Parker Molloy, a trans woman journalist, received death threats and suspended her BlueSky account for a day after she made a post that it was weird that somebody modified an Animal Crossing cartoon mascot to give it boobs.
Why Young Men Are Souring on Trump.
The disaffected young men who helped elect Trump are fed up with high prices, worried about A.I., and frustrated by the president’s neocon turn. And, according to exclusive new polling data, they’re souring on Trump just as they turned on Joe Biden.
Encouraging news — not just about waning support for the bumbling crime boss, but also that young men have good reasons for opposing him.
Now the Democrats have to get their thumbs out of their asses and start supporting the people instead of oligarchs.
I discovered this separately myself and am pleased to see validation. Articles on how to beat insomnia tell you that if you’re having trouble sleeping, you should get up out of bed and do something else. That is 100% not true.
John Scalzi:
No one was asking for a pop art scifi movie that was ostensibly about shooting big damn alien bugs but was really a meditation about the quiet mainstreaming of fascistic thought and imagery into everyday life, and how all that glossy, idealized ubermensch aesthetic and thinking falls apart once it meets the chaos of war. But surprise! Here it is! Would you like to know more?
Maybe I’d enjoy the movie more if I saw it again today. Maybe I’d find it too painful to watch.
The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Eighteen: Starship Troopers
Mitchellaneous CXLV. four things I saw on the internet
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales on how to build institutional trust. These insights will be important to rebuilding United States institutions (whose decline was well underway before Trump occupied the White House, though Trump accelerated the process drastically).
Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity. I read this article to scoff at this as yet another example of toxic hustle culture. But how are nicotine pouches different from my own coffee habit?
The rise of the troll state. Maduro Was Offered Up To The Algorithm. By Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day.