Webberly Rattenkraft
@factrat.bsky.social
Erstwhile lab rat, current bon vivant. Insisting on persisting in this relentlessly roiling morass of madness.
Love is real, Love is the Answer, Love is the fulfillment of the Law. We will fix our hearts or die.
Fun Fact: I love you. Yes, even *you*.
Love is real, Love is the Answer, Love is the fulfillment of the Law. We will fix our hearts or die.
Fun Fact: I love you. Yes, even *you*.
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Sharing my Free Stuff Thread again because you, yes you, deserve free silent movies
Bringing my FREE STUFF thread over.
Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed.
I have the links
Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed.
I have the links
an animated image with the words did you say free stuff
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December 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Sharing my Free Stuff Thread again because you, yes you, deserve free silent movies
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If you want to know what it was like for Jews to be kidnapped in broad daylight by their governments and that then to become just normal life, now you know.
An immigrant driver from India is arrested by border patrol at the O’Hare rideshare lot. He said he has never committed a crime in 11 years in the United States: “oh my God no”
December 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If you want to know what it was like for Jews to be kidnapped in broad daylight by their governments and that then to become just normal life, now you know.
UPDATE! Apparently, that was just another hate-fueled Republican lie. That doesn't change the fact that Gavin Newsom sucks, though.
December 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
UPDATE! Apparently, that was just another hate-fueled Republican lie. That doesn't change the fact that Gavin Newsom sucks, though.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Fuck Gavin Newsom. Fuck him sideways if circumstances permit.
Alabama rep cites Gavin Newson's vote to out trans kids to parents as precedent that the federal government should follow
December 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Fuck Gavin Newsom. Fuck him sideways if circumstances permit.
Had another delivery to Silent Hill today. I'm glad that customer doesn't order very often, because this place always gives me a serious case of the creeps.
December 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Had another delivery to Silent Hill today. I'm glad that customer doesn't order very often, because this place always gives me a serious case of the creeps.
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Our BONKERS HOLIDAZE SPECIAL is LIVE and it will cure the loneliness epidemic with weird-assed Oz and Santa movies! Streaming on Apple and everywhere else. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
December 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Our BONKERS HOLIDAZE SPECIAL is LIVE and it will cure the loneliness epidemic with weird-assed Oz and Santa movies! Streaming on Apple and everywhere else. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
SO HAWT!
every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season
December 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
SO HAWT!
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This year I was on The Hip Pocket with @drewmcweeny.com @aundriaparker.bsky.social and @craigceravolo.bsky.social to talk 3 films about male friendship. I asked to replace one at the last minute with THIS IS SPINAL TAP, which is a comedy classic but also beautiful? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Hip Pocket #304 - Phil Nobile Jr.
Podcast Episode · The Hip Pocket · 09/19/2025 · 1h 20m
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December 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This year I was on The Hip Pocket with @drewmcweeny.com @aundriaparker.bsky.social and @craigceravolo.bsky.social to talk 3 films about male friendship. I asked to replace one at the last minute with THIS IS SPINAL TAP, which is a comedy classic but also beautiful? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
W00t! My quest to spread goodness this dreadful day just now received one right-danged energizing boot up its metaphorical rear with the USPS-facilitated arrival of @tomtomorrow.bsky.social’s newly Kickstartered volume, OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE! I've been a fan since... before. What even is time?
December 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
W00t! My quest to spread goodness this dreadful day just now received one right-danged energizing boot up its metaphorical rear with the USPS-facilitated arrival of @tomtomorrow.bsky.social’s newly Kickstartered volume, OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE! I've been a fan since... before. What even is time?
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When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
December 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
Fun Fact: If anybody out there needs a stock photo illustrating “wildlife persisting after the Fall of Mankind,” I think I might just have the perfect image for you. Please don't right-click and save it, give me some money for it maybe?
December 16, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Fun Fact: If anybody out there needs a stock photo illustrating “wildlife persisting after the Fall of Mankind,” I think I might just have the perfect image for you. Please don't right-click and save it, give me some money for it maybe?
