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A picture of a finished puzzle that is mostly edge pieces. Some critters are having a birthday party above ground, while ants steal from the party and bring to their home down below

A puzzle of a dragon coming out of a spell book, summoned by a wizard holding a staff looming above the book

Our second and third puzzle finishes of the year 🥰

Second puzzle is from a Little Free Puzzle Library nearby - sadly missing two pieces

Diving With Friends | finding treasure in 2025 12 friends share their favorite Japanese art discoveries

New post!

I bullied 12 dear friends into taking over my site to share their favorite new to them Japanese media of 2025 and got 12 thoughtful, funny, beautiful essays covering a huge variety of art.

Get cozy, because this is a big one!

A completed 1,000 piece puzzle. A stylized samurai with pink skin, red and blue face paint, and white hair ears from a bowl of ramen with chopsticks. On the left and right there is text in Japanese. At the bottom a banner says “THERE IS NO ART WITHOUT RAMEN”. There are white and orange stripes going out from the picture as a border.

Our first puzzle finish of the year 🧩

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

A large cluster of late fall oyster mushrooms grow from the side of a decaying log like rising balconies supported in tightly packed gills. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Hey, at least you’ve got years of entertainment to look forward to!

Drop some BOOKS 📚 🖤 📖

The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.

After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.

If you watch an average of 2 a week you too can be a completionist (at least until Madden comes out)

NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning.

“SAY HER NAME!”
“RENEE GOOD!”

Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."

Minneapolis.

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

a man in a blue shirt has the number 801027 on his shirt . ALT: a man in a blue shirt has the number 801027 on his shirt .

Yes, we watched all 117 (115 confirmed, 2 unconfirmed) Nicolas Cage movies in 2025. Not gonna lie I kinda miss him already

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

Elvira is such a classic!

A potoo straight on. Its big yellow eyes are bugging out of its head, perfectly round and staring in different directions. Its left pupil is slightly more dialated than the right.

An adult potoo and a baby potoo sitting on a stump. Both have their mouths slightly open. The adult blends in well with the stump, having smooth brown feathers. The baby is light brown and fluffy. Both look like muppets.

A potoo at night, sitting up straight and alert. Its yellow eyes are as wide as they can be, full circles. Its wide mouth is closed and its beak is upturned giving it a comical frown. It looks like Beaker from the muppets: concerned and flustered.

A potoo sitting on a stump in the daytime. and it is well camouflaged with its smooth, striped feathers in various shades of brown. Its eyes are closed and it looks like it’s wishing very hard to be a tree.

Ugh too mad to work. I’m taking a potoo break.

📸Sparkle Motion, Sebastian Lescano, unknown, Melissa Garoo

It’s definitely more “thriller/spooky happening for no deeper reason” than an exploration of loneliness, suicide, and how the internet plays in with those

That’s so cool! Growing up I saw the 2006 American re-make first and didn’t watch the original until this week. As usual… original is better 😎

I just watched it this week!

A screenshot of my last four watched, from left to right: Bangkok Dangerous, Pulse, Gunslingers, and Sonny

What up #filmsky, here are my #LastFourWatched for #letterboxdfriday! I’ve been on a big reading and Phasmophobia kick so I haven’t had as much time for movie watching 🫡

meme comic of someone pushing two buttons at once the first button says 'gratitude for this timeline on a grand cosmic level’ and second says 'understanding it still takes work to make it better.' the last panel is a bud giving a thumbs up and he is labled 'buckaroos proving love is real'

buckaroos know this classic way

Twitch Twitch is the world

Today’s my first Twitch stream ever!
I’m live at twitch.tv/PixelDiscotheque.
If you want to stop by and say hello, I’d really appreciate it. ❤️

It’s a DBD Duo Day with @arhodehouse.bsky.social !!

A screenshot of my letterboxd account showing four movies with an apple moment. From left to right: Snow White (1937), Star Trek (2009), Tangled, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

This week’s top four 🍎

boxd.it/df2Gr

#filmsky #movies

Not only is it STAR TREK, not only is it STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (the best Trek), it's STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE in article-from-Dani form.

It's the best of both worlds (and yes, I know that's from TNG, but fuck it).

GO READ!!

Jane (Susan Sarandon), Alexandra (Cher), and Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer) stabbing a voodoo doll

Daryl (Jack Nicholson), Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer), Jane (Susan Sarandon), and Alexandra (Cher) standing together

Alexandra (Cher), Jane (Susan Sarandon), and Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer) sitting on the floor of a kitchen in robes, looking disheveled

Jane (Susan Sarandon), Alexandra (Cher), and Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer) looking at a book that Cher is holding. They also are all holding martinis

The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

⭐️⭐️⭐️

#filmsky #movies

I hate that we have to use FedEx for my work because UPS has even worse tracking and customer service on the business side somehow. My favorite quote from our rep when a delivery to a business was changed to resi: “a residence is where someone sleeps”. … okay???

a large road sign with the text fuck ICE located on a corner of an intersection in chicago

shout out chicago.

love this scene where scully thinks mulder has been perpetrating slasher murders and she’s just like, Fuck my stupid chungus life