Nice to see General Winter returning to the fight against Fascism.

Anyone Else Here xkcd.com/3188/

This. There are specific journalists who need to investigate and report on Twitter the same way they do any other hate site, but going over there for the dunks is no good for anyone.

The messiness and ignorance that tourists still go to Twitter to encounter can be found on any other platform that isn't chock full of Nazi pedophiles. There's Threads. There are gossip sites. There are cheerleading moms eviscerating each other on Facebook. Enjoy yourself.

Found elsenet: seems to sum up the zeitgeist nicely!

As someone who has strong but ambivalent feelings on this I think this take is valid and should be more common/acceptable. It's a topic that's gotten far more vitriolic and simplistic than it deserves, reducing a complicated type of toxicity down to a Bad Actors narrative.

I get why "Some Like It Hot" is an enduring classic but as an ex-folk punk "alcoholic ukulele girl roaming across the Midwest with her transbian galpals" too painfully familiar to laugh at...

In case anyone was wondering about the question with the missing answer, as I was, here you go. Plus, the next question that was asked, and its answer.

I do not want Curtis Sliwa in charge of anything (you set up one vigilante squad that fakes events, you lose the right to power forever) but DAMN, he’s the type of thinker the Republicans desperately need and expel every single time one shows up.

It would be "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72" but the original cover is not appropriate for that context and I consider every alternate cover blasphemy.

Just flat-out declaring that everything Adams did as mayor after the indictment—in the final fifteen months and five days of his term of office—was presumptively corrupt, and undoing everything that's in his immediate power to undo with a single stroke of the pen. This is the way.

IDK what I was expecting when I put on "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" but Marilyn Monroe delivering the most autism-coded performance I've ever seen a woman give was not it.

Tag yourself I'm "Puritan Chick"

"Conservatives deny that what we've already achieved is possible" is a strong and winning banner for Green New Deal types and I'm hype that someone's finally using it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

Retrospectively I can see that *Cowboy Bebop* and *Stargate* were both early expressions of a homegrown form of Anti-French racism that was beginning to shape and color Mormon life...

Fun fact: in 1824 John Quincy Adams swore the oath of the Presidency on a book of US Law. Adams was a secular minded Unitarian and felt that his oath to the US government ought to be sworn on a text relevant to that work. I find it kinda weird that that hasn't been more common subsequently.

used to be just Pinterest that fucked up looking for old images on computer but its solidifed to be 100% instagram and facebook. mark zuckerberg wrecked online, whipped up genocides and made stupid people even more obnoxious but on top of that i cant find old photographs in decent resolution

It’s also essentially the sort of thing (and I swear this is true) I was taught by MY SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SCHOOL IN THE NINETEEN EIGHTIES to be exactly what America was supposed to be all about. But of course 1980s South Carolina was a noted bastion of Woke

Goodnight, sweet prince.

I think the juxtaposition of the frog and the lawsuits is itself so key. it’s a multi-pronged approach. we all do what we can do in our own little corner. churches and businesses are organizing to fight the ICE grabs that are still happening. protesters are still out. the whole city said no

The final day

Outlook for the new year ...

The fact that the very first VU review ever in print is from a column called “Teen Talk” and the headline is “Blobs and Blurbs” is providing me with the delighted, peaceful feeling I require to walk into 2026 with.

This actually works, BTW. You can force a fandom into existence for great art I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure my 2013 and 2016 features on SOUTHLAND TALES and CHILDREN OF MEN crystallized the online fandoms of each Write intelligently about culture that matters to you, and people will come

I know what post of mine had the biggest impact on the internet but I suspect the biggest impact I've had *through* the internet is just supplying my followers with absurd trivia that lives rent free in their heads and then spreads among their friends like a goofy virus.

I wish everyone the kind of 2026 which ends in the full, upbeat version of the Boswell Sisters, and not the slow fade up version.

#ShareGoodNewsToo Even if few things that work on mice transfer directly to humans, this is a huge step in us understanding the mechanism and will help enable the next leaps in research. We’re close! We’re close!

Fun how the two sources of artistic inspiration for these recruitment posters are World War I propaganda and PS2 era edgy gaming ads. Tryna get you to commit senseless atrocities that benefit nobody by invoking Rockstar's Manhunt and Postal. The aesthetics say it all

attn @shadowtodd.bsky.social some behind the scenes footage from Jimmy Thudpucker's entry on your "songs that Stop on the word Stop" list

OpenAI announces the face of ChatGPT's next update.

Amy and Arnie sound like benevolent giants

The story of this show’s provenance in the description is probably the best thing I’ll see online today. A genuine service to music history in an obscure corner with patchy documentation

Unfortunately my Doonesburyposting is about 12 years behind the strip my display is referencing but don't worry we'll get there.

As we head into 2026 I'm kicking myself for specifying *Hillary* Clinton's trial and am curious if irresponsible proliferation of AI will beat the California Wildfires to destroying Silicon Valley's data centers, but Mamdani's showing some real promise for the Return of Huey Long.

The big row within MAGA circles is whether they hate Jews more than brown people, or brown people more than Jews. That's *it*. The sum total of their disagreement. There's no reason to side with *either* subgroup of explicitly fascist genocidal conspiracist monsters.

The only positive thing you should be feeling about MTG abandoning Trump is that hopefully it’s a bellwether for rats to start fleeing the sinking ship. That doesn’t mean you invite the rat onto YOUR ship.

They got rid of transparent plastic so GenZ would always be slaven to occluded, unknowable magic.

There's a reason I left the Temptations on a cliffhanger in the "My Girl" episode. The group's psychedelic soul period is up there with *any* music of the late sixties and early seventies, and needs to be discussed in the same breath as Sly Stone, George Clinton, Curtis Mayfield or the Isleys.

Forgot The Monkees and Sex Bob-omb

15 - The Replacements 14 - Black Flag 12 - Fugazi ______________ 41 - Sum

I've said it before but we need to make a Fight Club sequel abt some low level Project Mayhem grunts modeled after 1950s greaser movies where disaffected anti-social boys find meaning in each others' affection. That Hayes Code approach to Boys Love movies would rehabilitate so many Incels.

Charles Sumner was probably the greatest Moral Stalwart and second least likable person that the Senate has ever seen. He proposed a 13th Amendment that left no prison loophole and if you told him the moon was made of cheese he'd explain the astronomical shortcomings of that belief.

The FONV devs wish they'd given Mr House as bleak, painful, and lost in the Uncanny Valley of Humanity as Bryan Johnson randomly and unironically posts to the public internet.

This "Fascistly Wholesome 90s" thing is such a baffling and disarming distortion of the "Smells Like Teen Spirit"/Andrew Dice Clay/Pulp Fiction decade. I don't even remember the 90s and I know that nihilism and disaffection ruled the day what the fuck is going on?