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One last fucked up 2025 scoop—FEMA has begun issuing termination notices to CORE staff (appointed under the Stafford Act, ordinarily extended for 2 years) effective Jan 2, agency sources tell me. Sr leadership was asked if they could be given more notice but Acting Administrator Karen Evans said no.

Have I told the story on here how I almost kicked Keith Richards out of my job?

I was driving some 9 year old girls home from a birthday party and we passed a cybertruck on the road. Which led to a discussion that if you wanted to say someone is ugly you should call them a Cybertruck.

Cybertruck computer: ＣＯＵＮＴＩＮＧ ＣＨＩＬＤＲＥＮ ＬＡＵＧＨＩＮＧ ＡＴ ＹＯＵ ＭＯＤＥ ＡＣＴＩＶＡＴＥＤ

Please don't put in the newspaper that 28 children laughed at me

Today, we remember the life and legacy of Roberto Clemente. A great person, baseball player, and humanitarian, his legacy lives on through compassion, courage, and service to others.

they should invent a year that's better than the one before it

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

I don’t understand how people ever did that? Anecdotal evidence is not very reliable but I don’t know any couples that stay together long term with seriously different political views. Usually one of them has come around to the views of the other one.

This may seem overly simplistic but I think it’s kind of obvious as an adult that that you should be able to choose other adults to fuck or not fuck based on any reason you want without being scolded

When it comes to politics, it's always better to fight and lose than to simply acquiesce.

Running away from the bad weather like a true Angeleno

Oh Worcester

I have been thinking of and planning this zine for most of the year and finally finished it. Very proud of how it turned out.

On your knees for the Tyrant 👑

I love arcadion and specifically this guy #ffxiv #art

Fat horse more lucky

Unfortunately I can’t recommend this book, read more here for the reasons why, courtesy of @ohyanxi.bsky.social : www.danmeidreams.com/racist-humor...

Ok team, we can bring these words back into usage! 💪 Overmorrow = the day after tomorrow Ereyesterday = the day before yesterday We ahould have been using such excellent words ereyesterday, but if we start now we’ll be glad overmorrow!

In very truth is weighed the heart of Osiris, is his soul standing as a witness for him; his sentence is right upon the scales great. (BDB)

Relaxation tips: - picture a quiet forest - picture yourself wandering in the gloom - picture a mossy forest horror creeping up behind you - picture yourself becoming best friends with the mossy forest horror, scaring townsfolk together, and sharing tea & laughter

Adorable little Tufted Titmouse visits the feeder cam on a chilly morning! #birds

it's a harsh world out there and not everyone is going to give you credit for all the great stuff you do. but Sandal thinks you have done awesome this year. he doesn't know how you do it. he also doesn't even know how to open the refrigerator but that isn't important rn

The evolution of Avatar films is wild- they started as this hamfisted attempt to address topics like colonialism and a few iterations later it's basically just Giant Smurfs vs Godzilla

I love trains! And Switzerland! And hiking in the Alps! This trip had it all. Do yourself a favor and climb aboard for a few minutes! open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

it's amazing we can look at this, as a society, seeing that employers are drugging their employees to increase productivity and say "yes, these people are geniuses who should be in charge of things"

If you are ending this year tired, uncertain, or bruised, you are not failing. You are paying attention. May 2026 give us the courage to keep going anyway, the humility to change our minds when the evidence demands it, & the generosity to extend grace to ourselves and to one another. #December31st

The idea that any government funds going to address the needs of Black people is necessarily fraud has a long history.

It's kinda funny how every third political post on has some variation of "oh so you think there's going to be elections how cute" in the replies while the daily news is of Republicans getting boatraced in elections, manufacturing the reality you desire to be outraged about isn't just a rw phenomenon

wizard cat has a very important message

One thing that makes me depressed is that we’re bringing back medieval blood libel for minority groups (Haitians and Somalis in particular) and where once normies would be shocked or ignorant, now they’re saying stuff like “perfidis Judaeis-cels be seething over Good Friday chads” bc of TikTok

I don’t believe that a computer will ever gain consciousness in any way approaching a human sense. And people who do believe this have no right to lecture me on my theism.

"Did you consider the people who don't like chili? The people who are vegetarians? The people without tastebuds? The people who don't know how to turn on stoves? What about all those folks?" #McSweeneysTop25of2025

Setting aside that he does fit into a moral framework, “Trump is uninteresting” is beside the point when things he does affect so many other people who are.

grandpa and mom wish you all a Happy New Year and Happy Heavensturn!!! 🎉🎍 #kuwaliance

bringing this back once again

Anyway got a request from a static mate and so I offer you this. I can’t wait for M10S

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

I worked with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in multiple countries to bring medical care to refugees and other populations at risk. There are a 100% committed, professional, non-political organization. Netanyahu banning them from Gaza is an unspeakable outrage. People will die.

Israel is banning the Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders from operating in Gaza starting on New Year’s Day. www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...

I love barefoot/zero drop shoes - absolutely resolved my plantar fasciitis. That said, Merrell Trail shoes have Vibram soles and wide toe boxes and nothing squishes between your toes. I wouldn't wear them to a wedding, but they do have both features without toes.

We're slipping into full-blown gutter racist pogrom politics and the reactions from most of the media/punditocracy/commentariat/elite/influencers/etc has tended from gleeful participation to "well, if that's what the people what it can't be that bad". Seems suboptimal, to me.

Flu numbers are high in most states and almost all cases are variants of H3N2 and the vaccine includes H3N2 Get your flu vax if you haven’t already! Even if you still get the flu, the symptoms will be easier to manage if you get vaccinated!

A Brave New World

well, if you're reading this you've *almost* survived 2025

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

Nothing comes out of these water jets but lies and insinuations. Why did I buy a j'accuzzi?

The nyt has pursued an unprincipled and ideologically driven campaign against trans ppl in its purported news coverage. It routinely attacks or ignores evidence that doesn’t comport w its bias.

the funniest thing about SE's crackhead lore about Arcadion fighters especially when it comes to Tyrant and Vamp is that according to their own lore then elezen youths look like babies until they are 17 and then on the night of the 18th birthday the hag hex activates and they age another 12 years