another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

No, Spotify, I can see where you might think that but “Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis” is not a good choice for the playlist.

Detective Crashmore is *not* a Christmas movie.

Sick to death of people claiming Die Hard isn’t a movie. There are several clues that it definitely is: It’s 130 minutes long and full of actors It has a beginning a middle and an end It has a soundtrack The aspect ratio is consistent of other movies of the era

iphone summary screen stop showing me my dead friends challenge

This is a very astute observation. I hadn't thought about Keith Kellogg, he just disappeared from the scene. It makes perfect sense that Putin would want to fainthearted guy like Witkoff doing the negotiations. 🗽

Waiting for some last minute administration horror, like JD Vance announcing $1,225 “No room at the Inn” bonuses for ICE agents that deported women great with child.

“What are you laughing at, Frog?” said Toad. “I am laughing at you, Toad,” said Frog, “because you DO look funny in your bathing suit.” “Of course I do,” said Toad. Then he picked up his clothes and went home.

Murderers. And now moving on to killing American citizens next by taking away their healthcare. THEY DON'T CARE IF YOU LIVE OR DIE.

Imagine, sitting in the seat of global power as he does, sitting beloved by his legions as he is, sitting in his billions, yet being so pathetically uncertain of his legacy that he rushes to name things for himself before they could be named for him in death. What a fucking emptiness it must be.

One small way to try to re-establish social trust would be to transparently disclose *in this very column* that you hung out with Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

One of the biggest mistakes Dems made in transition is in not having Jack Smith testify openly about Jan6 before Durbin lost his gavel.

No. No. No! This is critical research. It's not even centered on climate. It's solar physics! It's geomagnetic storms! It's space weather! It's sunspots! It's a research center needed for satellites and spaceflight!

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

Welcome to the resistance, Chevrolet.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

"we were left an economic mess from the trump administration. employment in decline. factories closing. americans dead. my recovery act brought back the jobs. my inflation bill has factories -- clean factories -- employing millions. detroit is back -- and its green!" - shit biden could have said

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

Dude If you keep playing and don’t switch you have 2/3 change of getting a second goat

the monty hall problem will never confuse me because if i was there and he opened a door with a goat i'd just take my goat and go home

Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y

The fuck is a jingle horse

FWIW DOJ still has not appealed the ruling disqualifying Halligan, nor have they appealed the Third Circuit ruling disqualifying Alina Habba on similar grounds (and nor did they respond to my request for comment about whether they plan to appeal)

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.

Evil. 19thnews.org/2025/12/post...

Well, well, well, looks like someone has finally beaten Hemingway at his own game.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

A Trump appointee wrote an appeals court ruling citing Roberts et al about why the Texas redistricing maps violated the law. And yet the Supreme Court brushes that aside, with nary a glance. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

screenshotted memes for 90s teens

And Hegseth said at the time that he watched the attack *live*. If he watched it live, then he either gave the orders or knew exactly what orders were given that day. www.foxnews.com/media/hegset...

I can't wait for the scene where Moses (Matthew Rhys), disillusioned by the failure of progressive civil service reform, looks directly into the camera and says, "I'm going to become the power broker."

Why didn’t Trump order flags to be flown at half staff for National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom like he did for Charlie Kirk? 🤔

As I have long said, David Sacks is the biggest and most conflicted piggy at the trough: Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.

Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing. Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war. They voted to confirm him anyway.

I bet if you blow the dust of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR sign it’d reveal the word CRIMES right after that

According to the GAO, more full-time Walmart employees receive SNAP benefits than any other employer in the nation. Perhaps Walmart executives should spend more time puzzling over the ethics of that. www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2...

thinking of her today

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Look. I'm not playing with you people. During the great depression, if you were employed and had a job, you probably were not living on the streets. In 2025, many homeless people have jobs. Depending on whose stats you use, and if you count part-time employment, between 40% and 60% have jobs.

Found this very very old wip I never finished. Why didnt I lava-lamp antlers are cool as hell 😭😭

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Groyper Party destroys higher ed to combat antisemitism