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prettypinkpansy.bsky.social
tumblr post. (two photos: the mona lisa and a copy of the original in clearer quality, with notably more visible eyebrows.) vastderp: "Meet the Mona Lisa of the Prado, the earliest known copy of Da Vinci's best portrait. Similarity in the undersketch of the painting indicates that this was very likely painted concurrently with the original Mona Lisa, by a student of Da Vinci." theater-whovian: "THE COPY HAS EYEBROWS" lalaland1212: "Your response to a beautiful piece of artwork done by Leonardo Da Vinci himself is SHES GOT EYEBROWS. Alright. All intelligent life has been lost." vastderp: "Yo Snooty McSnotwhine, the Mona Lisa’s vanished eyebrows have been the subject of debate and analysis in the art expert community for hundreds of years, long before your parents squirted water at each other from across the clown car and then honked their bicycle horns to indicate they really wanted to make a smug, insufferable little clown baby together."
December 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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jackbern.bsky.social
SCROOGE: you there! what day is today?
BOY: today? it's Christmas Day
SCROOGE: the spirits did it all in one night!
BOY: NINETEEN SEVENTY THREE
[Life on Mars plays, a Ford Cortina suddenly crashes into Scrooge's front room]
GENE HUNT: OI, DI Scrooge, get in, we've got a nonce in Didsbury to bust
December 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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thesaintoftous.bsky.social
“JC Denton. 23 years old. No residence. No ancestors. No employer. Here is your 2025 Year in Review: Your number one song is Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter”
JC Denton standing across from the Morpheus AI in Deus Ex: Revision (2015)
December 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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kelmcdonald.bsky.social
Screenshot from Phoenix Wright of a gun being pointed at the camra with the caption "Merry Christmas"
December 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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gameboydemakes.bsky.social
Happy almost christmas~
December 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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bringthenoise.bsky.social
Until 1990 (NINETEEN-NINETY) a man could not be convicted of raping his wife in Scotland
slack2thefuture.bsky.social David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 8d
Until the mid-1970’s, a man could not be convicted of rape in New York State based solely on the testimony of the woman he raped. A second witness was required because the female rape victim was deemed unreliable.

Feminism has not failed women.
December 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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beardynoise.bsky.social
This video almost single-handedly justifies TikTok
December 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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weirdscotland.bsky.social
In his first hundred years of business in Scotland, Santa Claus delivered to children on Hogmanay (31st Dec), not Christmas Eve.

By the 1960s, he had fully synchronised his visits and Scotland ran on the same timetable as the US and England.

#OldWeirdScotland
a newspaper article with the headline: Kirsteen talks to northeast women. Time for Santa to make up his mind?
December 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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kanaratron.bsky.social
Happy Not Christmas Day, to those that celebrate.
A screenshot from Ace Attorney where Phoenix Wright is saying:- "'Almost Christmas' means it wasn't Christmas"
December 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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toonholechris.bsky.social
Firefighter
December 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
Sorry for putting Rogan & Weiss on your TL, but there's a delicious irony in their ignorance & exploration of "toady."

The original term was "TOAD-EATER": an *actual profession* in Georgian England.

The "toady" would eat a 'poisonous' toad & then be 'cured' by a charlatan selling miracle cures.
razzball.bsky.social Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 4d
Head of CBS news
December 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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deathbulge.bsky.social
(1/2)
A fish is really excited about Santa's visit, completely oblivious to the fact Santa was fishing and trying to catch said fish. The fish offers Santa some mince pies while Santa awkwardly hides the fishing rod behind back.
December 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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stefscribbles.bsky.social
happy holidays
December 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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josie.zone
This is the most accurate description of the AVATAR franchise (and, implicitly, the entire James Cameron corpus) I have ever read, and it can only be appreciated if you see both skeets at once

(sorry to gank, @headfallsoff.com)

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headfallsoff ‪@headfallsoff.com‬ Follow they/them james cameron makes seventeen billion dollars a movie because he has median american voter politics like no one else on earth and commits to them fully despite them being the most incoherent ideas on earth 10:17 AM · Dec 20, 2025 Everybody can reply 110 reposts 7 quotes 954 likes 19 saves 4 117 Write your reply ‪headfallsoff‬ ‪@headfallsoff.com‬ · 2d they/them genocide and imperialism are the most evil forces in existence and the natives would have won against them if only they had the strength and nobility of the god damn united states marine corps
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
Reminder that Dachau was opened on 22 March 1933, even before Hindenburg died.

Most people don't know it was finally closed down in 1960.
April 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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everydaylouie.bsky.social
muppet christmas carol (happy holidays!)
a stylized 3d render of kermit and robin in a muppets christmas carol, singing and walking down a snowy street. a 2d drawing of various muppets pointing at michael caine and insulting him
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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tparsi.bsky.social
If there only was a word for a governing system in which one set of laws applied to people of a specific race, and a completely different and much harsher set of laws applied to those of another race...

www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
December 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
A streamer scared for his life while a guy wearing Polymarket trunks beats his ass is too perfect
Polymarket
December 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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rudbeckia.bsky.social
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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drjclau.bsky.social
And just to be extremely clear and say it out loud, The Knightling was made with absolutely NO genAI nonsense because we have a small but mighty team of wonderful humans who do amazing, valuable work.
A gold star that says "Has never even opened ChatGPT"
December 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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phineas.bsky.social
Guess I'll post this again
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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raphlife.bsky.social
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.

GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.

But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.
December 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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nurveart.bsky.social
Jump lieutenant! Jump!

#discoelysium
December 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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backpagepod.bsky.social
Our Discorders answered the question, 'what if the games of 2025 were Simpsons stills?' Judge the results for yourself.
December 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM