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Chris Vermilion
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Software nerd. Order Muppet. Recovering physicist. Not really that sad of a dad. https://verm.me
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timcarvell.bsky.social
RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”

“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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rickyftw.bsky.social
I wrote the captions on this video the night Osama Bin Laden was killed and it’s probably the most shared thing I ever created.
December 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast.

www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
HARPERS WEEKLY. JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION Vor. VII.-No. 314.] NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1863. GELCOM SANTA CLAUS SANTA CLAUS IN CAMP.-[SEE PAGE 6] Nast's image was published in the 1862 Christmas issue of Harper’s Weekly, during days filled with both trials for the Union and rising hope. Santa Claus has arrived by sleigh in a Union army camp to distribute gifts. This was the moment that Nast conceived and introduced our modern image of Santa Claus. Combining European traditions of St. Nicholas with folk images of elves from his native Germany, he created the jolly gift-giver now associated with Christmas that here offers cheer to soldiers far from home. He distributes boxes of necessities such as warm socks, copies of Harper's Weekly, and entertains the crowd with a jumping jack dangling from a noose, its chest lettered "Jeff" in reference to the Confederate President Jefferson Davis. In the background, soldiers chase an escaped hog, roast meat on a spit and play fairground games such as climbing a greased pole. This image on the title page of the journal was supported by a two-page spread within the journal that shows Santa visiting sleeping children in New York (see 33.35.26 and 29.88.4(8)).
December 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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katysaint.bsky.social
Werner Herzog looking gravitas-y with a speech bubble pointed at the quoted skeet
July 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)
Historians dispute Bayeux tapestry penis tally after lengthy debate --The Guardian, 25 Apr 2025
December 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Last millenium when I was a kid, my dad would load the dishwasher sometimes, and he’d say, “I’m a 90s kinda guy!”

And the people who got mad about that run the whole country now.
December 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
verm.me
Gonna be hard to fit all of Swan Lake in an hour, though
60minutes.bsky.social 60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 5d
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report “Inside CECOT” will air in a future broadcast.
December 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures

www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 - 3 beds/3.5 baths
(SW Michigan MLS) For Sale: 3 beds, 3.5 baths ∙ 5000 sq. ft. ∙ 414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 ∙ $7,000,000 ∙ MLS# 25062388 ∙ This Downtown Ann Arbor penthouse stands among the finest residence...
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December 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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npr.org
It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born. From the NPR archives.
NORAD's Santa Tracker began with a typo and a good sport
It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born.
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December 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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branchspell.bsky.social
“There are levels of drama that should never be explored” is an intense thing to say to someone
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d
Sorry but I am Team Aunt
December 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Here in Delaware we have a statue of Thomas Garrett, a white man found guilty of obstructing the recapture of fugitives from slavery – ordered to pay damages to the point of ruin for it.

We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.
UNWAVERING COURAGE IN THE PURSUIT OF FREEDOM (WILIMINGTON, DELAWARE). Thomas Garrett, clothed in a cape and topcoat, holds a latern; Harriet Tubman, stands tall and proud above him.
December 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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deflatermaus.bsky.social
"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7d
for all people make fun of falun gong, it's wild how much this is basically the same thing as shen yun
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Undoing repost to quote instead, please take Glenn's post as a real warning, this is incredibly heavy and you may not want to read unless you're in the right frame of mind
glennf.com Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 7d
This essay by the author of a recent well-reviewed book about Tolkien starts modestly and then stabs you with a Morgul-blade halfway through, where you are pinioned by a twist in the telling. You may never recover. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Why I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
All you really need to understand about water usage in the western United States is that every single use - even the ones that sound egregiously wasteful like AI data centers - rounds down to 0 compared to what irrigated agriculture uses
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Not for the first time, the signature block for Self-Proclaimed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan spelled it “Virgina.”
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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greggo.bsky.social
My response to anything over the next two weeks
A grey and red transit bus on the road in a city. The bus’ destination sign reads “NO? ?? ???????”
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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theonion.com
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effect...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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I do think more people should appreciate that Sarah has to be selective about when she draws attention to her identity given the obsessive focus on it by some of her colleagues--she is in a uniquely impossible position. But it also makes it more impactful when she does.
"I was a kid once. I didn't have the courage to come out until I was 21, but it's a fact I have known about myself for my entire life," she said. "I didn't have the courage to come out until I was 21, and that means 21 years of pain, 21 years of unwavering homesickness that only went away when I was able to get the care that I needed. And my biggest regret in life is that I never had a childhood without that pain. I marvel at the courage of transgender young people today who are sharing themselves with their families and this world, despite the toxicity and the hate that too often emanates from the building behind me and from politicians within it." She concluded, "It is already hard enough to be a kid, and government should not make it harder."
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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le poisson steve
Le poisson Steve (an orange fish with arms and legs)
December 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Become ungovernable
SUV marked for Canton (MA) Animal Control parked in a driveway. A large tabby housecat with a collar is hanging on the rear passenger door and peering in suspiciously at the inside of the cabin.
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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vortexegg.com
Predating AI, there was already trend in computer software, whether coming from open source projects or large corporations, that everyone from casual to experienced technical users began to associate “new features” with “unwelcome bullshit” and no meaningful feedback mechanism exists to correct that
fasterandworse.com Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 10d
Firefox's killer feature is that it's not chromium. That's the pull. Nothing to do with tab grouping or UI design.

When your userbase is made of people who don't want bullshit, you are taking a risk with every new feature, especially the ultimate bullshit feature of AI.
fasterandworse.com Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 10d
> Enzor-DeMeo spent 2025 racing to make Firefox a more compelling product, adding things like tab groups, while also trying to figure out how the browser should integrate with AI.

It doesn't have to be compelling! It's for accessing compelling stuff!

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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josie.zone
NOOOOOOOO
December 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
as of this week it has officially been 18 years since an anonymous user uploaded this bizarre image of an opossum cornered in a baby grand piano to Wikimedia Commons
December 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Back in February, @papapishu.bsky.social, @davidjroth.bsky.social and I chatted about this Ricky Jay special, and the importance of preserving content before it disappears. defector.com/someone-has-...
December 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
We lost a what, now?
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13d
An American nuclear device disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains during a covert mission. After losing it 60 years ago, the U.S. government still refuses to acknowledge that anything ever happened.
How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device in the Himalayas?
A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.
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December 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM