This whole fucking thread, man...

The #MissionImpossible people people ought to know how to lock in a bayonet fitting, surely? Leaving it lose like this is the kind of carelessness they're usually so careful to avoid.

You would be surprised how rarely you fall for AI slop if you simply do not engage at all with images that lack alt text.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40. www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...

Despite threats, billionaires don't leave the largest population centers, because it's where there is the most money to be had from the collective value generated by human beings, and despite what they insist, they don't generate wealth; they collect it.

Steak, tater tots (or croquettes), curly.

I love starting a great book. You can tell how good it is like 6 paragraphs in because of how good the sentences are.

It says something about my media habits that I have a second-favorite Lego Master Model Builder video influencer guy.

Thread.

I think After Life might be the best thing Ricky Gervaise has ever done, mostly because he's not constantly mugging for the camera saying "look how funny I am".

even if the Supreme Court says we can never touch Trump for any of this shit, the next admin should go after everyone involved in buying and selling pardons and they should do it loudly and aggressively

This is when robots learned comedic timing, and humanity's days were numbered.

OK, having finished the book now, I can confirm that it's part of the bit.

10,000 Maniacs

Cannibal Corpse.

This is a great expression of the thing I keep saying about text-generating algorithms: “Hallucination” isn’t some kind of glitch. ALL their responses are hallucinations. Sometimes they align with reality, sometimes they don’t.

My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail

They always say this, and the newspapers (which are owned by billionaires) always pretend to believe them, even though they've already proven they *want* to live in New York and California, and no tax incentives are going to convince them to move to Arkansas.

A wealth tax is the timid, moderate compromise measure. Which is to say it’s the one that avoids torches and pitchforks.

I've had Potatoes Anna like twice in my life in fancy restaurants, and I've thought about them every day since.

The Lives Of Others youtu.be/YsShZNHmpGE?...

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

vance is a genuine lunatic

I can handle people advocating for a totalitarian society with outcomes precisely like their idiosyncratic prejudices. I just can’t handle people who are so insufferably pretentious about how they get there.

Make a Bond movie casual The Man With The Golden Girls

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No, PhD

The World Is Enough

"Fool of a Took! This is a serious fucking journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance."

The existence of the Chocolate Bombe implies the existence of the Chocolate Enigma

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

Anyone who supports this kind of thing, whatever their reason, has a broken soul. Anyone who supports or defends the political regime that activates it cannot be trusted on any level.

Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.

It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me A partridge in a pear tree.

Dammit, I'm convinced.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, has a very particular set of skills, skills he has acquired over a very long career. Skills that make him a nightmare for people like you. If you let his daughter go now, that'll be the end of it....

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, has always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Those observing Christmas are celebrating a family of asylum seekers. If there is indeed a "War on Christmas," it's being waged by those trying to make our country less safe for the poor, for the marginalized, and for refugees.

Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.

If this is true I love it more than I can articulate

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

Every once in a while, I rediscover something I said and am like, oh I did have ideas.

Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

Skull complete! I also got a T Rex skull from the same series, so I'm excited to get to that, too.

Santa came!

“what is DIE HARD about”

important reminder