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Melissa Reeves
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wilwheaton.net
A few excerpts from Darmok's Christmas Story:

Ralphie and Flick, at the flagpole.

Randy, his arms down.

The Old Man, when the lamp broke.

Santa and Ralphie, on the mountain.
December 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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infinitescream.bsky.social
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
December 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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kweencassie.bsky.social
This Christmas, let's focus less on other people's lives and pee-pees and more on not being a lifeless waste of space.
December 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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icpetrie.bsky.social
1. I love this film
2. I learned something here
3. What the hell, you get Tom Holland
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...
December 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
For Day 21 #ArtAdventCalendar

A Little Night Magic
32 x16 81x40cm
Oil on Canvas
2021
Abstract landscape. Tall rotating storm cloud with a funnel at the bottom at night illuminated by a lightning strike.
December 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 21 our winter solstice: This is a linocut print with collaged Japanese washi papers of a procession of Kolędnicy, or Kolęda carollers through the woods to honour the sun at Winter Solstice. The tradition, also known as Koliada or kolędowanie, dates to pre-Christian times 🧵
This is my linocut print with collaged Japanese washi papers of a procession of Kolędnicy, or Kolęda carollers through the woods to honour the sun at Winter Solstice. This print is inspired by Polish festivals but there are different versions of this across a wider region. Groups of carollers go singing from house to house with a homemade star on a pole held high and in several traditional costumes. This group in a boy in long coat holding a colourful star lantern on a pole, a devil, a turón, a bear and a crane. In Polish folklore, the Turoń, which is the black, horned and shaggy animal with a flopping jaw is common at folk events including Kolęda, in times of Carnival and before Lent begins. The name comes from the word tur, meaning aurochs, an extinct ancestor of modern cattle. Carolling with the star on a pole was called “gwiazdory." Each print is 9.25" by 12.5" on Japanese washi paper with collaged paper for colours.
December 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake
Tuesdaye grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee
Yet Fridaye Ich do love

Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye Ich do love
December 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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orkneylibrary.bsky.social
You've heard of Elf on the Shelf but how about
A book about Dolly Parton on a blue book trolley. It's Dolly on a trolley.
December 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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smolrobots.bsky.social
On the ninth day of Christmas, my Bigbot gave to me...

Nine Ladybots Dancing...

#12BotsofChristmasRemastered
A darkened disco, with an illuminated dancefloor of checkerboard red and green panels. Nine robots are dancing, and all of them are Followerbots – robots based on real followers of mine (from Twitter, for the most part) who won competitions and also are women. From left to right we have Hattiebot (an ovoid robot with a little ringed planet on her antenna); Muckypupbot (looks like a little dog splattered with mud which is leaving muddy footprints on the dancefloor); Bethbot (has a propellor flying in the air, with a mop of red hair and glasses); Internetmombot (FKA Internetdadbot, ovoid with long, brown hair); Rossybot (is wearing a sort of woolly parka hood); Hottoastbot (shaped like a desk lamp for reasons that escape me); Amandabot (has frizzy reddish hair and glasses); Doctorbethbot (ovoid with dark hair, a pith helmet, and a red bowtie); and Tutbot (spherical, holding a glass of gin and wearing a purple fedora, staring sternly over her glasses). Discobot (a disco ball with sparkly platform shoes) hangs from the ceiling above, and at the back Littlegreyboatbot (one of the Ladybots in the previous version, but now not) has crashed through the wall and Emmabot (spherical, freckles, a brown ponytail) is smiling up at it, while Snathebot (a Custombot based on the real LGB’s spouse) peers over the gunwales. Basically, there’s a lot going on.
December 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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dochackenbush.bsky.social
Fleas Navidad.
Illustration of four fleas wearing Santa/party hats and pulling a cracker, surrounded by streamers and confetti. Caption reads ‘Fleas Navidad’.
December 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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jamellebouie.net
weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Bari Weiss’ Next CBS News Move: Town Halls With JD Vance, Sam Altman and Debates About God and Feminism
The news division is also planning a town hall with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in the 'Things That Matter' series, with Bank of America lined up as a sponsor.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
reshare if you agree wall adapters with a single USB C port have a surface area differential ratio that looks weird
a wall adapter with a tiny little usb c port on an otherwise large adapter another large wall adapter with a single lonely usb c port this one's smaller but there's still pretty big difference this one looks about average in the size differential between the usb c port and the size of the wall adapter
December 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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thebulwark.com
Doug Jones’s Senate career proved fruitful but short-lived. In 2020, he lost his re-election by 20 percentage points to Tommy Tuberville.

It's time for a rematch, and it might be much, much closer: lnk.thebulwark.com/4oYETfP
If Any Dem Can Be Governor of Alabama, It’s This Guy. It Still May Take a Miracle.
Running against Tommy Tuberville may not seem like a major challenge. But it is in the deep-red South.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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brianlyman.bsky.social
Utterly vile, hateful rhetoric from Alabama’s senior senator.
Tommy Tuberville: Islam is not a religion. It’s a cult. Islamists aren’t here to assimilate. They’re here to conquer. Stop worrying about offending the pearl clutchers. We’ve got to SEND THEM HOME NOW or we’ll be the United Caliphate of America.
December 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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abeehatariqart.bsky.social
a little snowy gouache painting
gouache painting of a forest with a blue background and white snow on the ground. Tall dark trees can be seen and a little girl wearing a red cloak walks across the white snow leaving footprints
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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moma.bsky.social
Fred Tomaselli, Bird Blast, 1997
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135750
Gift of Douglas S. Cramer
December 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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ryanboyd.bsky.social
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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alabamareflector.com
Via Anna Barrett: The former U.S. senator, who faces an uphill battle in the governor's race, pledged to protect reproductive rights; expand Medicaid and mental health care and making voting easier in a campaign kick-off in Birmingham Friday.
Doug Jones kicks off Alabama gubernatorial campaign with vision of 'crowded table' | Alabama Reflector
Speaking to more than 1,000 people on the eighth anniversary of his’ victory in the 2017 special U.S. Senate election, Jones, referencing a song by the country group the Highwomen, said he wanted to make Alabama a “crowded table” where everybody is welcome.
alabamareflector.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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mitchellepner.bsky.social
Prison rape is wrong.

Jokes about prison rape are wrong.

Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.

If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.

BUT

A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
prismreports.org Prism @prismreports.org · 21d
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
I have to be efficient today. I want to be a lump on a log today. Terrible situation. Simply awful.
December 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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ilonaandrews.bsky.social
HOLIDAY GIFT ALERT! 🎁

Sanctuary is FREE in the #IlonaAndrews store until New Year ilona-andrews.com/blog/sanctua...

Add Sanctuary to your cart, check out for free, and BookFunnel will deliver your download. (Gmail loves hiding gifts- check your spam if you don't receive your email).
SANCTUARY: A Winter Gift - ILONA ANDREWS
This has been a tough year. To celebrate all of us making it through it together, SANCTUARY is free in our store until New Year. Join our favorite Evil Priest as he tries to navigate the holiday seaso...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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mothmonarch.bsky.social
"Entomology Study: Ladybugs"
2018, traditional commission
#ArtAdventCalendar
Traditional drawings of ladybugs from numerous angles and in various poses, some sitting, some flying or with wings out. Entirely in black and red. Art by Moth Monarch.
December 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
Congress used to have the power of the purse and the power to declare war.
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM