Not to fall into the trap of comparing everything to my specific bailiwick, but there's something to the idea that the obsessive consumption of human suffering inevitably leads one to a gleeful self-definition as one who consumes horrors, it becomes a pillar of the participant's identity.

Published in the C-Section of the newspaper

Third time this week

Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.

the sun and earth's atmosphere control the creation and existence of all life on the planet so I think they should also control the vibe. what I'm saying is everyone should get to stay home under blankets when it snows, scientific forces have deemed today "cozy."

2:29:08 AM on Saturday, November 29, 2025, over Australia.

Imagine being a career officer in the chain of command on Trump's boat bombings. You have deep moral and legal concerns about them. Your faith in leadership is shaky. Then you see Pete Hegseth tweet out a sadistic cartoon about it. Must be awful. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2037...

We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence. All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.

Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept. theintercept.com/2025/12/02/h...

The critical thing here is that Leavitt is distancing Hegseth from the final act of delivering the ultimate order for the strike that killed the two men in the water. She only acknowledges that Hegseth directed the initial destroying of the boat. That raises new Qs: newrepublic.com/article/2037...

Burns is correct. This isn't just about a stupid student writing a silly assignment. This is about an openly anti-trans hate mob, which the Democrats are doing fuck-all about.

Wolverine Carl Ray ~ Anishinaabe 1978

Wonderful

“I’m a grok guy” — Vance futurism.com/future-socie...

This campaign has conducted the best GOTV effort I’ve ever been targeted by and I’m very excited to vote for Aftyn Behn tomorrow

As amazing as this turn of events is, let's just all bear in mind that the first strike was also crazy illegal.

Not only is she not wrong but the comments are golden.

My President told me Jim Comey keeps eating his prosecutors so I asked how many prosecutors he has and he said he just goes to Mar-A-Lago and gets a new prosecutor afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding prosecutors to Jim Comey and then his Attorney General started crying.

The Pentagon has adopted a new DEI policy: Doing Everything Illegal

It’s World AIDS Day, and as the government is pretending it doesn’t exist, I’d like to tell you a story about growing up queer in the 80s/90s when powerful men also liked to pretend AIDS didn’t exist. It’s about the day I saw the AIDS quilt. 🧵

Maine Coon Alert---look at this wise old cat. His name is Chase and he's 17.

“White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Monday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized the second, follow-up strike on [a boat]. Leavitt told reporters … Hegseth authorized Adm. … Bradley to carry out the second strike, [killing] two people … hanging onto the burning vessel.”

Next thing you know, Hegseth will be blaming Admiral Bradley for Signalgate too. And “standing by him.”

Quick, someone who is good at drawing do a cartoon of Trump knifing Hegseth while Hegseth knifes Bradley while Bradley knifes Trump

Advent calendar where every day you open the little door and behind it is another Advent calendar

"He's so stupid he thinks higher education means being homeschooled in a penthouse."

Every sentence here is even crazier than the last.

11:10:38 AM on Friday, November 14, 2025, over the South Atlantic Ocean.

On #WorldAIDSDay here are some things that don’t cause it. Punching the Secretary of Health and Human Services so hard he is knocked into an alternate plane of the multiverse where he has never been placed in a position of responsibility over anyone else's healthcare.

wake up babe, woke bill kristol is mogging the democratic party again

This is good; suing them is better.

It is the Year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Five and Bill Kristol has better liberal sensibilities than the Democratic Minority Leader of the House of Representatives.

Shorter Noem: Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things: 1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum. 2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.

“In ‘91, when Trump was driving the Taj Mahal casino into backruptcy, I was getting shot at over Iraq and Kuwait. In 2001, after Trump said the collapse of the Twin Towers meant he now owned the tallest skyscraper in Manhattan, I was carrying flags honoring 9/11 victims into space on a rocket ship.”

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This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.

The AP didn’t used to be known for saucy headlines, but that whole Gulf of Mexico thing must have unleashed their AhFuckIt gene. apnews.com/article/dona...

This is not true. Musk is endorsing (again) a version of the white nationalist great replacement theory, as told by Stephen Miller. It is a conspiracy theory and it was confined to the fringes of the Internet until 10 or so years ago. If true, Harris would’ve easily won in 2024.

“Who’s this dish we savor? Is it friend or neighbor?” — Cannibal’s Delight

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors. This is…

An absolute unit of a crow, serving stone-cold beauty in the sleet.🪶🐦‍⬛

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

How Funkee Is Your Monkee?

JFC Oklahoma you fuckin cowards. Now every Jesus-freak right-wing student who can't get a passing grade for a bunch of bible quotes masquerading as an essay is going to file a 1st amendment complaint. You gonna suspend the whole Biology department for teaching about evolution? (Don't answer that)

How funky is your monkey? How funky is your monkey? How loose is your moose? Well my moose is loose.

Well, I wrote about 12k words in November, which is a lot less than I hoped, but still not nothing.