As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative

Thought I saw a delicious pizza in the creek, shimmering up at me, but it turned out to be fool’s pizza—a big disc of iron pyrite that just looked like pizza, & tasted, at best, like a stale focaccia.

I'm a Radical Left Scum from Suffolk, UK, and I host a podcast about Trump, politics, and critical thinking, called Fallacious Trump (I think this might be the first time I've ever used this phrase: Link in bio!)

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

How can we not help but love the largest known land invertebrate? Also? Think of the tracks this absolute unit would've have left. (ht to @susieoftraken.bsky.social for reposting @caseystegman.com for the original post.) #FossilFriday #Invertefest

It’s hard to escape being drawn in by the compelling gaze of this woman, depicted with extraordinary realism by early 18th century German portraitist Balthasar Denner (Oil on copperplate, Hermitage Museum) www.hermitagemuseum.org/digital-coll...

hope everybody got fun stuff! here’s me demoing an awesome little clock @jjco.bsky.social just got me 😍😍😍

Bullshit Newborn Not Even Christ https://theonion.com/bullshit-newborn-not-even-christ/

“I’ve learned that joys are fleeting things; that parting pain each meeting brings; That gain and loss are partners here, and so are smiles and tears;” - Edgar Albert Guest.🌱

Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without... 4:30pm SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1951) 🎄 #AlastairSim stars with #MervynJohns #JackWarner #KathleenHarrison #MichaelHordern among an all-star cast #TPTVsubtitles

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

This is a life-affirming gift episode. swaj.supercast.com/subscriber_v...

Gary Giddins, on Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas” to soldiers in Europe during the war.

Made turkey for the 1st time in 57 yrs. Was first slightly undercooked then WAAAAYYYY overcooked. 😐☹️ thanks be to Hod it's only the 2 of us.

Merry Christmas, y'all. I love you. It's so gray and dark out there, for some more than others. Find little ways to help people who need help, even if you're in need, too. Doesn't need to be life altering, but even just a phone call or knocking on their door and seeing if you can help with anything.

Did you forget to order a Christmas present and now it's fuckin' Christmas Eve? Are you boned six ways to Sunday? Fucked beyond belief? Good news! You can get them an Onion subscription! They'll get a year of papers in the mail AND an emailed PDF certificate to print out instantly. Christmas saved!

Being Canadian means we are treacherous because we made an incompetent hater look "silly." In case you missed it, please watch the CBS documentary. Here is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jieh... Btw... waiting for another Christmas threat from Trump. He's losing it.

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

Wait, what!?

I once ended a particularly fraught bulletin by just slumping down and collapsing onto the desk in relief. And the director reminded me I was still visible on the wide shot.

I have to say I think it was a mistake putting Barry White in charge of CBS News. Great singer but he’s no journalist, and he’s been dead for 20 years

20 years ago I could've figured this out. I'm afraid to even attempt to solve it in case I make it worse. 😐

dear god.

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

Edgelands (2024) Oil and acrylic on canvas

They’re building a white supremacist dictatorship in front of our eyes.

I've seen over 700 Pre-Code movies, and hands down Sing and Like It (1934) has to be the funniest so far. A cast entirely made up of character actors, which may have something to do with how good it is. But the script by Marion Dix and Laird Doyle is chock full of gems I'll share in the next days.

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The ASDA app and website can pretty much suck my dick.

me: how am I supposed to fulfill my depression validation quota when I have not been added to a starter pack for weeks? my therapist: what?

It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born. From the NPR archives.

Wow, gold, frankincense, AND myrrh. This is so great. My wife’s boyfriend’s baby is going to love it. Thank you so much.

in this house we cherish the holiday classics 🎄

The Crisps I Ate To Reduce The Palpitations Brought On By The Quality Street Have Given Me Reflux: A Memoir

Hey what's this stuff in the corner of our eyes? I don't know, let's just call it sleep since that's what we were doing.

When we all get imprisoned for posting I’m definitely gonna be going around the yard asking what y’all said that got you locked up & it better be a banger because that’s how we’ll be establishing our hierarchy

@andylevy.net As the World Churns isn't coming back, is it..... 😕

16. The most familiar carols do very well when someone takes a wire brush to the verdigris and polishes them up all nice, like. Danish choral composer John Høybye did that favour for 'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen', here sung by I Dodici, which translates as 'The Dodici'. youtu.be/lfvcPnSTpBs?...

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Make the rest of his life as difficult. and unbearable and painful as humanly possible. EVERY SINGLE SECOND OF IT.

If you didn't understand how Canada is part of Irish and Scottish roots. youtu.be/c6TukZyXcAY?...

#Christmas gift hint 4: 'The Streets of My Hometown' www.barewall.co.uk/products/the... #TheStreetsofMyHometown

I had the same for 3 1/2 weeks. Throat then lungs then head then back to lungs. I think mine was a lesser flu due to the jab. My ears opened a few days ago.