A few weeks ago, my daughter and I watched both Blade Runners, which are my favorite movies. I remarked that Roger Deakins made every shot in 2049 look like a painting, so for Christmas, my daughter painted one for me.

RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

This is a great example not just of Nazism being normalized, but of being so removed from the consequences of Nazism that it becomes just a thought exercise. I mean, hey, 20 years ago this avowed antisemite couldn’t even have been part of polite society and look at him now!

Ballet pic of the day Camilla Mazzi Mariinsky Theatre

The neo-Nazi groyper scumbags who make this stuff are zero percent religious, not a smidgen of pious feeling in their rotted souls. They say it for one reason: making intentional mockery of the Constitution and to directly spit on people who aren’t Christian, especially Jews.

if trump had balls he’d give us this instead of stupid battleship

Hello from the @worcesterartmuseum.bsky.social, where we are spending a lovely Christmas Eve looking at medieval and early modern armor from Mughal India, Sudan, and medieval Europe in the newly reopened armor galleries. Truly, this is the way. ⚔️

My 14yo son and I have really bonded over music. This summer, I took him to his first concert -- Black Keys at the Stone Pony -- and he had a blast. He just unwrapped his big present for Christmas, tickets for us to go see his favorite band AC/DC in concert, and just immediately burst into tears.

"We’re monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment. We have warned you." Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.

Remember, you need to consider the BUFF might outlive you and you need to arrange who will take ownership after you pass on.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Christmas ornamental landscaping shrub

Yeah you know what gets my testosterone going: losing a war because we built for ego and not force design.

@hurricanexyz.bsky.social omfg I just witnessed a murder

What the ....?

Look….. I know I’m an adult so it’s different…… but I feel like this year’s Christmas is the least Christmas-y I’ve ever experienced. Personally, because of all of the horror we’ve had this year. But also commercially, I feel like even companies are phoning it in or not even acknowledging it.

Ballet pic of the day, wishing everyone a Merry Christmas Kristine Zhuninskaya Daniel Photography

I see we are doing military history posting and this topic is perennial. The whole reason Makers of Modern Strategy was written was because of academic disinterest in the topic:

Like Prime but with human beings

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

I remember students complaining about hand cramps when I was proctoring finals as a TA thirty years ago. And uh, you’re not supposed to “like” the final exam.

Ballet pic of the day Hannah MacLeod Jeri Tidwell Photography

“Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told the FBI in 2023 that Epstein was murdered in his jail cell because he was about to ‘name names.’ Mark Epstein, 71, who has long believed that his brother was killed, also alleged in the tip that President Trump ‘authorized’ the late sex trafficker’s murder.”

I need to make a batch of chocolate chip cookies and a batch of thumbprints or butter cookie press tonight and I'm just tired ugh

Fuck. This is getting worse. People are drowning in the basement. The water can't be shut off due to the damage and they have lost control of the fire.

An explosion just happened near me in Bristol Township at a nursing home. Not good. 😢

I love that analogy of humans being fae. Not understandable by animals, and a potential danger, but also a potential source of help

"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

@theophite.bsky.social @surcomplicated.bsky.social Somebody is a glutton for punishment today

Que Cake music 🎶SHE'S GOING THE DISTANCE SHE'S GOING FOR SPEED!🎶 Oh man she's doubling down

look palantir is vaporware and everyone in tech knows this but they’re just illiterate when it comes to tolkien I can’t emphasize enough how stupid they are in this regard

One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

‘It’s not a part time job.’ Oof. Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi absolutely leveled Bari Weiss at an emergency 60 Minutes staff meeting today.

I honestly couldn’t name the previous CBS News bosses off the top of my head but I can tell you under their leadership I never had to share bootleg Canadian copies of CBS News reporting

Bari Weiss needs to resign from CBS News. Having watched Sunday's well-reported "60 Minutes" torture-prison story Weiss squelched, I can see no way for her to restore even a semblance of professional competency. She's an amateur, in way over her head, humiliating her talented staff of journalists.

Biden didn’t do enough sit downs with the press and they fucking hated him. Hegseth literally ejected the press from the Pentagon and they’re like “come on sir you are so handsome we just want to hang out with you.” Debased people.

I’m naive, I’m a sucker, I’m all those things, but I really don’t think Bill Clinton is a childfucker

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Ballet pic of the day "Snow Scene" in a production of the ballet The Nutcracker.

it's selectively edited. I was actually defending antifa while saying it's okay to criticize them

It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes. Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.

I think this is moving deck chairs on the Titanic as Robert Black suggested a few minutes ago.

He’s gilded the entire White House, slapped his name on both the Kennedy Center and Institute for Peace, installed a new Trump Gold Card, and now proposing a new “Trump class” of naval vessels. I know we keep saying this is insane but this is seriously fucking insane.

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