Jen Coster

I usually renew my National Parks Pass in December anyway, but if you buy a 2025 pass this month, it is valid until the end of December 2026 and has a significantly more attractive Roseate Spoonbill.

i think the inability to tell the difference between "i don't like it" and "i don't like it so i have to figure out a way to imply this thing i don't like is morally evil" is the most fundie thing i see people who are aren't technically fundie regularly do these days

Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI in Major Deal That Boosts Sora In Hollywood Users of the AI video creation platform will now be able to create clips of 200 characters from Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars franchises.

they'd rather spend a literal billion dollars on this shit than, idk, just to cough up one example, pay animators decent rates

Senator Endorses Discredited Doctor’s Book on a Chemical He Claims Treats Everything From Autism to Cancer Wisconsin's Ron Johnson has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. Now he's giving credence to assertions about the therapeutic powers of chlorine dioxide, a disinfectant and deodorizer. “It is all lunacy," one expert said.

WI Senator Ron Johnson is endorsing a book that suggests chlorine dioxide can treat autism, cancer, and COVID-19. FDA guidance says ingesting it is potentially fatal.

Public health professionals recommend not taking medical advice from Senator Johnson.

www.propublica.org/article/ron-...

GenAI is making abundantly clear that people don't understand taste is not only an important artistic skill, but is a defining feature of creative directors. Lacking taste while using software that can mimic photorealism is like having no filter but an encyclopedic vocabulary; amusingly worthless.

Privatized prisons say that eliminating the need to be found guilty would be good for business.

There's something very inflection point about watching all the prestige institutions whose opinion once mattered a lot to people systematically embarrass themselves to the point of losing all credibility and ending their own influence

A screenshot of a white board with smudgy, black bars of uneven paint crisscrossing every surface. They are not orderly or thorough, but no surface has been left untouched. "Because I Love You" - Lex Marie

When we talk about abstract art and someone suggests that they don't see how it has any point, I want you to think of this piece. By a Black artist Lex Marie, an acrylic on wood piece painted by dipping a belt in black paint and repeatedly hitting the board.

It's called "Because I Love You".

Frida Kahlo & Chavela Vargas, Photo by Nickolas Muray 1945

TIL that Chavela Vargas, a legendary queer singer who had a real affair with Frida Kahlo, appeared in the 2002 Frida Kahlo biopic and sang to her as a personification of death.

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

quite proud of this ngl

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 10th 2025 (Medium), in 02:44
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A brief return of the Murderbot Humble Bundle! The charity is still World Central Kitchen.

this whole thread, but THIS

Watching people humanize ChatGPT while dehumanizing literal small human children is one of the most fucked things about this era.

A panel from Tank Girl depicting a woman with a shaved head and denim vest pulling on her boots and saying "I can't let things stay this way. We can be wonderful. We can be magnificent. We can turn this shit around."

Getting ready for 2026 like

congrats! 🎉🥳 and they are correct -- I am ANTICIPATING

imagine not understanding why a toddler laughs when he drops his pizza on the floor and it makes a funny splat sound

JUMPSCARE

Ableism is

"A system of assigning value to people's bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, productivity, desirability, intelligence, excellence, and fitness."

Read the full 2022 version of this living definition of ableism led by @talilalewis.bsky.social 👇🏾

I see this two-faced approach in schools, too. Lotta educators say we need to teach students to use LLMs responsibly, but you can't responsibly and ethically use an irresponsible and unethical system. It's designed and built on stolen material and polluting Black and brown neighborhoods.

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 9th 2025 (Medium), in 02:37
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Mysterious rise in people needing wheelchairs in an airport (which has very long walks for folks) coinciding with the rise of cases of Long Covid, gosh what could this mean.

(Other than Boris Johnson and his followers suck for a number of reasons.)

It is a beautiful day on the seafloor, and you are a horrible goosefish.

You will be visited by three spirits

I mean, in theory I really like the idea of celebrating Christmas in a perfectly clean and tidy house with heaps of delicious home cooked food and baked goods.

But when it dawned on me that all the cleaning and the cooking and the baking would have to be done by ME, I kind of lost interest.

haha ty! sometimes you just lock in lol

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 8th 2025 (Easy), in 01:52
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a close up of a man 's face with a blurred background Alt: Neo from the Matrix doing a "come here" motion with his hand before a fight

and also

Reminded suddenly of the XKCD comic.

"In my smut? People /fuck/."

I have spent much of my adult life trying to reconcile the America I was promised with the America I actually got. That was a long and painful process. And here we are. It's a game of chance, and very often, bare bones survival. That just is what it is. I don't moan about it anymore. I just live it