Christmas Wrapping is second only to Fairytale Of New York by The Pogues for me as far as christmas pop hits. When placed in conversation with one another they reveal daunting complexities, especially when you add in #3, Dominick The Donkey by Lou Monte.

Love this song

Incompetent courtiers being put in charge of key technical positions and then totally botching them was a recurring feature and major weakness of historical absolute monarchies and authoritarian regimes. Anyway, Bari Weiss,

I don’t remember the context but I stand by it

Capitalism is the best system in the world because it keeps all industries honest by getting people who fundamentally don’t understand and hate these industries to run them. Mankind’s progress will complete when private equity saddles every living human with debt and sells off their limbs.

The wet bandits withstand so much damage from kevin’s attacks. They should be called the Powerful Bandits

Bari Weis?!?!

mods are asleep, tear ass in a horse and buggy

Midnight in Central Pennsylvania

Hoping you all have a warm, light filled Longest Night from my little family to yours

The most annoying thing about genAI is that eventually the genAI proponents are going to get to the end of the novelty of it, realize its limitations, and then claim to be the innovators of doing things the long way without genAI. Call it "slow productivity" or something.

Happy Longest Night to all who observe

Political scientists baffled by all these nasty people on the downside of their careers being so drawn to the Make And Keep It The Past movement.

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1. Rescanning negatives 9 months later when you actually know what you're doing is a joy. 2. I am going to be very sad when my Cosmic Symbol dies bc it has a sporadic frame overlap that I have become fond of. I only use it now when I'm ok with surprise combos.

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i can in fact not respect big jims craft and worldbuilding sandbox. watch me not respect it ahhhh

Happy Longest Night to all who observe

A spectre in Europe? I'm already scared!

intense sleepover energy at this airbnb

watching Pride and Prejudice 1995 and it fuuuuuucks

HHS rolling out new "no fap" guidelines to replace vaccine schedule

My goal for 2026 is to become a guy who swears by a specific camera lens for something nigh-immaterial. This one has such great presence. You don't see this level of transference in the f2 version

1. Rescanning negatives 9 months later when you actually know what you're doing is a joy. 2. I am going to be very sad when my Cosmic Symbol dies bc it has a sporadic frame overlap that I have become fond of. I only use it now when I'm ok with surprise combos.

interstate '82, promotional screenshot, official website (2000) web.archive.org/web/20000818...

I've surveyed the political scene and in my expert judgment the voters hunger for candidates who are sniveling little weasels who don't believe in anything

I'm very tired I'm going to lay in this airbnb bed and watch videos about camera lenses

Let me stop you right there

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please nephew please don't be stunting on unc with your young fast twitch 360 corn husking techniques

Played farm sim with a friend's 14 yr old who was flexing on me with his agricultural knowledge. him: Oh, have you not seen a grain header before? me: Not up close. My grandparent's farm was a small livestock affair behind their trailer. kid: Well that 👇 is the grain header.

i’m just going to assume the 90% of pages that they blacked out is ONLY donald trump

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what if we gave a bunch of morons with brain and moral injuries from having the ability to communicate over the internet a chance to run the country

Bill Clinton?!?!

breaking news? news is already broken!! #justmytake

I’ll say this for George W. Bush: he’s an unindicted war criminal who should spend the rest of his life in prison and if he and his co-conspirators had been made to face consequences, Trump never would have happened.

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Bro, you doing alright, bro? I saw the autosave icon come on just as you entered the room

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I love working at the Department of Justice and participating in a conspiracy to cover up the demented 80 year old president's sex crimes. I spend 18 hours a day redacting documents and there's a putrid husk where my soul used to be

i mean it's fine. the legislation specifically said they couldn't do that but what is congress going to do

Protecting wealthy pedophiles might be your first guess, but it could easily be a toner error