That is magic...thank you for sharing this. "my little man" is so cool

I asked my 10yo how he knew how to do something "I just listen to what my little man tells me" and he gestured to his heart. The kid knows how to listen to his intuition, just naturally, and even has a term ("my little man") for his inner voice 🥹 It's beautiful being a parent

Holy shit it's just *always* been the circus. The West Wing tricked the millennial mind - mine included - into being unable to see what's real right in front of us. Because we really wanted to believe.

"The Violent Left" in one Infographic. The problem is that math, like reality, has a well-documented "liberal" bias. Which is actually why it's been so hard for Elon to make Grok answer how he wants without explicit carve-outs - his worldview is not based in fact or reality.

I told my (very offline) wife that RFK delisted the Meningitis vaccine and she gasped out loud. "Why?" I do not have answers, but I don't think a lot of people are prepared for the extent of unnecessary human suffering this will bring innocent children.

fellas, is it gay to be a father?

Not playing with your toddler is depriving the toddler of invaluable interactions with you and depriving yourself of some of the best moments of your life. "Weird"? How sad.

indigenous people actually have a lot of answers for the problems we (the monoculture) suffer from, ignorant to the fact our suffering is a choice

I am more and more convinced that right-wingers are like this because they surround themselves with sociopaths to the point they don't know when they're broken inside because they're the same as the people they are regularly around. Traumatized people traumatizing their kids.

I took most of December off work. Probably spent an average of 14 hours with my wife and kids every day. I loved it and never found myself in a murderous rage. Would do that every day for the rest of my life if I didn't have to work.

The collapse of America will not be televised. You could look at this and not know *anything* about *anything* important happening in the world on your behalf. They do this to make *the people paying attention* sound crazy when they tell their neighbors what's happening.

There is beauty in the world for those with eyes to see

A cataclysm of violence and poverty inflicted upon the poor by the rich, while the rich simultaneously collapse the entire globe's ecosystems. Global immiseration at the hands of unfettered greed.

America is a rogue and malevolent state and global bad actor

The amount of money we're spending to terrorize neighborhoods and snatch tamale vendors should radicalize anyone.

Literally fuck every government intelligence analyst who isn't picking up espionage act charges under Trump for leaking this crazy shit in advance

Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

Colombia confirms that US President Donald Trump is a child rapist.

If you are a foreign president who commits crimes overseas, America will come get you, arrest you, and lock you up. But if you are a US president who commits crimes here in the United States, America will give you immunity from prosecution, reelect you, and bribe you with billions of dollars.

I now have a little idea how the Italians and the Germans felt in the run up to World War II when they lived under Mussolini and Hitler. I believe that many of the people there must’ve felt the same sense of shame we feel today. We’re supposed to be the good guys.

Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.

Working title: "We Were Stormtroopers Once"

Mamdani for POTUS

Women poasting their Ws

It is *wild* to me how *little* the orange fuckwit had to DO to get every right-winger to surrender their dignity and suck his dick on main. The Right is now an unfathomably complete black hole for dignity and peace. I just can't believe how cheaply they sold themselves.

I spend $100s at @ThriftBookow every year, but I'm about to quit using their app because it gives me this bullshit every time I open it now. Want to quickly put a book rec in the cart? FUCK YOU DAVE HELP ME TRAIN AI FOR NO REASON. Enshittification continues apace

If you're madder about some made-up racist ragebait than: - Trump's illegal oil war in Venezuela - ICE detaining US citizens without recourse - Congress authorizing $8.6B OF YOUR TAX MONEY for FOR ISRAEL Then perhaps you are simply not equipped to understand this moment.

To imagine there are no negative consequences to the industrial way of subduing a child's emotions with "Cry it Out" is to demonstrate a deeply one-dimensional understanding of humanity. Purposefully teaching a baby there is no comfort or love when they need it is abuse.

Important:

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

I feel like the Framers were very specific about this not happening

I read replies to one of my tweets today and, after about 30 seconds, I realized it was like drinking drain-o. I used to use this website for *connection* but it's gotten so bad that it's barely usable unless I want my insides to feel like toxic sludge. I mean, look how broken:

That the most performative American Christians have lined up, almost en masse, alongside ICE - directly contrary to the words, wishes, and values of Jesus Christ himself - tells us that we were correct to distrust the story they've been telling the world about themselves.

Heros exist

On the one hand it is horrifying to watch American conservatives openly embrace the most deranged fascism imaginable but on the other hand their lack of inhibition in displaying their malice to all the world is only going to win a few converts and drive many more away

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

This is how the natural world upon which we depend begins its collapse.

LOL nothing says "Elon leaning on the algo" like this shit, where Trump's numbers are record lows too.

It is December 19th, nearly the Winter Solstice, and the lilacs think it is Spring. Probably nothing. Definitely not a sign that Things Are Breaking. Let's not pay attention to this and, instead, invade another country for its oil (and for the distraction)

Never ever fails

Big things are being born this month in the Peasant Home. The boys have started writing songs together and, chat, they're putting up absolute bangers I'm not even kidding. I feel like a midwife, in the best way, these days.

Anyone wishing the United States government to be taken seriously by its own people again will start by removing Trump's name from all this bullshit.

This is new.

Calling "human ceremony" "silly mysticism" is so exsanguinated I don't know what to say.

Always bring receipts

Hurt people hurt people.

I posted "here a great book on processing trauma" and, like cloockwork, their deeply sick replies prove my point. People only act like this when they're consumed by self-hatred.

*Strongly* recommend anyone interested in processing trauma read "Waking the Tiger" by Peter Levine. It's not the full answer but it's definitely *part* of an answer.