Skip to main content



Five years ago I told my family not to buy me Christmas presents but to buy toys and donate them. All I wanted was a pic of the stuff they buy. Thing is, it was only meant to be that one year, but they do it every year now. I want some pressies but can't tell them to stop.


Trump expands travel ban and restrictions to include an additional 20 countries (Rebecca Santana/Associated Press)

apnews.com/article/trump-trave…
memeorandum.com/251216/p118#a2…



Knowing a housemate was bringing a new girlfriend back, I spent some time with a wet finger and coffee granules creating horrific skidmarks in the underwear he had hanging up to dry


Kensington is pausing production of its Expert Mouse TB800 EQ trackball.

Some users have reported a potential dead zone in the trackball’s sensor when “interacting with the ball between approximately the 10–1 o’clock positions,” Kensington says in a statement. Inventory may be limited while the company’s “engineering teams are actively evaluating firmware, sensor calibration, and software options to determine what improvements may be possible.”

Kensington’s new trackball comes packed with scroll wheels



To stay slim, I don't eat any chips with curved edges. Today I picked through a whole bag of oven chips and selected only the straight ones so I could eat them all. Never felt so alive.


Mike Johnson, Speaker Irrelevant (Joe Perticone/The Bulwark)

thebulwark.com/p/mike-johnson-…
memeorandum.com/251216/p117#a2…



Gravel drives are a FUCK YOU to anyone in a wheelchair or with walking difficulties. Give us a solid path from the pavement to your front door.


Thanks to AI, em dashes are now going to vanish from our language because people who genuinely use them will be too worried about others accusing them of using AI.
in reply to BoneHo-ho-houseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺

Indeed. All you have to do is leave two spaces after a full stop; no LLM does that. (Wildly overusing semicolons, like a C++ programmer, also helps.)


RICHARD GRÉGOIRE 1944-2025
Celui qui a fait entendre Les filles de Caleb n’est plus

« Dès les premiers coups d’archet, on sait qu’on entre dans l’univers à la fois trouble et romanesque des Filles de Caleb. »

Mario Girard — Arts
lapresse.ca/arts/musique/2025-…



There should be a one question customer satisfaction survey at half time at football matches. If more than half the people in the stadium are dissatisfied then all ticket holders and TV rights holders should get their money back for that particular match.
in reply to BoneHo-ho-houseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺

Right. I assume that a dissatisfied crowd would cause the match to be abandoned, but Anon doesn't actually say so.
in reply to C++ Wage Slave

@CppGuy Well definitely that but also, it would be in your interest to vote your dissatisfaction just to go for free, even if you were lying. A ticket becomes a voluntary donation at that point.


Bari Weiss' much-hyped CBS News town hall with Erika Kirk was a massive ratings flop (Justin Baragona/The Independent)

independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
memeorandum.com/251216/p114#a2…



Unemployment rate hit a four-year high last month (Alicia Wallace/CNN)

cnn.com/2025/12/16/economy/us-…
memeorandum.com/251216/p113#a2…



Trump admin threatens retaliation against Spotify and others over EU tech regulation

The threat is also targeted at any other countries that could follow what it called an ‘EU-style strategy.’



House Speaker Johnson rebuffs efforts to extend health care subsidies, pushing ahead with GOP plan (Associated Press)

apnews.com/article/aca-obamaca…
memeorandum.com/251216/p112#a2…



Takeaways: Susie Wiles pulls back the curtain on the Trump administration in revealing interviews (Bill Barrow/Associated Press)

apnews.com/article/susie-wiles…
memeorandum.com/251216/p111#a2…



in reply to how to do anything

A cartoon-style portrait of a person with a contemplative expression. The person has brown skin and reddish-brown hair styled in a short, spiky fashion. The eyes are green and are looking slightly upwards. The person is holding a hand to their chin, with the index finger and thumb touching, in a thinking pose. The background is a soft, blurred green shape.

Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Gemma3:27b

🌱 Energy used: 0.071 Wh



Restricting and Limiting the Entry of Foreign Nationals to Protect the Security of the United States (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)

whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac…
memeorandum.com/251216/p110#a2…



On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation imposing full entry restrictions on individuals holding Palestinian Authority-issued travel documents, alongside nationals from 17 other countries.

The White House framed the move as a measure to “strengthen national security,” citing alleged terrorist activity in the West Bank and Gaza and claiming the PA cannot properly vet travelers.

Exceptions exist for certain visa holders, diplomats, and residents, but family-based exemptions are narrowed. The decision follows previous U.S. actions barring senior PA officials, including Mahmoud Abbas, from attending the UN.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Trump #WestBank #Palestinian



Palestijnse vlaggen toegestaan tijdens Songfestival in Oostenrijk | parool.nl/nederland/palestijns… | 🕘21:07 | #parool