@Aisha tried out smoking five spice and brown sugar duck breasts for dinner

turned out dericious. Am trying to figure out a plan for the leftovers for tomorrow.

!meatshit

Hello once again my lovelies. Because nothing says drama like chaos and a broken voting process, we're back with a surprise twist for the Dramatard of the Year award! In true site fashion, the original vote has been thrown into disarray thanks to:

1. Nominee withdrawals (they said they were "too good" for this, smh).

2. Incorrect nominee names (classic).

3. Janitor interference (the plot thickens ).

4. Indian cyberattacks (you know who you are).

It's giving Miss Universe 2015, but with less Steve Harvey and more Reddit-tier clownery.

After sorting through the mess, two nominees have emerged as the undeniable favorites, being effectively tied in votes after the dust has settled. To make this a truly fair contest, let's settle this once and for all with a sudden death vote! The finalists are:

@BWC

A Brazilian sigma wrapped in a mystery and sprinkled with a touch of spice. I'll be honest—I have no idea what this guy's deal is because I haven't been around much, but apparently, you all love him. Or at least tolerate him enough to make him a finalist. Is it the mystery? The charisma? The raw chaotic energy? Who knows, but they're here, and they want the crown.

@J

The brilliant mind behind @CrossTalkPM, restoring the lost art of pinging to the masses after the Reddit admins cruelly took away that beloved feature back in the olde subreddit days. A true hero of petty grievances, J restored order to our chaotic kingdom when we needed it most.

This is it, folks: two enter, one leaves. Will the crown go to the Brazilian sensation, or the bot-building champion of our ping-deprived hearts? You decide.

And yes, as always, I've asked ChatGPT to write this because I'm lazy. But hey, if you wanted a better announcement, you should've voted for me as janitor of the year.

Happy voting, and may the most dramatic win! 🌈

Dramatard of the Year

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Merry Christmas from the politics long post man! I bought a grass award and now I'm broke, so I'm "regifiting" something I wrote for thanksgiving! Happy holidays!

The White House is full of cheesy, sweet, mostly useless traditions done for fun. The Family Christmas cards , calling kids on Christmas , and my favourite trick and treating at the White House . But there's none as cheesy as the turkey pardon, where the President is given a turkey and grants it a pardon - so that first turkey goes back to a farm to be killed later, and the President eats a second turkey that's killed earlier. A pretty strange tradition when broken down like that (though what tradition isn't when broken down), it's history is disputed. Most attribute the start of the tradition Harry Truman being sent several turkeys, but I assure you that cheap bastard didn't pardon shit. And besides that, Presidents have been gifted turkeys before then - who started pardoning turkeys? And when did it become a tradition?

The First Turkey Gift

There are rumours that Lincoln was the first man to pardon a turkey, coming from an 1865 report about the President's actions in 1863. There seems to be some truth in the matter, but it was far from a tradition or spectacle - Lincoln's son Tad had grown attached to the bird, so Abe decided to spare it . Additionally, the tradition usually involves pardoning an animal sent to the President - that wasn't a tradition until 1873, when a rather intelligent poultry farmer figured out a trick.

Gifts to the President were nothing new. He's the most powerful man in one of the most powerful nations - if the President says he enjoys something, such as the product or service he had received as a pleasant gift, then you can be sure that will become a fashionable item.

The first noted turkey farmer to figure that out was Horace Vose (pictured above), the "Turkey King of Rhode Island" . Every year, the Turkey King would send a dressed turkey to the President. Cracks showed in Vose's final thanksgiving, when Representative South Trimble also sent President Wilson a turkey, certain that it would be better than the Turkey King's turkey (historical record as to which turkey was better doesn't exist, what a fricking oversight). When Vose passed away that December, offering the President turned into all out war - Warren Harding , for example, was sent turkeys every year - even in 1920 when he was both not President and not in America.

But a grand tradition was established that year. In addition to the turkeys Harding was swarmed with, he and President Wilson were both sent live turkeys from Texas - it's unknown what Harding did with the turkey, but Wilson ate the poor thing. Coolidge , the fun police, briefly stopped the practise because he opposed having wild animals in the White House. Thankfully, he was pressured into restoring the practise, and was sent just a bunch of wild animals as penance that year. One such animal was a raccoon. Rather then eat her, Grace Coolidge adopted her and named her Rebecca. And as you can see, she was just a sweet heart.

