I love ice storms I love ice storms I love ice storms

i don’t how anyone could read catallus 16 and not feel immediately feel deep kinship in the universal and transhistorical fraternity of mankind

>jingle bell noises >YOU'RE NOW LISTENING TO >grandma run over by a reindeer noises >125.12 >holy chanting >REAL JOLLY FM >christmas cookie oven ding >WHERE WE PLAY NOTHIN BUT HOLIDAY CLASSICS >santa claus going ho ho ho >THIS AIN'T YOUR GRINCH'S STATION >imagine dragons - radioactive starts playing

COMMENTARY: If the EU were to crumble, rest assured Americans would come to regret it very quickly.

"why did the Soviet Union & Warsaw Pact collapse" gee I dunno maybe because the whole construct existed to enrich Moscow & St Petersburg, & the harder things got, the truer that became

The ussr collapsing the way it did is the fault of decades of mismanagement and corruption but also like if one singular republic that is the most responsible for the union’s death it’s the Russian SFSR and the post collapse Russian state/polis has continued to make it everyone’s else’s issue

Guys no billionaire is "leaving California," they're at best gonna leave California for exactly 185 days a year and domicile at some mansion resort in Utah or Montana or USVI but still be in California a lot (but also this will be too big of a hassle for many and they'll just pay the tax)

So much of the issues related to transit governance is downstream from the fact that both the boards of these agencies and many of advocates in this space believe that transit is a welfare program that acts as “transportation of last resort” as opposed to a viable, affordable alternative to cars.

Relatedly, we should celebrate April 9 as a Union Victory Day, a new federal holiday where we burn Lee, Davis, and co. in effigy.

We should burn down every Southern plantation house that isn't being used as a museum to the atrocities of slavery.

ICE raids appear to be 100% responsible for the current housing crunch in south Texas. Indeed, they have brought residential construction to an end.

I hate that we’re having to think in these terms, but the evidence seems to be bearing out that steep fare hikes are less damaging to ridership than service cuts.

My pickleball building code strategy is to adopt European window standards so that we can buy and manufacture triple-glazed tilt-and-turn windows at affordable prices that actually keep sound out

a wikibox perfectly calibrated to cause your average mid-1800s American politician to kill themselves

Stalin, 1929:

Why did they call episode I the phantom menace instead of Ani Are You Ok

i'm gonna try this

I can’t even keep up with this talk, they just showed two different(?) PoCs that spoof perfectly credible signatures from Satoshi and Angela Merkel. The talk started with them booting a spoofed Fedora ISO after checking the signature. 14 vulns, 9 unpatched.

This has everything: malleabile encryption, complex packets, memory safety, unsafe terminal UI, wontfix. Incredible. Plaintext exfiltration if you just click a link. I can’t be convinced gpg can be used safely.

At the gpg.fail talk and omg #39c3 You can just put a \0 in the Hash: header and then newlines and inject text in a cleartext message. Won’t even blame PGP here. C is unsafe at any speed. gpg has not fixed it yet.

When i see gender-essentialist arguments, i keep thinking of “99% of atoms in the universe have either one proton or two”

Happy Pop-Tarts Bowl Day to all who celebrate

Vermeule is quite literally, by his own admission, a 10th century-style Catholic monarchist cosplaying as a 21st century American law professor.

I think that this belief is more common than any of us would like to admit and it is also extremely fucking wrong. This is why it’s important to learn about the rest of the world.

I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US. Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

really telling that bari weiss after all this time masquerading as a centrist immediately signs up to be political commissar for rabidly antisemitic fascists. also telling that the times' management intentionally made her invulnerable, because they share her beliefs.

These are Roberts Pardons

Christmas is a cultural holiday as well as a religious one, so I don't really mind the Merry Christmas message. Merry Christmas, everyone! It's the statement that we all share a savior that goes way over the line. They really are trying to establish an official state religion.

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

Merry Christmas everyone!!! 🎄🚊

See also the persistent anger among conservatives about seeing gay or interracial couples in TV commercials. The government doesn't decide what's on your TV, but to them "the government" is a parent-like concept that substitutes for anyone who runs anything in society

I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)

Guys literally only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting

It's only okay to get your kid into Warhammer if you have two boys because that way in twenty years you have a boy and a girl

Happy holidays from your furiends at the zoo ✨ Thanks to Keeper Megan and Keeper Ali for the holiday pics!

In retrospect the Bush-era War On Christmas stuff seems more ominous than it did at the time. It was just cable news guys crying about dumb/fake shit, then and now; I mean the campaign to turn Christmas, which most everyone likes and feels warmly about, into just another thing to get mad about.

NORAD Santa tracker is Woke

bankpunk

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

Anyway the problem with a permanent vibescession caused at least in part by social media posturing is that while it might screw Trump in the short term it really screws the politics of generosity and solidarity in the long term. Believing times are bad makes people more selfish.

The Atlantic had to get the "it was OK for Harlan Crow to have Nazi memorabilia" guy off the bench for this one

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.

this claim is entirely based on health care and substantially based on misunderstanding European health care systems

CBS furiously trying to take down the 60 Minutes segment about human rights abuses at the El Salvadoran prison that Bari Weiss spiked

New: Months before Bari Weiss pulled the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, her outlet The Free Press was joking about the megaprison Trump has lawlessly deported people to. "The hottest campaign spot…the new Jeffrey Epstein jet…the place to see and be seen." @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social

In which we learn that the US attorneys office concluded that Trump traveled on Air Epstein regularly without appearing in he passenger manifest.

bari weiss needs to fucking go to prison

I can now confirm that this is NOT a good combo.