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If you made the organ-removal stage of mummification a feature you could call it "Alimentary".
December 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
If you made the organ-removal stage of mummification a feature you could call it "Alimentary".
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No one ever makes any jokes about Jonestown.
Then again, that's probably because the punchlines are way too long... 🤔
Then again, that's probably because the punchlines are way too long... 🤔
December 21, 2025 at 5:54 AM
No one ever makes any jokes about Jonestown.
Then again, that's probably because the punchlines are way too long... 🤔
Then again, that's probably because the punchlines are way too long... 🤔
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Motherfuckers! Stop hoisting this shit on us!
December 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Motherfuckers! Stop hoisting this shit on us!
Why doesn't anyone use color anymore? Why do we insist on these subtle brown shades of brown?
there's no way this was the costume budget for a Matt Damon movie lmaao
New 'The Odyssey' images show Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland as family divided (exclusive)
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December 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Why doesn't anyone use color anymore? Why do we insist on these subtle brown shades of brown?
"My child doesn't want to talk to me right now so I have decided to do my hardest to alienate them forever." Is some real narcissistic shit.
thank god, I feel like we never hear from parents
Welcome to the pissed-off parent pushback: After years of therapists and others encouraging adult children to cut ties with families they deem harmful or “toxic,” estranged parents are speaking out on.wsj.com/4s49U52
December 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"My child doesn't want to talk to me right now so I have decided to do my hardest to alienate them forever." Is some real narcissistic shit.
I agree with these three points generally, but also I don't think our species is mentally or historically equipped to understand how much damage we've done to biodiversity and our planet in the last 300 years. The birds and bugs are few and far between now.
One of my weird hobbyhorses is that a standard university education is almost always going to make this, the correct view of history, unthinkably distasteful.
Put this, from @hannahritchie.bsky.social, on my tombstone.
December 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I agree with these three points generally, but also I don't think our species is mentally or historically equipped to understand how much damage we've done to biodiversity and our planet in the last 300 years. The birds and bugs are few and far between now.
Commenting again on this: the biggest reason I didn't let my kids go play by themselves? I live in the city and WAAAY too many of my neighbors drive F-150 monstrosities with no sightlines. Once they added more sidewalks and protected bike paths I was much more willing to let them go explore.
If no one has already someone is going to write a think piece blaming this on true crime and no, that stuff came after the range of children had already dramatically shrunk. It probably is caused by it.
There are many, many ways, economically and socially, that we've moved away from children's independence and it's not just parents being overly precious.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Commenting again on this: the biggest reason I didn't let my kids go play by themselves? I live in the city and WAAAY too many of my neighbors drive F-150 monstrosities with no sightlines. Once they added more sidewalks and protected bike paths I was much more willing to let them go explore.
I had a good childhood with good parents who loved me. My dad was not so lucky. I really wish he'd gotten a therapist or psychologist to tell him to distance himself from his parents because those bastards inflicted more pain on him in his years than anyone else.
December 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I had a good childhood with good parents who loved me. My dad was not so lucky. I really wish he'd gotten a therapist or psychologist to tell him to distance himself from his parents because those bastards inflicted more pain on him in his years than anyone else.
This is not hard. Even if AOC just wants to stay in the House, the relationships inside the chamber and the party are now more important than outsider credibility. I see it all the time in local MN politics, the outsiders get in and then want to bills passed and chairs so the withhold endorsements.
NEW: In 2018, AOC pulled off an upset against an incumbent Democrat. But so far, she's withheld endorsements from progressive primary challengers like Brad Lander in #NY10. She also did not comment when asked about Trump pardoning Cuellar.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Could AOC’s silence be sign of a Senate run?
A series of progressives are staging primary challenges in the vein of Ocasio-Cortez’s insurgent 2018 run
www.independent.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This is not hard. Even if AOC just wants to stay in the House, the relationships inside the chamber and the party are now more important than outsider credibility. I see it all the time in local MN politics, the outsiders get in and then want to bills passed and chairs so the withhold endorsements.