So for Roosevelt era, the tradition was that during Thanksgiving, the White House would be swarmed by animals in an attempt to get some national advertising or to show support. Things would change in Truman's day.

The First Presentation

In autumn 1947, Truman and the food administration called for "Poultryless Thursdays", a voluntary measure made to try and save food to give to the Europoors after WW1 Poultry farmers were fricking pissed - that year, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years all happened to take place on Thursday, so Truman's woke war on turkeys really fricked them over.

This led to the first public Turkey Presentation, where the turkey magnates made a big show of giving Truman a turkey which did lead to Truman taking Turkey off the "pls don't eat list".

This was the first time that the President being given a turkey was given attention with a show made out of it, and it was a lobbying effort, god bless America. The establishment of this tradition is likely why President Truman is credited with the other tradition, the pardon, but as the Truman library notes - this turkey was not at all spared. The guy was a massive cheapskate, he 100% ate that turkey

Instead, the first turkey spared was in 1963, when President Kennedy declined to have the turkey he was presented with on a whim.

On November the 19th, President Kennedy sarcastically said "We'll just let this one grow" (it was 55 lbs). Why he didn't want to eat this turkey isn't clear - he ate bacon every day and loved oysters, so it's not like he was a vegetarian. And he kind of died 10 days later, so we couldn't exactly ask him why he did this. Some have speculated that it was kind of power play over the more "macho" Lyndon Johnson , but he didn't have a problem with the 1961 or 1962 turkeys. More likely, in my opinion, is that Kenney was just feeling silly. He was prone to just doing silly, whimsical things - it was why the press liked him so much.

So, mystery solved. President Kennedy was the President that established the Turkey Pardon, and he did it for shits and giggles.

The issue with this is that it wasn't repeated for some time. LBJ did not fricking spare a single bird, if the press wasn't present in that photo he'd unhinge his jaw and eat that bird then and there, and Nixon ate a few birds - while he did send some Turkeys to a petting zoo (and the Carters sent every bird to a petting zoo), that wasn't part of the tradition at all. More critically, President Kennedy, Nixon and Carter didn't "pardon" the turkey. He just sent it back home, he didn't use his powers for it. So, when was the first time that a President pardoned a turkey?

The First Pardon

1987, Ronald Wilson Reagan's second to final year. His landslide victory in 1980 and 1984 may suggest that he's a massively popular and unifying president. And perhaps in 1984, he was.

But in truth, the Iran-Contra scandal is boiling Reagan's administration alive. More and more top officials are being exposed as committing high treason, illegally selling guns to Iran to illegally fund right wing counterrevolutionaries the Contras . While being grilled by the press on whether Reagan will pardon Oliver North, a lead architect behind the scheme, the gears in his addled mind turn. It's a difficult question to answer - so he won't answer it. Putting on his movie star grin and giving Charlie the turkey a pet, he smiles, ignores the question, and says he will indeed be pardoning this turkey.

Unlike Kennedy's clemency, Reagan's pardon wasn't spur of the moment. He had only had one turkey, in 1981, and had afterwards sent the birds to petting zoos as well. But this was the first time the idea of a pardon was introduced to a turkey presentation field. That's right, the first example of this silly show was covering up massive corruption at the very top of American power. God bless America!

Like Kennedy, this wasn't the start of a tradition for a reason - Reagan didn't do it again in 1988. Instead, the tradition was started in 1989, during the first Bushs' first year.

"Let me assure you, and this fine tom turkey, that he will not end up on anyone's dinner table, not this guy. He's granted a presidential pardon as of right now."

For some reason, the President that oversaw an end to the Cold War didn't have why he pardoned turkeys a lot noted for history. It's like he had no idea what's important. It could be that he wanted to try and legitimise the first pardon, but after Reagan didn't have a pardon ceremony in 1989, that strikes me as unlikely. Bush wasn't exactly a vegetarian, so I can only arrive at the conclusion he thought he thought it was neat.

Or, rather his team thought it was neat. He didn't give a frick either way, saying of the affair "'Reprieve', 'keep him going', or 'pardon': it's all the same for the turkey, as long as he doesn't end up on the president's holiday table."

