RIP John Varley. "Titan" and its sequels were really influential to teenage me. locusmag.com/2025/12/john...

BLOG POST: Another batch of spooky stories, mostly made for TV, that I think capture something of the vibe of the Lawrence Gordon Clark era of BBC ghost stories for Christmas. precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/12/11/a...

This morning, Disney announced a deal with OpenAI. Read more about the WGAW’s advocacy against the theft and exploitation of writers’ works by AI models: www.wga.org/contracts/kn...

What light through yonder window breaks? It is the boys, and they are back in town

@mikemuncer.bsky.social @bunnydarke.bsky.social If someone *actually* made this, you two (and me, tbh) would buy it in a heartbeat.

Local restaurant listing this menu item as "girl dinner" speaks to me in the craziest way

Gleefully throwing Nazi salutes from a Presidential podium, then baby-ass crying about how nobody likes you anymore. Heretofore unheard-of levels of total and idiotic social incompetence .

This is a deeply upsetting, but necessary read. magazine.atavist.com/2025/14445-a...

This is an excellent gift guide from @senetmagazine.bsky.social. I've played or own half of them. If you're looking for board games this Christmas this is an excellent place to look. #boardgamesky 🎲

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star (Wars or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

Roller Derby portrait (2023)

h/t @turgidjacobian.bsky.social & @ggold328.bsky.social

That's how his base thinks of him, too. Now, if he had got the peace prize from a real man's sport, say the NFL Peace Prize or the NRA Peace Prize, well that'd be SOMETHING!

@sweetpeppah.bsky.social !!

At least Buster actually earned his prizes with skill

This is precisely what Trump looks like

Aside from "The Muppets Christmas Carol" Lord Buckley's "Scrooge" is the best rendition of "A Christmas Carol" www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOLrZar3XRE

Fucking finally, we're going to get some superhero movies

You. Yes, YOU.

krampusnacht!

BREAKING: Donald Trump awarded "Best in Show" at Westminster Kennel Club.

@mikemuncer.bsky.social Mike! Look what just hit Amazon and Apple:

Bit rude, for early December. These are February temps.

The simultaneous trends of "Everyone has to return to the office" and "Everyone is going to be replaced by AI" is peak Business Brain. Other people need head trauma to be this idiotic.

You last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

*stares indigenously*

@finalgirlafterdark.bsky.social Big Ponder vibes here. The images are from the movie, "The Killing of Sister George"

Vermont mother and 7-year-old child detained by ICE www.sevendaysvt.com/news/winoosk...

The first game I remember with a Christmas "easter egg" was "Dark Castle" on the Mac back in the 80s. The loading screen changed to include Christmas decorations and a tree during Christmas week. Skyrim still feels like a Christmas game to me, too.

They were 8 and 11 years old

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A man (40s?) and a teen are chilling at a table outside an ice cream cafe. Dad's sitting back, listening attentively while Teen talks enthusiastically, pausing to laugh with her whole body. Waffle cones of ice cream each. Big blue sky overhead. (1)

The local diner. They make their own corned beef hash!

@omgchomp.bsky.social You'd dig this, right?

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Porcupine Fox Moose Black Bear Fisher cat (carrying a squirrel in its mouth as it ran across the road!)

I am delighted that the "Chicken on a raft" website remains active and is unchanged from 2006-ish, when I first found it. chickenonaraft.com

Invert a band Who The?!?

When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health.

No turkey this year. I found a lovely brisket, we are going low and slow over hickory wood for another 7 hours or so. This is an hour in.

I love this idea. My dad died when I was three and I had to figure out simple things like how to tie a tie and even shave on my own. Please retweet this because I know there are a lot of kids out there who could use some help with day to day life.

Jade Empire. I love the weird, interesting cousin of Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age.

Monogamy?! In *THIS* economy?!

Anyway they can erase us, they will

Sixty(!) years ago today, Officer Obie arrested a couple of guys for litterin'... and causin' a disturbance. www.boston.com/news/environ...

Chili rubbed pork roast smoked over hickory wood Mashed potatoes Green beans (not sure how they'll be done) Pumpin shaped pumpkin buns Raspberry walnut tart

There's no back in my Dragula.

A movie that takes place where you are from. I used to hike in the woods they filmed in: Seneca Creek State Park.

This is a good list. My hot take is that "The Empire Strikes Back" is an excellent movie that ruined Star Wars. It became about all that mystic-ass Jedi shit in TESB. It reduced the galaxy-spanning conflict to a family spat.