Hope you all are having a lovely day today, whatever this day means to you (or doesn’t). Consider this an open thread, to discuss whatever, from presents to politics to cats to whatever holiday stress you might be feeling.
And here’s some stuff I found on the Twitter.
— David, who is hanging in there
Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄🎅 pic.twitter.com/YfyTsQ95de
— Maggie Serota (@maggieserota) December 25, 2017
At this time of year, take a few moments to remember who Christmas is truly about… pic.twitter.com/TQ9tSP5EED
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) December 24, 2017
I haven’t laughed this hard in a while. I needed this. pic.twitter.com/2aQFpugdis
— deray (@deray) December 7, 2017
Brian Eno, Paris, 1973 (with Christmas 2017 augmentation) pic.twitter.com/hRwMDTOUKv
— Brian Eno News (@dark_shark) December 25, 2017
“Fun” pic.twitter.com/tsAdsZeez8
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 24, 2017
#MerryChristmas 🎄🤶🏻 pic.twitter.com/IahMZhf5gc
— Melania Trump 45 Archived (@FLOTUS45) December 25, 2017
Same. pic.twitter.com/kcNPdrLy6R
— Adrenalin (@adrenalindenver) May 24, 2017
🎈🐾🐅🎈🐾🐅🎈🐾🐅🎈🐾🐅🎈🐾🐅
All of a sudden …
🐾🐾🐾🐾 pic.twitter.com/fza8NZioI0
— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) December 25, 2017
Human: My cat has an easy life
Me: pic.twitter.com/e8kvlVhUdR— Curious Zelda (@CuriousZelda) December 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/awwcuteness/status/945193410662682624
Yeah, spreading actual fake news can only give credence to the false claims of “fake news” that the right makes against actual legit stories. There’s enough terrible shit about Trump and the alt-right. We don’t need to start phrasing speculation as fact.
RE: Logan Paul
According to parasitic click-bait, a bunch of dumb as shit-ball parents* are deciding that it’s a good idea to actually pay attention to who their kids are subscribed to on youtube after watching the Logan Paul video. These kinds of parents really get all my fucking goats. I had to basically fuck up relationship between my daughter and her previous best friend because the mother arrogantly refused to screen media when my daughter was over her house. Fucking people.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/tanyachen/parents-react-to-paul-logan-suicide-forest-video?utm_term=.yyPxvXo8r#.hvJp0or5W
*I’m talking smack here but my own daughter is glued to the phone giggling away down the hallway. Should I go and snoop around? Probably, once I can manage to ninja into the room. My kid just may be the fastest text and history deleter east of the planet Uranus.
@SFHC, seems to me that toasters are probably on the SJW side. After all they make white bread brown, which is probably just one step short of race mixing/white genocide.
@mrex
I’d hate to be a parent now. Way more difficult than it was when our kids were teens. Hell, they didn’t get mobile phones until they were 15, the call box was good enough for them. Two computers in the house – and they needed a damned good reason to use the internet connected one for longer than an hour for researching. 😛
Well, I’ve resorted to watching an illegal stream of the Japanese broadcast of the US figure skating championships because they’re airing the whole thing live and NBC can’t be bothered. Fuck you, NBC sports.
Good news, everyone!
Bannon has just lost the Mercer’s backing. No more bottomless supply of money – which is going to squish the arsehole completely.
Sorry for the DP:
Apparently, Trump’s chief vulture (lawyer) has got involved now.
Seems that making disparaging remarks about Trump et al is forbidden by the terms of the non disclosure agreement Bannon signed.
Meltdowns can be amusing.
@Moggie:
So the Trump presidency is basically “Springtime For Hitler”, but with nuclear weapons.
@Shadowplay
You don’t even want to know. At least in the good old days, adult creeps had to hit on young girls in person, and look like the shitbags that they were. The internet sanatizes everything. (Yes I have stories from my daughter’s group of friends, yes they are grooossss. We won’t even touch on the bullying/cyberbullying going on).
Well, I did go snoop, but I kinda wish I didn’t. I had to do some administrative work on her phone anyway, and when I asked for her phone she absolutely flipped her shit, and then curled up in bed sobbing, so I knew something was going on for sure. So of course I checked it out, and it isn’t anything bad, but it is something big, and I’m still trying to wrap my head around it and figure out how to proceed. Maybe I should ask for advice here, maybe that would be seen as stirring the pot here, I don’t even fucking know.
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
Ellen DeGeneres denies Eric Trump’s theory she’s part of ‘deep state’
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/367364-ellen-degeneres-denies-eric-trumps-theory-shes-part-of-deep
Release the results? Color me stunned.
Trump to Receive Medical Exam and Release Results in January
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-28/trump-to-receive-medical-exam-and-release-results-in-january
@Shadowplay
The White House was his.
Then he lost Alabama.
Bannon’s out of biz.
You know what, 2018 is turning out to be not half bad. lol from going to the white house to now to being literally dumped by everyone
@mrex
If you don’t want to talk about it here you could chat in the WHTM discord if you like.
That Ellen DeGeneres has to issue a denial about anything rather illustrates how gullible Cult 45 family and followers are. How absurd.
This presidency’s going to be a tough act to follow – imagine wanting to talk about tax policy or environmental initiatives, but all anyone wants to know is which TV personalities you believe secretly control the nation.
@mrex
I have one of those teenager people, although mine’s a boy. He lives on teh interwebz. Happy to chat if it would help. If not, no probs, and I hope things work out ok.
@Oogly
I know, right! 😀 😀
On a personal note – all good on the personal front right now? Was so pleased when you said you’d found someone to talk things over with. 🙂
@mrex
Can try to advise, if you want. Can’t do it on the discord though – not on there. I’m an animist on the quiet, and firmly believe that the name of the tool reveals it’s result:
Twitter would be a prime example – it’s full of twits.
Facebook gave a long suffering world the selfie.
Discus always results in circular arguments.
Instagrams are instantly forgettable.
Discord … lets just say I mistrust chimeras. 😛
@Shadowplay
I’ll admit, I am a bit of a twit, but steady on with those social media insults!
Ouch ???
@Victorious Parasol – you saw those nuclear war films too? Eep. I still remember the pumpkin standing in for a human head. Well, pumpkins plural because many died in order to show school children what happens when you get nuked…
@Shadowplay
Right now it’s looking up. I was able to for several months meet up with a therapist that specialized in LGBT issues. She was awesome. She really helped me sort out my trans issues while also giving me some ways to cope and keep a calm mind. While atm I can’t afford a therapist, I did gain a weekly MTG/anime binging session through my stepbrother and his friends. It feels nice to have some people irl to play things with. Or just to riff on bad anime.
I’m getting a new laptop tomorrow that’s miles better than the one I have now. I am going to enoy riffing through it, erasing the bloatware and personalizing it.
Next week I can talk to my psychiatrist to switch my anti depressants. Wellbrutin has been a very useful friend, but lately I’ve not been able to eat enough to counter the weightloss. I kind of need to gain a dozen pounds or two. Whelp until then time to guzzle down packs of Ensure and pistachios to get my appetite back.
Plus I’ve been able to draw and not stop out of rage or shame. Egads the amount of time I spent not drawing because I wasn’t able to handle the tiniest bits of criticism from anonymous users is obscene.
Yeah there are some downsides, but most of them are stuff that I’m sure if I explain well enough will go away.
@Oogly
You really hit the gold with that therapist, by the sounds. Sounds like she didn’t just help you, but showed you the tools so you can keep on helping yourself! That’s a real diamond of a gift she has. 🙂
Gaining weight is a bloody pain. Have to put back on between 20 and 30 kilos every time I get back from working abroad, sometimes more (I’m not exactly massive at my normal weight, either. Never weighed more than 100 in my life.), and it really sucks.
I’ve found turkey helps with it a lot for me for some reason (and potato salad. Lots and lots of potato salad!!!). Odd, cause it’s a kind of bland meat on it’s own, but it’s something you don’t really need to feel hungry to eat, and it does give good feelings. 😛
Hoping your medication shift sorts the problem for you quickly and easily. 🙂
And the drawing news – that is amazingly good! There’s nothing worse than not creating because of reasons – because the urge to create doesn’t go away.
@Ooglyboggles
I knew you had a discerning eye because the photos you choose are unique and charming. Now I find out that you’re also an artist! Criticism can be hard to take — but keep drawing. It’s what you love.
Hello.
It seems that Trump renounces to his investigation about electoral fraud.
What i did not know is that this kind of commission is, in fine, paid by citizens. So, just because he has the fantasmagoria of fraud, the president can create this kind of commission with public money ? Should not it be with the GOP money, as it is a party suspecting another party of fraud ?
And now, for something completly different, last year was trump rooster year, and this year is trump dog year in China…
Have a nice day.
Buttercup:
Could be. But I’m trying to remain suitably skeptical about the Wolff excerpts: anything which originated from Bannon is automatically suspect.
If the results of Trump’s physical are being made public, I suppose that means one of two things: either he knows that it won’t reveal anything bad, or he needs an exit strategy, and has been persuaded that the 25th amendment is the least humiliating way out. Though it’s hard to believe in Trump planning to fail.
Problematic moustache:
Yeah, Steve, sure, it’s Bolton’s tache which would be the problem.