“I am the only present you should ever need.”

Donald Trump, basically acknowledging that so far at least he’s losing the fight over Epstein.

To the extent that Unitarian Universalism (tbc distinct from assumptions of Christian universalism or hegemony) has a core applicable here, it is that people not need share a creed to care about each other, or about the stranger. That's how I got here. May you have a lovely night, lit by love.

The luminarias, set up all over, are an echo of the invitation to the stranger, candles lighting a path to shelter. There's a very narrow reading: who wouldn't welcome the son of god? and a broad one: when we welcome any stranger, we are welcoming a human as divine as any other.

Japanese cat accounts have also largely coalesced around the hashtag #Blueskyねこ部 (which roughly translates to "Bluesky Cat Club") bsky.app/profile/pac2...

Pro tip: for my fellow feline lovers, the search term you want to use to access a fire hose of Japanese language cat photos and illustrations is "猫" or "ねこ". Here's a timeline cleanser: bsky.app/profile/mnt....

Japanese posters are so much more organized than Americans lmao: @catclub.bsky.social, which runs the #blueskyねこ部 hashtag, requires users to register their cat's name and birth date before receiving a virtual membership card that allows their cat photos to be seen by the broader audience lol

biscuit got an executive membership to costco for christmas #Blueskyねこ部

Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.

Tons of ways to appropriately share an explicitly Christian message for the occasion. Post a nativity scene, maybe even a Bible verse, whatever. But as always, they *want* to be offensive and insulting in mean-spirited taunting. That's their faith. They're about as Christian as the Marquis de Sade.

We have reached the golden hour in Wyoming. Peru Hill, 12/25/2025, 3:15:14 PM

The perfect Christmas Tree doesn't exi-- www.capecodtimes.com/story/entert...

“If I were you.” -a person who is indeed not me and someone I did not ask.

"Merry X-Mas ACAB" Fire extinguisher graff seen on the 101 freeway in Los Angeles

Your president is spending 11% more days at his private company’s properties and 25% more days playing golf than at this point in his first term. www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...

me, my wife, my son and my dog all have our christmases on the exact same day of the year. the odds of this are approximately 1 in 48 million

Victory

Watching the kids play without him.

Thread. This is a crucial thing for non-Christian Americans to understand. Most Christian Nationalists think it’s an act of kindness on their part to tell you that you will be going to hell if you don’t convert. It’s incomprehensible to most of them that they’re being bigots.

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?

Republicans want to kill the post office and the media is there for it, which is why you have never seen a news story about how the police department has never turned a profit and is a waste

DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD THINGS ARE WHEN JAZZ MUSICIANS DECIDE *NOT* TO SHOW UP FOR A GIG?

SPECIAL DELIVERY

I had to do a little research on this but it turns out, yesterday was Friday, today is Friday and tomorrow and the day after are Friday. Listen I didnt believe it either but it is what it is 🎄🎁🎅🏽

Anyway my parents don't have cats BUT I was briefly over at my brother's girlfriend's house and THEY have a new cat and she is THE SWEETEST LITTLE THING IN THE WORLD

Indiana GOP Senate Leader Chris Garten posted AI pics of himself beating up Santa Claus on Christmas. He then called everyone snowflakes who complained.

Point of Rocks, 12/25/2025, 1:39:14 PM

The Morning Monty exhausted himself with the new toys Santa brought him, and has collapsed for a nap on my husband’s desk (pic by husband)

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely. youtu.be/R9XN1iOungs?...

For all the new artists joining Bluesky: 🎨 You don't have to censor words such as commission, Patreon or Ko-Fi. 🎨 You can share links and your post will not be de-boosted. 🎨 You can take time away from Bluesky and come back whenever you feel like, there's no algorithm to punish you!

This is just beautiful. Sincere but understated. You can feel the ache of loss. Scorsese is as good a writer as he is a director and actor. My house is full of books that he contributed essays, forewords, and introductions to, and every one is a gem.

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

wait, come back

now for the traditional eating of the christmas tree

It’s never too late to choose to care about people www.bbc.com/news/article...

🛹 + 🥲

This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.

She really is a Serena Joy. She was riding Charlie to the White House and now needs to change horses.

Erika Kirk is a liar (and schemer).

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

do you think bonnie likes her gift?

the first lol the first lol born is the king of roflmao

Has your club ever been top of the tree on Christmas day? 🎄

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1746

UPDATE: We may see the first time English is displaced as the most popular language among Bluesky posters as soon as Americans head to sleep tonight. Japanese users were close to achieving that feat at 7 am Eastern Time, and their activity is increasing at an exponential pace. This is remarkable.

For your holiday ambiance, I've made a hypnotic yule log fireplace with ultra slow motion macro footage of flames stretching & warping like liquid as fire reacts with calcium chloride & barium. This is real fire I filmed, not CGI or AI. 10hrs, 4K, crackling sounds, no music, no ads. Happy holidays!