Man Spends Whole Day Dreading Fun Activity He Signed Up For https://theonion.com/man-spends-whole-day-dreading-fun-activity-he-signed-up-1819579571/

No more saving things for a special occasion. This year we're wearing our favorite clothes, drinking the good tea, using the fancy vibrator settings

Today's feel-good story (well, by 2025 standards): raccoon gets head stuck in a car wheel, rescued and successfully rehabbed by blueridgewildlife.bsky.social. Raccoon mad as hell, plans to sue manufacturer to include "pop off" button.

My mom managed to catch the flu this weekend (in NH) while in a hospital ward that requires masks. It is going around and is a nasty one!

It has been a long year. I had completely forgotten that Jay Divans killed the Pope.

Friendly reminder that Trump only cares about himself, so he would only care about bulletproof glass if he thought the next inauguration will be for him…

Show me proof of a donation to World Central Kitchen. From now til the 31st of December, 11:59 pm ET, for every $20 raised, I’ll reveal a new type of imaginary ranch dressing from my frankly unhinged list of imaginary ranch dressings. World Central Kitchen: wck.org An FAQ: tinyurl.com/yjtwvtrf

when people ask my mom why she's wearing a mask, she says, "it helps me mind my own business"

it’s a wicked world in all meridians; I’ll die a pagan.

Episode 47: Elon Musk Walter Isaacson’s definitive biography poses the question: is it ok to be a pathetic, cruel, lying reactionary if it kind of helps you build cars?

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

This is excellent and dead-on (& also an entertaining read!)

I think we need to wipe out describing watching films, reading books, listening to music etc as "consuming content" before any kind of healing can begin

This is so good.

We can live without billionaires but billionaires cannot live without us, in the same way that a body can live without cancer, but cancer cannot live without a body.

My large infographic sculpture. youtu.be/QakUFTiy2TI?.... #SciArt #plasticwaste #sciComm #EcoartSpace #HillyerArts

Shameless self-promotion at the end of the year: my second book of poetry, WE THE DESTROYERS, came out from @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social in your throat this year: riotinyourthroat.com/product/we-t... I am obviously biased but it's a pretty good book and you should read it!

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.

Yeah well my buddy already lost his job to artificial intelligence. He was an art thief.

I will never watch your podcast because the whole purpose of podcasts is to entertain me while I walk/drive/wash dishes/do something that isn't sitting on the couch watching a thing.

Holy shit. I absolutely adored LIBRARY AT MOUNT CHAR. Truly a favorite.

Preordered and following, based on how interesting I found this thread. 😊

Deer grazing on side of mountain near Cape Disappointment Lighthouse.

New shirt alert. Celebrating the nefarious, wicked lesbians who made me the person I am today. Been test driving this bad boy in the wild for a month and men of a certain age do NOT like it. Etsy.com/shop/bumlung

This is a great expression of the thing I keep saying about text-generating algorithms: “Hallucination” isn’t some kind of glitch. ALL their responses are hallucinations. Sometimes they align with reality, sometimes they don’t.

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

That time of year again!

THE MONTH OF DICK 2026 IS COMING IN JANUARY Get ready! 1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you 2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA) 3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever) 4. Notify your bosom friends 5. Whale tattoo?

You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check

Here’s to access, choice, and the freedom to decide. Because abortion care is worth celebrating, this season and always 🎄✨

Looking up “figgy pudding” on urban dictionary

Tiny Tim, who DID NOT die, awoke one morning from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

the thing is that some of us knew from a very young age that we spiritually identified with the Huge Loud Glittery Pink Trees Judged As Morally Deficient By the Narrative which made this scene a tough watch 😂 sorry Linus but that’s my truth

Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. We’re haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what it’s worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.

Merry Bourgeoismas!

Oh hell yeah 🔥

they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE

I need BONES for explosives

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

In Icelandic folklore Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat, comes to eat those who do not wear their new clothes for Christmas. In this image, you can see somebody did not put on their new Christmas sweater. Or perhaps even more unfortunately, no one got them one! More ... 👇

Holiday spirit? You mean rage?

White men are 30% of the population. They are also: - 98% of presidents - 90% of CEOs - 90% of billionaires - 80% of Congress Forever oppressed.

THE COMMENTARIAT DEMANDS IT (And what else are you going to do? Read the Post? 🙄)

Treat a published work that was later divulged to be AI-generated the same way you would if you found out it was manually plagiarized from a different book. Same situation, just the plagiarism has been automated and averaged out a bit, and the plagiarist is also a scab and a cultural arsonist.

The only reasonable position is zero tolerance: the AI industry must end sooner rather than later. It is culturally, socially, environmentally, and economically destructive, and all the Silicon Valley marketing in the world isn't going to make it otherwise.

Tractor Beam is excited to announce author Jeff Vandermeer (@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social) as the guest editor of our Winter 2025 issue, Thaw. ❄️🕯️🌗 Winter begins...Dec 21! Subscribe to our newsletter (link in bio) for a special Winter Solstice treat tomorrow. #climatefiction #soilpunk #thaw

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

There once was a widening gyre And a falcon who kept flying higher The best all felt cruddy The tide was all bloody And a rough beast just kept slouching nigher.