Nonetheless, it was a cute tradition established and actually followed up on, as Clinton pardoned his turkey - citing the tradition as going back to Lincoln and Truman, which is likely why there's some confusion. Slick Willie, you scamp!

Addendum - what happens to the turkeys after the pardon?

They die.

John Stossel did a report on it. The turkeys are bred to be eaten, not enjoy life. Fed a grain-heavy diet of fortified corn and soybeans to increase their size, what typically happens is that the flesh grows so fast that their bones and organs can't match the overgrown flesh, so they just die.

This isn't unique to the presidential turkeys - this applies to the vast majority of turkeys chosen to be slaughtered. The only difference between the presidential turkeys and normal turkeys is that the presidential turkeys are trained to handle crowds, before dying slowly from their forced mutations.

Yeah I ended the longpost with vegan propaganda. Deal with it cute twinks

4chan: The internet's unwashed basement where anonymity breeds brilliance and degeneracy in equal measure. It's like a digital Lord of the Flies, but with more memes and fewer conch shells. Genius ideas drowned in a sea of edgelords—congrats on inventing half the internet's culture while staying a cesspool.

BlueSky: Twitter's awkward cousin who showed up late to the party with a "decentralized" buzzword and a dream. It's like someone saw Mastodon and thought, "Let's make it shinier and still somehow less relevant." Enjoy your echo chamber with better branding, I guess.

Groomercord: A g*mer's paradise turned into a labyrinth of crypto scams, furry roleplay, and "community" servers where the mods rule like petty dictators. It's Skype meets Lord of the Rings chatrooms, minus the charm and plus a billion notifications you'll never read.

Facebook: The boomer mothership where your aunt shares Minion memes and anti-vax conspiracies between FarmVille updates. It's a digital retirement home that somehow still knows what you shopped for last week. Zuck's watching, always.

Gab: Twitter for people who got banned from Twitter for being too Twitter. A libertarian fever dream where free speech means "say the quiet part loud" and the algorithm's just a megaphone for the fringes. Enjoy your edge, edgelords.

iFunny: A meme app for people who think Reddit's too intellectual. It's like a time capsule of 2012 humor—edgy enough to feel rebellious, tame enough to not scare the middle schoolers who still use it. Scroll, cringe, repeat.

Instagram: Where influencers sell you a lifestyle you can't afford, filtered through 17 layers of Photoshop and existential despair. It's a beauty pageant for avocado toast and gym selfies, judged by bots and thirsty simps. #Blessed.

Kick: Twitch's scrappy rival that's like, "We'll let you say slightly more slurs!" It's the Wild West of streaming, except the cowboys are 19-year-olds raging at Fortnite and begging for subs. Bold strategy, let's see if it pays off.

KiwiFarms: The internet's gossip rag meets stalker diary. It's a site dedicated to "documenting" weirdos with the subtlety of a sledgehammer and the moral compass of a broken GPS. Drama so niche it's practically a PhD thesis in petty.

Lemmy: Mastodon's even nerdier sibling that's all about "federation" and "open-source." It's like Reddit for people who own too many Linux T-shirts and think upmarseying is a sacred duty. Decentralized boredom at its finest.

Mastodon: The hipster Twitter where everyone's smug about escaping the bird app, but it's just fractured echo chambers with worse UI. Toot your horn all you want; no one's listening outside your 12-person instance.

rDrama.net: A site so self-aware it's basically a parody of itself. It's Reddit's chaotic little brother, obsessed with stirring the pot and laughing at the mess. Drama for drama's sake—honestly, kinda respect the hustle.

Reddit: The hive mind where groupthink reigns supreme and every opinion's an upmarsey away from gospel. It's a cesspit of memes, mansplaining, and subreddits so niche you'll find 14 people arguing over vintage toaster coils. Karma's a heck of a drug.

Rumble: YouTube for people who think YouTube's too woke. It's a video platform where conspiracy theorists and "censored" talking heads thrive, all while pretending they're the underdog. Spoiler: You're still not Alex Jones famous.

scored.co: A right-wing Reddit clone that's so obsessed with "owning the libs" it forgot to build a personality. It's like Gab and X had a baby, but it only inherited the angry uncle vibes. Points for effort, I guess.

soyjak.party: A meme factory so deep in irony it's practically performance art. It's 4chan's weird nephew, churning out soyface edits for an audience of three people and a bot. Niche doesn't even begin to cover it.

