#CHristmas

[daily-spooky]

It's almost that time of the year 🎄🖤

[tay-swifts]

CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY as Luke in THE MERRY GENTLEMEN (2024) dir. Peter Sullivan

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[daily-deliciousness]

Christmas mini cheesecakes

[groggle]

🌈🌈🌈🌈Now that colours got your attention... PLEASE go check this out! Rec centers are so important and I am so sad when ANY close!!! GO CHECK IT OUT🌈🌈🌈🌈

One last talent show to save the rec center

Ok everybody here's the deal.

My science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist (you might know her, creator of the squid facts hotline and matcher of classrooms + scientists) has secured absolutely no grants to support general operations for 2025. But! We're selling advent calendars to fund our program! They absolutely rule. They can save our nonprofit asses. If we sell 5000, which I realize, is so many, we can fund our program for 2025. Then I can offer a bunch of programming for free. Running a nonprofit is a weird job.

Every day, counting down to frankly whatever you want (it's usually Christmas, but man, maybe you want to count down to Halloween, that's fine by me) scratch off the sparkly sparkly iridescence and reveal a fact about frogs! We have 24 top-notch frog facts here.

You should get one for every kid in your life, then get one for all the adults who still let themselves access joy in critters.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

[debbie-sketch]

Recent commissions I loved working on hehe

[ellas-purnell]

+ bonus

THE HOLIDAY 2006 — dir. Nancy Meyers

[witch-of-the-writing-desk]

THIS IS NOT A DRILL FAN ARTIST GO GO GO

HE'S IS A ELF!!!!!!!

Alastor sold his soul to Santa Claus.

@nkirukaj @firecrackerhh @michaelasworlds-blog @nunalastor @redvexillum

[melmac78]

I know this one is done, but mine is White Christmas.

I might actually go to our older Cinemark to each the 70th anniversary of it this year…

*slowly reaches for the popcorn*

[vanmarkus]

FRIENDS • S7E10 • “The One With the Holiday Armadillo”

[wizardpotions]

Christmas as a cultural icon is starting to get really dystopian in a climate sense, december has historically been a time of year in which there would be snow in a significant portion of europe and north america, and the fact that its not even icy this time of year and all the christmas songs and decorations reference a time of year that will likely never exist in the same way again in my life time is so strange.

[thebelchers]

[randombrowngirl]

How people with astigmatism see lights

[herpsandbirds]

[reasonandempathy]

One of the most personal, saddest things about living in America is the summertime.

There is 0 reason for American adults not to have a summer break. I can only say this with a full throat so loud, but other countries have policies and laws that give adults summertime.

It is not a joke to say France is kind of shutdown for August. There are over a dozen countries that have enough mandatory, legally required leave available to take an entire month off, or more. PLUS mandatory PAID holidays.

It's Brazil and Russia (ooh scary BRIC countries outgrowing the US and coming for us). India AND China give up to 2 weeks mandatory vacation leave, plus sick leave on top.

It's Afghanistan (20 days). It's Angola (22). It's Argentina(25) and Armenia (25) and Australia (20). It's Cambodia (technically unlimited; you can eventually get 15 or 17 days per month vacation).

That us on top of mandatory PAID public holidays. Cambodia can somehow manage 27 mandatory paid holidays plus upwards of 18 vacation days per year and going up from there, and we in the US can't even manage mandatory paid holidays.

We don't even get paid on Christmas and Memorial Day. And even trying to convince some people, let alone politicians, that everyone should get paid on Christmas is unfair to compare to pulling teeth.

Please. Please. I want to have a better life. I want you to have a better life.

I want you to not miss Summer Break. Because France and Cambodia don't.