this keeps on happening to various lawsky posters, where a statement of the legal consequences of action X gets taken as a justification of the fact that X is illegal, or that we want to see people jailed, and the intention is the *opposite* of that omfg

the extent to which people will waffles here "I want people to know that what they're considering doing is a felony" somehow gets taken as an endorsement of fact that the act is legally a felony, or a statement that I want the people in question jailed, rather than trying to keep them OUT of jail

Does the rest of the internet regularly try to re-invent money laundering or is that just a Bluesky thing?

Sugar, trying out for a role in "Grumpy Cat: The Movie"

THIS

Smudge has decided that I have done enough typing for one day. I disagree, but then again I don't have claws.

They won’t leave. But the fact they moan about shows the level of their greed. They couldn’t spend their money, minus the taxes, in multiple lifetimes.

I have often found, actually, that I can tell everything I need to know about whether or not a cis man is a real one by whether he maintains a juvenile mockery towards menstruation well into adulthood or whether he takes the many, many aspects of menstrual justice seriously

At Christmas dinner yesterday @katvolk.bsky.social made me gluten free gravy that actually tastes good and this is a top-three Christmas present.

Still haven’t mastered getting groceries to appear by willpower.

Every two-bit script-kiddie who dreams of darkweb stardom just got a semichub and doesn’t even know why

Cat break

This just in: most women (most people, really, but most women for sure) don't want to be chums with people who try to literally murder them and their co-workers.

Per Craig Ferguson: When you're about to say something, ask yourself 1. Does this need to be said 2. Does this need to be said by me 3. Does this need to be said by me right now It's amazing how asking these will get keep you out of trouble (that is, if you actually have sense to begin with)

There is one thing I need todo today, and I really don’t want to do it.

Boxing Day naps

Reposting out of a response thread to remind US people: if you make people mad on the internet, it is a VERY worthwhile investment to add an umbrella policy to your homeowners' or renters' insurance. I recommend a $2m per incident minimum; we increased ours to $5m recently just in case.

Apparently the key to making me go talk to my neighbors about knocking off the questionably-legal fireworks is for my cat to be sick. Scaring my sick cat exceeds all social anxiety.

A warning from the lawyer representing the unjustly fired Oklahoma TA! Beware of GFM scams: her client is NOT crowdfunding at this time.

I kinda feel like now that the right wingers both Catholic and Protestant feel like they won the abortion battle they’re starting to remember all the reasons they hated each other before they teamed up for political clout and we will start seeing more of this

there is no reading of this that isn't creepy and/or horrifying. this is a tag line for a body horror movie or someshit

Hot take, neither Jewish nor Palestinian identity as currently understood existed in Jesus’s time so he was technically neither

Why do these sorts of people always have to place their religion in competition with others? I mean, I have Christian friends who can get quite eloquent about how happy they are that their gd had a human body, but they manage to rejoice without insulting anyone else.

Related- Tater honey, gravity still works. Even on Christmas. (He fell out of the tree when he forgot there was no branch there)

Smudge is watching gifts get unwrapped

To my Christian siblings, I pray that the birth of your Lord, the Word made flesh, brings you peace and joy. May we remember that He was born of refugees in the most trying of circumstances, to give comfort to the lost and hopeless, the wretched of the earth. May we see His face in each other.

Yeah, the degree to which Christians seem to be able to process their own stories *as stories* because of their need for A) everyone who isn’t Jesus or one of his followers to be The Bad Guy and B) everything is Allegory is utterly baffling.

every time I see a headline framing this as being primarily an issue of the student having controversial opinions, and not the student being an asshole with a right wing podcaster mom who wanted to ruin a trans person’s career for the clicks, I age another ten years

"Santa WAS HERE?!?!"

my family has a really long relationship with Bethlehem University, a Catholic college in the West Bank that was really important to my mother. they’re running a December donor drive for their nursing & midwifery programs if you want to get me a Christmas gift I’ll love 💕 bufusa.org/2025christma...

Heard rustling. Looked up. Hello, beautiful!

I will say with love that it would be very wise for a whole lot of us to take a breath and think twice about playing Document Dump Deep Diver on social media. There are folks who actually have experience parsing this stuff and doing Lib QAnon is not a good look.

But QAnon/Epstein material specifically I stay away from. It is fucking brain poison, even just written accounts. Think twice about putting it in your head, unless you are an experienced researcher/legal head working this beat, there is just no good reason.

Crowdsourcing: Are there any Hebrew-English dictionaries that run on an iPhone and are better than Morfix?

The degree to which UAE has been able to whitewash its human rights violations and support for genocide by positioning itself as a fun luxury vacation spot is... a lot...

You can be clear-eyed about what happened without reading about child sexual abuse in granular detail. I promise.

One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Ok, look, planetary scientist here. The likelihood that college grads will be “exploring the solar system” in 10 years is 100% dependent upon what happens to the budgets ar NASA, NSF, amd other science agencies today, and even in the very best cases they’ll be doing it while here on Earth.

I put @katskitties.bsky.social’s Xmas present somewhere to keep my cats from stealing it and I have very successfully hidden it from myself.

Not on Twitter any more, but let me be very clear. If you ever edit any of my art with AI I will not just haunt you. I will appear as a phantom behind who anyone who mentions you and gently hum the baby shark song until that’s all anyone can think of when they think of you

Waiting for Santa

We can appreciate good things as good and still hold our feelings about the future. This is good and I appreciate the sarcasm & crankiness & the more the Regime’s judicial deference is eroded the better.

Tart complete! It’s not particularly photogenic, but it will be very tasty.

This is the kind of energy we need from the opposition party

Gluten-free cheez-it’s are starting to appear in stores and my entire Facebook feed is posts in the celiac groups of folks finding them with all the enthusiasm you’d expect from kids on Christmas 😂

These are from a box, but they did come out pretty

this is absolutely true, but the trick is that you’re supposed to kill it Bari executed the lesser known and far more risky “catch and release only to Canada,” but since Canada also has the internet it did not go as planned

In any case though this is fucking stupid because the gunmen weren't surgically selecting Bad Zionist Jews to murder. They saw a Jewish community celebrating a Jewish holiday and decided that made them suitable victims. No more.

This rhetoric is not only vile, it drives Jews deeper into the arms of revanchist Zionism. And frankly under the terms this rhetoric proclaims they are right to move in that direction. If any Jew is an acceptable target of revolutionary violence bc Palestine, Jews are correct to side with Israel.