Threads: Zuck's Twitter knockoff that's as exciting as a beige wall. It's Instagram's text-based midlife crisis, trying to capitalize on Elon's mess-ups but forgetting to bring any soul. Scroll, yawn, uninstall.

TikTok: Brain rot in 15-second bursts. It's a slot machine of dance trends, lip-syncs, and "hacks" that'll have you wondering how humanity survived this long. China's greatest export since gunpowder, and twice as addictive.

Tumblr: The pastel graveyard of 2010s fandoms, now a ghost town of aesthetic blogs and lingering SJWs. It's like walking through a digital thrift store—quirky, dated, and faintly sad. Still waiting for the Superwholock resurgence.

Twitch: Where charisma goes to scream at video games for 12 hours while chat spams "Poggers." It's a cult of personality meets digital busking, with hot tub streams and ban hammers keeping things spicy. Just don't ask about the ad revenue split.

watchpeopledie.tv: The internet's darkest corner, where curiosity meets morbidity in a way that'd make even 4chan blush. It's a grim reminder that some people's "entertainment" is others' nightmares. Proceed with caution, or better yet, don't.

X: Elon's playground, where free speech means chaos, bots, and blue-check clout chasers. It's a dumpster fire you can't look away from—half genius, half trainwreck. Still better than Threads, somehow.

YouTube: The video behemoth where cat clips, tutorials, and unhinged rants coexist under an algorithm that hates creators. It's the internet's TV, complete with ads you can't skip and comments you shouldn't read. Demonetized dreams live here.

Honestly, I kneel to papa musk, never thought that Grok 3 would be that impressive. . Did I miss any social media sites?

Wow. Congress just tabled a bill that would *actually* kill open-source. This is easily the most aggressive legislative action on AI—and it was proposed by the GOP senator who slammed @finkd for Llama.

Here's how it works, and why it's different to anything before it. pic.twitter.com/XKIWWY7oYv

— Ben Brooks (@opensauceAI) February 1, 2025

https://www.hawley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Hawley-Decoupling-Americas-Artificial-Intelligence-Capabilities-from-China-Act.pdf

https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ifk4mj/new_bill_will_make_it_a_crime_to_download/

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1ifk3ds/new_bill_will_make_it_a_crime_to_download/

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/104172442

The recent Destiny drama has been the gift that keeps on giving. Not only have we seen pictures of his gross peepee, video of him sucking someone else's gross peepee, and smoking gun evidence that he truly does frick every woman he associates with professionally even if he tries to be coy about it, but it also flared up a slapfight on Destiny's Kiwi Farms thread where most of these leaks first got posted, and the thread regulars had to deal with the Kiwi rank and file taking new interest in his thread.

Here we're focusing on one Kiwi Farms user by the name of Blav. He's by far the most productive poster in the Destiny thread, but he's also the most neurodivergent. His major highlights include:

• Being the first person to really go into detail on how close Destiny got with Lauren Southern and speculate about their affair with substance, something that has now been almost certainly proven

• Doxing the original Cuties respecter, mrgirl, by examining his videos for distinguishing house and neighborhood features, then combing through hundreds of house listings on real estate sites in his general area to find the correct address

• Keeping logs of everyone Destiny follows on Twitter and Instagram so he can figure out who was staying at Destiny's apartment in a given week

• Creating multiple sock puppet accounts so he could argue with himself because he believed Destiny was watching what he posted in the thread, and he wanted to throw off Destiny so he'd be more willing to publicly hint at his new girlfriend

• Blocking at least a thousand people in a Groomercord server one by one because he was looking for a specific message

• Getting bitched at by Null because he kept using random colors in his posts

That's all one post, by the way.

Moving on to the drama in the thread. If you haven't paid attention, most of the leaked DM's and sextapes came from the same source: a Groomercord user named Rose that Destiny sexted and overshared with, who gave her account over to another Groomercord user named Solo. Solo joined the site under the name SoloTinyLeaks and posted all the videos you might have seen and has also teased a few tidbits of information, the most intriguing being that he knows Rose's real age and that she lied about being 19 when she and Destiny first started sexting. According to Solo she was actually underage at the time, but he won't substantiate that any further out of fear of helping someone dox her.

