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JD Vances idea of an interracial relationship
This looks like Sinbad died and got reincarnated as a chair.
December 30, 2025 at 6:15 AM
JD Vances idea of an interracial relationship
Look, Hellenistic War-Elephants can quit anytime they want.
I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself
December 30, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Look, Hellenistic War-Elephants can quit anytime they want.
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Just had a sale in my Ko-Fi shop! That's a fun way to close out the year. Woohoo!
December 30, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Just had a sale in my Ko-Fi shop! That's a fun way to close out the year. Woohoo!
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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"LGBTQ+ Americans have always been part of our nation’s story. We’re done being erased, sidelined or misrepresented."
#BeSeen🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#BeSeen🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Stonewall Pioneer slams Ken Burns documentary ‘The American Revolution’ - Philadelphia Gay News
Stonewall Pioneer Mark Segal slams Ken Burns’ new PBS documentary, ‘The American Revolution,’ for using age-old stereotypes.
epgn.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"LGBTQ+ Americans have always been part of our nation’s story. We’re done being erased, sidelined or misrepresented."
#BeSeen🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#BeSeen🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Fia and Zella say it's very important to snuggle with a loved one to keep warm in winter.
December 30, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Fia and Zella say it's very important to snuggle with a loved one to keep warm in winter.
It was actually Cuomo who dodged the baseball question by trying to claim he was a fan of both the Mets and the Yankees, and who didn't know how to correctly order a bacon, egg, and cheese at a bodega. But please tell me more about how the brown guy was the one who came off as not truly local.
This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books.
Why are these people such freaks?
Why are these people such freaks?
December 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It was actually Cuomo who dodged the baseball question by trying to claim he was a fan of both the Mets and the Yankees, and who didn't know how to correctly order a bacon, egg, and cheese at a bodega. But please tell me more about how the brown guy was the one who came off as not truly local.
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As a reminder: Even if I didn't consider using genAI environmentally destructive, creatively bankrupt, and morally indefensible (which I do), courts ruled it is *not subject to copyright.* If someone, theoretically, published a genAI title, and it popped off? There is no defending ownership of it.
December 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
As a reminder: Even if I didn't consider using genAI environmentally destructive, creatively bankrupt, and morally indefensible (which I do), courts ruled it is *not subject to copyright.* If someone, theoretically, published a genAI title, and it popped off? There is no defending ownership of it.
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Hey, Brooklyn, New York, friends everywhere.
The Coney Island Lighthouse Food Pantry has been helping feed people for 25 years.
At this time of increasing need, they are in high immediate risk of closing.
Please help at their GoFundMe, if you can, and share word.
www.gofundme.com/f/save-coney...
The Coney Island Lighthouse Food Pantry has been helping feed people for 25 years.
At this time of increasing need, they are in high immediate risk of closing.
Please help at their GoFundMe, if you can, and share word.
www.gofundme.com/f/save-coney...
December 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Hey, Brooklyn, New York, friends everywhere.
The Coney Island Lighthouse Food Pantry has been helping feed people for 25 years.
At this time of increasing need, they are in high immediate risk of closing.
Please help at their GoFundMe, if you can, and share word.
www.gofundme.com/f/save-coney...
The Coney Island Lighthouse Food Pantry has been helping feed people for 25 years.
At this time of increasing need, they are in high immediate risk of closing.
Please help at their GoFundMe, if you can, and share word.
www.gofundme.com/f/save-coney...
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Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny
Critics of the Daily Show host say he's a hypocrite.
www.motherjones.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How happy are Canadians that their major export is now gay hockey instead of Drake
December 29, 2025 at 5:28 AM
How happy are Canadians that their major export is now gay hockey instead of Drake
I'm sorry but I need an entire encyclopedia's worth of information about the life of that incredibly tiny dog.
sorry, but in my house the oliver hardy style guide is never out of fashion.
December 29, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I'm sorry but I need an entire encyclopedia's worth of information about the life of that incredibly tiny dog.
Haven't watched Heated Rivalry yet so can't speak to the costuming but since I do love a good costume deep dive, here's me pointing to one.
In the hands of a lazier costumer, the off-the-ice clothes on a show so packed with nude scenes and hockey uniforms could have felt like an afterthought.
But for Toronto costume designer Hanna Puley, “Heated Rivalry” was an intriguing assignment.
But for Toronto costume designer Hanna Puley, “Heated Rivalry” was an intriguing assignment.
On ‘Heated Rivalry,’ the clothes do more than just fall to the floor
The hit show’s costumes help build a heteronormative world — and telegraph how the show’s main characters fit into it.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Haven't watched Heated Rivalry yet so can't speak to the costuming but since I do love a good costume deep dive, here's me pointing to one.
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I’m laughing at the discovery that neither Daisy Ridley nor her husband knew that the new film he’s starring in was based on fan fic about her and Adam Driver’s STAR WARS characters
December 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I’m laughing at the discovery that neither Daisy Ridley nor her husband knew that the new film he’s starring in was based on fan fic about her and Adam Driver’s STAR WARS characters
Jon clearly finding new ways to prompt eyerolls and disappointment after greatest hits such as "Stop saying that we're seeing the rise of fascism" and "Everything Trump ever did is equally bad to Biden being old."
Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.
December 29, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Jon clearly finding new ways to prompt eyerolls and disappointment after greatest hits such as "Stop saying that we're seeing the rise of fascism" and "Everything Trump ever did is equally bad to Biden being old."
Going over my year end statistics for my website and Bluesky is the #5 referrer of traffic, after Google, Duckduckgo, Bing, and Pinterest. Last year it didn't make the top 10. There's definitely growth in audience reach and interaction happening.
December 29, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Going over my year end statistics for my website and Bluesky is the #5 referrer of traffic, after Google, Duckduckgo, Bing, and Pinterest. Last year it didn't make the top 10. There's definitely growth in audience reach and interaction happening.
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I used to say on Twitter, back when I was on there, “don’t retweet anything that you wouldn’t pay to promote”, as a way of trying to explain the value of algorithmic amplification. Instead, I learned a lesson about how much people really do want to subsidize and amplify things they pretend to hate.
oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends
December 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I used to say on Twitter, back when I was on there, “don’t retweet anything that you wouldn’t pay to promote”, as a way of trying to explain the value of algorithmic amplification. Instead, I learned a lesson about how much people really do want to subsidize and amplify things they pretend to hate.
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Well, it’s the day after Wallace and Gromit rode again – and it’s the 31st anniversary of the first appearance of the greatest sound effect in the history of the motion picture, so here’s the story of how (I found out how) they made it...
December 26, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Well, it’s the day after Wallace and Gromit rode again – and it’s the 31st anniversary of the first appearance of the greatest sound effect in the history of the motion picture, so here’s the story of how (I found out how) they made it...
It's the little things that hint that the snowblowers might be outside.
December 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM
It's the little things that hint that the snowblowers might be outside.
I would genuinely be interested in a sociological dive on something like Avatar vs Phantom Menace in terms of fans as defined by people who by tickets and fans as defined by people who then go on to do fanfic, cosplay, etc. 🧵
I mean, if you make a series of movies that neither has significant cultural impact nor leaves any residue on the memory track, and yet still reliably convinces audiences to return to the tune of $2 billion per installment, is it possible that "cultural impact" is overvalued/irrelevant as a metric
Avatar makes a lot of money at the box office. Certainly has advanced the art and tech of the industry. But I think relative to its BO dominance its cultural imprint is noticeably small. Never would I bet against James Cameron, but most people don’t remember much other than the aliens are blue.
December 27, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I would genuinely be interested in a sociological dive on something like Avatar vs Phantom Menace in terms of fans as defined by people who by tickets and fans as defined by people who then go on to do fanfic, cosplay, etc. 🧵
Nola greets you all from where her cruel, cruel mother will not let her stay out in the snow for hours and instead insists on going into bed.
December 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Nola greets you all from where her cruel, cruel mother will not let her stay out in the snow for hours and instead insists on going into bed.
So far my accomplishments in Fae Farm include getting the maximum amount of inventory space in my bag, increasing the space in my home, and adopting chickens, bunnies, a cow, and a sheep. I believe this means I'm winning the game.
December 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
So far my accomplishments in Fae Farm include getting the maximum amount of inventory space in my bag, increasing the space in my home, and adopting chickens, bunnies, a cow, and a sheep. I believe this means I'm winning the game.
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NYC has an excellent tool to see how recently any street has been plowed. Check out PlowNYC at: plownyc.cityofnewyork.us/plownyc/
Thank you to the 1000s of hard working men and women at @nycsanitation.bsky.social who are out battling this storm tonight.
Thank you to the 1000s of hard working men and women at @nycsanitation.bsky.social who are out battling this storm tonight.
December 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
NYC has an excellent tool to see how recently any street has been plowed. Check out PlowNYC at: plownyc.cityofnewyork.us/plownyc/
Thank you to the 1000s of hard working men and women at @nycsanitation.bsky.social who are out battling this storm tonight.
Thank you to the 1000s of hard working men and women at @nycsanitation.bsky.social who are out battling this storm tonight.