Every time the chuds yammer about how useless philosophy is, I look at mfs like this and wish they'd been forced to read some god damn Cartesian dualism, phenomenalism or the Chinese Room experiment. I don't think this man knows what sentience even means.
i hope they do actually have sentience, i want the disease they created to feel every second of being deleted
December 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Every time the chuds yammer about how useless philosophy is, I look at mfs like this and wish they'd been forced to read some god damn Cartesian dualism, phenomenalism or the Chinese Room experiment. I don't think this man knows what sentience even means.
I started letting my 11 year old take my 6 year old on trips last year. I thought a lot about stories like these before I decided and then figured that if the cops try to pull that shit on two lawyers maybe I can make some good trouble, but no one has ever complained or bothered us about it.
I think it's indirect and vague but yeah, there's basically a wide societal consensus that parenting should be miserable and all consuming and if you're not willing to do that you shouldn't bring a life into the world where it may have to suffer a perfectly adequate life in a time of abundance.
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I started letting my 11 year old take my 6 year old on trips last year. I thought a lot about stories like these before I decided and then figured that if the cops try to pull that shit on two lawyers maybe I can make some good trouble, but no one has ever complained or bothered us about it.
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thinking about this with regards to the Uvalde cops twiddling their thumbs while kids got killed. all kinds of normies are naturally heroic under fire, you have to be trained to be that much of a chickenshit
turns out the guy was a Syrian immigrant named Ahmed al Ahmed who got his Australian citizenship in 2022 www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Hero who wrestled gun from terrorist says he’d do it again despite being ‘riddled with bullets’
Despite Ahmed al Ahmed being in a lot of pain, according to his migration lawyer, he felt as if disarming the gunman at Bondi was an act for the community.
www.smh.com.au
December 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
thinking about this with regards to the Uvalde cops twiddling their thumbs while kids got killed. all kinds of normies are naturally heroic under fire, you have to be trained to be that much of a chickenshit
One of the great contradictions of America is its outward profession of liberty while inheriting and holding all the old chattel rights. The Civil War ended the most egregious, slavery, but the chattel status of women didn't see change until 1920, and children are still shit out of luck.
This piece is so good
Opinion | Home-Schooled Kids Are Not All Right
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
One of the great contradictions of America is its outward profession of liberty while inheriting and holding all the old chattel rights. The Civil War ended the most egregious, slavery, but the chattel status of women didn't see change until 1920, and children are still shit out of luck.
What's the point of Christianity if you aren't going to apply it to your contemporary life?
Supporters of the displays say the Bible is on their side, but critics call the scenes sacrilegious and politically divisive, accusing the churches of abusing sacred imagery. n.pr/4rTabaD
Church Nativity scenes add zip ties and gas masks to protest immigration raids
Supporters of the displays say the Bible is on their side, but critics call the scenes sacrilegious and politically divisive, accusing the churches of abusing sacred imagery.
n.pr
December 14, 2025 at 5:59 AM
What's the point of Christianity if you aren't going to apply it to your contemporary life?
I get one of these every time I go to my deli. Don't care. It's great.
December 14, 2025 at 5:53 AM
I get one of these every time I go to my deli. Don't care. It's great.
I will never stop being annoyed by the "Nixon was actually a good liberal" people. He used the FBI and CIA ruthlessly against his domestic enemies, probably would have atom bombed Cambodia, was a horrific lush and also probably beat his wife. He signed some legislation that Congress passed. Whoop.
December 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I will never stop being annoyed by the "Nixon was actually a good liberal" people. He used the FBI and CIA ruthlessly against his domestic enemies, probably would have atom bombed Cambodia, was a horrific lush and also probably beat his wife. He signed some legislation that Congress passed. Whoop.
In male-heavy spaces there is a Conventional Wisdom that whatever it is you see on OF or in pornography ALL women must be secretly doing. It makes no sense and is obviously just sexual anxiety and fear of not measuring up, but boy is it everywhere.
