if yr into doggies i’ve got some pics of the guys i’ve been watching and walking this week. tucker whose motto is “ball is life”; mac who just wants to be outside; turnip whose idea of fun is barking; and nelson who just wants to sit on the porch saying hello to everyone like the old man he is.

it’s time for instant hot cocoa made with half milk and half almond milk, and lucky charms marshmallows.

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One fun thing about the Japanese is we love the FUCK out of Christmas and have only the loosest concept of what is going on

Merrick Garland hid this from us for 4 YEARS, and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected

I promoted Miracle on 34th St. in Tokyo in 1994, and it was SO much fun. I remember turning on the TV and seeing a Christmas special with Goofy, a girl in a Bo Peep dress, and a cursed witch’s broom. I had no idea what was going on, and I don’t think they did, either.

I've never seen the nadocast have such a high risk of tornados in the Bay Area before. This is for Christmas morning.

Mark Cuban may well have once been a well meaning person, I have no idea, but the simple fact is that being a billionaire makes you stupid and evil. There is no avoiding this. That amount of money empties out your head and soul. The only cure is to not be a billionaire anymore.

Merry Christmas everyone. Time for a late night music video thread which will have my entire Apple Music Christmas playlist. It consists of 36 songs none of which includes that Mariah Carey abomination. We begin with Christmas Wrapping from The Waitresses

it's time to consume substances everyone consume a substance

there are so many funny shows that i can’t handle cuz i get secondhand embarrassed.

even setting aside the crazy politics of trying to override a wildly popular local ballot measure raising taxes on top earners to fund preschool for all, like, an entire-ass highway is currently closed "indefinitely" and there's no money to repair it? not the time to be blocking highway tolling

Of all the post-Trump reforms this is by far the least likely to happen, because politicians across the spectrum would reject it outright because giving out ambassadorships to cronies & big donors is their god given right god damn it. Only thing less likely to pass would be killing Citizens United.

Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

“That’s life” - Hegel

There are about 3500 billionaires on the planet. There are 8.2 billion people. This is the easiest trolley problem ever devised.

I'm on my fourth primary care physician at One Medical because the prior three opted out of our current system to start their own private practices that don't take insurance. Hospitals are being closed DAILY. Your worst-case scenarios are already happening.

Mark Cuban is further proof that billionaires shouldn't exist. How can you have so much money and still be rage typing into your phone? Set the top tax rate back to 74%

I love when billionaires pretend universal healthcare isn't possible

xmas eve is apparently the night to post your sins

I’m gonna be super disappointed if we don’t manage to get JD Vance excommunicated

It’s wild how the RICHEST and most POWERFUL men in the world simply cannot stand it that ordinary little mundanes like us just DON’T LIKE THEM. Like they just have to log on to this particular app, and try one more time! To get us to worship at their feet, like everyone who works for them does

MA thread, drop your links and booooost 👇🏾

If you get an email with links to a legit organization, or that name-drops a legit book club... just go to the website or the org or club, and email the organizers from the contact page, to make sure this person is actually one of their leaders for real.

Just a heads up: the "I run a book club/reader org and we can promote your book" scam seems to have leveled up again. I've gotten a few lately where the scammer represents themself as being part of a longstanding community/org that actually *does* exist and *is* legit. They just aren't part of it.

The cognitive & emotional toll from staying in contact with abusive family can be both significant and difficult to recognize. There's a kind of social contract that abusive parents have violated. You owe them nothing. Nothing. Christmas–or any other holiday–doesn't change that.

The postal service is not supposed to make money. The postal service keeps people in rural areas able to get mail. Matty Yglesias deserves the worst this christmas, as is true with every christmas

pobody's nerfect

For all those who need this - or can relate to this - or need to hear this. www.disabledginger.com/p/another-ch...

At this point, writing professors and house style guides need to incorporate points on writing so that LLMs don't misinterpret your work as saying the exact opposite of what you actually said.

I can relate, Murderbot. I can relate. #murderbot #slyart

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

The dems seem to love it when they're not in power, they can talk about all the things they WOULD do. When they get power, all of a sudden their tune changes and they can't do anything apparently.

The Biden/Harris administration had the info about Epstein's 10 uncharged co-conspirators and we didn't hear a word about it.

What if we spent the $100,000 per person in America setting them up with housing assistance, healthcare, education, etc? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

i’m posting the video again

I'm told the Japanese art community, specifically, is doing a Twitter exodus right now so if anyone wants to recommend me Japanese artists to follow I'd he super curious

When you’re chronically ill, the holidays hit different. They’re exhausting, isolating and lonely. It’s important to set and hold boundaries. Make your own traditions and find ways to cultivate joy. Here’s to another Chronic Illness Christmas: www.disabledginger.com/p/another-ch...

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

"The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back." @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

In February, DOGE - under Elon Musk’s direction - gutted the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, notably including their autonomous vehicle safety unit, which was investigating Tesla.

Or you might call them "camps" where people are to be "concentrated" until they are deported. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The people should just create their own debt jubilee and stop paying. The system has been rigged so a small criminal elite could steal everything. The 99% is more powerful - start making new rules.

It’s one big grift and you’re not in it

While Christmas was officially celebrated on December 25th as early as 336 CE under Emperor Constantine; for a period of about 170 years, people disagreed about WHICH DAY was December 25th. Let's talk about 10 days in history that never happened.

I straight give MORE money to homeless folks if they’re standing near one of those signs, because they are running the risk of getting reported and dragged away just by trying to get enough spare change for a fucking meal. You know what contributes to the solution? Taxing these fucking rich people.

The Sticky Fingers administration. If it's not bolted down they'll steal it! Amanda is an independent scratching out a living doing the dangerous work of tracking ICE around the country. This is theft.

…including with them spreading weird baseless rumors that he as an adult plays with porcelain dolls and b) that President Trump would EVER mock him behind his back as awkward and weird (he has)

I want to stress, also, how when we approached the Trump White House with a lengthy comment request on our findings, the only things they disputed - among the batch of lawless, titanically rancid shit - were a) Stephen miller was NOT regularly made fun of by his former GOP Hill colleagues…

It's a weird world when dutifully regurgitating a bunch of carefully curated information that the world's richest man gave you is "fearless journalism," but reporting on how the government is kidnapping innocent people and sending them overseas to be tortured is "not moving the ball forward."