PS we have a song about the Yule Cat that all the children learn in school and everyone sings throughout the advent. Here it is sung by a very young Björk.

I've been thinking about this a lot too. Fat people are often also excluded from immigrating to countries with universal healthcare.

Merry wormsmas!

Here’s my parents’ cat Purrcy taking his present to go.

it is no accident at all that the crash in intercountry adoptions over the last 20 years has coincided with “sending” country after country coming to understand that “orphan care” has a distinctively Western meaning with no analogue in their own societies

Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday to my boys 🎄🐸

PARSON BROWN WAS A SHAM. YOU WERE MARRIED BY A SNOWMAN. YOUR MARRIAGE ISN'T LEGAL. YOUR CHILDREN ARE BASTARDS.

anyone who counters an abolitionist critique of the last 100 years’ development of an industry in facilitating adoptions, and the corresponding legal innovations (like sealing and falsifying vital records), with “adoption is as old as time,” is ignorant or self-interested or both

Indiana State Senator wishes you a Merry Christmas by… posting images of himself assaulting Santa Claus. Are the fascists okay?

The biggest empty market basket parking lot ride yet!

“Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!” Incredible stuff from our leader, who I thought was planning to make America great again and whose second term has three Christmases to go

Mark Cuban scab origin story

“Body wig” 🤔

this is a video Denita posted on her youtube a few days after the viral video. she also has another video on her youtube of all four of them dancing. also, Denita has her cashapp on her insta & TW so send some her way: $25Heaven25 www.instagram.com/let_me_tell_... www.youtube.com/shorts/U072J...

human face available corner of 40th and madison, se portland. hurry.

That privilege--the privilege to speak of your religious beliefs as certainties that are incontestable--is given to Christians alone in America. And anyone else knows this and tiptoes around it, reflexively. But what if we stopped doing that, like this guy did in North Dakota?

Christians are allowed to say in any environment what they believe with certainty, whereas anyone else can state their beliefs, but in a qualified "this is what I believe" or "As a [blank], I believe."

Every jaw in the room dropped. He had done the unthinkable. He had not only told them his beliefs, but he had done it with the equal degree of certainty that they had employed in telling him theirs. And there's this unspoken rule in America: Only Christians are allowed to do this.

christmas experiment concluded

Amazing how little changed during the era of peak woke, yet we still got the woke panic.

Help our family get heating again! #mutualaidmonday #helpsky #tipaNative#MutualAidRequest 💸💕

I saw a teen on an E scooter headed up a dangerous road with no shoulder today. Locals know to avoid it. New riders don’t. Safe multimodal routes should be obvious and direct, not secret shortcuts. Safety should not require insider knowledge.

A toddler, an old man and a younger man all clap their hands to their faces, overjoyed by the dog. The puppetry is identical, even though it isn't realistic at all, because the AI doesn't understand the difference between these people.

The Dodo discussed its no AI stance with this video and talked about how to spot AI animal videos. What's interesting about the AI video (beyond what they bring out) is that everyone's body language, young, old, man, woman, is identical. They're digital puppets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1Q...

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).

This is what @moderation.bsky.app is “protecting” us from. just overt racism. the other apps will just limit visibility but bluesky is straight up “No Palestinians allowed, ever”

TL;DR AI shills don’t know or care why people connect with art. Their experience of art is as little posts scrolling by with numbers affixed to them, and they think that’s all there is. Sad, clueless dilettantes at life.

Oh this tiny baby ❤️❤️❤️

Since Mark Cuban is still saying universal healthcare is impossible, here’s how to do it in 4 simple steps:

Gift article:

Palau is taking 75 “third nation” deportees in exchange for new roads and a hospital. Explain to me how that is not human trafficking

wait, come back

Burying the lede here by saying this is the competition one. But I’m not done lol. Tell me if it sucks. It’s not supposed to be particularly interactive, just massively high resolution, but it does do things when hovered

Data Poem: Curl Global trade visualized as waves of annual density

I've been talking a bit about the idea of data stories and data poems, but have mostly shared more complex ones. Here's what I mean; four studies of trade. Data Poem: All Roads Global trade networks, visualized from start to end, with gravity pulling towards the destination. One of four.

If only the traffic was always like this in Boston!

As comparison, populations of small cities: Somerville, MA (81K) Bethesda, MD (68K) Portland, ME (68 K) Bozeman, MT (68K) Olympia, WA (55K) It’s a lot of people, comrades. #FreeThemAll #AbolishIce

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Can They Offer You A Nice Orb To Ponder In These Trying Times

Bipolar thread: Ebenezer Scrooge! • insomniac • hallucinates 3 ghosts • goes on a spending spree • gives gifts to a ton of strangers • crashes another family’s dinner • complete 180 on his opinions I see you, Scrooge

Guys!!! I got a BIRD for Christmas!!! I’ve named him Bert!! @banditelli.org

It’s factual that real people get real material needs met through mutual aid online, things that keep them alive. It’s factual that people who would not be surviving genocide are because of online mutual aid. I’ve seen the proof that it’s real.

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Merry Christmas! 🎄✨ 🔭🧪🐡🎨

“Do or do not. There is no try to make baby Yoda deviled eggs.” 🥚

hey if your schedule is weird because of the holiday and you need to take meds later, set an alarm on your device now

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just feeling more and more like it’s journalistic malpractice not to lead with the fact that the instructor in question is trans