It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

I do not believe in the death penalty for humans. I do support the death penalty for corporations. When they murder people, let's dissolve them. Break them up, destroy their technology, nationalize their assets. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

i want to stress again that every time i try to explain this shit to normal people i sound like i have to be institutionalized

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Apparently tomorrow I have to start providing labor in exchange for my salary again

America is a rogue and malevolent state and global bad actor

You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.

“The only thing the elite Washington press corps likes more than a bipartisan commission on debt reduction is a stack of flag-draped coffins.” web.archive.org/web/20200103...

I further put forward that we be allowed to be a little bit rude about it. look what the obsession with civility has gotten us. if a person is being hateful or saying something untrue, you should be allowed to get a little bitchy if you need to!

It's this but then the exterminator sends you text messages asking for more money every 3 hours for the rest of your life

Of all the competitive authoritarian developments of the past year I think the fall of CBS News is among the most chilling. That this can happen to easily and so quickly freaks me the fuck out.

it is a little disconcerting that none of the people in charge of anything right now seem to know how to do it. like, if you were on a bus and the driver started whipping around all crazy and yelling about how buses don’t need wheels you’d probably be like, hey. this guy shouldn’t be driving the bus

It’s going to be so hard to preserve an accurate portrayal of this bizarre time in history, because future generations will not be able to reconcile the scale of evil atrocities with the aesthetics of a 7 year old’s birthday party in 1990

Again, the man who’s next in line for the presidency after this walking corpse has said he’s deeply influenced by this outright Nazi, so maybe we could get a little more attention on that?

This year I’m going to be kinder, more positive, work harder, and put more faith in myself until the very first minor obstacle throws me off for the next 350+ days

The way we need to market this shit is to do what conservatives did for the past 30 years and write books like “The ten forbidden truths you’re not allowed to say on politically correct tv” and then it’s just cities are mostly fine and it’s good to get a flu shot

Congrats to the people of New York for experiencing A Good Thing, y'all earned it

one last time, for the road

they're gonna just ship 2026 in unplayable condition and hope some community management bullshit will bridge the gap until the first major updates, I can tell

They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration. It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.

2026 is midterms and it’s the year we get going on putting these assholes in the dumpster of history where they belong

continually tapping the "short form video is fundamentally evil and deleterious to society" sign

Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!

libsoftiktok is now the third most powerful branch of government after the president and supreme court

Spending NYE in the serenity of Mt Rainier. See you on the other side. Here’s to a much better 2026, for everyone.

this remains the greatest synopsis of incel culture one could ever ask for

meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years. we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this?? between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright

at least tomorrow is next year

Trent Reznor’s Nothing Studios, New Orleans, during recording of Nine Inch Nails’ 1999 “The Fragile” & rehearsals for the 2000 Fragility tour. These are two unique pages from the NIN tour book I designed 25yrs ago, a collage of my candid pics from the studio offering a rare glimpse behind the scenes

Some details of “The Dreamer Is Still Asleep.” The circuit-bent Cybershot I used for this produces gorgeous fine digital corruption details that really shine in print. I have a few of these available. FREE GLOBAL SHIPPING on all my art with code BYE2025 at robsheridan.storenvy.com - ends Jan 1!

Some details of “The Dreamer Is Still Asleep.” The circuit-bent Cybershot I used for this produces gorgeous fine digital corruption details that really shine in print. I have a few of these available. FREE GLOBAL SHIPPING on all my art with code BYE2025 at robsheridan.storenvy.com - ends Jan 1!

You should get the flu shot asap. But also, according to our kid’s doctor there’s a superflu going around (we got it) that isn’t in this year’s shot. If you get the flu or someone close to you gets it, ask your doc for Tamiflu within 48 hours, it MASSIVELY reduces the impact of the virus.

2025 recapped

you do not and should not hand it to MTG under any circumstances it is useful for us, politically, that she's broken with Trump - because "Rs in Disarray" is a good narrative but she herself is still a vicious antisemite and transphobe and nobody progressive should lose sight of that

By the way, Gavin Newsom is apparently raising money to fight AGAINST the billionaire tax. So thoughtful of him to come to their aid at this particular time in history,

Nine Inch Nails “Every Day Is Exactly The Same” live at rehearsals 2005, closing out the set of performance videos I directed for “With Teeth” 20 years ago:

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

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I spent the bulk of Christmas Day teaching 14 year old who wants off the algo how to use their brand new CD player. I have never in my life felt more like the holder of sacred arcane knowledge.

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

I can’t get over how one directional Instagram feels… I liked old Twitter & now BlueSky because they feel like local pubs you go into and join chats with old mates and new. Instagram feels like you are walking into the backstage at a theatre where everyone is practicing their monologues.

We watched Home Alone with the three year old

For the rest of the year I'm doing FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE in my print shop, use promo code BYE2025 and treat yourself to some art! Some oddities and signed collectibles are still up through New Years. robsheridan.storenvy.com Made, signed, numbered, and shipped direct from me in our home studio.