There are a lot of reasons to be mad at 2025, but forcing me to know who Erika Kirk is might be making me the maddest.

Racism is so boring that they’re out here trying to invent racism 2

JFC

Excited for this new 2026 annual planner, a purchase which will completely transform my habits and personality.

Unfortunately this isn’t shocking [to me], this is the system working exactly as designed. It’s why so many r@pe and trafficking victims don’t come forward.

I had no idea so many animals consider Christmas trees a tasty snack!

Historic fiction tip #2,593: It is actually rather unlikely that someone writing with a nib pen (whether quill or metal) will press hard enough on a sheet of paper to leave readable marks on the sheet underneath it. Unless, of course, they're pressing hard enough to tear the paper or bleed through.

OK, I'm trying it

The irony is that, if LLMs make liberal arts degrees worthless, it won't be because they replace that value, it will be because they undermine our ability to signal who actually underwent the process underlying the degree.

Reminder: Leonbergers are large

Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.

I currently do contract work with folks in Lagos and Ifẹ̀ and I am so terrified that I’m going to wake up to a bunch of messages in my WhatsApp groups one morning about something like this. The United States is a terrorist organization.

Which ones are the least/most racist?

I'm going to be an asshole and say if you look up the Donner Party history through an indigenous lens it's less a tragedy and more a story of white colonialists getting what they deserved. Wel mel ti/ washoe oral history says they tried to feed them but they shot at them.

Glad to see our president spent Christmas…bombing a field next to a healthcare facility in a peaceful village in Nigeria

American Robin in the midst of a Holly feast #birds #NativePlants 🌿

Accent segments are gray moonstone bugles framed by Madagascar Labradorite and faceted fine silver. Anchors are natural emerald rondels and fine silver, with a hand-made jump ring clasp.

I feel this way about "van life" and "tiny houses." Capitalism trying to transform the broken promises made to Millennials and younger into hip, fun lifestyles, instead of acknowledging *their* parents were homeowners at 25 and something terrible has changed that trajectory.

ME: it’s boxing day SCHRÖDINGER’S CAT: oh shit oh fuck

America, there's something you should know. The top three kinds of books that young people (under 25) offer to sell me on Dec. 26 are: - "Chicken Soup for the _____" - "Oh, the Places You'll Go" - Books of New Yorker cartoons I'm just saying. Keep it in mind for graduations and birthdays, too.

they conspirin'

This is the short fiction I'm here for.

My friend and I both had postpartum pre-eclampsia. I am white. My concerns were validated and I was treated promptly. My friend was Black. She was dismissed and sent home...and died. I will never forgive that.

Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.

Whatever value you think Twitter had or has in sharing your work across the internet, Bluesky is currently better than Twitter was at its peak. At least for me, with 15 years of data and roughly the same number of followers on both platforms.

Trump bombs Venezuelans to “kill drug dealers”….but he pardons drug dealers. Trump bombs Nigerians to “protect Christians” but Latino Christians won’t go to church out of fear of being kidnapped by ICE. Trump is against people illegally being in a country - but backs Russia and Israel.

*deep sigh* The Warp Korma

congratulations to @katmabu.bsky.social for indirectly making me think about sally ride’s rat king of 100 tampons that the NASA engineers showed her for her first mission and were like “uhhhhh is this enough for like a week of a period”

One observation about the “Heritage American” discourse is that the same people advancing this false and amorphous definition of authentic Americans are the same people who love to claim that *their* ancestors all arrived after Emancipation…

we need a club for people who don’t track their reading. (I cannot imagine doing that!)

Pretending to be dedd so I don’t have to talk to anyone

Did all billionaires spend Christmas microblogging about how we can't have universal healthcare?

Tonight you will be visited by the ghosts of three gender studies majors, each warning you that you’ll have to burn off in hell after death all the sins you accumulated in your futile effort to be a real man in life …

The Masculinity Industry bizarrely functions by asking group permission to be male & signaling one’s staunch manliness by being afraid of everything

On a snowy moonless night, hike deep into the mountain woods and lay your bait—a sirloin steak bound against your bare leg. Sit under the tree where the raven croaks. Await the beast that stalks out of the cold night to fasten its teeth into your leg, worrying at the flesh. THAT IS YOUR DOG. (1/2)

nothing says strong confident self actualized male more than needing help to know how to perform your gender the "right" way

Happy 2nd Day of Christmas! Yesterdays shredded tissue paper has been repurposed for Chewy box enrichment, because Benny wanted more holiday treat foraging.

The lecturer in question is our colleague in children’s literature studies. She is a brilliant scholar and from all accounts a gifted teacher. This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.

Professors are no longer able to teach accurately about gender, or hold students to any standards in their work, because cowardly administrators cave to fascists.

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post published stories about Trump writing 200 unhinged posts on Christmas Day

The liminality should properly last until Jan 6!

We have a T. rex!

I thought they were against the war on Christmas yet here they go starting it.

Nothing says MAGA quite like bombing Nigeria on Christmas Day, the holiday fascist republicans pretend to worship, and pretending to attack the same ISIS they claimed to have eradicated whilst also pretending they are against starting wars. Can’t make this shit up.

The orange felon is spending his entire Christmas holiday calling half of the country “scum.” And he wonders why he’s so hated and loathed aside from being a deranged disgusting trashy idiotic corrupt immoral racist sexist rapist pedophile asshole criminal dictator wannabe.

My sister and I watched A Castle for Christmas, Merry Gentlemen, Champagne Problems, and Holiday in the Wild. As well as the holiday With Love, Meghan. Any good ones we should watch tomorrow? I’m leaning toward the alpaca farm movie…

It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk

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