great, neat

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

In a district gerrymandered to fuck to be sure that a double digit shift would never happen. Lotta folks out there don't grasp what TN07 did today and how shook up the GOP is gonna be about it. They did the unthinkable there, my heart is so full.

This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

while its scary that US politicians are trying to fast track so bogus "child online safety" bills at once, I think their behavior belies the fact that they are aware this is a fight they can lose but we have to fight them. get friends and family involved.

It really isn’t said enough how much these people straight up hate America. People should say this a lot more frequently. They simply don’t like the good parts of modern American life.

“The alleged shooter of two National Guard members, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was struggling with mental illness, his ability to support his family, and, according to an Afghan veteran who fought with him, his pleas for help to the CIA went unanswered.” Paywall free link: archive.is/202512011554...

Who amongst us? www.axios.com/local/richmo...

An easy way to explain luddites: Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand. And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before. That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

The official policy of the Trump Administration is ignorant bigotry. We’re asked, under principles including charity, to assume that people support the administration despite that policy, not specifically because of it. I am increasingly unwilling to extend that charity.

My mum's done over 38 years for GirlGuiding. A Queen's Guide, she ran Brownie troupes, was a commissioner, even had her Brownie troupe at her wedding. Tonight, bc of this decision, she has requested immediate removal of her membership because she stands with ALL women and girls, not just cis ones.

1 TON has ~907K grams. ~1 gram of cocaine can be fatal. Over 20 yrs, former Honduran Pres Juan Orlando Hernández brought over 500 TONS of cocaine to the U.S. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison. Trump has pardoned & released him from prison. While mass murdering fisherman as "narcoterrorists."

I will now defend myself by paraphrasing jack nicholson in that scene from a few good men, who is the hero of that movie btw

Fuck you if you support him.

YOU MAGNIFICENT SON OF A

strangely inspirational

It’s not an aspect ratio thing. It’s a leaving-out-the-vfx thing. “Invisible vfx” are unnoticed until they’re gone. In the original, the crew was painted out and replaced by a potted plant. 🪴

The model effects in ALIENS are so effective you don't realise that they're using puppets in the final boss fight on the Sulaco. It's so well done, will pitch perfect lighting that marries the marionettes with the full-size action superbly. These physical effects are a testament to talent.

Another reason why it’s important not to obey illegal orders is because the people willing to give illegal orders will happily throw you under the bus for following them.

“Skydio has extensive links with Israel…Skydio drones were recently used by city police departments to gather information at the ‘No Kings’ protests and were also used by Yale to spy on the anti-genocide protest camp set up by students at the university last year.”

It makes me feel insane seeing fundamental rights overturned with zero resistance and little more than a shrug from many

Drug trafficking is not an act of war. This whole idea that these boats can kill millions of Americans is fantasy land. It's based on a fake statistic about fentanyl. And they're not going to the US and they're not carrying fentanyl.

“He once boasted that he would ‘stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.’ He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras.” Trump pardoned him, and Juan Orlando Hernández has now been released from US federal prison. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

I know hypocrisy is a feature not a bug in this era but if the Chinese government said it had intel (which they refused to show or verify) on U.S. citizen criminals who were doing things that negatively impacted Chinese citizens so they did some targeted strikes on or right off american soil…

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

imagine getting a bad grade on an assignment in college and telling on your professor to your mom

it’s kind of insane it came out that the president might be one of the most notable pedophiles in modern history and he’s just still the president

we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying

Who’s this “We”?

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

At the Pentagon: “None of the preachers so far are military chaplains, though chaplains joined Hegseth in leading…services. Each…opposes women in ministry and teaches that men should be in charge of families. Most…have previous ties to Hegseth, and all have pushed conservative political positions…”

For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do. If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections. www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...

The phrase "have the viruses do the education" is absolutely bone chilling, and hearing it from the context of an actual expert clearly deep in despair over what that entails is even more so

🚨 New working paper 🚨 Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims? We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024). Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence. arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749

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If you see this, post something monochromatic. #art #ink #b&w #traditionalink #soulreaver2

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

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It is actually interesting that the Republican Party brand is already so toxic that they are trying to seed spoiler candidates to help incumbents win in tight races. The whole "we're using AI to overturn the two-party duopoly" thing is an obvious smokescreen. NPR ought to be able to see through it.

(3) The actually-interesting story that the NPR reporter completely flubbed is that THIS ENTIRE "CENTRIST" OUTLET IS 100% REPUBLICANS TRYING TO SEED THIRD-PARTY SPOILER CANDIDACIES TO HELP THEIR PARTY MAINTAIN CONTROL IN 2026. Everyone in the Independent Center worked for Trump, FreedomWorks, etc.

Three notes: (1) this NPR piece is bad and dumb. They should be embarrassed. (2) Everything is "AI" now. The Independent Center doesn't have some fresh new technology that is going to make centrist third-party candidacies suddenly viable. This is just the latest rebrand of a tired playbook. (...)

“Trump…told people working on the ballroom that they did not need to follow permitting, zoning or code requirements…He doesn’t need approvals from anyone, he has told those around him, and can begin any project at the White House as quickly as he likes.” And the plans have continued to expand.

Any sign that actual consequences still exist will REALLY freak out a not-insignificant percentage of the current DC elite

A malignant narcissist living in a house of mirrors surrounded by sycophantic viziers vying for his attention for their own dark agendas.

It's that time of year again

I named my fists Foxy and Shazam because there is always a wrong to your right and there will always be a war somewhere to fight

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain. "The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.

the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all