May take dogs to get photographed with Santa tomorrow

[conuly]

Finn would enjoy it a lot. He loves, loves, loves meeting new people, and gets balky if we pass a new person and he's not allowed to go up and say hi.

Moonpie's the trouble spot. She sometimes likes new people and she sometimes doesn't. And I don't want to cause her angst in the name of getting a photo op, even if the proceeds DO go to charity. (This is also why the cats have never seen Santa. Callie hates new people. Forget that.)

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A photo essay offers a glimpse of student backpacks from around the world.

These purport to be funny tweets, but just scroll to the end. 17 and 19 are the only ones worth seeing.

Corals grow in patterns, even if we can’t always see them

A Plea to Resurrect the Christmas Tradition of Telling Ghost Stories (There'll be parties for hosting, marshmallows for toasting and caroling out in the snow. There'll be scary ghost stories, and tales of the glories of the Christmases long, long ago!)

8 Odd Items People Have Used to Decorate Christmas Trees

Same-Sex Native American Couple Hopes to Break Barriers Through Dance

America’s Tumultuous Love Affair With Kudzu

Cautious Texas among last states to OK medical marijuana

Heading North: American Doctors Report Back From Canada

The FCC just repealed net neutrality. What happens next?

Manhattan prosecutor returns 3 ancient sculptures to Lebanon

Columbus Circle without Columbus? New York's statue debate hits Italian-Americans hard

California Is Running Out of Inmates to Fight Its Fires

The trials of Jacob Zuma

A Border Wall’s Uncompensated Victims

The Weaponization of Awkwardness

How forced marriage saved a US defector in North Korea

Victims of Mexico military abuses shudder at new security law

Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression. (I haven't read the original article yet, just scrolled past the MeFi comments.)

A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America

The Republican Tax Bill Provides Huge Benefits to People Who Don’t Work. But Only if They’re Rich.

Trump’s tax plan: Why many middle-class Republicans support it

Five years after my sister died at Sandy Hook, the gun lobby is working to make us less safe

Comments

[zhelana]

can you take only one dog to get his picture taken?

[kengr]

Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression. (I haven't read the original article yet, just scrolled past the MeFi comments.)

I gave up trying to read it halfway thru. It's full of unnecessary graphics that I *can't* scroll down past until they finish animating. So I'd be stuck waiting for 10, 20 or even 30 seconds before I could get to the next page of the article.

Beside violating practically every accessability standard there is, it's a classic case of "fancy" getting in the way of actually *communicating*

[wpadmirer]

Wow. This is a depressing lot.

Though I send love to the Pow Wow couple.

[conuly]

Nooooooo.

And the end was I woke up today covered in blood and said fuck it. If I want a picture with Santa, I'll put on a beard.

[conuly]

They complained about that a lot in the comments. Apparently the mobile version is better.

[moem]

8 Odd Items People Have Used to Decorate Christmas Trees

I see no mention of plastic soy sauce fish or tiny cardboard Norwegian sweaters.

[chanter1944]

MeFi? Do I want to know?

[archersangel]

buzzfeed always exaggerates in their titles. a lot of it is clickbait.

i saw that documentary about the defectors to NK, crossing the line, on netflix. it was interesting.

[conuly]

MetaFilter.

[conuly]

And what's left is increasingly in-depth journalism written by legit Pulitzer winners. It's so weird.

[conuly]

Those are odd!?

[zhelana]

you... woke up covered in blood?

[conuly]

Cannot wait until menopause omg.

[moem]

My mother thinks so... But she's generally amused when I do stuff like this. She asked me to bring some harddisk platter ornaments over to Christmas dinner.

[hamimi_fk]

These purport to be funny tweets, but just scroll to the end. 17 and 19 are the only ones worth seeing.

4 and 19 are hilarious to me, but I'm worried about how close to home 8 hits because I keep a sticker over my laptop webcam because paranoia. XDD (I didn't even set up my Cortana until a few days ago for the same reason. Prob shouldn't admit that but it is what it is lol.)

[conuly]

The news IS depressing lately, but I feel even worse not knowing these things :(

[conuly]

4 wasn't that bad, but I can't get over the kiwis omg.

[archangelbeth]

I will say, while I don't really care for the few days of spotting pre-period that my IUD causes... It does mean that the amount of "surprise" blood tends to be a manageable blorp on the undies, rather than my younger era of occasional "well, hated that sleeping bag anyway" surprises.

Condolences!