She’s just saying what we’re all thinking.

just what everyone wants in a troubled economy: a check that goes to someone else

“My mom says I’m cool… unfortunately she is unable to perceive the utter blackness of despair which has enveloped my heart and soul.“

Yet another failure of our media ecosystem. Every news story is an opportunity to teach. Many/most/all stories should include context and background that the journalists think is uninteresting. (This is also how I feel about watching sports. Commentators should be teachers.)

A special edition of the board game Operation focusing on Spiritual Medicine. There are no openings for organ removal on the board; players must use healing crystals (not included) to focus positive energies towards the character's ailments. There are no victory conditions.

The genius of Louise Fletcher's portrayal of Kai Winn is how skillfully she did Erika Kirk face.

A feast.

Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc. Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.

They minimize it because they're bored with Trump's horrific antics, and they have been for about 6 years. They don't need any other reason. There's nothing the man can say or write that will move the needle on topics like "decency" or "humanity" or "appropriateness." The media has moved on.

new frogs

Bob Dylan meets the drum machine circa 1985 (via Mike Campbell’s recent memoir)

It's incredible how many zillionaires we produced because they were either the first or luckiest guys in the field of The Obvious Thing For the Computer. Amazon, Steam, Paypal, Facebook—basic sales infrastructure everyone had been discussing since at least the '80s.

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happy holidays

Something I remember growing up in the '90s, despite all the awful shit, is watching Nice Stuff pop up like it was airdropped from outer space. A world of decaying '70s junk and then suddenly, out of nowhere, a nice coffee shop…Thai food…a bookstore with comfy chairs…the cars start in winter.

Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."

A few weeks of snow cover and now 0° temps, so it's time to feed the backyard wild dinosaurs.

Artus Scheiner, from 'The Golden Princess'. #fairytale #fairy #goblin #fantasyart #illustration

Cleaning baby gear out of the basement. So much extra space for all of my other useless garbage!

The goat actor who played Black Philip in last night's movie The Witch has his own Wikipedia article. And apparently he's a real asshole (complimentary).

“talking about god while radiating evil” is the load-bearing concept undergirding the evangelical-industrial complex

Together with the family, watched Kiki's Delivery Service for the first time. First reaction: this is a very good depiction of adolescence that manages to be both realistic and hopeful. And that is such a difficult needle to thread.

Hey denizens of Bluesky, I need recommendations! What: a smoothie cookbook for my 8-year-old child who is getting a smoothie blender for Xmas. Dilemma: the cookbooks I'm finding are too health fad-oriented (superfood, weight-loss, protein-maxing, etc.). I just want one with yummy recipes.

Answers to Mark's dumbass questions: 1. I don't care 2. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 3. Yes because many/most of us already do 4. Yes, this is way cheaper than my current healthcare costs 5. This won't happen because look everywhere else 6. Sure 7. They should form unions

Milwaukeeans, please note that American Science and Surplus continues to exist as a local brick & mortar store and would very much appreciate your holiday shopping attention.

I don't think fascism is an inaccurate way to describe the Trump regime. At the same time, Trumpism manages to be petty, cruel, and tyrannical in ways that reach across time and space and invoke things ranging from King Charles I to Chinese emperors who failed the mandate of Heaven.

Stealworkers

The Curse of the Penguin

I'm here to remind everyone that Ron Johnson is, by ANY measure, the stupidest piece of shit to ever serve in the United States Senate. He is proof that anyone can succeed in America if they're a combination of wealthy and lucky. It's inspiring, honestly.

From Do Rabbits Have Christmas?, Aileen Fisher, illustr. Sarah Fox-Davies.

It's December 10th in the snowy upper midwest and a fucking mosquito just bit me in my basement.

Access journalism is a malignant tumor on liberal democracy.

My kids are way more into space than dinosaurs. I'm not sure if that means anything, but it would be fun to play dinosaurs some time. I have some really cool dinosaur figures.

"OUR MALEVOLENT MACHINE GOD WILL TAKE EVERYTHING YOU LOVE" (it mostly makes porn and drives people insane)

This is one of the reasons I hate what big tech has done to AI over the last couple of years. There are great use cases for AI / machine learning. But they chose to shove incompetent models into every available receptacle while screaming "THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR LIFE, WE OWN YOU LOL"

It seems so painfully clear that Dems could blow this whole thing apart with just a couple weeks of sustained, disciplined messaging sowing distrust and paranoia in WH circles around 'Republicans all talk openly about how they lie and manipulate the dude who they know isn't all there anymore'

Your purchasing options are 1: Amazon (Satan), 2: Walmart (Satan but hillbilly-coded) or 3: small business owner who sends all the tips he steals from his workers directly to Trump

Agree with this thread 100%. I'll take this a step further than "formula is good" and say that infant formula is a fucking miracle. Anyone who disagrees is a monster or an ignoramus or both.

I am once again, for no reason in particular, wondering when we'll get a guillotine emoji.

Society will not be fixed until the billionaires fear everyone so much that they look at having their wealth confiscated as their best option

Another piece of evidence for Walter Hill as underrated auteur.

Found this poem from my powerful huntress cat to my sweet old man cat: I have eaten the head that was on the mouse which you were probably saving to play with Forgive me it was delicious so crunchy and so warm

Woke up to hear sweet old cat proclaiming that he was holding something. A mouse! Per normal for him, mouse was alive, exhausted. I tried to retrieve it to toss the thing outside. No luck. I will wake in the morning to a beheaded mouse corpse, courtesy of other cat who is cold-blooded with vermin.

For no reason at all, I'm wondering if we'll ever get a guillotine emoji. No reason at all.

Sirhan Sirhan, Jr., it is time to fulfill your destiny. (Disclaimer: Destiny is entirely the business of the cosmos. This post is not an incitement to anything, nor does it glorify anything, nor does it express a desire for anything. Void where prohibited.)

Single issue voter here. And this is the issue.

alright, looks like my 2025 Circle-K Wrapped just dropped !! let’s check it out

Lord, give me a Kei truck. The lumber store is soooo close to my house and I want to haul sheets of plywood but also American pickup trucks are terrible and I don't need to haul a yacht or a trailer full of cattle.

fuck