I used to think that I had completely hallucinated the all-saxophone cover of "Stars and Stripes Forever" my dad had when I was a kid, but it's real and it's by a group called Nuclear Whales. It is delightful, and I think we all need a little more delight right now. youtu.be/Maqcz_4ZssU?...

“don’t give them what they want” they want to finish destroying reconstruction, they want to commit acts of racial terror at will, they want to destroy our way of life and our society. you’re the one giving them what they want, pussy

So, crazy news: its actually already illegal for a federal agent to shoot a civilian in the face multiple times. You can actually already arrest and prosecute an ICE agent for that.

I know at one point ICE was mostly using rental cars, not sure about now. But it would be very satisfying to me if no one wanted to rent vehicles to them anymore because they have been trashing them themselves and now abandoning them to be trashed by others.

Is it weird to say I'm a little bit glad my mom is gone because she had bad opinions on immigration and I am almost certain we would have ended up NC if she was alive to have opinions right now?

I'm enjoying live local entertainment tonight instead of eating dinner on the couch watching Fallout and I know I made the right choice but...Fisto!

Fallout 76 is doing cross-promotion with Call of Duty but I think they should do it with PowerWash Simulator

Just tried to Google a local comedy club's official site to see their calendar, and their website was only the fourth page listed. Three third-party ticket websites appeared above it as the sponsored results. I'm sure most users want to buy their tickets directly from the venue.

We're watching the first episode of Righteous Gemstones and I'm not actually sure I can watch this because of how it triggers my childhood religious trauma 😂

I don't know what the job of federal prosecutor is like but props to them for giving it up rather than participate in such a blatant miscarriage of justice on the sinking ship of this administration.

Chickahominy

While it's nowhere near as dangerous or important as AI hallucinated medical, legal, or mushroom foraging guides, I am annoyed by the current trend of video game guides being written by chat bots and containing completely inaccurate information.

Night City Made Real is not a selling point for me. That place is a dystopia.

Abolish and prosecute ICE is the moderate position.

I’m glad to see Bill say this. But when after a century of just the type of abuse we saw today - relentless and cruel, ensnaring our children and intimidating our communities - young Black people said in frustration, anger, and demand for change “defund the police” - so many of you denounced them.

People need to be aware that using AI to "remove" a mask from someone's face in a photo is no more legitimate than a police sketch made by a human artist based on a witness description.

Thinking about a Dane costume from the Fallout TV show for the next Fan Celebration in Goodsprings. Would it be funny to do the horrible bloodied boot and foot?

Fallout 76 is garbage and one of the ways it is especially garbage is that you can't do a quest with your teammates. Only the team leader can complete theirs. Everyone else has to go do it again for it to count. Anyway, there are literally no bigger problems in the world for me to worry about. /s

When the pharmacy says they sent a refill request and the doctor's office says they didn't, I don't care who's lying to me. Just get me my Rx.

Are we going to have to start watermarking our selfies with the same types of anti-scraping tools artists have been using to protect their work?

Happy Bean Dadversary to those who observe

I knew my dad used to skydive, but the way he talked about it always made it sound like a minor hobby. Over Christmas his dance partner mentioned his back issues and blamed it on "hundreds of jumps," which he then confirmed. Hundreds!

I don't care about hot or cold that much, but is there a place I can move to where the barometric pressure doesn't ever change quickly? Because rapid changes fuck with my ear canals and I am so miserable right now.

ACAB means all. A guy we hung out with years ago, when I was less outspoken about not liking cops, who I was willing to think was one of the (mythical) good ones, jumped into a facebook conversation about deadly force and he has a fucking Punisher logo with American flag stripes as a his icon.

I wish Rama Duwaji was my friend, ngl

it’s stupid to not use ai just because it can induce psychosis and generate child porn. it’s like saying you’re hungry when there’s a hot dog on the ground outside that induces psychosis and generates child porn

Someone in this dental office is still using a Yahoo email address

I am an extremely compliant patient who still often ends up with bad effects, and I married a very noncompliant patient who still usually has great results, so I am feeling weirdly vindicated that my husband is having to get an incision re-closed because he fucked it up.

My GP's office is not answering phone calls or refill requests and I'm rationing medication to avoid withdrawal symptoms, happy fucking New Year.

Every so often I see someone post a picture of a sign telling people not to swim if they have diarrhea and asking what had to have happened for that sign to exist. Polio is what happened, y'all.

@heyscoops.bsky.social I feel like @thefamouspaul.bsky.social's Ray Romano impression is veering into Teddy from Bob's Burgers

I’m in the back of a Tesla and the guy driving wants to tell me everything he “asks” ChatGPT, this. This is my flare. Send help.

If you're like me and you instantly were fascinated by the question of this copy's provenance, the full article goes into great detail.

What do you plan to say "I haven't done that all year!" about for a comically short amount of time after midnight?

Okay, I was not expecting the Sunset Sarsaparilla sweat shop

One pomelo, one grapefruit, one navel orange, one lemon, one lime, one key lime. Toothpicks, cookie sticks, cloves, coriander seeds, and green cardamom pods. A quarter, a nickel, three pennies, and one dime. My kitchen smells amazing.

People who drive very compact cars need to stop pulling all the way into spaces in crowded parking lots.

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

I always want to make it clear that I would rather see thousands of people defraud any benefits system than leave out one family who needs it. I also don't believe there's ever any significant fraud by regular people. It's the already-rich and corps that defraud the government.

@heyscoops.bsky.social Matt could have gone to Music and Arts, but they are absolutely hidden away in the suburbs near Jacob's house and might not have had any lefty guitars 🤷

Bracing myself for the cascade of year-end toxic positivity

I'm concerned one of my favorite t-shirt sites is using AI for both their shirt designs and product copy. Or else they just haven't been letting anyone work for them who can see that a description doesn't match the item, or that a word on a shirt is spelled wrong.

I used the word "frisson" today and I'm almost totally sure the person I was talking to had no idea what I was talking about.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

My rental car chimes loudly if it thinks I'm exceeding the speed limit, but it doesn't have accurate limits for a lot of these roads. I can't wait to return this thing.

Apparently I am a natural talent at the basketball-slash-connect-four game at the arcade 🤷

When it's unusually warm in Vegas in December, that's about it. When it's unusually warm in Richmond (my hometown, where I'm spending Christmas), a bunch of bugs show up.

My mother designed this funny little mantis guy.

The horn players on my family's Weihnachtspyramide have always reminded me of Princess Leia.