I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US. Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

Jeez, the kids of Sheboygan must’ve been really bad this year if they dispatched a whole unit of train of coal on Christmas. 🎄

I clearly have checked out of most mainstream pop culture, as looking at Christmas Day movie options, over half are sequels of film franchises I’ve never heard of. 🤷‍♂️🍿

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

My gift exchange gift for the family was a big success. It annoyed the shit out of people, so mission accomplished. 😂

oh….my god?

Ok how much did the military lose. The USPS is not a business

Facebook blocked my post warning people that the US government is targeting NGOs who are identifying those who falsify the horrific history of residential school abuse. Marco Rubio is using state sanctions against people calling out disinformation. Facebook trying to shut down discussion on this.

“Like prime, but with human beings”

At some point in the early 00s, viewing this became a holiday tradition in my household. I should really commission a “Pit-Pat” ornament for the tree.

And it wouldn’t even be all that hard to make US roads safer and save those lives. It only SEEMS “hard” because the US has chosen to make it hard, in part because they’ve convinced themselves those deaths are unavoidable. All they’d have to do to change all that is change their minds. That’s it.

Not liking that my holiday time spent doing tech support seems to be growing exponentially thanks to the “quality” of Samsung, Google, and Microsoft products.

Trying to figure out a problem on a relative’s Samsung phone and it’s just layer upon layer of incomprehensible duplicative crap. Why does this phone need two apps for every function that fight each other? And why can’t I delete any of these worthless Samsung apps? Absolute trash company.

WisDOT’s vision for every lot in Wisconsin…

it was explained to my satisfaction in her memoir "My Name Is Barbra" (out in paperback now if you're looking for a late holiday gift) that Barbra was minimally involved in the "Streisand Effect" action and shitcanned the attorney who pursued it, so, I propose we call it "the Weiss Effect" going fwd

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

I have to say I think it was a mistake putting Barry White in charge of CBS News. Great singer but he’s no journalist, and he’s been dead for 20 years

Imagine voting for president 'no wars' and then having to spend Christmas on a boat conducting a naval blockade against a country that poses absolutely no threat to you whatsoever.

When transportation urbanists go back home for the holidays and have to ride in a car for everything they do.

All this talk of "Heated Rivalry" is just another op to try to get me to subscribe to HBO Max, isn't it? If any brand has mastered viral marketing over the years, it's HBO, and they might just get me on this one.

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

So apparently the Madison Water Utility posts outages (but not consistently, or in real time) on Xitter and Facebook. Nothing on their own website. That's disappointing. They're making MG&E look good by comparison, and that's not a high bar. 💧

Does the Madison Water Utility not have any sort of outage notification system? Apparently water to our neighborhood got taken out and there's no info. Got through to our building maintenance and they're like "yeah, the water utility broke something"...umm, shouldn't they let people know?

Watching compilations of 1970/80/90s holiday TV ads and holy shit what a time of overpriced garbage. If anyone tries convincing you those were some sort of “good old days” they’re fuckin’ lying.

I don’t know the details of the Chomsky/Epstein relationship but there’s little question to me that it reeks of vanity and utterly unnecessary opportunism. Fuck that dude. But yes, he was once a good critic. Most good writers’ best ideas are better than they are.

Time for the holiday sporting tradition of Competitive Check Interception. So far I’m losing. 🎄

why not put count von count into various vampire scenes: thread

The Best of Neon 2025: The value of reading.

I’m angriest about this waste of kitchen prep space. This person has never cooked a meal.

It's your birthday, Duane.

The Basque Space Program was pretty advanced for its time. 🚀

Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.

I sure hope that the other person in this hot tub is Hillary Clinton or Noam Chomsky. Otherwise this seems somewhat questionable.

Figured out what Transit was up to after I got to work. For reasons unknown it tacked on a walk back to my home starting point and then walk back to the office bus stop on the end of that trip. Apparently it thought I needed my steps today?!? 🚶‍♂️ Getting the feeling they should hire me as a QAer. 😂

Surprised there isn’t a Ticketmaster logo on that page. Gonna have to cough up a “Little St. James Island venue fee” at checkout.

Saw the county just posted we’re finally getting an MSN-BOS flight (yay!) but much to my surprise it’s on American, not Delta. I had kind of assumed we’d get that out of Delta’s BOS expansion strategy, but hey, as long as it’s not a quirky non-connecting airline (cough*Sun Country) it’s still a win

As someone who grew up along a different segment of Highway 32, I think I have to vote for Kinnickinnic Avenue in solidarity. 🛣️

If we're going to talk about driving and safe streets at all, it really does need to start with the basic reality that driving is dangerous, period. Even if everybody follows "the rules," there is just a structural risk that cannot be removed, and it has to do with cars themselves.

An American data centre lobby group shares an unintentionally damning chart. Imagine if this construction $$ was spent on transport, health, educations, affordable dense homes etc americanedgeproject.org/wp-content/u...

Ironically TikTok will actually become propaganda now. All because a bunch of out of touch old people couldn't comprehend what normal political opinions look like. Everyone being against bombing hospitals was obviously China's doing, so we sold the platform to some techno fascists. Nice job, idiots.

In today’s weird Transit App adventures… a 3hr 43min commute. Thought maybe its calculation got goofed by a missed connection but nope, all that bonus time is apparently spent walking in circles at the office bus stop. 🤨

Trying to understand the evolutionary purpose of being a "human barometer," i.e. pressure-triggered migraine. It's like "oh, my brain seems to be telling me the weather is crappy thanks to this disabling headache!" when I also have eyes, that allow me to look outside and see that it's raining. 🤷‍♂️

heh nailed it first time

"Leavitt also congratulated President John F. Kennedy and said "this will be a truly great team long into the future! The building will no doubt attain new levels of success and grandeur" www.bbc.com/news/article...

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