Merry Christmas to all! 🎄❤️💚

I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

FUCK OFF FIREWORKS CUNTS HOW IS SANTA SUPPOSED TO FLY HIS SLEIGH UNDER THESE CONDITIONS

Because the sun should rise on Hogswatch. youtu.be/vPS5Yw_YsHA?...

if you're wondering why your trans friends everywhere are a little on edge right now, it's because a story about a radical conservative christian student abusing rules and processes to deliberately target a trans instructor consistently gets reframed to omit the entirety of the anti-trans bigotry

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

is out magazine including tags? because tags are important, otherwise somebody is gonna run across a fanfic without mpreg and be really upset and confused

"Americans don't trust the press. To fix that, we are going to crush important, well-researched pieces until we get an interview with the most Gestapo-looking man you've ever seen lying directly to your faces about torture prisons."

Last year at this time, Riley Gaines took a pic of a minor child who was trans from the kid’s private Instagram story and posted it online to harass her. It resulted in threats and the child having to take finals in a principal’s office because it was too unsafe to walk the halls at school.

Interesting look at a kidney stone under an electron microscope; I always though it was painful because you were pushing an object through a hole too small for it to easily pass, but no it's literally just razor sharp crystals too.

Here's Cernunnos, wishing you all a merry Yuletide, however you celebrate! The name Cernunnos appears in an inscription on a first-century CE Roman pillar from Gaul, associated with a horned figure.

great follow up in the comments too

"Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow" — this remains the most perfect Christmas lyric for contemporary times, even though Frank Sinatra killed the Judy Garland original lyric to "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" nearly 70 years ago. macleans.ca/culture/its-... (my piece from 2020)

See also: a knife is not a dish. You do not need to try to slow its momentum with your foot.

Also: glass and china can shatter in your hand just as badly as they shatter on the floor, but the floor doesn't have to go to the ER. Since a friend's permanent injury reflexively catching a teacup, I have been trying to train myself NOT to catch things I drop doing dishes (still working on it).

There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.

I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

Lol. Lmao. And so on.

20 tips for new organizers from 1199 Tried and true tips to help labor organizers stay focused on what matters most: worker self-activity.

Also applies to authors, as Oisín mentions downthread.

The thing that really gets me is back in 2014 I think bigots in NC tried to pass a bathroom ban & it blew up in their faces & when these same people came back with "fairness in sports" too many people took them seriously when it was an obvious change in tactics!

We can't work with foreign collaborators, but they can send money to a foreign PI to conduct an ethically questionable study in a vulnerable population in another foreign country? This is what corruption looks like.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?

Imagine if electeds like Bradford fought against rent increases like they do against property tax increases — as though renters don't offset property taxes anyway. Only certain household budgets matter here.

Maybe they get charged more for their drink because they bought a more expensive drink? …nah, that couldn’t be it

Very excited to see how this passionate defense of property rights from Holyday holds up in this afternoon's Avenues debate, when we are talking about the government preventing 23 apartments instead of 23 parking spots. Surely we will see an equally robust defense there!

Oh fuck off, Holyday

So many of our problems as a country are more explicable when you add the frame of 'we are an industry-captured petrostate, and like most petrostates, we are resource-cursed'.

look okay I hate AI too, it needs to be stopped, etc but this whole "ugh AI commercials are so SOULLESS. unlike the OLD HANDMADE commercials!!" thing that I see developing is weird, right like, I want my inescapable capitalist manipulation to be done by HUMANS, thank you very much

car accidents involving pedestrians, especially children, are more dangerous than they used to be on account of the Rise of SUV.

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Wow -- I missed that even UNICEF expressed concern about the Australian social media ban. UNICEF!! They said, correctly, "for many children, particularly those who are isolated or marginalised, social media is a lifeline[.]" H/t @mmasnick.bsky.social on CTRL-ALT-SPEECH podcast.

This is the core for understanding the spread of AI. All technology you use from big companies is fundamentally about trying to show you shit you don't like because when you avoid it that renders extremely useful preference data about you as a user that enhances targeting algorithms.

A writer's residency specifically for writers debuting after the age of 40? Amazing!!!

In your 20s, there will be a LARPing event that will suck so bad you'll spend three days having back to back panic attacks. It's very important that you go. Or: let me tell you about how I learnt I was autistic. 🧵

Have fun stormin' th' castle Y'wanna see a dead body I'll have what she's having You can't handle the truth

there a trillion magazines now called like ThoughtThink. Unsaid. CensoredMedia. The Believer. CrossingLines. The New Principles Of Thought Project. and every single one has written the same article a million times over that is just "i had to take a diversity training at work and it was annoying"

Repeating my helpful little mnemonic song from Twitter: If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If you can't get there without him And you don't know much about him If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏

Ramon Kataquapit, founder of the Okiniwak youth movement, says Bill 5 threatens his way of life. “They call it the Ring of Fire, but to us, it’s the Breathing Lands. For them, they see profit. For us, we see the air of Canada, the air of Ontario, the air of ourselves." thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-lawsu...

If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

lmao

Cartoon: "This one goes to Heaven." With thanks to @thegreatlukeski.bsky.social for the tribute idea :)

“My mother had a brilliant recipe for ginger cookies. Every year, I make a big batch of them. That’s my Christmas tradition," Felix, from "Felix Navidad." In case you’re looking for something new and sweet for your cookie-tin—this recipe is a staple here at our house, and SO GOOD. #BookSky #Recipe

An epidemiologist at Columbia had to issue a statement saying the research article RFK Jr. cited with her name is FAKE. It’s not real. The paper itself doesn’t EXIST. Yall this is fascism. FAKE scientific articles used by the government to influence policy is FASCISM. This is horrifying.