Happy New Year. Hope y’all don’t burn your houses down.

What a fucked up end to 2025

In 2026: Generative AI is not inevitable. You can say no. You can refuse. You can reject the disgusting lukewarm slop that the richest and worst people in the world are trying to force-feed you. You can tell them to eat shit and die mad. You can break the machine

This looks like South of the Border. Just missing the sombrero.

This was their response to me presenting that info to them. Which is BS because almost all govt employers, including DC, VA, MD, and federal, post ranges. 🤷🏻‍♀️ bsky.app/profile/wmat...

Not one but two scary things here. First, most obviously: 100 million. Close to a 1/3 of U.S. now deemed not-American. Yes, it's trolling. Yes, AND. Second: It's simultaneously a nod toward an old imaginary white US, & an emptied out post-apocalypse. It's acknowledging the ambition is cataclysm.

But we still have the National Guard all over DC, because we’re a colony.

Yet another way the regime is just screwing Greenbelt…

Nazi punks fuck off

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

One does not simply walk into Flordor. Its Black Gates are guarded by more than just HOAs. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and vapes and bath salts, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume of Ben Gay and Early Bird Specials. Not with ten thousand men could you do this. It is folly.

what if a lady, was a cop

Lifehack: instead of calling next year 2026, refer to it as -46 B.I. When people ask what it is counting down to just respond "the Incident" as if it needs no explanation.

Halfway through an already shortened week, and I have 6 job applications in the hopper. Thanks to my unofficial job coaches @bogrosemary.bsky.social and @pqkate.bsky.social for the help and direction on these! 🤞🏻

they're literally doing the Bors mister gotcha meme

Let's make 2026 the year we pivot away from video

Offered pro bono confidence and public speaking coaching to a group of Democratic candidates for local offices including a friend of mine. Most of them won and we flipped our local county legislature from red to blue!

If you leave a Waymo’s door partially open the company has to pay a human $20 to come close it, please use this information responsibly.

Huh, look at that: Smashing Pumpkins released a 30th anniversary of Mellon Collie last month, including some live tracks. They included one from the Saginaw show on the tour, which was my first-ever concert m.youtube.com/watch?v=sg-q...

If you begin Star Trek: Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. Join in a very dumb annual tradition and start 2026 off on the right hoof.

Hey look, it’s me!

megan mcmardle not being on here is one of the site's greatest blessings. importing her dumb takes via screenshots is like placing cursed soil in an enchanted forest and watching the trees shrivel to ash

Huh. This little guy looks sort of familiar.

and the top Art but Make it Squirrel of 2025!!!! bsky.app/profile/arto...

As we close out 2025, we can honestly say it was a pretty shitty year for DC. Unprecedented attacks on Home Rule took place, exposing the fallacy of the term Home Rule. Never forget that #DCStatehood is the ultimate goal of DC residents who seek an equal footing & place in our democracy.

sure why not (apologies for nightmarish alt text)

In the old days, each village might have had an idiot but they were contained to their village. Then we let them use the internet, where they find each other and gain critical mass…

The greatest enemy that Zohran Mamdani faces in his mayoral tenure won't be Trump, Cuomo, or even Jonathan Greenblatt. It'll be The New York Times and other media executives that are enraged and terrified that a 34-year-old immigrant backbencher just casually showed the world they are hypocrites

Temps have already dropped almost 10° from today’s highs. This is some front!

Absolutely wild watching every American media org incl progressive ones like NYMag remember Bardot as an animal rights defender and not mention her vicious racism Meanwhile this article from Le Monde English is how I found out she died It's hard to overstate how much American media fails Americans

I don’t really understand how young impressionable men get their news but can some influential YouTuber or streamer or whatever point out how incredibly pathetic and embarrassing it is to spend all of your waking hours living like this

I don't want JD Vance to apologize for the color of his skin. I want JD Vance to apologize for the content of his character.

DPW just did our leaf collection. They got to us before Jan 1st this year! Yay!

Best I can determine, all of the Maryland commuter buses that run from Annapolis to DC run from the former to the latter in the morning, not the other way around. There is no way to get from DC in the morning to Annapolis unless you drive a car.

To further torture the metaphor: Each room can only have one table, which can only have one serving dish, and each person once they've managed to assemble a meal has to find a whole separate room in which to eat it.

Have never listened to a podcast. I am a dinosaur and that’s fine by me. I can read 100x faster than I can watch or listen to anything. Give me the printed word every day ‘til I die.

Tonight’s beer is Victory’s Storm King Imperial Stout. This stuff is fantastic. Really smooth and just the right balance of bitter and hops.

I would like to place a bet that micromanaging Bowser’s stadium will be Trump’s next hobby.

I feel like every morning I wake up with one odd thought, and this morning it was me realizing that, being unemployed, I could not get a car at Eastern Motors.

Have yourself a merry Fitz Christmas Let your heart be light From now on, the ship will be out of sight Have yourself a merry little Christmas Make the Yuletide gay 15 more miles and you'd have made Whitefish Bay

Take their houses, their retirement, and any other assets. At a minimum.

What the hell is this?

it's the time of year where I reflect upon everyone that I may have angered or offended on this site and from the bottom of my heart, that's precisely what I was hoping would happen, happy holidays, dipshits

every time I can recall from history that a group has centered a culture of martial virtue to the point of conflict, the "soft intellectuals" the warriors distinguish themselves from have learned war real quick, dominate because they pay attention to details, and then go back to art and nerdy stuff

@artologica.net I have a business proposition for you…squirrel tours!

Sunrise looks pretty impressive out there!

It's such a small thing, but every year it annoys me when Metro uses snowflakes in their art that have more than six points. Because they don't exist. Now you must see it too.

Butlerian Jihad now! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune:_T...

if you don't play or follow golf (or just don't get why so many people love it) this probably isn't on your radar but it should be understood as both a naked land grab and an attack on a part of DC's black history

very specific to DC complaint here but when trump is threatening to take over the city's historically significant public golf courses so he can privatize them and make them another getaway for the 1% i don't think going "well maybe they shouldnt be golf courses to begin with" is helpful or realistic