Its day 3 of 2026

Hey kids, the reason you’ll never make serious money doing art is because most of the people with the money to actually PAY for art refuse to move beyond a kindergartner’s appreciation for the craft.

May we all live to see that precious thing which Republicans deny us: A year that lasts exactly one year.

Behold the weighing of a baby emperor penguin.

This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.

In general, we'll probably stand a better chance at beating fascism the less we bullshit people and the less it sounds like we're talking about Santa Claus.

Now that they’ve started a war I’ve completely forgotten that they’re pedophiles.

The US military at large will not refuse illegal orders, nor will any US military commander. That is abundantly clear. An individual US soldier, however, still may. The likelihood is never zero. I know this because Aaron Bushnell once lived, and because Stanislav Petrov once lived.

(Trump didn't brief Congress before last night's Venezuela operation)

Thank you Wayback machine

Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by

Insane flex apnews.com/article/zohr...

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."

FUCK

Feeling better. Not good, but better. Car's fueled. The commute music happened to be from Final Fantasy, Uematsu's recent-ish Modulation album. Music that put me in mind of journeying with friends across a compelling world and defeating evil along the way. It was welcome.

Right, that's enough reposting for now. Further official lies to come in two hours. Eat breakfast. Stretch. Fuel your vehicle. Commute. Fortify. Wait.

In our name, with our money, ostensibly for oil, but mostly because we have a president who's addicted to power and attention and needs to deflect from being friends with the world’s most famous pedophile. Shame on these fucking monsters who run my country. They need out.

Impeach, convict and remove. I don't know what Congress is there for otherwise.

They genuinely cannot distinguish between “this sounds based and gets us a lot of retweets from our neo-Nazi fan base” and “this is in reality a good idea.” They are pursuing lunatic authoritarian policies because the reward centers in their brain are tuned to social media likes and nothing else.

The Bay of "Quiet, Piggys"

I think the actual answer is "There is no endgame" and they're just assuming there won't be consequences at all.

You can only play America's theme song in a minor key now

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

Be wary of everything you hear in the next few days. Check sources before you react. The rise of genAI means we can't really trust anything anymore. Lol this reality fucking sucks

Time to dust this one off again

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Venezuela’s vice president Delcy Rodríguez said the whereabouts of President Nicolás Maduro are unknown and demanded 'proof of life'

I want to disbelieve. I want to believe "The United States has abducted the President of Venezuela and his wife" to be a lie from a chronic liar.

(As an aside and with no disrespect meant to the two CBS correspondents noted above who have traditionally done good work, it’s interesting the Trump administration appears to be signal boosting Bari Weiss’s CBS News by allowing them the earliest access of which I’m aware on these events.)

The first reaction from a political leader comes from the President of Colombia, who is calling for immediate meetings of the Organization of American States and the United Nations:

They wanted to attack Venezuela on Christmas, but chose to attack Nigeria instead. Spoiled for choice, these fascists.

A good friend of mine called this invasion of Venezuela "Operation Just Because." It's what I will be calling it for now.

Thread. I feel that you can guess my strongly-held opinion about what ought to come to fascists, particularly ours.

There is fake news of a supposed Reuters report of US boots on the ground in Caracas. At the time I’m writing this, no such report exists. (There is also supposition about US forces on the ground because of the type of helicopters being used, but that is unconfirmed at this point.)

Mayor Mamdani has the opportunity to do the greatest thing ever.

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

True thread. This is one of the reasons people who make shows and movies are so fed up with these studios. They used to offer a lot! Money, marketing, distribution, space, "access", on and on. Now? Just money (and not as much). So if all we need is money, why can't we get that somewhere else?

If, being incredibly charitable, you didn’t intend to make a CSAM robot, not immediately turning off the CSAM robot when you find out you accidentally made a CSAM robot should still get you put in the magnetic boots prison from Face/Off

screenshot in case the post gets taken down or deleted

X and Y axes, famously parallel

Barbra Streisand

Red-breasted Nuthatch 🪶 #birds

Man, i wish i could make 15 plus hours of self indulgent bullshit like James Cameron is allowed to

Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor. One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”

In Donkey Kong Bananza, demolishing all destructible terrain on DK Island reveals a shadow sphere that was hidden at the heart of the island. While the sphere is simply a darkness effect for the cave, it was clearly not intended to be seen like this and creates an ominous effect.

Spiders had tails, once. dailygalaxy.com/2025/12/new-...

Once you look for, "does this [article / op-ed / claim by a politician] consider the 80% of Americans who live in urban areas to be real Americans?" you will see it everywhere, because the answer is usually "no."

you know what I’ll take the next bus, thanks