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Month: December 2025
The eight days from Christmas to New Year, traditionally known as the Christmas Octave, are a strange time for those of us in the working world. Some of us are back at work, some of us aren’t, and it feels like we’re simultaneously busy and getting nothing done at the same time.
This special picdump is all about the Octave — enjoy!
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy!
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In case you missed it, Stephen Miller, Homeland Security Advisor and racist so awful that even his uncle has denounced him in an op-ed, watched the 1967 Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas Show and was inspired to tweet:
“Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.”
Fortunately, he was taken to task by a number of responders who remembered that both Dino and Frank are themselves the children of immigrants…
Let’s also not forget this scene from this Frank Sinatra film, The House I Live In, where he explains what being American really means — and it’s not Miller’s definition of “American”…
Here’s Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”
— Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) December 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Sunday morning coffee
It’s a lovely Sunday here in Tampa’s Seminole Heights neighborhood, and Anitra and I are enjoying it at our local café, Spaddy’s Coffee. The coffee’s great, our neighbors are here, and the local DJ’s spinning a solid mix.
(It’s also a good place to get work done. There’s often someone here with a laptop; I myself have written some code and a white paper here!)
This lovely moment is also a reminder that if you want your neighborhood to be a great place in which to live, work, and play, patronize your local establishments, especially the small ones! They’re the ones who provide the local flavor, and make the difference between a neighborhood you go to versus a neighborhood you just go through.
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy!
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating
around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy!
Last night at the AI Salon in St. Pete, after all the presentations were done, organizer Brian Peret broke out his saxophone, and I joined him for Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds. We’ll have to do it again!