Here is the unpleasant truth: No American alive today will see the full undoing of the damage done in the last year much less the last decade. It will be lucky if the infants of today’s grandchildren see a respected and internationally trusted North American democracy return in their lifetimes.

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Maybe instead of identifying specific ICE agents who do particularly heinous things, we could just penalize everyone who was on payroll at the agency starting by a certain date.

This is essentially what governments did in the late 1900s and early 2000s with respect to Nazis. Whether you were a lowly concentration camp guard or in Hitler's inner circle, if there was evidence you were a Nazi, it was straight to jail with your walker. It worked.

How precisely do they plan to enforce their percentage of "ownership" in intellectual property when everything created by "AI" is public domain because it cannot be copyrighted?

The American Jack-o-lantern

Bandit enjoying the sunrise and a good game of fetch. Find your Happy. Choose Joy. The little things matter.

1004 businesses shut down today

It's inevitable, you simply must adapt to it and use it, you have no choice, but also please use it more or it's going to die

One hand holding back reality, One hand reaching for Magic.

An old, long-defeated evil is stirring, gathering strength once more, and it will take an unlikely group of heroes to thwart him - a kind witch; a dwarven outcast; a pair of star-crossed gay elves; and two very sassy old women. Get the completed series here: cozykathryn.com/the-fae-real...

The #SPFBO contest will open to new entries at 11am GMT on January 3rd. It will remain open to entries for 24 hours. After which 300 novels will be randomly selected to go forward into the contest.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Even if the fantasy that AI will speed coding by 100% or more were true, it would not decrease lead time. Firing half of your people because of an immagined 100% improvement in the other half will also not relieve the bottleneck. 9/10

Only a person easily bribed would think that everyone else is easily bribed. $1776 to the soldiers. $1500 to you, to cover a lifetime of medical expenses. $2000 tariff refund. A man with billions of dollars thinks you can be bought for 2 grand.

This is a good reminder for those of us making best of lists that if yours looks like everyone else's, it's a sign that you need to read more widely. There is so much great work that often goes unnoticed because it doesn't get a splashy marketing campaign.

Look at this handsome good boy! Just a timeline cleanse for all you folks doomscrolling on Sat afternoon.

Anyone else have a book-specific playlist of music for when they are writing their novels? Here was mine for Legacy of the Vermillion Blade. 🌈📚 💙📚 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

For the love of God DO NOT Give pets as Xmas gifts. Too many of these “gifts” end up at the shelter . A Dog/Cat is a gift we give ourselves and they come with many sacrifices. Time,money, and a certain amount of collateral damage in their puppyhood.

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🌹 random rose 🌹 December 9th 2025

Thank you to everyone that took the time to read this. I meant what I said: I know shit is hard right now. We can't help everyone we would like to. But I hope you are helping *someone.* Skipping out on buying a coffee can mean the world to a creator making the things you enjoy.

My accomplishments for the year!

Why can't the right win without gerrymandering? Why can't the right uphold free speech when it isn't about them? Why can't the right mind their own business? Why is the right the party of Fuck Your Feelings until it's time to joke about that mediocre podcaster who caught one in the neck?

Christmas reading for SillyPeter:

When you see the headline be sure to read the fine print.

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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

Great time to release a good old Nuremberg Trial movie

Everyone needs to hear this. - You don’t need that new TV, the old one is fine -You don’t need that new phone, the old one is fine -You don’t need more clothes you don’t wear / only wear once -etc. Sit out this Holiday season & the 0.1% will find so many “impossible things” are suddenly possible.

West Point plaque: "Our code of military obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law."

Be creative this holiday. Refurbish thrift store finds, buy from a local small and/or diverse business, make something, donate to a good cause in someone's name. Celebrate the holidays and each other.

And this is why I say the economy isn't real and economic reports add nothing of value to society. It used to be a recognized American value to make things that last and to make things you own last, but now it's "hoarding" because the economic elites don't like it.

💯 Yep. We keep coming back to this over and over again, and it always gets the same answer. We know how this works.

We literally had a blockbuster movie about this. Everyone remembers “You Can’t Handle The Truth!” and forgets that the two soldiers were DISHONORABLY DISCHARGED for following an illegal order.

This is literally what you are doing when you let AI write your book / create your art. The Writing is the journey even on the hard days - ESPECIALLY on the hard days.

“We can just use gold to hire mercenaries to do the dungeon instead.” Ok. The five mercs you hire go on to have an incredibly rewarding adventure slaying monsters, bonding, and come back with badass weapons while you all sit around. Great game, guys. See you next week.

“But that will ruin the holidays!” Make something, write something, go spend a day together without phones… There are so many free things that have become priceless. Let your presents this year be ‘being present’

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Everyone needs to hear this. - You don’t need that new TV, the old one is fine -You don’t need that new phone, the old one is fine -You don’t need more clothes you don’t wear / only wear once -etc. Sit out this Holiday season & the 0.1% will find so many “impossible things” are suddenly possible.

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