The "1/3 women outside a major city" claim is just straight up baseless. OF doesn't release data like that and the numbers would have to be astronomical.
This is weird male anxiety used as justification for censorship and repression.
This is weird male anxiety used as justification for censorship and repression.
December 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
In male-heavy spaces there is a Conventional Wisdom that whatever it is you see on OF or in pornography ALL women must be secretly doing. It makes no sense and is obviously just sexual anxiety and fear of not measuring up, but boy is it everywhere.
My Hawaiian MIL keeps angling to come visit us to have a "White Christmas" and I literally keep my house colder than this at night. She would die.
Just how it is out here. This morning it was 62F, and I needed a hoodie
I don't have a thermostat, my home is unheated. Which in Hawaii is interesting in winter...it got down to around 60F last night, which doesn't sound cold unless you don't have heat. :)
December 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
My Hawaiian MIL keeps angling to come visit us to have a "White Christmas" and I literally keep my house colder than this at night. She would die.
60 (15.6) at night, 65 (18.3) during the day, 67 (19.4) briefly for the first hour everyone is awake. Heat's expensive!
Question:
During waking hours, what do you set your thermostat at in the winter?
I usually keep it at 22.5C (73F).
During waking hours, what do you set your thermostat at in the winter?
I usually keep it at 22.5C (73F).
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
60 (15.6) at night, 65 (18.3) during the day, 67 (19.4) briefly for the first hour everyone is awake. Heat's expensive!
It's also 100% ahistorical! When black civil rights activists were fighting for the right to sit at lunch counters or ride buses, it wasn't just formal discrimination it was harassment and abuse from staff! A business that tolerates that behavior is liable under our civil rights laws for that reason
this is an argument for protecting cops who abuse people because all workers deserve strong unions and protections
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
December 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
It's also 100% ahistorical! When black civil rights activists were fighting for the right to sit at lunch counters or ride buses, it wasn't just formal discrimination it was harassment and abuse from staff! A business that tolerates that behavior is liable under our civil rights laws for that reason
The whole essay is an inversion of how employment law works in America. The reality is that while most employees are "at-will" and can be fired for any reason not explicitly prohibited by law, racist or sexist employees have typically benefited from employers who value them over their victims.
i also believe in building a better world for workers. i also believe that all people are entitled to respect and dignity and that there ought to be social sanction for those who openly degrade others. you call me a “n*gger” to my face and i am not going to smile and shake your hand.
December 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The whole essay is an inversion of how employment law works in America. The reality is that while most employees are "at-will" and can be fired for any reason not explicitly prohibited by law, racist or sexist employees have typically benefited from employers who value them over their victims.
@stras.bsky.social Completed my second Band of Blades campaign tonight. We finished with 195 points and the bragging rights to having trapped a Broken under tons of stone. Thanks again for making this game! I'd brag about it on the community message boards but it looks like they're gone!
December 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
@stras.bsky.social Completed my second Band of Blades campaign tonight. We finished with 195 points and the bragging rights to having trapped a Broken under tons of stone. Thanks again for making this game! I'd brag about it on the community message boards but it looks like they're gone!
I have been trying for years to tell people that the "natural health" folks have reactionary political streaks, they just look aesthetically leftist! They are not! Purity of body, food and mind are easy concepts to turn towards reactionary conservative politics, even fascism.
This is strictly a personal observation from living in LA, but RFK scares me so much because otherwise orthodox liberals with a woo food and chemicals streak are being converted into lunatic conservatives.
SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
December 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I have been trying for years to tell people that the "natural health" folks have reactionary political streaks, they just look aesthetically leftist! They are not! Purity of body, food and mind are easy concepts to turn towards reactionary conservative politics, even fascism.
This was the traditional model for commercial art forever! Then the accountants convinced everyone to only run pre-existing intellectual property! It's very new!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZaz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZaz...
December 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This was the traditional model for commercial art forever! Then the accountants convinced everyone to only run pre-existing intellectual property! It's very new!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZaz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZaz...