VirginiaM - owlet
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Give me Leverage-style Dem comms teams:
- the policy wonk
- the storyteller
- the salesperson
- the CONSIZER (yeah okay the editor, and no that’s not a word)
- the policy wonk
- the storyteller
- the salesperson
- the CONSIZER (yeah okay the editor, and no that’s not a word)
I still think about Geek Love, all these years later.
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I still think about Geek Love, all these years later.
Pretty much a perfect book of poetry
December 15, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Pretty much a perfect book of poetry
Glorious!
A Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol
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A Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol
Only one movie has ever managed to recreate that uniquely Dickens magic, achieving it not so much through adaptation as through transmutation.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Glorious!
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Hot take: every elected official & every judge should have to meet with everyday constituents for two (2) hours every week. Just whoever signs up, decided by lottery. And each constituent gets a full 5 minutes. The official has to sit there and listen - absolutely not allowed to leave the room.
December 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Hot take: every elected official & every judge should have to meet with everyday constituents for two (2) hours every week. Just whoever signs up, decided by lottery. And each constituent gets a full 5 minutes. The official has to sit there and listen - absolutely not allowed to leave the room.
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Cute holiday hack for the #CovidConscious— these "trucker hat chains" from Michael's are perfect for sprucing up your mask! ✨❄️🎄
December 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Cute holiday hack for the #CovidConscious— these "trucker hat chains" from Michael's are perfect for sprucing up your mask! ✨❄️🎄
Aw, no, I'm sorry Past You did that to you, that's not right
December 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Aw, no, I'm sorry Past You did that to you, that's not right
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the good that you do persists in this world
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
the good that you do persists in this world
My favorite version is the Pergolesi!
December 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
My favorite version is the Pergolesi!
I finally decided that I would rather knit than update my stash stats online: the ughhhhh won.
December 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I finally decided that I would rather knit than update my stash stats online: the ughhhhh won.
I don't know why I keep being surprised that People & USA Today publish reality-based reporting on that guy instead of the disingenuous fantasland of Wapo/NYT: they've been at it for a while!
Also, extra credit points for the scabies mention.
Also, extra credit points for the scabies mention.
December 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I don't know why I keep being surprised that People & USA Today publish reality-based reporting on that guy instead of the disingenuous fantasland of Wapo/NYT: they've been at it for a while!
Also, extra credit points for the scabies mention.
Also, extra credit points for the scabies mention.
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This this this this this. We desperately need fantasies of truth and justice because there sure as hell isn't any in the real world. Too much detective backstory gets in the way of that pleasure.
EXACTLY but most of the more recent adaptations misunderstand the importance of an inscrutable little man as a tool to realize our fantasies of truth & justice!!!
December 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This this this this this. We desperately need fantasies of truth and justice because there sure as hell isn't any in the real world. Too much detective backstory gets in the way of that pleasure.
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But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
December 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
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American Evangelical Christianity in a nutshell: You can abuse the people that Jesus told you to care for, but you better not abuse our sacred imagery.
Supporters of the displays say the Bible is on their side, but critics call the scenes sacrilegious and politically divisive, accusing the churches of abusing sacred imagery. n.pr/4rTabaD
Church Nativity scenes add zip ties and gas masks to protest immigration raids
Supporters of the displays say the Bible is on their side, but critics call the scenes sacrilegious and politically divisive, accusing the churches of abusing sacred imagery.
n.pr
December 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
American Evangelical Christianity in a nutshell: You can abuse the people that Jesus told you to care for, but you better not abuse our sacred imagery.
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Is this why the last great tech invention for normies was arguably the robot vacuum and now we're just getting plagiarism machines and refrigerators with screens?
I have a theory about this. Regular people want tech to reduce our real-life burdens: cooking, errands, dishes, and definitely laundry. Rich tech bros already have "staff" to take care of all that for them, so they don't care. 1/
December 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Is this why the last great tech invention for normies was arguably the robot vacuum and now we're just getting plagiarism machines and refrigerators with screens?
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Dick Van Dyke has now outlived the Confederacy 25 times in a row.
December 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Dick Van Dyke has now outlived the Confederacy 25 times in a row.
***What if the true genius in the world is the sum of our lives lived in safety and freedom?***
We're running out of good ideas. Providing food security, shelter security, and free at point of use healthcare will absolutely help us find new ones.
What if the true genius in the world is the sum of our lives lived in safety and freedom?
What if the true genius in the world is the sum of our lives lived in safety and freedom?
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
December 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
***What if the true genius in the world is the sum of our lives lived in safety and freedom?***
When I volunteered at the Austin Nature & Science Center 300 years ago, this was phrased to me as "their heads are full of optic nerves & murder. There's no room for anything else."
Me to same owl handler: "Owls are super wise, right? They read loads of highbrow Russian literature and stuff, don't they?"
Owl handler: "No, they actually have very tiny brains, due to the hugeness of their eyes. In reality they are one of the thickest animals you could ever meet."
Owl handler: "No, they actually have very tiny brains, due to the hugeness of their eyes. In reality they are one of the thickest animals you could ever meet."
December 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
When I volunteered at the Austin Nature & Science Center 300 years ago, this was phrased to me as "their heads are full of optic nerves & murder. There's no room for anything else."
And yet we're under a freeze watch! Carrying around my migraine meds everywhere I go, waiting for barometry to attack
December 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
And yet we're under a freeze watch! Carrying around my migraine meds everywhere I go, waiting for barometry to attack
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“In 2029 we will rebuild the White House as it was, and pay for it by seizing the assets of the Trump family.”
It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
If He Builds It, Tear It Down
Pendulums must swing.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“In 2029 we will rebuild the White House as it was, and pay for it by seizing the assets of the Trump family.”
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album of holiday songs recorded by bands from coastal New England, "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Innsmouth"
December 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
album of holiday songs recorded by bands from coastal New England, "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Innsmouth"
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I move that we run this experiment on all billionaires, I think it would be fascinating
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I move that we run this experiment on all billionaires, I think it would be fascinating
Whew, she is just *brimming with hatred, yikes
December 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Whew, she is just *brimming with hatred, yikes
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Howling at this comedic turducken
December 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Howling at this comedic turducken