For those of us not in the cult, this is what we hear when anyone from the Trump administration speaks. For the people in the back, this is satire and so well done…

How #fungi ‘superpowers’ from #mushroom pellets are #restoring #forests across the world ‘Rhizopellets’ are being planted alongside #saplings and enhance the roots of the tree as it grows www.independent.co.uk/news/science... #trees #orchards #forestry #mycoremediation

There's a collapse in Moscow Due to non-stop drone attacks, airports are not functioning. Russian airlines can't take off, some have been grounded for three days. As of now, they've decided to reopen one airport in Moscow, but it's likely that it will be closed again soon t.me/dusident/6678

Apparently the cat pulled out a sword from a pond, and is now Her Feline Majesty of Britannia

I anticipate that Gina Rinehart will taste terrible

Collapses in public next

Best argument going is that it is subject to sub judice

So the Vice President of Venezuela - Acting President Delcy Rodríguez - has called all the nation into the streets in protest

The closest comparison for the Grok thing we can imagine right now is if cereal made a bunch of people ill and the news put a microphone in front of some cereal boxes at the grocery store and was like “well they didn’t admit guilt, not sure who else we can ask”

The irony is off the charts

Just noticed the Australian Banking Assocn is on the list of business leaders “demanding” a #Bondi Royal Commission. It didn’t even allow all the recommendations of the Banking Royal Commission. They’ve politicised these deaths and should be ashamed. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02...

Sublime moment, 2025: Ring of Brodgar, Orkney

Are they sneaking a hidden data-center into your area to secretly suck the electricity out of your back yard? #NAIMBY www.404media.co/researchers-...

Happy New Year! At midnight on Hogmanay, the Watch Stone will move from its position guarding the approach to the Ness of Brodgar to take a drink from Stenness loch. (Or so it is said!) Wishing you all a wonderful 2026, filled with folklore, fun and many a hike to an ancient site 💚🪨🎉

Shells. Collected & painted by Clara Peeters of Antwerp & Amsterdam. Today is her day.

Well, I once told a reviewer: thanks for the backhanded compliment. He spent the rest of the conversation being VERY nice to me

There's a number of Australian species that would come in handy

Well it certainly isn't kicking the moneychangers out of the temple

Like the young a friend met who didn't know what a keffiyeh meant

Just follow Frances Trollope's rule (mother of Anthony & great in her own write). Do you draw from life? Yes, but I mince it up finely first, for you would never recognise the pig from the sausage

Anything named Palantir is like the crystal in LOTR from which it took its name: maleovolent

Applies also to the UK and their water-spoiling water companies

biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.

5 yrs ago next Tuesday, an American president who lost an election but refused to accept the loss incited a violent attempt to overthrow the election. Instead of being treated like a pariah, that president was actually voted back into the White House, a much bigger condemnation of us than him.

Umn, hasn't cut off any heads. Yet.

Dare her to do it

Nah, just wait until he gets to the blurt stage of decay

Including the speech where Clinton giggled on his shoulder?

He needs to get out more

A skin cancer doctor?

5 out of 10. That’s 50% hallucinations. We are so not ready for 2026, guys.

I cannot imagine a world in which I expected people to ever take me seriously as a writer again after gleefully publishing the sentence "I used [...] generative AI to clean up grammar and structure" about something I'd written.

Well, tolerance except for moneylenders

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

don't outsource your brain to techbros

I have no artificial mouth and I must artificially scream

Gosh, he is going to turn Ukraine into Mar-a-Laggard?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

Oxymoron with the emphasis on moron?

Such as complaining about people objecting to Ai?

Shurely oxymoron?

Here's a gift link to the whole column by @sarahweinman.com @nicolaz.bsky.social @lucysussex.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Many survivors came forward, and we began comparing notes and working with people in Congress. As we started connecting the dots, we realized that some of us were sent to the same person in Hollywood for movie auditions. Some of us went to the same modeling agency…

Australia's next droughts will be announced not for lack of water, but water poisoned by fracking.

SMH management still has not explained why they deleted this piece. Their silence suggests that the pro-Israel lobby is driving editorial policy. Just as the outrageous impending visit of Israeli President and war criminal Herzog confirms they are driving Australian foreign policy. #auspol

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b... Happy Christmas to us from the New York Times

A Seasons Greeting from my late artist mother, Marian Sussex. Cats with books and flowers, which is three pleasures in life!

Oh, and did I mention these are the alleged last words of the most notorious child sex trafficker and pedophile rapist in US history, and that with those words he calls the sitting POTUS a fellow pedophile and child rapist? Thought maybe media would show up to work today on this?

one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills