another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Just poured granola in my teacup, how’s your morning going

“Oh this is a great deal! I’ll make so many batches of cookies with this bag” One woman’s journey into eating four and a half pounds of chocolate chips, fist by fist, alone

I'll never be Your Feast of Stephen I walk though snow My feet are freezin' All I want is For you to walk in front of me

“Good King Wenceslas” is one of my favorite carols (and definite favorite St. Stephen’s Day carol) but I sort of wish the last verse didn’t end with He-Man turning to the camera and explaining the moral

it felt like a LOT of the guys who were into it were doing it because of specific, weird emotional issues where they were like. Dressing like their grandfathers in a vain hope to impress their dads.

Happy holidays (the older kid is currently whistling “Ki Lo Na’eh”)

The thing about both Die Hard 2 and 4 is that while I enjoy a film willing to be stupid, I don’t like it when they treat me like I’M stupid

Have a joyous holiday of your choosing (if indeed you choose to celebrate a holiday at all)

the three words that best describe you are as follows and I quote "twink, twank, twunk"

River the Cat has been much more chill about Kitty’s First Christmas Tree than I was expecting, but he did mutilate poor felted Jack Skellington

I'm grateful to all of you for putting so much weird shit directly into my brain every day

“In excelsis” translates and scans roughly to “to the max, dude”

Mistah Tim, he NOT dead

🎶 I’m dreaming of a wet Christmas

merry christmas to those of you who celebrate. here’s a holiday treat for you all. i love you, tiny little people who live in my phone. you’re so wee and precious. youtu.be/AXiS2ydYnB8?...

Wishing you a very Bowie & Bing

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was merely pining for the fjords.

God Rest You! Merry Gentlemen

O come o come Immanuel And do that voodoo that you do so well

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.

An easy way to explain this: Which is easier to do, bake a cake from scratch, or fix a cake that someone baked after they accidentally used salt instead of sugar?

Thank you, genie, my third wish is that D&D: Honor Among Thieves had grossed $500M and spawned a successful ongoing film franchise

This is a really, really good thread whose core message I want to remember to hold close. But there are two tangential points I want to highlight: one, "marinating in Christian mythography" is a wonderful phrasing for what we mean by "culturally Christian," and —

Happy Holidays, you dork-ass losers.

Happy holidays! Probably my favorite stop-motion from the past few years. Really enjoyed creating this one.

Friends, I'm wishing for you days filled with love and warmth and hope - they all seem in such short supply lately. ❄️🎄🦌

Oh hey guys the Peter Jackson LOTR turns 25 next year and Cinemark is going to show all three extended editions on three consecutive days and maybe I'll buy that MovieClub membership after all

Yes... ha hah ... YES!

I think the simplest version of Grinch fandom is just that he symbolizes freedom from obligation to experience Christmas cheer

❄️Happy Winter Solstice! ❄️

I’ve worked so hard this month (7 day weeks since surgery) but sales aren’t matching my energy. I am taking a few days off for the holidays bc I NEED rest. But I also still need another $700 to make rent. I have stuff in my shop or you can send me an Xmas gift tip. Thank you and Happy Holidays 💜

Honestly I think, for all its very real value, the line about five people sitting at a table with a Nazi encourages a very lazy kind of moralizing

#onthisday Dec 22, 1808 Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien — a marathon concert that introduced two masterpieces and reshaped the symphony’s emotional and structural scope #MusicHistory

Stopping the debut performance of my Choral Fantasy (also premiered at that concert) and making everyone start over is what would later be called "diva behavior"

the president announcing a class of warships named after himself

The way the "Gloria" in "Ding Dong Merrily On High" stretches on for six measures when any normal person expects it to resolve in the fourth measure makes it feel like a Seth MacFarlane bit

Just now learning that Affinity is now owned by Canva and am feeling a completely unfounded sense of distress

do they like the redemption narrative? i think they might actually just relate to him and like the power he wields when he's (temporarily) (making a failed attempt at) ruining things for everyone. i think many americans like the idea of ruining something others are enjoying

It helps that the tv special was directed by Chuck Jones, who brought us the best versions of Daffy Duck, a heel whose self-destructive selfishishness you could enjoy and even savor as "delicious" but who is an unrepentant asshole

This fits me exactly and I've been gradually and consciously pushing against it and hopefully finding my way out but it is still there and still distressing

Chewy and spicy

I don't especially love LEGEND (1985) but there's no reason I shouldn't. Directed by Ridley Scott, outstanding cast (Tim Curry! Billy Barty!), extremely moody atmosphere, Tangerine Dream... I know it got some pretty savage reviews but it's got a lot going for it.

Dahoo Doray is the North Whoville equivalent of Whamageddon

One thing that I didn't notice until I saw them in person is that the original names are carved into the stone of the building, but the "Donald J Trump" letters are tacked-on. those should be easy enough to remove, with or without congressional approval

If you got a problem, yo, I'll solvent, check out the gunk, isopropyl dissolves it

my thing is even I didn't have a fiery personal grudge against Twitter, I would not use it for the same reason I don't use Facebook - it's a miserable user experience. It's nothing but ads and ragebait and ai slop. It doesn't have to be a moral stance, it's just a shit product

Anyway part of why I have never watched Curb is because I have too many Larry Davids in my life already (myself included) and whenever I see something like this it just reifies my belief that that show makes the goys think of Jews as some made up culture that only exists on TV

But I can see you Your bronze helm shining in the sun And there's Gilgamesh with scale armor on, baby And I can tell you and Enkidu will still be strong After the boys of Sumer have gone