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Posted by Kopal

Melania Trump hates Donald Trump dancing in public

At a House GOP retreat on Jan. 6, Donald Trump decided to share a story he clearly thought made him look charming. As always, it did not. But we now have another proof that Melania Trump secretly hates her husband.

Half an hour into his tiring speech, Trump told the Republican room that Melania “hates” when he dances in public. Not dislikes. Hates. According to Trump, she has repeatedly told him that it’s “unpresidential” and asked him to stop. She essentially tried to save him from himself. But the delusional, narcissistic king is defeated by habit.

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Posted by Ljeonida Mulabazi

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A smoothie is usually a quick, guilt-free snack between meals. For one New Jersey woman, though, it turned suspicious after a single sip, so much so that she poured it out to see what was actually inside.

TikTok creator Melissa (@melissaastevenss) went viral after sharing what she found inside a smoothie from Panera Bread, getting more than 2.5 million views.

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Posted by Sanchari Ghosh

Donald Trump’s second term as the President of the United States has been quite chaotic. While it has been a presidency filled with action, certainly more than what Americans have experienced during previous presidencies, it isn’t necessarily the most beneficial for them. It kicked off with immigration crackdowns, neglect of healthcare, and then moved on to tariff policies, cuts to SNAP benefits, and military actions in foreign countries.

Donald Trump has again landed on one of the things he had vowed to destroy at the beginning of 2025: American healthcare. For anyone needing a refresher: throughout almost the entirety of last year, he had fought tooth and nail with the Democrats to ensure that Obamacare was not renewed, even forcing the government into a shutdown until they complied with his demands.

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Posted by Kopal

Donald Trump cannot spell Nobel Peace Prize

President Donald Trump is back with his “I ended eight wars and saved millions of lives” rant. This time, he asserted that he doesn’t care about the Nobel Peace Prize. Or, the “Noble” Peace Prize, as he spells it.

On January 7, Trump logged onto Truth Social to again rewrite world history and crown himself its hero. He positioned himself as the ultimate savior of NATO and claimed to have “single-handedly” ended eight wars. “For all of those big NATO fans, they were at 2% GDP,” he wrote. “Most weren’t paying their bills, UNTIL I CAME ALONG.” At this point, we have all figured out the prompt he gives to ChatGPT. NATO bad, Trump good… or god.

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Posted by Sanchari Ghosh

Donald Trump might be involved in some serious matters, like illegally infiltrating and kidnapping foreign leaders, but he is ensuring that he keeps his inner child alive. The one that mindlessly talks, lies, and cries when he doesn’t get the specific flavoured lollipop he wants.

After Donald Trump took Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro captive on January 3, 2026, it was generally believed that María Corina Machado, the opposition leader to Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, would assume his position. The idea of Machado succeeding Maduro was seen as more likely because she has been flattering Donald Trump for quite some time. Recently, while appearing on a news channel, Machado gave the impression that she supported the United States using Venezuela’s oil reserves for extraction, which is a significant concern for Trump, who has openly expressed his intentions to do the same. Thus, when Trump mentioned during a press conference on Saturday that it would be “difficult” for Machado to lead due to her lack of “support” and “respect” in the country, many were taken aback.

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Posted by Kopal

Donald Trump mocks trans athletes

President Donald Trump‘s speech to the GOP lawmakers at the Trump-Kennedy Center on Jan. 6 was nothing less than a bad open-mic routine. But he decided to take it a step further and do physical comedy too. Very cringe one, at that, aimed at trans athletes.

On Jan. 6, inside the newly renamed Trump–Kennedy Center in Washington, Trump turned the House GOP retreat into his stand-up comedy stage. Mid-speech, he launched into an impression of transgender athletes competing in a women’s weightlifting event. In the now-viral video, he is bending, tightening his arms, straining his face, and mimicking exaggerated exertion of weightlifting. To make it worse, he moaned like he just soiled his pants.

Birdfeeding

Jan. 8th, 2026 01:06 pm
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Today is cloudy, chilly, breezy, and wet.  It rained earlier, and has been spitting rain occasionally.

I fed the birds.  I haven't seen any though.

I put out water for the birds.








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Snowflake Challenge #4

Jan. 8th, 2026 10:56 am
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Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page. Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

We all know about Connections and Wordle, but here are some browser games that last longer and are great for keeping from going insane during Zoom meetings:

2048 Cupcakes. I still play 2048 in times of need, but it's so much more fun with colorful cupcakes.

Squares. If you like word games, here you go. Find all the words in the four by four grid. The dictionary this game uses is highly idiosyncratic, which can be frustrating; how is THIS a word that counts but THAT is only a bonus word?? But it does add to the challenge!

brief note

Jan. 8th, 2026 12:36 pm
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Terminated my SFWA membership as of today (modulo administrative steps), which I wrote and requested. My contact was friendly and efficient.

I requested this for multiple reasons, of which the recent Nebula-and-AI rules change handling fiasco was only the latest. I'm done.

To sf/f writer-folk, good luck out there.

I'm running an infection and I have work to do; comments disabled.

2025 in Review: Media!

