A new year also means a new @ageofnapoleon.bsky.social podcast, and I really feel like things are about to turn around for the Big Fella!

So yeah most of my local family is coming to my house tomorrow which is the source of great anxiety and ALSO means I have to clean the house now which is one million times worse. I appreciate any support in this difficult time. .

What if I read books this year? Or wrote one or something?

Anyway, we made it I guess. Better luck next time, calendar.

Ah fireworks and/or celebratory gunfire. It's cold as hell out there but the young of my neighborhood still have that dog in them.

Man. This guy is going out on top, frankly. He still has his fastball.

DISCIPLINE GUNS

Happy New Year, Bluesky.

If you get the majority of your news from a vertical video with someone talking to camera, your brain is cooked This is true regardless of what your politics are

CY! BER! PUNK!

The past year has been terrifying. Really, the past two—I lost a lot of sleep in 2024 over the promises of the Trump campaign, promises they immediately sought to make good on. But at the end of the first year of his would-be dictatorship, I am calling it: we are going to win.

A master of the form, in a form where too often the greats go nameless and unheralded even if we know their work. But we know his name. Truly what the ancients called κλέος ἄφθιτον. undying fame!

I feel like "bonkers Trump ballroom stuff" is one of my chosen lanes now so this is good material. First of all, you may have heard it was gonna be big, but it's bigger than THAT. And it's got one of those drone-free roofs. We should all have those by now.

wow, sorry. Deleting now. I didn’t know she was French

In sk8er boi, Avril sings I'll be at a studio Singing the song we wrote About a girl you used to know Many assume sk8er boi is that same song, but there is no strong textual support that sk8er boi exists diagetically. What this heterodox thread advances is a potential "2nd sk8er hypothesis" 1/

You’ve all heard of Poundtown. Many of you may have visited! But did you know that Poundtown is the administrative capital of

I who knows nothing of sport: “this post is utterly terrifying”

Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"

I know you people are real gamers and unimpressed with my casual accomplishments. But I finally beat THIS fucker at least. I’m 2018 Cool.

There are some places with good pizza and some places with bad pizza and it doesn’t matter which is which because all pizza is good. Cheeseburgers and egg sandwiches are also good. So is cake. Pie? Good! Chicken parm? Good! Ice cream? Fucking great.

Topologically they’re just tacos and that is fine.

I think this is unnecessarily ambiguous. The actual rule as I was taught it is “hot dogs shouldn’t be eaten until one hour after Thanksgiving dinner.”

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

Back home back home back home.

Labubae. Is this anything?

Darmok and Jalad at the Salad Bar

Thanks Google but I’m pretty sure I can guess

Still one of my favourite memes from last Christmas...😉 #StarWars #Snowman

@fwordleproblems.bsky.social Saint Nicholas at the First Council of Nicaea, debating Trinitarianism versus Arianism.

oh heck yeah, if we’re taking a break from Eldritch Tiny Tim this is just the ticket.

He never sleeps, Tiny Tim. He is dancing, dancing.

Ugh twenty-four hours of Christmas Uber our belts and a good 48 more to go. Then NEXT weekend, more.

Another good one

Me communicating with the new Japanese users.

okay yeah definitely

Also we all had our fun picking on this film’s take on Roman Catholicism but on this viewing — I’m not sure the pews in this church even have KNEELERS? I mean

Somebody put on “Wake Up Dead Man” so this is my second viewing. And all I want to know is can Benoit Blanc crack The Case of the Motion Smoothing on the In-Laws’ TV.

I love that we have collectively memed Tiny Tim into an unstoppable force. He bestrides my feed like a colossus.

Merry Christmas to everyone but Spelling Bee, where they thought an “X” would be hilarious and festive today.

You hear so much nonsense about holiday “traditions” that are like 120 years old. It’s good that the Wise still remember the real reason for the Season. Important thread.

I think it’s nice that we all take a moment here in the depths of winter darkness to get together with a selection of people we see occasionally and celebrate toxic positivity.

Okay then. Moving on.

Where we send you if we catch you inferring future events on the basis of resemblance to past occurrences. Or, at least, where we've sent people so far.

MY SOUL IS READY, BONDI. HOW ABOUT YOURS?

Well sure but that just means he's got a lot of time to turn this whole thing around, really take the opportunity to reclaim the conversation and HAHAHAHAHAHA I CAN'T, can't do it, he's fucked lol.

-6 with white people. Good lord.

nutritional yeets

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For all his faults, Clinton can put out a statement on social media that's CORRECTLY FORMATTED LIKE AN ADULT WOULD DO. None of this "center aligned" Instagram baby stuff you constantly see out here.