my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)

The economy is a paranormal entity that our greatest dimensional scholars (macroeconomists) understand only superficially. They have induced a variety of changes in it by manipulating arcane forces like "money supply" with some success. But it remains protean and unpredictable.

Hey, fellow evolutionary biologists: If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)

This is such a great line from Sinners, and it’s also very true

Ultimately the silverware belongs to the people, so did they really steal anything? 🤷🏼‍♂️ edition.cnn.com/2025/12/21/e...

On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.

The “AI” has not read the book. Even if the book was in its training data, it has just absorbed it as a set of statistics. It will juggle you a “summary” that might or might not relate to the conclusions of the actual text. The only way you’ll know is to read it yourself.

Basically, I'm 100% against Nazis, Nazism, Nazi symbols, and the ideas of Adolf Hitler And I'm old enough to remember when that stance was so widespread in American politics and culture that it was considered boring to even say

the catchiest sex-ed BOP you will ever hear

Hell yes! Merry Christmas Nano T-rex!

This is so wholesome. I love it!

There is a layer of scum a connective tissue... that connects all the people that populate the Epstein ecosystem Men of a certain age having little to no sense of self beyond work ... no charisma ... deeply soulless ... empty ... wanting... vacuous

The FBI spent millions trying to find Jan 6 rioters. It had most success after civilians started calling in🤷🏿‍♂️ FBI spent millions hunting Luigi. Only found him after a tip🤷🏿‍♂️ FBI spent millions hunting the Brown shooter. Found him after a tip🤷🏿‍♂️ My point: policing doesn't work how people think it works

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

Holy shit, we’re back to exploiting African children to unethically test vaccines. This is just vile

I swear to fucking god mozilla, *everyone hates this idea*. Do NOT succumb to The Fear & the Monetization Disease. You don't need to have a "modern AI browser", at all, ever. You need to be th comany that respects user privacy, meaningful consent, & choice; the one w/ The Browser That Fucking Works

I am so fucking tired of know-nothing assholes being in charge

Pelosi's reputation is vastly overrated. In the end she's just corrupt and a major Trump enabler.

Traders are going to need a hell of a lot more meth and coke

Everyone on these ballots sucks! But who sucks the worst? Make your vote count!

Holy shit, that first picture is so grim....

Time to watch The Princess Bride again....

There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵

People who have that much money reduce everything to numbers or time saved. The only reason they can understand for doing anything is to have exponentially more of it. Art and the act of creating are totally foreign concepts to them

It’s just vandalism. Why do some people feel the need to break shit for no other reason than just that they can?

Sarah Kendzior has been saying for years that the Trump administration is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government

Applies generally elsewhere. TV talking heads are pretty dumb

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

The way Penske Media publications are locking Sinners out of their Best of 2025 lists is white supremacist bullshit Oh you didn’t know Variety and Rolling Stone answer to the same master? Now you do

elon musk being a gooner obsessed with anime waifus built to mimic his ex wife is a big part of why hundreds of thousands of people are now dead

these are not tertiary distractions, its like saying that anakin skywalker having weird sex issues and hangups about sand is irrelevant to the fall of the galactic republic

The sheer inanity of these chatbots is amazing. It's like a conversation between two of the most bland, featureless life coaches ever

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

So it turns out the techbro assholes are just designing communes for wannabe technofascists

Not enough people know that chiropractic was founded by a guy and his spooky ghost doctor friend lol

Q: Why did you decide that only good children deserve gifts? A: I wouldn’t say that I made the decision. I’d say that I’m following the traditions set forth by Christianity and other religions. Q: And so-called bad children deserve nothing. A: That’s not what I’m saying, Isaac.

sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

Arguments in favor of chiropractic generally revolve around “Well, it worked for me”

HBO shows may never run longer than 1 season again….

It's supposed to be "quiet in a noisy world" but all I'm getting is...menace? Dense, opaque, suffocating. This is the fog from which the alien emerges and bangs against the observation glass revealing it is not in fact dead before it breaks free and kills us all.

Holy shit. Financialization is such an utter malignant cancer

The right lives to own the libs and scream at leftists. It's not enough for them to be miserable together on X/Twitter or wherever, they have to actively make it miserable for everyone else, too. They get so mad about being blocked so easily

His infancy was surrounded by "help" from Mexico & Central America. His parents were standard beneficiaries of left-wing policies who held some conservative views. Formative experiences for him were the 1992 riot, the 1994 earthquake, 4 years of money stress, www.thenation.com/article/poli...

…😤😤😤 Well. It’s time. I’ve put this off long enough. Its been a rough year and you all have earned this thread. And Yes. I SAID THREAD. B E H O L D : “Y’ALL COME EAT: Thanksgiving Dinner Bombardment Ver. Pt.1: Better Plate Than Never!” ❤️🙂👍🏾

"Everybody's happy now, Everybody's singin', Everybody's happy maaan, We're bulletproof"

"fuckin' chavs"

THREAD. 3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead. We decided to call him Jim. This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.

Trump isn’t going to pay the architect either so dude needs to get out of the project bit while he still can