Mods are asleep, post blobby Qing dynasty cats

Hey, everyone can post how they want, but I gotta say, a lot of you are dragging garbage takes onto my feed to "debate" with and just know, you really don't have to do that.

Excuse me, this is so funny. I never thought about what if the competitors make them take the biggest bites known to man.

I love the cat bed on top of the TV, because I'll be watching something and look up and be rewarded with a sight like this.

I realize they do the blind taste test for other practical reasons on Culinary Class Wars, but as a viewer, I do also think it is very cute to watch.

I’m watching the new batch of Culinary Class Wars so of course, I am crying every episode again. I have watched too many sports animes to get through this show of skilled competitors trying their best with mutual respect for each other.

I am still really happy about this stocking I made on Christmas Eve/Christmas. It's so cute and the shaping was fun to do and I'm ignoring the ends I have to weave in that are all hidden inside.

Me and my software engineer brother-in-law on the Christmas family call dissing AI and RTO mandates

Bluesky unfortunately has this problem every time with each big migration. When I signed up for BSky, it was a little after you no longer needed an invite to join and I bounced right off of it because everyone was complaining about the commoners being let in. You all need to chill. :(

Roly poly bug

I wish for everyone to know, at least once in their life, the joy of an animal loving you so much, they try to sit as close to you as possible, which they decide is at least half on top of you.

I finished my Christmas knitting project!

I've been doing a rewatch of Masterpiece movies/shows and also Austen and I'm watching the 1995 Persuasion which is a favorite. I still can't believe how badly they messed it up in the 2022 Netflix version. 🫠

Look at this proper little lady 😍

CRISMUSS!!

It's funny to watch Sense & Sensibility and for them to be like "omg, we have to move to this tiny little cottage. We're so poor. ☹️" and then they cut to the cottage and it's this large multi-room house.

A Christmas knitting project, a fox.

I gotta imagine the three Spirits of visiting cruel rich assholes on Christmas Eve night got a ton of nominations this year.

There is a very unhinged shitposting energy on Bluesky this Christmas and it is very welcome.

Wake Up, Dead Man has so much less murder than I was expecting...

It is such a bad idea to do this, to encourage this conflation of real-life with fiction in this way. This happened just a few years ago, Booktok fancast a hockey player as the main character for a romance novel and it resulted in harassment of him and his family. youtu.be/O6ZpCqQAfZ8?...

i've been weirdly invested in this dog's sweater alteration IG roodabeguh

This sucks and definitely advise to those considering to just give up on that platform. It will not get better & will undoubtedly get way worse. Best time to leave was long ago, next best is now. It‘s a dying platform; most text-based social media are, even this one, but you can at least enjoy vibes

TBF this was a big ask of what I’m assuming is one person, trying to track dev interviews & Steam disclosures. We all want an easy fix for a rotten practice that is already getting increasingly hard to track & I don’t blame this person for backing away. The truth is we all gotta do our own research.

Accidentally smacking my hand on the edge of a table and immediately going crying to my cat to ask her to fix it.

The December Jenny Nicholson Patreon video where she's watched a bunch of Christmas Hallmark videos is the only Christmas themed media I've watched this December. ...it's been a weird year and this is a weird Christmas.

You are painting a vision of a future in which teachers create lessons with "A.i.," students complete them with "A.i.," and teachers grade them with "A.i." No learning takes place under this system. The only benefactors of this system are the corporations being paid for the "A.i." products.

The "Tiny Tim, who did NOT DIE" meme makes me so happy because it finally feels like Muppet Christmas Carol is getting its proper recognition as a cultural Christmas classic after Die Hard dominated that convo for so long.

This yarn minder was part of my Christmas gift to myself. I've tried yarn bowls and other things and this thing works far better and entertains the cats even more. I got it here if any other crafters are interested. maelidesigns.com/product-cate...

This & the meat incident get brought up a lot, but the Terrace House moment that lives rent free in my mind is that young kid who had never cooked before throwing an egg and broccoli into pasta water and wondering why it didn't taste like anything. He had learned so much by the time he left. 😭

I seriously do not understand gamers who will go to the mat for studios using AI because even if you were someone who believes in the potential, we can agree it's not there yet. The results are still subpar/broken. And they're just shoving it in there & selling it to you. And you're cool with it????

My brain wants regression into a simpler time so much, I charged my PSVita.

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

Whenever James Baxter’s work shows up, I think about how absolutely accurate that scene in Adventure Time was of Finn excitedly waking everyone up and so they can go outside to watch. I’m Beemo excitedly hitting the bed. youtu.be/lqWC58PgypE

Why the fuck are 50 different things happening right now? My brain has already started to shut down for the end of the year.

I haven't been watching any Christmas movies and have been watching a lot of old Masterpiece shows and mystery and the richness and tactile quality of the costumes and set really strike me, especially when compared with even big budget shows/movies now.

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

If you didn't catch one of the mirrors of the leaked CECOT segment, I also point you towards this Propublica article because you should know what they seem to be trying to bury. www.propublica.org/article/vene...

Spending my lunch hour being the big spoon for two cats, because it's that kind of start to the week.

LOL, America, seriously. You’ve had all year to wrap your head around the idea people can be both unbelievably stupid & inept and also incredibly corrupt. It really isn’t an either/or mutually exclusive thing. Sometimes it is only one, and sometimes it is both. You don’t have to keep on arguing it.

I forgot to boil the water I just poured to make my Americano. That’s where my brain is this morning.

Obviously, this is amazing BUT the thing I love most, is that it's directly poking fun at the desire/fetish to overanimate overlapping action & smears. Asking someone of James Baxter's calibre to *intentionally* do this (as well as mess up the spacing on a bounce) is funny in the nerdiest way.

Hullo

60 Minutes is one of only two documentary-style public affairs programs left on the air. The other is Frontline on PBS, which saw its funding gashed by the Trump admin and Congress. They have a matching donation rn. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Profit off of detaining people is fucking ghoulish.

Me when the chefs on Culinary Class Wars are super respectful to each other

It's funny to read the discourse of people trying to make a case for AI used in non-creative parts of gamedev and this story about AI failing to consistently & correctly summarize a document fed to it on the same day. I am even more strongly on the side of "why would you trust it to do anything?"