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@kendrawrites.com

This is a *bad* flu season

If you're not vaccinated get vaccinated. It's hitting really hard and it's hitting hard very early.

New York just had its worst week of flu cases, ever

New York is facing one of its worst flu seasons ever.

www.nbcnewyork.com

December 31, 2025 at 2:39 AM

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Richard Wells

@slipperyjack.bsky.social

I hope tomorrow night you are all blessed by the New Year Good Luck Lemon Piglet ❤️...

The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli, but in place of the demon sitting on the breast of sleeping woman, it's a good luck lemon piglet.

December 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM

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Anne Kirn

@houseofdarkly.bsky.social

As if artists don't have enough to deal with, Amazon has a "Buy For Me" program in beta which is scraping indie shops for their items and putting them up on Amazon (often incorrectly), for their "AI agent" to buy from the other site. It is NOT opt in, and there is no opt out.

Dane is home for a bit. @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I just found out that our stuff is being sold on Amazon - WITHOUT our consent or any ability to opt out bc Amazon is just scraping artist’s websites and putting our shit in their search results. Again, without our permission.

December 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM

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Jay Hulme

@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi

@tarjapk.bsky.social

Here’s to 2026

David Lynch in the filming set speaking in the megaphone. He says “Okay, let's try that again, but this time good.”

December 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM

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Unicorn Riot

@unicornriot.bsky.social

Data Centers, the Climate Crisis, and Community Defense

There are 4,296 energy-sucking AI data centers in the United States at the time of this article’s publication, and the reports confirm: data centers hurt the most disenfranchised populations the most.

unicornriot.ninja/2025/data-ce...

Data Centers, the Climate Crisis, and Community Defense - UNICORN RIOT

There are 4,296 energy-sucking AI data centers in the United States at the time of this article’s publication, and the reports confirm: data centers hurt the most disenfranchised populations the most.

unicornriot.ninja

December 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM

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Break @ The Last Remnant

@breakfield01.bsky.social

December 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM

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Moira Donegan

@moiradonegan.bsky.social

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

JAMES MERRILL
CHRISTMAS TREE
From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks,
That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me,
The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep
Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining —
Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver,
A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song
Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead
Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals
Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear,
Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin.
Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting
About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully!
No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's
Dusk room aglow For the last time
With candlelight. Faces love-lit,
Gifts underfoot.
Still to be so poised, so
Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.

December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM

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defendthe612.bsky.social

@defendthe612.bsky.social

Government officials held a news conference today to break news they had known for days already: The Twin Cities is facing a huge surge, to a total of 350-450 federal agents from the original 140.

Learn more here & find the full newsletter at defend612.com/blog (1/2)

December 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM

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Bill Chambers

@flmfrkcentral.bsky.social

FFC review: AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (2025), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/avat...

Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

ZERO STARS/****starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winsletscreenplay by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silverdirected by James Cameron by Walter Chaw I think, for white ...

filmfreakcentral.net

December 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew

@benjanun.bsky.social

'I never thought of it like that: Pocahontas with a $300 million budget. A shit sandwich where the bread is a Tiffany mosaic. Thanks for getting my mind right.' filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/avat...

December 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM

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Gregory Possum-Friend

@possumacquainter.bsky.social

i fucking hate it when jinglehorse does not pick up his feet

December 26, 2023 at 12:56 PM

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Sherry CD-ROM

@sherrycdrom.bsky.social

"you're a man"
ad hominem

"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy

"you're amab"
false dichotomy

"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence

"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur

"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue

December 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM

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Parker Molloy

@parkermolloy.com

Since Trump is addressing the nation tonight, I can't help but think back to one of the strangest TV moments I've ever experienced: Sarah Palin singing Baby Got Back on The Masked Singer right into Trump's COVID address

December 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM

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Bruno Dias

@brunodias.bsky.social

America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13d

I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.

December 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM

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Anthony Moser

@anthonymoser.com

while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article

Moser tells Rolling Stone that to even claim LLMs "hallucinate" fictional publications misunderstands the threat they pose to our comprehension of the world, because the term "implies that it's different from the normal, correct perception of reality" But the chatbots are "always hallucinating," he says. "It's not a malfunction.
A predictive model predicts some text, and maybe it's accurate, maybe it isn't, but the process is the same either way. To put it another way: LLMs are structurally indifferent to truth."

December 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM

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Bill McKibben

@billmckibben.bsky.social

This is the fossil fuel industry spraypainting the lens on the security cameras while they carry off the heist
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado

The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

www.usatoday.com

December 17, 2025 at 3:16 AM

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The Knights Who Say "Rob Tomshah-NI!"

@robtomshany.bsky.social

Gotta alt-text this one (the quoted post here itself quotes a post with a news story on "Firefox to 'evolve into a new AI browser'"):

Post from "Zelda" on mastodon - "Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we're brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

December 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM

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Julia Carrie Wong

@joolia.bsky.social

absolute scenes on r/knittinghelp

A post on r/knitting help with the caption “what am I doing wrong” and a photo of some very scraggy looking stockinette stitch. There are a ton of errors but overall it broadly resembles knitting

The second photo of the Reddit post, this time showing the back of the swatch, which is an indescribable mess of loops of yarn. It is madness. It is very difficult to imagine how this happened.

December 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM

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Michaela Joffe

@joffeorama.bsky.social

I asked what I should use instead of firefox and someone said “floorp” and I legitimately thought it was a bit for like five minutes. tech has gone beyond making the torment nexus real to making poob real.

December 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM

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Daniel Suitor

@danielsuitor.com

Yesterday, 10 days before Christmas, the City of Minneapolis filed 42 evictions against some of our poorest neighbors.

Failure of management, failure of mission.

Eric Hauge @erichauge.bsky.social · 14d

On Monday 12/15/25 MPHA filed 30 evictions, and its affiliated entity Community Housing Resources filed 12 evictions.

December 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM

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Toussaint Egan

@thesaintoftous.bsky.social

I believe that, in no uncertain terms, A.I. as we know it today is a technology designed explicitly to destroy consensus reality, undermine human labor, and estrange its users from other human beings and ultimately themselves.

I do not use it and will not accept its supposed "inevitability."

December 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM

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Dr. Thrasher wants you to pre-order The Overseer Class

@thrasherxy.bsky.social

Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...