BlueSky seems to think that this was a request for celebration and the Streisand effect is it backfiring. Someone risked their job to post this because they want you to know.

BlueSky wants you to think theater kids are only a force for good in the world but I have a long memory. I remember.

I am nothing if not a self-hating former musical theater kid.

I know BlueSky is defending theater kids right now but a theater kid is about to pop up and tell you that Rent is a Christmas movie and you should all do a sing-a-long viewing of it tonight.

Getting ready to make Christmas cookies from Fannie Farmer's 1937 edition of the Boston Cooking-School Cookbook, as per family tradition.

Re: theater kid discourse If you ever worked on the waitstaff at a Denny's, your eternal grudge against theater kids is real and valid and I apologize on behalf of the community of former theater kids.

As a former theater kid: NO. You do not get to take this from me, conservatives. Theater kid energy is fine for kids. It is not fine for grown adults in their 30s and 40s. Don't you dare take my insult and make it a gay slur. I need it for people displaying Rachel Berry behavior at PTA meetings.

His performance truly helped make Generation Kill what it was. I don't think that miniseries works without him.

Bro you don't get to make promises to your international supermodel wife about when you'll retire and start spending more time with the kids only to back out 45 seconds into retirement without there being consequences. Turns out women are people who have wishes beyond "make their husband happy".

God gives his toughest battles* to his strongest soldiers** * being a White Sox fan ** the literal Pope

Unfortunately for the Pope, God only seems to care about football and not baseball.

When Holiday Inn used to play on cable they cut out the blackface number which led to an extremely awkward evening at college when I rented the DVD off Netflix and watched it with some friends only to discover there was a blackface number in the movie that I didn't know about

White Christmas and Holiday Inn are both playing on different streaming services leading to the awkward Google "which Bing Crosby movie about two men starting up a holiday themed bed and breakfast in New England is the one with blackface" so I don't accidentally show that one to my kids

As a woman who has been through childbirth twice, I'm giving him a pass on this quote. I think that's actually a pretty fair metaphor.

The Pope was an American citizen who served as a bishop in Peru. I think it's fair to say he doesn't think a person has to be born in a country to serve there as bishop or cardinal.

There's a lot of blame on parents these days when it comes to kids' academic failures, but this picture has been making the rounds on my social media pages. The parent who posted it was frustrated that her sixth grader got an 8/10 on this writing assignment. The school is arguing it meets standards.

Pelvic floor physical therapy is deeply weird because a big part of it involves the therapist inserting his or her fingers into you to evaluate the muscle tone but somehow the most humiliating part for me was the therapist noting I had mismatched black socks on when I took my shoes off.

Happy last weekend before Christmas. May the odds be ever in your favor.

But I will give credit where it's due, the headpiece for the lead snowflake is badass.

Are you looking for a Christmas album that makes you think "what the fuck am I listening to?" Do I have the album for you. open.spotify.com/album/5wJqsH...

Well I am suddenly pretty concerned about what doctors employed by the Federal government (e.g., the doctors in the Defense Health Agency, who provide primary care for a lot of children of military service members and retirees) are going to be recommending.

That reminds me, I need to figure out what church near me has a 4 pm Christmas Eve service near me so I can drag my family to services and studiously avoid the eyes of everyone who actually attends regularly.

Damn I remember my Catholic parish getting heat from my hometown in the 90s because they tried to issue out free tickets to Christmas/Christmas Eve services one year out of safety and fire code violation worries.

Me to me after telling myself I should just block the popular account that keeps having terrible takes that annoy me

Never do anything new for Christmas while your children are young unless you are prepared to do that thing every year from now to eternity.

No nuance Christmas movie take: Mary's alternate reality in It's A Wonderful Life isn't supposed to be "being a spinster librarian is the worst fate possible for a woman", it's supposed to be sad because *Mary* specifically dreams of marrying and having a big family and living in her dream home.

Becoming truly annoyed with the type of local Facebook/Subreddit poster whose ideals seem to amount to "local imperfect charity that is doing real, tangible work with the most vulnerable in our community is clearly evil, the only good charity is this vibes based one that provides no actual services"

Stumbled across some random argument online about how parents are neglectful if they don't go to every sports game a kid has and I guess I was the only high schooler alive who understood that my parents had to work? They came to the games they were able to but they were not evil for having to work!

Luka: "Ball don't lie baby" 😂

An alarming number of people on this website seem to think that the woman at that Coldplay concert deserved all that harassment from randos across the public actually.

"I read 50 books this year" what, like that's hard? I read this book at least 50 times to my toddler. How 'bout you get on my level.

Watching the animated How The Grinch Stole Christmas for approximately the fifth time this month and I will watch it another 25 times before I agree to watch the live action monstrosity.

It was the kind of dreary, rainy, short day in Western Washington that makes you say "okay Stephanie Meyer maybe it wasn't dumb to name your books about vampires who can go outside in the daytime 'Twilight' considering the setting in Forks, Washington"

As the parent of a neurodivergent kid who is obsessed with Calvin and Hobbes I will admit there have been days when I wished Bill Watterson was a little more lenient and would license the rights to make toy versions of the characters but yeah, hell no, keep the Minecraft movie guy away from that IP.

Honda is about to sell so many shitty motorcycles at 24.99% interest

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It would be very dumb to not do this because The Troops™️ are guaranteed to hold grudges about exactly two things: 1. Being told they will get time off and then not getting time off, and 2. Being told they will get paid extra money and then not getting paid extra money

If you are A Troop who is about to receive $1776 maybe please for the love of your NCO just spend it on strippers and alcohol and not drugs. You have a 100% urinalysis test on January 5th.

Congratulations equally to every strip club and car dealership within 20 miles of a base.

As an official middle-aged suburban mother present on this website I just want to say that I have no idea what "eigenslur" means and I think if any of you do, it's a sign that you should log off for at least a week and spend some time outside.

Well, he didn't announce a war. I'll call that a win.

He's giving this speech with all the enthusiasm of me giving an oral report on the economy of Brazil in 9th grade global studies.

I don't think we're starting a war tonight if only because the entire military really hates to start things right before holiday block leave is supposed to start. Let's circle back to it after New Years, gang.

I can't get over how bad the MSNBC rebrand is. Every time I see "MS NOW" I think "who the fuck is Ms. Now?". It reads like a parody of a late 2000s/early 2010s feminist blog.

Knitting as a hobby like "babes, no, you don't want that $30 acrylic 'reading blanket' from Barnes and Noble. For only about $250 of yarn I can make that for you in wool but with a more janky, uneven appearance and it will take me six months"

My blue town in a blue state is forever in a war between "we need more housing" and "why are they cutting trees down to build housing"

On the one hand, there are literally hundreds of versions of The Nutcracker ballet out there and it's fine that no two versions are going to be exactly the same. On the other hand, I hate these costumes. God, those are ugly.

We have no power today so we are probably not going on a goyish girl's first latke making adventure.

I want the people who self-righteously declared that voting for harm reduction in the 2024 presidential election was not the morally correct thing to do to really look at that headline and internalize it.