Jan. 8th, 2026 10:25 am
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Time to reflect a little on the media I read and watched in 2025. My reading goal for 2025 was “Reading Joyfully”. I think this worked out ok – I started out putting a lot of pressure on myself about it and stressing out, but then I backed off and used it as an excuse to think about how reading fits into my life these days.

I was somewhat hoping I could get back to really engaging with new to me SFF, and for the most part that didn’t happen. There were a couple of weeks in there where I was sleeping way better than I generally manage these days and I read several new to me books! It was great! So I think part of my problem is that I’m just not well rested enough to engage with new to me stuff very much. Which is sad, but pushing isn’t going to make me happy either.

Then after the thing with the flood damage, when the whole house was a mess, I was struggling to focus on much of anything. I ended up just reading a ton of fic, so much fic.* Which has been delightful. The comfort of the same thing again but different this time is really not appreciated enough by critics. This reading phase has been very joyful!

In 2025 I read even fewer books than I read the last several years (57) but unlike the last couple of years I don’t feel bad about it. Which was the real point of my reading joyfully goal. I’m more at peace with who I am as a reader these days and that’s really nice, even if I might never be the same kind of reader I was before the pandemic happened.

Another trend that defined my 2025 media was crossdressing girls. I love, love, love the trope of girls who disguise themselves and boys to go out into the world and do things that they wouldn’t be allowed to do. This is a trope that English language media hasn’t really been doing much with recently, but luckily for me it's popular in Asian dramas. It’s such a comfort trope for me, and I decided to really dive into this trope and watched many dramas featuring it. (And read a couple of books too)

I also continue to watch many silly Chinese reality shows, another thing that I find relaxing. Media has really was a source of comfort for me in 2025.

In terms of goals for 2026, I’m going to continue to not have a numerical goal for total books. I find those more stressful than fun. Having a theme for my media last year worked out really well though so for the first quarter of 2026 my media theme is going to be “comfort” . Then I can see I want to keep that theme or change at the end of the quarter. I also want to push myself a bit harder on reading Mandarin so I’m going to make it a goal to read six graded readers this year, which feels very doable.


*Me, very stressed out: I’ll just read this cute sounding fic in a fandom I’m not in. It will be relaxing. Me, several days, and I don’t know how many fics in that fandom latter: I guess I have a new fandom now, opps?
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Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov in Heated Rivalry (s1, e1-6)

  

here @ [personal profile] sweeticedtea
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Title: Looking Forward To Most
Rating: R
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Established Relationship, Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Donny gets poisoned.
Word Count: 2,873

Looking Forward To Most )
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Posted by Gisselle Hernandez

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Thrifting is supposed to be the one place you beat the system, not where the system beats you. Imagine snagging a $20 teapot for $8.99 at Goodwill and leaving the place riding the high of acquiring new aesthetic pottery. Feeling like you want to stretch the feeling, you drive to another Goodwill only four miles down the road to get the matching cups. The only problem? They’re priced like they come with a trust fund. This is how one New Jersey woman’s Goodwill glow-up turned into shock real fast when she realized the nonprofit was charging more than eBay for secondhand teacups.

‘Corporate Greed is Astounding’ 

A TikToker under the name @healthybeans1971 has shared her first-hand experience of Goodwill’s ‘corporate greed.’ She is one voice joining the many who are now discussing Goodwill’s pricing system.

Venezuela

Jan. 8th, 2026 12:16 pm
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It looks like there were two bills regarding Venezuela introduced yesterday:

H.Con.Res.68 - To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/68

and

S.3595 - A bill to prohibit the use of funds for the deployment of United States military or intelligence personnel in Venezuela for certain purposes.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3595


(I saw the AP mention that a war powers resolution to limit further attacks on Venezuela adanced in the Senate, but I'm unclear if that referred to either of these)
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Drabbles and limericks for people who requested them:
Chrestomanci
due South + Murderbot
due South + Venom
Interview with the Vampire (TV)
KPop Demon Hunters
Pride and Prejudice
Singin' in the Rain
Slough House
Star Wars

Prompt me if you would you like something in one or more of my fandoms. I may not get to you today, but we can have Even More Joy Day tomorrow!

Peter Ibbetson, by du Maurier

Jan. 8th, 2026 08:50 am
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Rogan: okay guys, I am throwing in the towel on this one, but there is a [community profile] pluralstories read of historical importance that I just cannot get through: Peter Ibbetson, by Gabriel du Maurier. If one of YOU want to take a crack at it, it’s long in the public domain; have at it! https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9817

Looking at that summary, you might be wondering why this fiction book you’ve never heard of from 1891 is of research interest to me. Well, like His Dark Materials inspired daemonism, and Steven Universe popularized gem-style fusions, Peter Ibbetson inspired at least TWO completely separate and unrelated people to use its techniques for “dreaming true.” Ida Craddock (the woman harassed to death for marrying an angel in 1902) loved this book and references it specifically in her diaries, and Celia Green in the 1960s mentions a lucid dreamer using the same technique successfully, which is in turn cited by Benjamin Walker in 1974.

Needless to say, it’s shockingly rare to see something like this mentioned from this early period. I REALLY want to read this book! I just... can’t get through it. So now I'm telling y’all about it.
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