"Santa is like a bad boyfriend: he shows up late at night, tells you to sit on his lap, asks you what you want him to get you to make up for his absence, eats your milk and cookies, empties his sack, and then you don't see him for a year."

1) Post fake Gov't announcement to Alt-Right groups.
2) Wait for the 'Christian Right' to lose their shit.
3) ???
4) PROPHET!

"The Apprentice", White House edition.

"Hey, wait, hear me out. What if we just bury this for fifty years, then go private and re-brand?"

@lisafdavis.bsky.social Regarding the Voynich Manuscript, out of curiosity, has anyone explored the possibility that the extant text and diagrams are a transcription of an older work which the scribe(s) did not fully understand, and were copying rote without seeing where they made errors?

@piratelawyer.com I realize that you are not an expert in South Korean law, but do you have any intention to cover the Ramsey Ismal Kahlid ('Johnny Somali') criminal cases there?

@wtyppod.bsky.social November's comment about The Stonks Guy balloon floating up to Heaven to kill God brought this question to mind: have any of you ever read The Jehovah Contract by Victor Koman? Great book, though some of the references in it require a foreknowledge of the Illuminatus trilogy.

24 years ago, someone did a filk of "Be Our Guest" about the film _Quills_ entitled, "Be Undressed". I'm pretty sure that the artist was Jordan Mann. I thought I had an MP3 of it, but apparently not.

Tinfoil hat time - The idea has struck me that perhaps Trump's 'peace plan' for Ukraine consists of asking Congress to rescind recognition of all former Russian provinces, and recognize them as Russian territory which has been in revolt since 1991.

I've always been fascinated with fast one that the Founding Fathers pulled on the religious leaders of their day. They never very well that popular sovereignty was fundamentally incompatible with Abrahamic religion, yet they convinced everyone of the opposite. (1/3)

I have two really ugly paranoid fears regarding Trump. (1/4)

Regardless of what you might think about Elegant Yak (who honestly has almost nothing to do with it), the engineering is very impressive indeed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysx4...

Somehow, this is perhaps more relevant than it was in 2019. xkcd.com/2104/