The REAL War on Christmas

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

I caught the stomach bug that foiled my daughter’s 4th birthday. Physically miserable, but I am clinging to Bluesky like Rose on that massive floating door.

Bluesky rn

I really despise it when people boil down politics to the children's fiction they read, but I do gotta say that as someone who has read 100s of Marvel comics about people beating the bad guys outta New York City, Mamdani's speech felt familiar in a good way.

Excellent illustration!

Woke 2 has arrived.

My inteview with @joe-hill.bsky.social We talk King Sorrow, his upcoming book Hunger & @stephenking.bsky.social & more ”It’s a ghost story and it’s very much a horror novel. In some way the last third of the book is THE most horror novel I have ever written.” liljas-library.com/showintervie...

No shit

Apologies if I forgot to skeetle-deet this already, but the thing about ChatGPT/ai… you can’t ask it to give you integrity out of thin air. It CAN destroy your integrity super quick, if speed is all you’re after!

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Visually perfect political action. The joy on those beautiful faces! And—as always—stunning typography.

I still call them Florence Plus The Machine.

We still managed to make her birthday special. She felt well enough to take her big present out for a spin in our carport.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

The night before Ellery’s big 4th birthday party, she got the barfs. Poor girl!

It’s a tricky balance — we want to call stuff out and mock it! Rightfully so. But propaganda is easy and effortless and designed to be something that bypasses rational parts of our brains and lodge itself in there. So there’s a risk sharing it outright.

Fancy bathroom circa Lincoln's presidency.

My painting PACIFIC NORTHWEST

The Republican Senate Majority Leader chose to send the Senate HOME rather than hold a vote to fund SNAP. He will force a vote 13 times on a bill he knows won't pass rather than vote ONE time on a bill to fund SNAP we KNOW would pass. Shameful.

Biden's last ceasefire had 33 hostages released and lasted 3 months. Trump's ceasefire had 20 hostages released and lasted 7 days.

Evil Doers #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Frédéric Forest Paris - 1 January 2024

This week's comic, now up on @dailykos.com - www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them

I really do hope that blue sky switches back to the previous butterfly app icon. The current one looks like a four-loved water balloon, but not in a good way!

I embrace holding opinions that don’t matter, but I resent this particular shade of blue!

contingency fund. use it, fund snap, feed the people, feed the kids.

oh god how nerdy is this: I dreamed I was able to time travel in some limited way and went back to watch an episode of TNG being filmed, but then tried to take some video on my phone and a stagehand tried to grab the weird futuristic device from me to see what it was.

The republicans’ fear of repercussions to any perceived disobedience to Trump is stronger than any other mechanism to their actions. Because their party no longer has any guiding principle other than retribution. Cowardice is the only thing they’re allowed to embrace.

Ironically, AI would probably do a better job as CEO of all these tech corporations than at the roles now being axed in the 10s of thousands

While I am very much in favor of the Epstein files being released, I’d also like to be released from memes about the Epstein files

I’ve been trying to think of an analogy for this government shut down, and it finally occurred to me. I’m going to be making a comparison between the republicans and the Nazis (audible gasp), which is admittedly very much a cliché but the most appropriate, I believe….

These CEOs are going to lose their collective minds when they realize they can’t see AI show up to the office 5 days a week to create a sense of hustle culture by looking ‘busy’ in just the right way to make them feel important.

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the duality of man

🖕🏾 Abbott #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory

Sunday morning funnies...

Living in Hollywood is so dumb. Ran to the Best Buy to get a computer cable, stopped in the Bevmo to grab some libations, and there's a twenty person line to get signatures from Dolph Lundgren.

Smoke Detector Saves Family From Buying New Batteries For Remote — theonion.com/smoke-detect...

On everyone’s bucket list should be listening to the audiobook of Born to Run.

Remembering fondly @coreypein.bsky.social introducing me to Gray’s Papaya. Seattle may need an homage startup (ripoff) from yours truly.

“There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.” Jackie Robinson, who died on this day in 1972

Grand slam, that's like when you get the whole breakfast.

It wasn't fake. Ronald Reagan actually said it. (Courtesy: Reagan Library) youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc