Remember kids, if you're working today, no you're not. It's Christmas Eve Eve. Put 8 hours of fake meetings on your outlook calendar. You're meeting with Santa. Take a dozen smoke breaks and feed a reindeer. Dasher and Dancer love Newports. This work week is over if you believe it is.

It just remains that the champion of anti-establishment republicanism is a guy who lived in a gilded palace in the sky who doesn't believe that elites should be held liable for their actions and that all corruption is good

literally fuck anyone who doesn’t see at this point that it’s an organized nationwide effort to make trans people unemployable. every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.

This was entirely about purging a trans instructor from the school and they succeeded. It was aided by a lot of dumb liberals taking it at face value arguing the minutia of grading rubrics while ignoring the obvious bad faith efforts behind this.

HARK THE HERALD ANGELS HUM GLORY TO THE KINGDOM CUM

post-9/11 country music is what white people pretend rap music is to black people but for white people tbh.

Anyone who sends people to concentration camps to be tortured should be tried and, if found guilty, hanged like the Nazis they are.

Put it up on YouTube as well.

This video starts out absolutely buckwild and takes at least 10 more turns that I was not expecting

WHAT DID I JUST SAY?!

HEY LOOK IT'S THE PC FROM THE GAME I'M DMING YOU RULE

I think this stuff is getting more common, people under stress tend to lash out at each other and read poor intentions when there are none, “something you said makes me feel uncomfy” suddenly becomes the (good intentioned) poster’s problem when it is the reader’s

especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win

Literally only country in the world to have signed and not ratified the International convention on children's rights

The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own

it's a mark of how fucked up the world is that this doesn't even phase me. at least he's paying the people he tortured. could be worse. off to read about conditions in our government's latest concentration camp.

you really do get the sense that youtube's topic system was made by someone who does not understand how band names work because they listen exclusively to spotify pop playlists

fuck you

Thomas is completely correct here but I will go one further. This is also true for basically all forms of pop music

Fuck car people you are all insane. Cars are literally *the* most inconvenient way to get around I can possibly think of and make everything more inconvenient for everyone fucking else.

we gotta torch the climate so that repeatedly successful Dems in swing districts can win by a larger margin

This is explained in a long, unmissable scene *halfway through the movie*, not the ending, and then further discussed about a hundred fucking times before said ending. I despise this era of internet

It’s the Wordle—

always funny to me when the only critique someone can offer is 'The US will kill you if you try this' I mean sure but the US is killing everyone now so its not exactly an argument for sticking with the status quo.

another example of AI as tracer dye, exposing an already existing problem (and, of course, significantly worsening it)

The main thing to conclude from this Labour strategy to compare the Greens to Reform is that they don’t understand the threat that Reform pose. They’re not bothered by fascism.

"It's all Catholic teleology?" "Always has been."

Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses

Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there. Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.

Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.

me but I’m yellow hat and i wanna do a silly little lore drop to you because i feel like we’re bonding and getting closer

Matty has negatively polarized himself against the concept of activism to the point where he no longer seems to understand how political parties work at all.

This is the funniest thing he’s said in years but not intentionally

Fair warning, this is all fun, but we are going to see levels of negative polarization generated over the next year that scientists previously thought existed only in purely theoretical terms.

Conservatives need to be treated like they complain about being treated and they should feel lucky that society isn't treating them even worse.

Tax their churches into bankruptcy, ban charter schools and make public school *actually* like God's Not Dead

A megachurch pastor is pressuring congregants sign petition for a series anti-trans ballot initiatives, arguing somehow that it's both not political and nonpartisan.

Having ideas is the easy part, I just don't believe that anyone has no ideas, that's not a thing, it's not a skill gap that needs plugging with this grotesque and destructive tech, you're bullshitting me. Don't bullshit that you need AI, because you're certainly a kind of artist. Bullshit artist!

You know what you can use to generate ideas? A brain. I don't believe people when they say they need this abysmal tech to generate ideas, I think they're lying, but people are so disgusted with the tech being used to replace people's jobs, they don't exactly want to admit to what they're doing.

Addison highlights these types of comments from American conservatives, and I’ve seen this all the time and always think it’s especially deranged. America has the lowest density, most “single-family” housing stock of basically any modern nation and it’s still not enough for these people!

a purple state dem telling yglesias to eat shit becuase he's a moron who's wrong on the facts? SICKOS

"village" mentality is what sustains conservatism. not being able to do anything without the Grandma Gestapo reporting your every move. depending on the easily withdrawn kindness of others instead of impersonal but reliable services. and of course obeying aristocratic landowners

Auntie did nothing wrong if he wants to behave like an animal he can be sedated like one too

unsurprising, it's Dick Durbin after all. the thing about the path this is taking in the Senate is that all the people sponsoring it are *the* usual suspects for a dumbass internet bill like this. KOSA's had more cosponsors every single time it's been put up and every time that bill has just died.

the downside to being a permacontractor over the holidays is that you don’t get paid and don’t have PTO to use. the upside is that none of your clients want to supervise or meet with you, so as long as you keep an eye on your messages, you can phone it in a little.

imagine, if you will, that Homestuck's gone on hiatus just before the release of [S] Cascade and then we spent the intervening months getting a bunch of stills from the flash that look huge and then you get the announcement of [S] Cascade being released and you have to get in a queue to watch it

i can't believe james cameron got me to care about avatar, and all it took was putting an evil mind controlling murder sicko lady in the movie

Shit got more expensive and stayed more expensive so “being employed” doesn’t help you as much

In the Epstein line. www.justice.gov/epstein