Holy hell this is absolutely fire

Chicagoans, get in here and submit the name “Abolish ICE”

If you haven’t read these and you’re a Tolkien fan, you are in for a treat.

Tom Bombadil: God of Theater Kids

With Bardot's passing, the only named individuals in Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire that are still alive are Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernie Goetz. The last one standing will claim The Prize.

Getting earlier every year, we're 362 sleeps until Christmas and people *already* have their Christmas lights up. 🙄 😂

This will be the knockout blow

As always, Terry Pratchett had a good way of putting it

I think people today don't understand just how dramatically the night sky has changed - it looked like it does in super remote areas *everywhere* before the invention of electric lighting, and light pollution that obscures the sky has gotten dramatically worse in the last 25 years.

This is a reoccuring dream for me

Watching more of the Ken Burns American Revolution show, and it strikes me that the Founders didn't know how this was gonna turn out. There were plenty of reasons for them to expect the worst: to lose and hang for treason, or for their new country to fail and break up into anarchy.

More bull$hit. Every day.

For me, in WAKE UP DEAD MAN, this scene is the *heart* of the movie. I still think about it two weeks later. It has no role in the plot nor mystery. Rian simply reminds us all to have grace, and find time, to be there for one another.

Yes. This is a good hire.

vance is a genuine lunatic

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

So the Felon used $12-15 million dollars worth of missile to give himself some fireworks to watch on Christmas.

“Sorry there was no president from 2025-2029, as the office was legally vacant your pardon wasn’t signed by POTUS but just some guy, as such it is invalid. Get in the fucking cell.”

I didn't win the big jackpot, so none of you get presents, sorry.

It's cold comfort but it does ease things slightly to know that I have never in my life been as alone, lonely, miserable and unloved as Donald J. Trump is every single day.

Bribery = Impeachment. Says so right in the Constitution. The Trump v US ruling does not protect Trump from this consequence. Keep the pressure on Congress to act and uphold their oath. Do we already have a bribery impeachment article @citizensimpeachment.com?

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

The Lies of Locke Lamora

The older these Lord of the Rings movies get, the harder it is for me to not see how they are *adaptations*. And even though they are fantastic adaptations, they are still not the same and ultimately inferior to the books.

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

BREAKING: unconfirmed reports from Christian theologians that God and sinners *may* have reconciled.

I am the only one awake, so of course I put on a Christmas movie. Check the alt text.

A glorious midnight Mass tonight. Merry Christmas!!

This is me and Eevee

Pope Leo: The Gospel

We just discovered the Lady Gag & Muppets Holiday Special. This is amazing.

I bought my wife an O. Henry book for Christmas and it turns out she just sold her eyes.

tired: you should watch Die Hard because it's a Christmas movie wired: you should watch Die Hard because it is a perfect action movie

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“Sin is when you treat people like things” - T. Pratchett

Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.

Datum: The house on my street that has had multiple Trump signs in their yard since last October--those signs have gone away.

It's time to light the incense It's time to slay the sheep. It's time to raise the Muppets from a thousand years of sleep! It's time to raze existence It's time to banish light Heed the call of the void on the Muppet Show Tonight!

i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight

'Tis the season for some festive science songs. If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance

This is marvelous. Recommended reading

they should try enforcing laws

War on Christians!

Sorry @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy, but with your execs jettisoning journalistic integrity, I'm jettisoning you. No more auto recording CBS Sunday Morning (sorry Jane!), and will consider all CBS news untrustworthy. When y'all gonna figure out there's ratings (and money) to be had in fighting fascism?

I have viewed the reporting on the overseas torture camps which you we're trying to bury for obvious political reasons forgive me the facts were so damning and now you're so complicit

Horrific. Evil.

RIP Chris Rea youtu.be/9hegovELGH0?...

It’s really strange the vice president of the United States is a white supremacist, who says white supremacist slogans, who publicly praises and follows the work of white supremacists, and it’s simply not mentioned or discussed in political media

I consider myself a universalist. I hope that hell is not everlasting, that all God's children will be saved, in His mercy. But these people who repeatedly take my Lord's name in vain, claiming to be good Christians, while doing evil.... I pray for God to give them justice.

there was a time where the Republican Party would have a total melt down about the idea of a Sec Def purging the Chaplains but of course they don't believe in God