There are reports that the FDA intends to put a “black box” warning on COVID-19 vaccines. This is not in line with the science, which shows that COVID-19 are safe and have saved millions of lives. This would be a serious abuse of power by FDA officials to further antivax political goals.

Wonder what he’s gonna decorate it with? 🧐 marry Christmas, beaver 🎄🦫

Javier, our new CEO, wanted to thank everyone for a fun and motivating first week. You all have made his transition process enjoyable. He has much to do but insisted on relaying that his initial numbers indicate that the dogs are all very good and will likely continue to be ❤️

The Right: preferred pronouns? I don’t have to respect that bullshit, I’m free to act as I like Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you

Thing I never thought I’d see: my friend’s dog wearing my podcast’s merch 🥹🥹🥹

Case could be one of Burroughs's wild boys… in a way. I'm deeply influenced by Burroughs… he found 'fifties science fiction and used it like a rusty can opener on society's jugular #Leary #Gibson I think America is ready for a female lead who beats the crap out of everybody #Mondo2000 #Cyberpunk

I literally forgot that my art was published by DC Comics once. About 10,000 years ago I did an illustration for a Transmetropolitan art book for the CBLDF.

dude is went to see the footie in Sydney once. I don’t know if it is still this way, but it was the most mellow good time, because the stadium wasn’t constantly trying to force you to be excited about football. You get to enjoy the game & the company you’re in.

Sorry to put this on the TL, but please do not transcribe this as “sycophant.” He audibly says “syncophant” because he does not really know the word or what it means. To pretend he said a word whose meaning he does not know is carrying water for him. “Syncophant [sic]” is how you transcribe this

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

By adding piracy to the long list of crimes, after openly declaring political war on Europe, the USA must now be regarded by our supine leaders as a hostile rogue state. Won't be, of course, they're cowardly idiots. Get US troops out of Europe. Close embassies. No travel. Seriously, USA - fuck off.

The president thinks military service is for suckers.

New discovery: 4th-century mosaic hall unearthed in Türkiye’s ancient Hadrianopolis The mosaics feature motifs such as peacocks drinking from a fountain, geometric patterns, ribbon designs, or an eight-pointed star. About 80% of the mosaic has survived intact. www.dailysabah.com/life/history...

New Zealand's music community has suffered another huge loss with the passing of Brent McLachlan - of The Gordons, Bailterspace and Skeptics - in New Jersey. His Writhe Recording studio (with Nick Roughan)... www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/bail...

Just letting you know that a popular Australia male poster here & on the bird site - who has connections to a well known musician - has sent a female friend of mine unsolicited explicit DMs without her consent. She had not communicated with him before & is very upset. Be aware that he does this.

The best scene in Jaws is when the boat guys sing a traditional sea shanty and Jaws pops out of the water and everyone is terrified but Jaws starts singing as well. There's this unspoken promise in the air that no one will eat anyone until the song ends.

I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people. I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇

Trump’s White House just threatened sanctions against the International Criminal Court unless they promise lifelong immunity for Trump, Pence, and top officials. That’s right — they’re trying to bully the world’s top war crimes court into never prosecuting them. What are they so afraid of?

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Just occurred to me that were you mad enough you could trek out to Cameron Corner and celebrate NYE in Queensland, wait 30 minutes and hop a couple of metres south to celebrate again in New South Wales, then wait another 30 minutes and stroll a couple of metres west to celebrate in South Australia.

Lurking behind door number 11 of the Scarred For Life advent calendar... a BBC show from 1968 which, according to legend, was so scary that it wasn't just banned - it was destroyed (save for one brilliant episode). It's LATE NIGHT HORROR!

The under 16s Social Media ban better work, because the next step is a Clown Box, and nobody needs that.

YouTube is trying to force me to subscribe by playing THE EXACT SAME AD in between every track on this playlist. The joke's on them because the ad is Walton Goggins talking about websites and I find his voice extremely soothing.

Thinking of commissioning an illustration for my worldbuilding project, but the custom art section on Etsy is jammed so full of obvious AI trash that it feels like a chore to slog through it to find actual real artists 😡

Day 10 of HRISTMAS - that crazy big pocket in the center of the calendar - we've got a 3D-printed sword. Surprisingly it has a full set of dice inside. I'm a little alarmed at how legitimate this calendar has been.

scamming people into believing they can communicate with their dead loved ones is an old tradition but it has surely never been this debased and stupid

Fun Fact! About 1 in 800,000,000 chickens hatch with atavistic reptilian features - a lizard-like tail, a toothed snout, a forked tongue and the ability to spit venom. The poultry industry keeps this covered up by killing all of these hyper-aggressive 'cockatrices' as soon as they're detected.

At first I looked around at all the red soil and sunbaked cliffs, assumed I was in Arizona, and was like, “Okay, looks like the Rapture is starting in Phoenix!” Said Jesus Christ

AI slop paper talks shit on AI slop

An insane political move. One of the recurring complaints about immigration in the U.S. is that those seeking asylum jump the line. This is line-jumping — but for rich people, not those in need.

i know shortbox comics fair has been over for a while but i really liked hero in the serpent's skin by @lalage.bsky.social

winter (i)

People were turned away from their citizenship ceremonies, so there ya go. “Legal” has always been noise, a BS assertion that it’s not racism or xenophobia, but merely “respect for the immigration process.” 🙄

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

you'll spend your entire life thinking "that's not her, not really" and pushing the thought away. you'll never truly grieve. you'll become attached to a simulacrum, something that isn't your grandmother & never was; it will eventually replace her in your memory. you will live in hell before you die

Nation Just Wants To Be Safe, Happy, Rich, Comfortable, Entertained At All Times https://theonion.com/nation-just-wants-to-be-safe-happy-rich-comfortable-1819575365/

You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned. archive.ph/Tmthz

The Camena Deck.

Roman bronze figurine of a little mouse nibbling on bread! Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️ Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me #Archaeology

recharging ⚡

THIS IS INCREDIBLE!

the brexit referendum remains one of the craziest fucking things a country has ever done

Oh that's too easy then.

i'll never understand why people have 5 digits worth of posts just posting nothing about politics. please have some dignity and maybe talk about things you enjoy for once, or maybe post pictures of your cat

Eileen Higgins just became the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years.

As a 2008 Subaru Outback owner, this is a no-go if I have to replace my trusty relic (w/o GPS/touchscreen). This BS, subscriptions & surveillance by car manufacturers must stop. Give us opt-out options at no cost, including manual controls over mandated touch screens. 🧾 is.gd/8baU2hW

Herbert F. Johnson House, Frank Lloyd Wright, Wind Point, USA, 1939

"Elon’s entire incoherent free speech framework collapses into a single coherent principle: speech I like is protected, speech I don’t like should be punished. This is what happens when someone who never understood the actual principles of free speech tries to cosplay as a free speech absolutist."