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My Spotify listening age listed as 85

Pretty sure this is only because so much of what I listen to was remastered in the 50s. This should probably be like 101

Great thread on why hepatitis B is such an issue and why the vaccine at birth was SO important.

Krampus, a furry anthropomorphic creature with a goat's head, long tongue, one cloven hoof, with a satchel of birch branches on his back and iron chains hanging from his arms, stares at the viewer from a hallway. The hallway is elegant, with an arched colonnade and paintings on the wall in the background, implying that Krampus is visiting the home of a wealthy family.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 5: Gruss vom Krampus!

Krampus celebrations were banned in the 1930s by the Nazis in Germany and the fascist Christian government in Austria. Therefore, it's canon that Krampus is an anti-fascist symbol.

Graphite and charcoal powder on paper.

4 Screenshots from the movie "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" (1985): First, a man in a plaid shirt gestures in front of a memorial for "Marge" in a warmly lit diner-like setting. Second, a smiling older woman wearing a red plaid shirt sits in a truck, looking directly ahead. Third, the same woman suddenly transforms into a grotesque, cartoonish face with bulging eyes and wild hair, illuminated in stark lighting. Fourth, Pee-wee Herman, wearing a gray suit and red bow tie, reacts with fear while sitting inside the vehicle.

Dec 5th 1937 - Large Marge was born.

📽️📅 Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)

Oh okay this video just did a Mortal Kombat Fatality on me

Constantly reminded that for hundreds of years after the South American silver mines had essentially run out there continued to be vast resources pumped into the idea that previous regimes hadn’t been extractive enough rather than the idea that the value simply didn’t exist.

Did they replace it with some other slopmachine or is this the beginning of the "so nobody wants this shit" wave?

anybody else’s gyre feel wider lately

Whoa, that's a very well-designed bed

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You can now make terminal applications in ember!

ember-tui

Has flex layouts, and all the colors!

You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

bar code on a book with the title truncated to read DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF DICK

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Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

Millions of snowflakes are illuminated by a flash with the Chicago skyline and river in the background

A person walks across a snowy street between skyscrapers in Chicago's finaincial district

People gather around a Christmas tree at the Wrigley Building at night during a lull in the snow

Snow obscures Cloud Gate while people gather to enjoy the snow.

Yesterday was the snowiest November day in #Chicago history. 8.4” fell at O’Hare Airport (Chicago's official measurement site) breaking the previous record of 8” set in 1951. Here are a few more photos.

Atleast nobody will have to question if my works are ai or not so enjoy these practical effect wings I made after 7 years of building different animatronic wings!

“You’re thinking of furries? Gotta watch One Punch Man for that”

An almost all white, snowy scene in Chicago's Grant Park. A few sledders come down a hill in the foreground and mid ground. A statue of General John Logan is covered in snow in the middle of the frame, while blotted out skyscrapers are barely visible in the background.

Sledding amongst skyscrapers in #Chicago on an incredibly snowy Novemeber day

An AI generated poster for Louder Than War Festival where all everything but the name of the headline band and the festival itself is hallucinated gobbledegook.

Everyone has absolutely lost their minds.

If by some miracle the whole AI industry falls apart because some tech bros decided to spend trillions on compute without spending maybe tens of millions a year on licensing art, I will laugh so hard I'll be in danger of a ruptured spleen.

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

Almost half the US economy is now based on Nvidia selling GPUs to itself using other companies as proxies

Airplane (1980)

To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.

We executed multiple members of that crew.

What a great headline

I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].

Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

Yes, having the meta-tool makes the tool easier to create, leading to potential premature automation because the (apparent) cost of automation is so low.

I hope Catherine Lucey gets her equivalent moment.