I guess this is to say… heart is more of an exercise than an organ

My late grandfather gushed over my late grandmother like every morning he woke up next to her, it was the first time. He said that she was so beautiful that he would get up early just to see her walk down into the day room. My mans was in deep love.

#adoption is wealth transfer from the have-nots to the haves.

Our society to adoptive parents: Love is what makes a family. Our society to birth parents: Love just isn’t enough.

Sunday night will be our coldest night since January 2024. Our coldest temp of 2025 was 15 degrees.

At some point it is pretty freeing to accept the fact that complete buffoons have taken over most of the things you thought were important institutions

OK wrote this up in longform: www.its-her-factory.com/2025/12/ai-h...

One fruit seller with more courage than ten entire Uvalde police forces put together.

In order to "protect women" Texas made it so that women have to go through armed guards with an ID check. They literally created a potty police.

It's something that really gets to me in how western corporate feminism seeks to erase motherhood from the stories of women to "make them feminist," the same way they only care about abortion access but not the health of parents or infants. Because that means caring about people beyond aesthetics

In my last essay of the year, I discuss Frankenstein, fiction, authorship, responsibility, the art that we owe to ourselves, and the art we owe to the things we create.

The pictures kind of have "saddest guy on Earth vs the most beautiful woman you've ever seen pre-and-pro transition pics" vibes and it's like, wow. Shaving your head really can be gender affirming care for cis guys.

I don't even go here, but there's a subreddit where balding men with comb-overs post pictures of themselves before and after finally taking the plunge and shaving their heads, and every "before" picture is "that guy your straight friend is dating (derogatory)" and every "after" one is "yum."

One by one, we require our chosen spokeshumans to stand up for a consensus reality that benefits us all.

shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights

Just rereading @magencubed.bsky.social’s “Stories, Like Houses, Grow” and being moved all over again buttondown.com/magencubed/a...

DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚

Sometimes we'll get a school-wide email & my boss will text me with something like "omg this is why I have you write my correspondence"

Calendars are one of those places where AI really could be used to make life easier but the tech lords have assistants to do that for them and they prefer to plagiarize other people’s work so it never entered the product pipeline

The actual hot take because it’s not glamorizing the surveillance state and monetizing/making content out of every one of our actions. WE LOVE OUR PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

About time. Other publishers should do this, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/t...

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this: The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

dammit I was promised redistribution of luxury apartments

I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being. Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.

Positive masculinity shown off here: -Showing tons of empathy and patient attention -Letting your kids know (through modeling!) that having ugly emotions is okay, just don’t take it out on other people -Be excited to spend time with the people you love! Let them know you like them!

Pantone met 2025 with the exact effort it deserves.

Happy Friday

The interesting, sophisticated thing about games is not whether they can tell stories as well as books or movies (they can’t) or float shocking themes as well as fine art (honestly, who cares). It’s the manipulation of systems, the play of contingency, the brokenness of machines.

Why... TF... do i need a *checks notes* "Smart Toilet"

Dear Brian, 14 years ago you were the 7th choice for a sales team of 6 for a pilot program at an industrial supply company. Someone got a better offer so now you know terms like “pipeline,” quota,” “CRM,” and “PIP.” It’s been fine but if they invent a time machine, work harder in college.

I’m old enough to remember when the promise of the internet was the removal of middlemen and now it exists solely to create, maintain, and multiply middlemen

Sometimes jokes are just things that happen to you

Remember folks, during winter every ten degree temperature drop lowers your tire’s PSI by 1 so it’s very important to go to the gas station and notice that the air thing doesn’t work and then do that five more times at five different gas stations

Fuck this so much. How long before all of our media runs through one or two companies? It's not just bad for entertainment. It's dangerous when only a few voices control the flow of information and ideas. Look at how timid and lifeless the news industry has become.

Run this water conservation ad from the Koch administration instead of the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. You'll have em sorted out by middle school

Honestly all of these guys being obviously high off of their gourds and the fact that he's going to die soon are the two points of optimism I have about America. These guys aren't titans of industry, they're just dudes on ket

hoopla is amazing. it also isn’t cheap. but the best argument we librarians can make to the purse string holders for keeping it is that people actually use it, so please use it! 📚 📺

mfs when they're 32

Ok watched the first episode of the latest half-season (no spoilers please!) - I did enjoy it fair play. But (in my most male nerd opinion ever but you can't stop me dudes rock) I still want more consistent sense of power-scaling re guns in this universe.

Jesus Mary Josephine baker. Yes, I am sure, Bob.

Oh! — if “morning fog” always meant this, there’d be not a word of grumbling from me. Just a pulling-closer of my warm hoodie & a deep purring.

"If you walk through life and never help anyone, you have not had much of a life." Fred Hampton was a great heart taken from us far too soon.

This is such a smart, perceptive piece, and gets at so much of the zeitgeist of this content-obssessed stripe of fascism we're seeing. This passage (about Walter White and Tony Soprano in particular) is spot-on:

ICE misuses pop-culture images of characters like Judge Dredd for two reasons, the first is to attract illiterate tub thumping goons and the second is to irritate people like me, and I've decided the least I can do is not help them with goal two

i've said it before and i'll say it again: we all need to be reposting jokes more

But this shift also changes *incentives* - whereas before, users were merely manipulated into getting onto the platform and you ostensibly still had to provide them some kind of value (such as providing accurate/actionable information), now you just squeeze them for money directly.

At long last we have invented Gattaca, from the acclaimed 1997 movie "Wouldn't It Be Fucked Up If We Had Gattaca"

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