@pangwin.bsky.social
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they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE
December 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE
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See that cluster on the top left? It's gonna get a whole lot bigger by the end of the week.
a zoomed out view looking at language. might need to pull out all the language specific posts and do individual clustering by language
December 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
See that cluster on the top left? It's gonna get a whole lot bigger by the end of the week.
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potential EME alert 🚨- apparently the Japanese are signing up to bluesky in droves. If you check the newskies feed 99% of posts are now Japanese
cc: @surfdude29.ispost.ing @laurenshof.online
cc: @surfdude29.ispost.ing @laurenshof.online
December 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
potential EME alert 🚨- apparently the Japanese are signing up to bluesky in droves. If you check the newskies feed 99% of posts are now Japanese
cc: @surfdude29.ispost.ing @laurenshof.online
cc: @surfdude29.ispost.ing @laurenshof.online
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During the silent era, thousands of movie-theatre organs raised their quirky, quavery voices. Now, a few hundred instruments remain in theatres, and they are experiencing a modest renaissance, Alex Ross writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mbizgG
The Organists Improvising Soundtracks to Silent Films
Early on, movies had no sound, but musicians provided live accompaniment. The tradition continues.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
During the silent era, thousands of movie-theatre organs raised their quirky, quavery voices. Now, a few hundred instruments remain in theatres, and they are experiencing a modest renaissance, Alex Ross writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mbizgG
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idk alan, “are you now or have you ever been a pedophile?” feels like a substantially different kind of question!
December 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
idk alan, “are you now or have you ever been a pedophile?” feels like a substantially different kind of question!
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A reminder: For @letterboxd.social I wrote up a starter pack of Black Christmas to watch this holiday season!
Home for the Holidays: Sixteen Black Christmas films to add to your rotation this winter • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
From jolly rom-coms to chaotic family romps and religious gems, Robert Daniels celebrates sixteen Black Christmas films to add to your holiday rotation.
letterboxd.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A reminder: For @letterboxd.social I wrote up a starter pack of Black Christmas to watch this holiday season!
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giving this beautiful essay a Christmas Eve boost
This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
giving this beautiful essay a Christmas Eve boost
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Do you remember the famous #Earthrise photo from #Apollo8? On Christmas Eve in 1968, William Anders turned his camera toward Earth and captured the legendary photo. It showed humans a new perspective, with the moon in the foreground and Earth floating in distant space. 🌎🚀🔭📸
buff.ly/s01u0Ww
📸 NASA.
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📸 NASA.
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Do you remember the famous #Earthrise photo from #Apollo8? On Christmas Eve in 1968, William Anders turned his camera toward Earth and captured the legendary photo. It showed humans a new perspective, with the moon in the foreground and Earth floating in distant space. 🌎🚀🔭📸
buff.ly/s01u0Ww
📸 NASA.
buff.ly/s01u0Ww
📸 NASA.
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So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
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A lot of you don't have to calculate time zones within your own country and it shows.
December 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
A lot of you don't have to calculate time zones within your own country and it shows.
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Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit.
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
December 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit.
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
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Delete that shit right now friends.
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Delete that shit right now friends.
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The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse?
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
December 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse?
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
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A recession indicator:
I haven’t gotten a single OOO email reply. Everyone is still working! We are in a RECESSION, y’all.
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A recession indicator:
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Oh yeah, that footnote is entirely unnecessary to the case in hand otherwise. Definitely agree with Lee‘s read.
Check out the Kavanaugh FN 4; I think it's pretty clear that the Kavanaugh Stop thing has gotten to him:
December 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Oh yeah, that footnote is entirely unnecessary to the case in hand otherwise. Definitely agree with Lee‘s read.
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For my last Buying Power of the year, I wrote about one way to think about the divergence in consumer sentiment (bad) and behavior (free-spending) this year: It’s the YOLO economy, typified by the expanding popularity of services like Klarna and Affirm. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The United States of Klarna
Want to understand the state of the economy? Just look to all the shoppers flocking to “buy now, pay later” services.
www.bloomberg.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
For my last Buying Power of the year, I wrote about one way to think about the divergence in consumer sentiment (bad) and behavior (free-spending) this year: It’s the YOLO economy, typified by the expanding popularity of services like Klarna and Affirm. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Gross. Also, new carbon sink just dropped.
Fatberg weighing 100 tonnes discovered in east London sewer
Mass of congealed fat, oil and grease 100 metres in length found blocking sewers in Whitechapel area of capital
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Gross. Also, new carbon sink just dropped.
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"Not a single card was thrown away; they became makeshift keepsakes ... offering images of comfort — a silver thread to life outside. In a place where kindness was scarce, those modest cards reminded us of the season's simple warmth, reaching through concrete to touch hearts starved for connection."
They Sent Me a Pile of Christmas Cards. I Shared Them With My Whole Prison.
They Sent Me a Pile of Christmas Cards. I Shared Them With My Whole Prison.
As the festive images and heartfelt messages spread, so too did a sense of peace.
prisonjournalismproject.org
December 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
"Not a single card was thrown away; they became makeshift keepsakes ... offering images of comfort — a silver thread to life outside. In a place where kindness was scarce, those modest cards reminded us of the season's simple warmth, reaching through concrete to touch hearts starved for connection."
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I don’t think if you’ve studied Black history this claim holds weight. Look at the picnics as Black people were lynched. Look at the sadism of Jim Crow. Look at the white backlash to saying Black Lives Matter and cops should not kill us.
I think this speaks to a real moral degradation in the American right. They used to feel like they needed to justify sadism via higher principles or ends/means. Now, they don't care at all: the sadism is the point. It enforces hierarchy when that is all that Trump is willing to offer.
It was hard to convince Americans torture is wrong as a moral principle during Bush's term, and that was with the debate about whether torture makes us safer. I'm afraid for a portion of Trump's base, that calculation matters less. Idea of torturing undocumented immigrants may even bring pleasure.
December 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I don’t think if you’ve studied Black history this claim holds weight. Look at the picnics as Black people were lynched. Look at the sadism of Jim Crow. Look at the white backlash to saying Black Lives Matter and cops should not kill us.
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This is wild. Why would a line like this be redacted:
“Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused.”
“Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused.”
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
December 23, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This is wild. Why would a line like this be redacted:
“Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused.”
“Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused.”
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Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Cutting the funds to deliver 116,000 medical kits to treat victims of rape saved U.S. taxpayers $2 million. But it meant many women in eastern Congo could not longer get the pills they needed to prevent medicine, HIV, and deadly sexually transmitted diseases.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Congolese rape survivors search in vain for medicine after USAID cuts
In eastern Congo, where rape is widespread, the cancellation of USAID funding for PEP kits has left many victims vulnerable, according to nearly 50 interviews.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Cutting the funds to deliver 116,000 medical kits to treat victims of rape saved U.S. taxpayers $2 million. But it meant many women in eastern Congo could not longer get the pills they needed to prevent medicine, HIV, and deadly sexually transmitted diseases.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...