I almost made it through the holidays without politics, but the last day had a lot of disagreement and my mom kept quitting with "we just will never agree on this." And that's a shame, because I felt like I was getting close to making her question the things she was uncritically absorbing from Fox.

The Texas GOP says that letting Democrats and Independents vote violates Republicans' First Amendment rights. That's certainly a novel notion. boldstrategycotton.gif Hey, @kenwhite.bsky.social is this the dumbest argument? Or is it simply S-tier dumb?

Look, we love Ellen Ripley, but we've also gotta give Lynn Peltzer her flowers. That woman took out three Gremlins one on one. Billy got one and then blew up the theater, which only counts as one for me. I know @benjaminahr.mobi knows what I'm talking about.

When I go home for any holiday, I finally see commercials (humble-brag at paying for streaming services at the "no commercials level). And it's been great this year seeing so many @dropout.tv people show up in them and my parents -- as per usual -- having no idea what I'm talking about.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains. Look it's all perfect albums from this band, but I feel like my cohort taps out at Flood or Apollo 18 and this and Factory Showroom are chockablock with bangers

Why is every decorating decision Trump makes basically just this guy?

How I'm walking out of 2025

The Vance quote makes it sound like moral ideas are destructive and I think that's absolutely what he really thinks.

The thing I'd do with a time machine is to first get filthy rich with future knowledge of markets. Then I'd blow all that money making extremely expensive, eerily accurate sci-fi movies which will probably flop so hard they'd be unable to affect the timeline.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. And now, here's the Christmas decoration that my mom grew up with, so I had to, too.

Ralphie, the commercial decoded.

The common denominator here is that I love secondary worlds. Even if it's a really familiar-seeming world like in the Green Bone Saga, you give me different cities, countries, cultures and histories and I will want to devour them slowly and thoroughly.

My dream project is Leave it to Chance. But especially if that could get more issues of the series. That there aren't a hundred or more issues of that series is the first clue that this isn't the ideal timeline.

This is maybe the most unhinged version of "making up a guy to be mad at" I think I've ever seen.

Normally, I match my watchbands with my shirt. But when I travel, I don't want to bring all of them with me, so I choose one and stick with it. This time I decided to mix and match for a Christmas theme. Bonus, these are my highschool's colors so good for being in my childhood home for the holidays.

I very much doubt it'll include the tick tock of the government fully ignoring a judge's orders, but that'd be good.

In broadcast television, you're not the customer, you're the product. Their job is to make enough good stuff to attract enough audience so that their customers (the advertisers) give them more money. In games, it feels like the real customers are the shareholders as they chase tech company growth.

A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called Goo Goo Dol Guldurs

A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called Lonely Mountain Goats.

Real "Attack of the the Eye Creatures" vibes with this sign.

responding to “what do you think of Adolph Hitler?” with “I’m in favor of a strong executive” is advanced conservatism. these kids have perfected the craft.

You know where you are? You're in the Jungle, baby! You're not gonna dieeeeeee, because the in the Jungle, Eurogames don't have p-p-p-player elimination!

George Nader in his third entry for MST3K, Robot Monster, The Human Duplicators, and now The Million Eyes of Sumuru.

Politician heal thyself. Imagine making this observation while specifically announcing a plan that comes entirely from a party's platform and stands against the scientific conclusions of every major medical organization.

You know that thing where famous and/or rich people surround themselves with sycophants and end up full crazy and unable to interact with regular people or hold regular conversations? Chatbots are doing exactly that to everyone.

And in TWO movies with Paul Rudd.

Another regime change war? The Arrested Development based on this war is going to be wild!

well, nice to be able to skip the “this war isn’t for oil, how dare you” phase of things this time around

going into 2026 like...

We know for a fact that GenAI trained on AI slop degrades models. If the AI companies want to protect their product, they need to have a way to detect and eliminate GenAI content from their own training material. You'd think tech companies would see how much their own future viability requires this.

I was going to go back into some electroplating for lightsaber projects, but it turns out I'm all out of zincate solution. It'll probably be how I spend my weeks after Christmas leading into the new year. guess I'm going to the other saber and back to jewelry welding.

Anyone who knows a teacher doesn't think of the people in the faculty lounge as elitists or disconnected from workers.

Cover the subtitles with your fingers and keep the sound off and try to guess what she's saying based on the look on her face. This is a Spielberg trick for checking the editing.

This was Limbaugh's whole schtick. Tarring the whole of "liberals" with whatever strange behavior he could find from some unknown extremist. And it became the whole of the right's personality. Social media has only made this nutpicking easier and let the reactionary centrists do the same thing.

A few years ago, I spent some personal project time making a PbtA Star Wars game using SWTOR classes as playbooks. The idea was to get a more BioWare style version of Star Wars where your relationships with your companions is as much of the game as the space adventure. It borrowed a lot from Masks.

We don't like her conspiracy theories. They conflict with OUR conspiracy theories!

Looks like @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social got another one. I feel like we need another @makesomenoiseshow.bsky.social to address this latest victory by Times New Roman.

Codex entries are basically a screen shot of some location or character. But sometimes, when I make Codex Entries, I'm not above doing a lot of work for a custom shot that I have to delete once it's all done.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

I know we want to dump the filibuster to be able to pass any reforms in a 2029 term. But that's a tough sell for a lot of institutionalists. But what if we just poked a hole in the filibuster for addressing Supreme Court rulings? The law has been passed, so amending it should be a simple majority.

People like Pete Hegseth make me wish God and Heaven and all of it were real so that when Pete eventually dies, he can be told by his God to his face that he's a piece of shit and deserves the Hell he's going to.

This is my favorite Advent calendar on the internet.

We know that AI models degrade as they get retrained n AI slop. You'd think that AI companies would be extremely worried about correctly identifying AI just to protect their models. But ironically, tech bros are not very forward thinking.

But... Sorcerer wasn't an innate spellcasting class until 2000.

If someone called me "Honey Stringer" or "Energy Waffle" in a cockney accent, I'd be forced to assume it was a devastating insult.

Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

While I'm visiting the parents, Scout got her own turkey dinner at the boarders.

I love @maxgladstone.bsky.social's Craft books (including the recent Craft War series). I could do a whole book with Gav and Donnie. And a whole series in Iskar.