Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/

See also the persistent anger among conservatives about seeing gay or interracial couples in TV commercials. The government doesn't decide what's on your TV, but to them "the government" is a parent-like concept that substitutes for anyone who runs anything in society

I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)

Someone compared her to a soviet political commissar and the reason that comparison falls short is that a political commissar wouldn't insist on pretending that all their changes were the result of non political good faith disagreement.

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Stephen Miller is a horrible racist in the sense that he is actually not that good at being racist.

He could totally lean into ironically owning a persona that he's a sinister, emotionally detached Machiavel. There's a way to spin that as a kind of ruthless pragmatism. But he can't because he's too insecure, bitter, and whiny about how people have always seen him as a creep and mocked him for it.

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

The culture of the SNP is in the image of Alex Salmond & so primarily based around helping obvious creeps act as openly as they’d like. Just like when they responded to finding out an MP was sexually abusing staffers by making him Chief Whip www.thenational.scot/news/2570871...

last christmas i gave you paul blart but the very next day he rode a segway

the Animal Friends stories were once things that a beginning reporter at a local news outlet reported on!

so, the unfortunate thing is that "you don't need the middleman, you can get news directly from the machine" was the thing that shredded local news. the only way out of this comes from paying people to actually report on whether that doggo actually made friends with the duck for Podunk News

this is really reckless, unethical, and irresponsible behavior, especially as we approach the peak of flu season. it’s also not the first time he’s done this — he’s fully aware what he’s doing is not okay because we have already explained that to him. this guy shouldn’t be repping public health

This is the opening shot, and I assume I wasn't supposed to giggle

Just heard Duke Ellington use a magnificent phrase in a 1974 BBC interview with Stanley Dance. Asked whether he regrets never having received a grant to sit at a university somewhere and compose in peace, he says he has no interest in such a stretch of “ornamental stagnation.”

"Trump is America's Brezhnev" was literally on the placard I helped carrying

I feel like we should introduce these terms to circulation as we see the introduction of this position to every strategically important industry

The existence of the Chocolate Bombe implies the existence of the Chocolate Enigma

The Spy Who Was in a Situationship With Me? Bond meets the Profumo Affair?

I always thought Plato was pretty pollyannaish on this point, but this is decent evidence for the view that a man of bad character will therefore be unhappy even with every external trapping of success and good fortune.

Plato argued in the Republic that the 'tyrant,' or someone with unlimited wealth and power, would live the worst possible life because his soul would be devoured by lawless, unlimited desires that could never be sated. I think we've gotten confirmation of this from more cases than Trump lately

Manipuloyx, a new alvarezsaur with really fascinating hands! The condition of the fingers isn't that unusual for the clade but the OSTEODERMS on the hand are new!

Xi Jinping trying to compensate for domestic economic and social stagnation through an export strategy based on hopes of endless expansion is not a sustainable political model

If only literally anyone could have predicted that, when you lead a movement dedicated to overturning every taboo against bigotry constructed in the past half century, it would not be possible to maintain a firewall against the antisemites. forward.com/news/793102/...

Imran Ahmed founded an group to fight online antisemitism on the left. But he has also criticized Elon Musk for antisemitism and disinformation, so the Trump admin is trying to detain him. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u... You know, in case you thought this admin cared about "fighting antisemitism."

Happy “Brick” by Ben Folds Five Day to all who celebrate

you have my attention

Geopolitics in 2026 will be the world beginning to grasp how weak a US leadership is that is good at campaigning but comically inept at governing and how fragile a Chinese leadership is that is good at power consolidation but blinkeredly bad at sustainable domestic stability

271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.

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Before the drink hit and I was seeing two moons. 😂 Here’s a pic from Christmas night. #moon #photography #EastCoastKin

Frankly embarrassing for a British newspaper to report this without noting that the University of the Third Age has functioned in the UK for decades. It has 400,000 members. www.u3a.org.uk/about

wow, if only literally every other developed country in the world had done some version of universal healthcare, then we might have some information to work off here. As it is I guess we're just flying blind.

Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans

Rejected draft lyrics for Meredith Brooks' song, Bitch.

My distressingly earnest take on a lot of stuff is that the real divide in politics is by people who are ultimately driven by love and joy and those who are primarily driven by hate and anger. Each finds different objects, policies and directions, but the chasm is between rather than among each side

The fact the Menswear Guy is actively dunking on the Bsky user base now instead of just cross-posting the threads where he does that to Twitter users should terrify all of us.

A man has been arrested after stabbing eight people at a factory in the Japanese city of Mishima.

skeletor rigby

If I was the smartest man in the world and I had an epic plan to save the world from ruin i probably wouldn‘t have called myself “Ozymandias“.

Chat, how many people will this inevitable coffee machine inferno cook into oblivion at Sofia Central Railway Station? The Bulgarian mind is a beautiful thing.

One thing you notice going through the ones revolving around MENA region is how there is frankly no real academic work at a scale on modern Arab history. Its all journos, think-tankers, Israeli spies doing gossip memoirs and so on

This is a great example not just of Nazism being normalized, but of being so removed from the consequences of Nazism that it becomes just a thought exercise. I mean, hey, 20 years ago this avowed antisemite couldn’t even have been part of polite society and look at him now!

Benedict Bolockskin Alaska, Pribilof Islands, Census, 1881-1910

Just getting my head around the life-choices you'd have to make that would lead to you writing the sentence "Only Prince George by some miracle of history could salvage this wreck one day if he has unrestricted TikTok access" and somehow not thinking "this makes me sound mental, doesn't it?".

Me communicating with the new Japanese users.

have a merry Christmas or else