My two-year-old niece correctly identified a giraffe and an elephant in pictures, displaying a level of cognitive mastery that can only be described as presidential.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a trans night!

CREATING A TRACKING NUMBER DOES NOT MEAN THE PACKAGE HAS SHIPPED

“Melania Trump has hung up her phone. “‘How are you doing, first lady?’ the president asks from across the room. “‘I’m waiting for a phone call,’ she replies.”

Messages like this are totally what I expect from highly respected people, especially on the eve of one of their deeply held faith's major holidays.

i stopped making "trans people are the canaries in the coalmine for fascism" analogies when i learned that miners would actually try to save the canaries after they passed out instead of going "wow, 1,000 more canaries and i might start to worry!"

What a heartfelt and touching Christmas message from the POTUS.

You'd think with idk 200+ million people in the US who are eligible to be elected president they'd find one who isn't [points to everything]

You youngsters may not believe this but it used to be you could go weeks, months without having to think about politics or our democracy vanishing. In America.

Alt text always depends on context. Imagine an icon of a computer printer. It could be used on a page of free icons. It could be on a school's computer lab site. Or it could be part of a button that allows you to print the current page. In each instance, the same icon would need different alt text.

Democrats love to complain about "purity tests" because if they complained about "quality controls" they'd have to admit that they're selling an inferior product that no one actually wants.

I am still shocked by the degree that casual racism has been completely normalized in the US. I shouldn't be after the last 10 years, yet I am.

Maybe we should rename the Streisand Effect to the Weiss Whoops

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

They just keep saving critical industry! /s

Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.

Nothing to see here!

Cartoon 11

A good present should demonstrate that you know something about the recipient. For example, if you've ever seen them eating food, buy them a can of goldfish flakes (a type of food)

god forbid we let a team do some Heated Rivalry cross promotion

I'm going to get "The Donald J Trump And" stickers made and put them on bins that have "TRASH" or "FOOD WASTE" labels.

The Kennedy Center is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law. It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says.

me when the AI bubble bursts

“whose duty it shall be to maintain and administer the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and site thereof as the National Center for the Performing Arts, a living memorial to John Fitzgerald Kennedy”

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

The only use of LLMs I can get behind: Office hijinks.

My favorite social app is still MyChart. Love messaging with my care team and seeing raw test results before they’ve been explained to me.

If you don't know, or you know people who claim to not know, any Queer people in meatspace it's because they don't feel safe. We are not that rare. And while trans people are also Queer, it esp holds true for that group today as well. Not that rare.

i'm not a doomer, i simply believe that everything is becoming worse and it will never get better ever again

@mozilla.org & @firefox.com refugees

My God, they’re Netscape Communicatoring again

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

Please keep this in mind every time you post "Why isn't this a bigger story?" amid a sea of 2 million potential stories every single day

The phrase above is also related to the following exchange, occasionally heard on Costa Rican playgrounds… ¡Me cago en tu padre! (“I shit on your father!”) ¡No me importa, es lavable! (“I don’t care, he’s washable!”)

The message in that DHS post is explicitly hostile to *the Christmas story itself* is what I'm saying. So to a person of conscience it reads as a mockery of the faith - using the name of the holiday to rebuke *the story of that holiday* as read and sung by people of faith *on that holiday*.

A reasonable person could read this post as a raised middle finger to Christians celebrating the Christmas holiday and remembering the story of a small family fleeing from one country to another to escape a tyrant's wrath.

3/ I realize many have been calling for his removal as president for a while, but I’m truly puzzled by the many others who, in the last day, have posted things like “he’s gone too far”. The Reiner post is typical Trump. And we’ve all been putting up with typical Trump going too far for too long.

Serial killers are those who commit several killings one after the other (“in series”). Parallel killers are those who commit several killings at the same time (“in parallel”). Combination killers, sometimes called “circuit killers,” commit a series of mass killings.

Here's a fun thing I just learned: If you're a magazine or catalog or other bulk mailer who is willing to add AI-generated content to your mailing, USPS will reward you with a 5% discount—potentially many thousands of dollars! How on earth does this benefit USPS? www.usps.com/business/pro...

hence the dictum, “the silent wheel gets the grease”

@grok for POTUS 2028: You'll never notice the change!

Trump is the most anti-free speech president ever

Why won't they let this trite fantasy-skinned ripoff of every British bildungsroman die already? Are we really *that* horny for transphobia?

bluesky is my #1 source for knowing what the weather is like in minnesota and pennsylvania

This is the opposite of Heated Rivalry.

Someone should tell Rubio about the history of TNR. “In 1926, the British Medical Research Council had published a Report on the Legibility of Print, and the new typeface followed its recommendations.” She's woke.

"You should probably cut back on pencils" - absolutely wild stuff.

Trump has a new post about how he’s in perfect health and not slowing down. The newsworthy bit seems to be that it’s “seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean” him and “we should do something about it.”

Sometimes I don't know what y'all are talking about. So I switch to a search engine and look it up and then I go, oh that's what they mean.

Here's a chance to support an org that helps queer youth attend a safe and affirming camp (among other great things) in Pennsylvania. Bonus: Many of the items are books and art! Shipping info is listed on items where it applies. Authors might want to bid on the manuscript critiques #BookSky #LGBTQ