The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

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

@elfsternberg.bsky.social Thought you'd like to see the mascot of this local plumber. m.bbb.org/prod/Profile...

Oh noooooooo - as if "ATM machine," "PDF format," and "LCD display" weren't bad enough I just saw "AMA anything"

@beamjockey.bsky.social I recently learned of the existence of this 1969 airship crash movie, based on a true story and starring Sean Connery, and managed to track down a copy. It's worthwhile! You should see it if you can. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red...

Merychippus to all who celebrate!

So, a version of IT"S A WONDERFUL LIFE on Amazon cuts 22 minutes of the movie including the entire Pottersville sequence.(via @pematson.bsky.social ) bleedingfool.com/blogs/buy-ph...

Merry Christmas!! This past year I’ve mainly worked on one project: to design and implement the lobby to a newly renovated Foster Theater, a performance theater here in Portland, Oregon. 10’x20’ (main wall) acrylic paint and gold leaf. Ceiling: custom made chandelier and acrylic paint.

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.

🎶... tiny tots, with their eyes all a-glow, will find it hard to sleep tonight...🎶

This is a really good point that I had not run into before: these "creators" have no further insight into their alleged creation than the average audience member and that is why it cannot be called art (besides all the other obvious reasons).

Christmas is ruined because @mjgault.bsky.social didn’t get the prized ornament he ordered www.404media.co/weird-disney...

Alisa and I spent Christmas Eve driving around looking at people's lights.

Do yourself a favor and search Bluesky for "Tiny Tim, who did NOT die".

Thread. Arabella of Mars was optioned a few years ago, though the project didn't move forward. The filmmakers' ideas about the story were very different from mine (including introducing a female pirate villain) but I learned some important things about dramatic storytelling from the experience.

Etsy made a new mode: "make me an offer." I have dice, random number generators, calculations on what leeway I have, and a wicked grin. Make a wish and see if you get lucky? (This experiment ends Christmas Day night, when the usual Year End Sale will begin.) www.etsy.com/shop/Lioness...

"She took a high dive into a pool that she drained herself. Were he alive today, Mr. Murrow would not believe what his network has become."

I haven't seen any of 60 Minutes in years but tonight I did my patriotic duty and watched the CECOT report. Thank you Bari Weiß for calling this report to my attention.

New Children’s Book ‘Good Afternoon Moon’ Celebrates Seattle’s Painfully Early Sunsets: tinyurl.com/yrze7kp8

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

cool, cool cool

Instead of going through the time and tedium of subpoenas, hearings, and due process, Congress should just do as the Pentagon does: acting on a vague hunch without any evidence, declare that Pam Bondi is a "narco-terrorist" and bust some doors down.

For your collective delectation this holiday season: Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!) loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...

Axial tilt! It's the reason for the season!

I honestly still can’t believe they did this it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried

a new little Christmas carol written by @mollylewis.wtf:

I will be appearing in a short play as part of this Mini-Play-a-Thon! (It's on Sat Jan 3, as it says in the picture, not Jan 4 as stated in the page text.)

ANNOUNCEMENT: #GODZILLA TAKES ON PORTLAND! The Portland Tribune announces #GodzillaVsPortland. Read more: https://ow.ly/eihb50XMEoe#GODZILLA#GodzillaVsPortland#GodzillaVsAmerica: Portland is set to hit stores on March 11, 2026. A: Benjamin Dewey B: Caitlin Yarsky #GodzillaComics #Portland

Okay, @sfwa.org has now changed the Nebula Award rules for the SECOND time today and will NOT allow LLM usage. SMDH over all this. Get it together, SFWA. Can't we go one year without the organization faceplanting? I posted the entire letter is at the end of my column www.patreon.com/posts/146249...

If they're going to award Nebulas for partial LLM-created works then I want a piece of those Nebulas since my work was stolen to create them.

You know what? To hell with being circumspect. @sfwa.org is saying it’s perfectly fine to use the plagiarism machine *”trained” on work stolen from its dues-paying members* to qualify for a Nebula, and that it in fact encourages doing so. This is utterly shameful.

the #1 movie when you were ten years old is how your 2026 is going to go I don't like the implications

The tattooed tardigrade is cool, but the smol candy crab is simply delicious.

Oh hey, it’s #RECOMMENDSDAY! This Saturday, December 20th, we’ll be at the Lloyd Center Mall for the 4th annual Mall Rats Holiday Market from 11:00 am - 6:00 pm, so we’re asking… What’s the best movie shopping montage? Let us know in the replies!

It's been over five years since the Thompson Elk statue was removed from its spot in downtown Portland after someone sprayed it with graffiti and built fires in the fountain. The statue might finally make its return in the spring.

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Also seen at the Kunstbewerbe museum: this extraordinary cabinet and several other pieces by Abraham and David Roentgen (late 1700s). Watch the video to see its secrets. youtu.be/MKikHxKeodA?si…-

Cirque du Soleil ALIZÉ

Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) (3)

Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) (2)

Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) (1)

A fledgling social media platform has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel trademarks for Twitter so it can take them for itself, contending that billionaire Elon Musk’s X Corp has abandoned them.

a very revealing story about how the execs at these AI companies think about their products, and their users www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

I'm honestly skeptical that Donald Trump is capable of typing cohesively at this point, so I have decided to subscribe to a conspiracy theory whereby the White House trained an LLM on his past nonsense and they're getting predictably embarrassing results from it now

What if The Muppets Christmas Carol is about something else:

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