let’s also not forget that a trans woman with a popular account on here just deactivated after posting pics of herself in her new years finery and having some fucking creep use grok to remove her clothes and send the images back to her. this is straight up evil technology.

Still think the best psychic combat metaphor is the dance battling in Legion. youtu.be/r3fmppeSAYQ?...

The tonal whiplash when my internal soundtrack switches from Hazbin Hotel songs to Taylor Swift & back again is a trifle disconcerting.

Mortifying: great...

Demogorgons, whatever. No hyena heads. Hounds of Leng or simply hellhounds would fit their style better. #Dnd annoyances while halfheartedly watching Stranger Things.

i love this photo from the inauguration by the talented @gregpak.net

Hullo, I'm a hemorrhagic brain stem stroke.

Psions were totally a thing in D&D at that time, so why not just describe him as a wielder of a different psychic power than Eleven instead of characterizing him as being a 5e sorcerer? #DnD annoyance. My utter lack of nostalgia for this era probably doesn't help me enjoy Stranger Things either.

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The shots in this thread are historic and iconic. Thank you @gregpak.net for being there.

It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.

There really is something perfect about Bernie with that heavy accent doing this while looking like some random dude who just wandered over from the nearest underground chess club.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.

begin as you mean to go on

Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-catalogues #newyearseve #fireworks

There is an undeniable shared understanding in humanity. When people see "I hope this year it will happen" there is not a slightest doubt what "it" means.

I've started to see arguments that we have to get used to AI Slop coding even if it isn't great, because it's fast. Humans could go faster, too, if they're allowed to turn in stuff that only sometimes works. Such a fascinating double standard that will in no way come back to haunt, naw.

Happy New Year! 🎉 Walking into 2026 like Victor Laszlo ... 🗃️ #HATM www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOli...

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

All it takes is one bad gig.

this remains the greatest synopsis of incel culture one could ever ask for

i’d die for her

I have been trolled EXPERTLY TROLLED.

Because of a conspiracy theory-based stunt by a January 6 insurrectionist who was trying to intimidate children and daycare workers, Trump is now freezing ALL childcare payments across the country. You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm speechless. Go ask your maga relatives why they support this.

oh no there’s another one coming

Saying goodbye to 2025 like…

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

Happy New Year !

Super sinkers

>1 million Americans died in a traumatic viral pandemic, and America responded in the most American way, which was to make it more likely people would die of diseases we’d already contained by tearing up the social contract in the name of “freedom” while disregarding the actual concept of freedom.

Stranger Things works fairly well, even with skipping 4 seasons. Thank goodness for how pervasive it's been in the culture, as pretty much everything is familiar.

How I’m walking out of 2025

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

What the period between Christmas and New Year's feels like: Art by Yoshi Yoshitani

Stranger Things. Robin Buckley: Oh. Sorry. It must be my tone. My mother says I sound perpetually insincere. I can relate to that all too well.

Notice one of McArdle's usual maneuvers here. The person doing the courageous act does not face the costs she posits (like losing a concert in a venue most artists dream of playing). They're the bad guys, imposing costs on the poor audience who will (she magically posits) abandon the theater, 1/

They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they've all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? "I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?

This headline is a lie. That's not what happened. Trump is politicizing a resolved fraud case to terrorize Somalis, encourage creeps to prowl Minnesota daycares under the guise of "investigating, and harass Tim Walz. NPR is lying and pretending Trump did it out of concern. This is sick.

I remember these assholes saying we should at least be happy that “the democratic system works” when Trump won. If certain rights are not inalienable and can be taken away by a bigoted convicted felon, that’s a PROBLEM with the system. NOT a feature.

Bill Sienkiewicz draws his first Shai-Hulud in DUNE: THE OFFICIAL COMICS ADAPTATION (1985)

Cursed...

Damnit, getting new artist suggestions at work & not wanting to listen with shitty office audio (forgot to charge decent earbuds). Susannah Joffe can wait until later.

What should you do with your extra eels? Split them among your friends, yo! In 973 Bishop Æthelwold gave 16k eels to Thorney Abbey & Peterborough Abbey: each monastery got 8,000 annually. And sure...that seems like a lot. But its only about 22 eels a day! Not even one an hour! 🗃️🧪

I've waited 3 years to make this post

50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person. This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle. Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities. This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist