wordpress.com/oregon-stori...

https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/33335 『ふんばり～ぬ』発売。いつでもどこでも、ふんばりどころ。 "Funbarinu" is now on sale. A place to stomp on, anytime, anywhere. #ガチャポン #gachapon

This is a core film for nerdy women, it's about heroically looking up facts

This is the cover art I did for NOVA, a manga zine from the 1980's. I was a huge fan of Patalliro, and had the albums, laser disc film, and most of the manga. I don't keep up with it anymore, but I really loved the unique art style.

Good on Avatar for finally pulling a Return of the Jedi and showing some alien tiddy

Was just poking through Tubi last night and saw that they had this CGI fan-fim of CEREBUS available. It's...not something I'm able to bring myself to watch, but thought it was worth noting.

It was def the Popeye octopus. What I love most about this is it's way funnier with the scene cut. One of the kids still has a line at the end about how the octopus was really scary. Like after everything that happened he just randomly makes up some shit.

Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow

No this is genuinely hilarious 🤣🤣 the AI was like "ok make Nazis, but remember diversity and inclusion!!👍🫡"

I’ll always wonder if they just used the same octopus prop from Popeye (it’s *supposed* to be dancing away at the end, though the octopus puppet is so mechanical-looking in its movement that it’s difficult to tell): youtu.be/8hXmqpExeZU?...

One of the best, small moments in GREMLINS is the fact that Mrs. Deagle is terrified but unsurprised by what's happening. She intimately knows exactly what an asshole she is. She thinks demons have come to drag her to Hell and not only accepts it, she treats it as a genuine inevitability.

I just looked at local news and the headline was: “Shortest Day of the Year Arrives: What To Know”

A special edition of White Christmas that cuts out the “nebby ski lodge employee accidentally causes a misunderstanding between Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney that tacks on a needless extra 20 minutes to the film’s third act” subplot

Wilson really nails the idea that there is no single definitive version of "The Odyssey", a story passed down through generations and across cultures reflecting the vaguest memory or dream of a world that never actually existed. Stunning how few people grasp that simple fact.

Reading and quite enjoying Emily Wilson's translation of "The Odyssey." It's my first time reading the poem since secondary school, and really appreciating Wilson's historical commentary and context. It makes all of the "historical accuracy" nonsense on here even funnier.

Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.

MCA: you there boy, what day is- BB: IT MIKE D: why it's christmas day MCA: so i haven't missed shit AD ROCK: using bad words? you on the naughty- BB: LIST MCA: not anymore, i've gone philanthro- BB: PIST!

All I want for Christmas is a $32K spaceship recliner pod from Neiman Marcus, 1982.

My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

Here a few Christmas Ideas from Radio Shack in 1989.