If renewable energy projects once earmarked for turning Australia into a renewable energy superpower are instead diverted to feed data centres, there will be no real climate benefit, @ketanjoshi.co writes.

💯 prisons shouldn't have quotas and should certainly the fuck not be publicly traded

No, really: wut?

What did you do, Steve!???

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

The Pulp Tarot: A New Tarot Deck Inspired by Midcentury Pulp Illustrations

Windmill workers are fighting for a union! Support their boycott! This holiday season, don’t buy Windmill mushrooms! #BoycottWindmillmushrooms

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the waaaaaa aaaaahhhhh #krampus #sculpture #creepmas #clay

‘Soup’ was a slang term for drugs that were injected into a horse to make it run faster. A racehorse that was on PEDs was said to be ‘souped up.’ We now use the term to refer to anything that is enhanced.

Normal yule log? Boring. Expected. Overdone. Lithium-ion battery yule log? Relevant. Unexpected. Educational. youtu.be/rc6Txma85Ac?...

The early 20th century saw a brief but notable rise in interspecies legal systems, where the accused often received judgments "radiant with scorn" for crimes against holiday feasts.

This year, EFF launched tools to detect surveillance, challenged unconstitutional surveillance, and pushed back against attacks on encryption. You can help us do even more in 2026 when you make a year-end donation! eff.org/yec

The MAGA woman is a third gender. The gender affirming care they adopt, which is heavily surgical, doesn’t look like anything recognisably human.

Workers at Harry Hartog and Berkelouw Books have announced they will go on a five-day strike in the lead up to Christmas as part of their campaign for better wages and conditions. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1445/ne...

Snowball fight, by an anonymous Flemish artist, ca. 1510.

Laudanum dreams are the best dreams.

Krampus, take the wheel 🎄

#OtD 20 Dec 1973 Spanish fascist PM due to succeed Franco, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated and dubbed "Spain's first astronaut" as his car was blown over a five-storey building. His death was credited by some as hastening the return to democracy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9258...

The #1 movie from when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Uhh…crap

This series of articles in the Guardian on the Free Birth influencers makes terrifying reading. So many dead babies. If you’re planning (or going through) a pregnancy and you want to maximise the chance of a surviving, healthy baby, don’t mess with these people. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

A hurricane destroyed their homes in Jamaica. Now they fear losing the jobs they rely on in the US www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

8am. The Christmas demons have arrived... Good morning. #photography #landscape

Did you know you can become an EFF member for only $5 a month? Donate today to help us fight for digital freedoms and you'll even help us reach our Year-End Challenge goal! eff.org/YEC

Full copy of the Technocrats' Magazine here:

My exquisite corpse segment for the Artists Book House in Chicago. www.artistsbookhouse.org

The Missouri Senator took a break from feuding with the FDA commissioner to launch a group supporting constitutional amendments to ban abortion. www.jezebel.com/anti-abortio...

The wealthiest 20 Americans increased their net worth from $1.3 trillion to $3 trillion in just the last five years.

Our final Season 2 ep of "In the Same Vein" is out! Master's student Diana Herrmann and I had a blast interviewing Helen Frisby, talking about everything from rosemary in coffins, to beeswax candles, to (yes) decaying corpses, to whisky fumes and funeral cakes. open.spotify.com/episode/3AZt...

A fungus photo a day: A tiny waxcap from the special patch I’m obsessed with. Scroll down to see it zoomed out a bit. Pine needles for scale. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

Bless the Muslim man who disarmed a terrorist shooter in Australia!

Timeline Cleanse. Take a moment to reset from the scrolling with these two nuts, who look like they were caught in an intimate moment.

"Smash Antisemitism! Smash Capitalism & Every State!" Graff mural in Sydney

The sheer volume of utter scum already using this tragic shooting to instil anti-immigrant and racist hatred is truly disgusting.

when right wing political parties ignite racial hatred this will always be the result...and they hide behind parliamentary privilege...fucking cowards... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Raggy is displeased that the controls for the warm blanket have been taken by the human #cat #cats #catsofbluesky #skycats #catsky #tuxedocat #photography

Think about how weird medieval art of animals looks, and how in the future people will look at AI slop and go "what the fuck were these people smoking, did they even know what animals look like?"

Help! To my #academic and #history and #genderstudies friends: THE INTERMEDIARIES is exactly the kind of book the current admin don’t want you to teach— #trans history, #LGBTQ fight against nazis, real 🧪 science. Knowing y’all, you may be teaching it anyhow (yay!) if so TELL ME. I will come.

The morning grind: a coffee bean's version of death, but it's such a sweet, aromatic death that brings life to the undead.

The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it. (Published Dec. 2024)

Good news.

This year, I'm focusing on "less is more." Which, honestly, still involves the same amount of crabs.

What if instead of AI video, people just type out a prompt for a visual they want to generate, and we read it, and then we visualize what they wrote using a technology called "Thinking"

"We continue to see these projects socialising cost while privatising benefits." Gwii Lok’im Gibuu Jesse Stoeppler of the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en Nations unpacks the First Nations fight against gas in Canada on the latest episode of Follow the Money! #auspol @leanneminshull.bsky.social

Think your night vision is good? This owl sees better, with one eye!🦉🧪 Our one-eyed eastern screech owl, Cree, has large, tube-shaped eyes that are loaded with rod cells that detect light far better than human eyes can, allowing her to see in near-total darkness.

"Hang in there! It's almost Christmas" Art by Broccoli Cat Art #MenWithCats

💉Get your Flu (and COVID) shots! 💉 RFKJ banned this influenza vaccination social media campaign but we've got all the copies 🖕 #FIGHTFlu #FIGHTRFKJ

obscure anime? i have to shout out Air Master. Out of all the anime where a badass women beats up creepy dudes this one is peak! some weird shit happens, some adult themes, but the fighting is raw and bloody they hold nothing back. Also u cant beat the intro song www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJf...

Know your fonts! Calibri: woke Times New Roman: MAGA Helvetica: gay Garamond: socialist Futura: fascist Fraktur: really fascist Baskerville: neovictorian Courier: communist Georgian: neoliberal Papyrus: alien conspiracist Comic Sans: libertarian Impact: EA Roboto: e/acc Arial: undecided Wingdings: …