A pretty wretched day, vibes-wise, eh? One of the absolute worst of us cruelly, crudely gloating over our collective loss of one of the absolute best of us.
Pfui.
Here, have a photo of a stylish critter I encountered during a delivery in Tiburon, it might help?
Pfui.
Here, have a photo of a stylish critter I encountered during a delivery in Tiburon, it might help?
December 16, 2025 at 4:06 AM
A pretty wretched day, vibes-wise, eh? One of the absolute worst of us cruelly, crudely gloating over our collective loss of one of the absolute best of us.
Pfui.
Here, have a photo of a stylish critter I encountered during a delivery in Tiburon, it might help?
Pfui.
Here, have a photo of a stylish critter I encountered during a delivery in Tiburon, it might help?
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Started handing out my "Find Your Organizing Home in NYC" zine this weekend! It includes shoutouts to @bkindivisible.bsky.social @nywfp.bsky.social @socialists.nyc @jfrejnyc.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and SO MANY OTHER GREAT GROUPS!
Download it digitally at zinefun.fyi !
Download it digitally at zinefun.fyi !
December 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Started handing out my "Find Your Organizing Home in NYC" zine this weekend! It includes shoutouts to @bkindivisible.bsky.social @nywfp.bsky.social @socialists.nyc @jfrejnyc.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and SO MANY OTHER GREAT GROUPS!
Download it digitally at zinefun.fyi !
Download it digitally at zinefun.fyi !
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Please note that this is a set up for denaturalizing citizens and setting up deportation camps for anyone who disagrees with Stephen Miller.
Also please note that these fascists are bound to lose.
Find your organizing home, join your neighbors, and stand up to these clowns wherever you see them.
Also please note that these fascists are bound to lose.
Find your organizing home, join your neighbors, and stand up to these clowns wherever you see them.
NEW: 6th Cir upholds the fed law barring undocumented immigrants from having guns.
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov
December 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Please note that this is a set up for denaturalizing citizens and setting up deportation camps for anyone who disagrees with Stephen Miller.
Also please note that these fascists are bound to lose.
Find your organizing home, join your neighbors, and stand up to these clowns wherever you see them.
Also please note that these fascists are bound to lose.
Find your organizing home, join your neighbors, and stand up to these clowns wherever you see them.
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Lost in such a spectacular career, Rob Reiner was in "The No-Cut Contract," one of the best episodes of THE ROCKFORD FILES, which is like saying one of the best hours of television ever. It's S2.E15 & is streaming on Prime and Roku.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0688...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0688...
December 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Lost in such a spectacular career, Rob Reiner was in "The No-Cut Contract," one of the best episodes of THE ROCKFORD FILES, which is like saying one of the best hours of television ever. It's S2.E15 & is streaming on Prime and Roku.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0688...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0688...
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it's taken me a while to put this together. but I hope, if you've never heard of her, or even if you have, this tribute to Alice Wong buoys your heart and gives you a good sense of who this incredible person was. www.coyotemedia.org/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong
On the one-month anniversary of her passing, we honor the acclaimed disability justice advocate, writer, shit-talker, and friend to so many.
www.coyotemedia.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
it's taken me a while to put this together. but I hope, if you've never heard of her, or even if you have, this tribute to Alice Wong buoys your heart and gives you a good sense of who this incredible person was. www.coyotemedia.org/remembering-...
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
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Savage in the best McSweeney’s tradition. If this damn cartoon means a lot to you (as it does me), please check this out
CHARLIE BROWN: I'm depressed.
LUCY: It’s because of mainstream media cowardice. In an age of lies, telling the truth is a huge risk. Are you afraid of being silenced because of your “privilege”? How ’bout for the crime of listening to a diversity of opinions?
LUCY: It’s because of mainstream media cowardice. In an age of lies, telling the truth is a huge risk. Are you afraid of being silenced because of your “privilege”? How ’bout for the crime of listening to a diversity of opinions?
Bari Weiss’s A Charlie Brown Christmas
Sixty years ago, A Charlie Brown Christmas made its debut on CBS. Today, as part of CBS’s new initiative to modernize content, CBS Editor-in-Chief ...
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December 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Savage in the best McSweeney’s tradition. If this damn cartoon means a lot to you (as it does me), please check this out
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Have a Cramps Christmas everyone!
From my hometown Akron, Ohio, btw.
From my hometown Akron, Ohio, btw.
Revisiting a Classic: Lux Interior’s Cassette Mixtape, ‘Jesus F*%! It’s Christmas’ | In Sheeps Clothing
Listen to a bounty of holiday heat taken from an XL-II 90 made by the Cramps.
The deeper and further you dig into the past, the weirder it gets. All the rebel energy that drives contemporary youth ...
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December 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Have a Cramps Christmas everyone!
From my hometown Akron, Ohio, btw.
From my hometown Akron, Ohio, btw.
Sweet vacuum-percolated Oil of Dangus, but does [#PLUR1BUS|#PLURIBUS] know how to grab me by the brains or *what*, eh? Vince Gilligan, man. What if he's gonna keep dropping an iconic multi-season Meisterwerk every five years, +/-, while we can but goggle in wonder? I think I could live with that.
December 14, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Sweet vacuum-percolated Oil of Dangus, but does [#PLUR1BUS|#PLURIBUS] know how to grab me by the brains or *what*, eh? Vince Gilligan, man. What if he's gonna keep dropping an iconic multi-season Meisterwerk every five years, +/-, while we can but goggle in wonder? I think I could live with that.
Right yes okay now is the time in the Lair when we watch #PLUR1BUS and my beloved Fdot is pestering me asking me why I'm harsh-whispering into my ’phone and hey leave me alone I'm documenting and oh hokey-smokes it's a CADDYSHACK reference!
December 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Right yes okay now is the time in the Lair when we watch #PLUR1BUS and my beloved Fdot is pestering me asking me why I'm harsh-whispering into my ’phone and hey leave me alone I'm documenting and oh hokey-smokes it's a CADDYSHACK reference!
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Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!
a man in a hat is dancing in a crowd of people
ALT: a man in a hat is dancing in a crowd of people
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December 13, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!
Now is the time in the Lair when all must hush so my beloved Fdot can enrapture himself in the Army-Navy Game. I myself have no personal allegiance either way, but my hubby is a proud veteran of the Navy's Black Ops Cryptid Squad, so I annually join him in trying to hate Army so hard that they lose.
December 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Now is the time in the Lair when all must hush so my beloved Fdot can enrapture himself in the Army-Navy Game. I myself have no personal allegiance either way, but my hubby is a proud veteran of the Navy's Black Ops Cryptid Squad, so I annually join him in trying to hate Army so hard that they lose.
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Please enjoy this wholesome holiday video from your friends at The Dead Milkmen (@deadmilkmen.bsky.social)
youtu.be/tFnOWzP7PDs?...
youtu.be/tFnOWzP7PDs?...
Santa Claus is Coming for Your Eyes
YouTube video by The Dead Milkmen
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December 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Please enjoy this wholesome holiday video from your friends at The Dead Milkmen (@deadmilkmen.bsky.social)
youtu.be/tFnOWzP7PDs?...
youtu.be/tFnOWzP7PDs?...
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New Dead Milkmen single available on Bandcamp just in time for the holidays!
thedeadmilkmen1.bandcamp.com/album/santa-...
thedeadmilkmen1.bandcamp.com/album/santa-...
Santa Claus is Coming for Your Eyes / Here for Now, by The Dead Milkmen
2 track album
thedeadmilkmen1.bandcamp.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
New Dead Milkmen single available on Bandcamp just in time for the holidays!
thedeadmilkmen1.bandcamp.com/album/santa-...
thedeadmilkmen1.bandcamp.com/album/santa-...