A lot of people in that thread, Blav included, think Destiny likes to target naive young women because they're the easiest to woo. Blav says outright he believes Destiny is an ephebophile but also starts mixing in the word libertarian. He gets baited by a longtime Kiwi shitposter named Dynastia\Dyn into explaining why people might call Destiny a libertarian.

At this point he gets pissy and threatens to leave:

But of course he doesn't, since he has plenty of sock accounts he keeps signing in to new ones to argue with people in the thread. Will he actually leave forever? Who knows at this point, but he's managed to stay away from the farms for a whole 15 hours at the time of writing this.

All while that's going on, Dynastia is baiting others into arguing over what qualifies as libertarianism, Null is trying to be diplomatic and redirect the thread's energy to the women who had porn of them leaked (a scandal of far bigger substance), and a thread semi-regular named Green Meanie b-words at Null for bringing r-slurs into the thread. This triggers Null to lay down the law.

And that's about where we stand so far. The thread is a bit tense due to daddy Null having to scold people, but conversation seems to be returning to normal. No idea if or when Blav will return (he will), or if he's already back on a sock account no one has discovered yet (probably).

TL;DR the state of the KF Destiny thread:

!ranchers @arsey

Meg had a good body, waist/hip ratio is superb as depicted. Whatever happened to her? Does she have a public profile of any kind to this day? I heard once that Anna said something about Meg being unhappy with how the income from

the pod was shared but unsure if that's true.

Satanic Panic 2.0 will be upon us faster than you think. pic.twitter.com/cujE1JZAmm

— Hypnotic (@RealHypnotic1) February 9, 2025

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/kingdom-come-deliverance.39433/page-250

No, we are all being played. I was there at GG1, I know how he did it. We have to stop. He’s using everyone. I said this to Endy too. Vavra is a two faced opportunist.

— Grummz (@Grummz) February 8, 2025

Interesting how videogames were super important to idiots like this until they got what THEY wanted. Now that their side is losing, they wheel out the old "Its just videogames. Why do you care so much?" argument. Every single time. https://t.co/gXbBwzbBPH

— The Critical Drinker (@TheCriticalDri2) February 9, 2025

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/kingdom-come-deliverance.39433/page-243

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/1ie25sg/what_are_reasons_australians_wouldnt_want_to/ma42so8/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/1ie25sg/what_are_reasons_australians_wouldnt_want_to/ma42s0m/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/1ie25sg/what_are_reasons_australians_wouldnt_want_to/ma41clf/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/1ie25sg/what_are_reasons_australians_wouldnt_want_to/ma41hy4/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/1ie25sg/what_are_reasons_australians_wouldnt_want_to/ma43n8f/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/1ie25sg/what_are_reasons_australians_wouldnt_want_to/ma41uqv/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/1ie25sg/what_are_reasons_australians_wouldnt_want_to/ma40x6h/?context=8

Using AI directly is useless too it just tells me to reinstall when the installation itself is the problem then rewords itself to tell me to install repeatedly until it starts hallucinating

I hate the modern web I hate the modern web I hate the modern web

https://old.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/1i9dcws/i_think_i_am_witnessing_first_hand_stage_1/m91637o/?context=8

Hahahahah shitlibs losing their slave army

additional posts:

OP's last straw

this one is awaiting doomsday

not many comments but a "megathread"

slipping into despair and anguish!

Pretend you are as chill as him. He is so special

!animalposters !cats

Yea, like, I am not a fighter, but I’m also not stupid. “What if Donald Trump and the Republican Party decides they are kings” has one answer, and it is an obvious one

— Sean (@huckelcommasean.bsky.social) 2025-02-15T21:59:12.783Z

!gay !bottoms !tops

shamelessly stolen from here

and several existing dk ones

just search donkey and diddy (harambe for the 2 new ones)

why are you not kongmaxxing !friendsofkong

The answer is no. Unless you want a divorce or to be miserable. There are small differences that are fine but you're talking about major values and that's a big no no.

You can disagree on the best NFL team (Go Birds 🦅) but for fundamental things, you must be on the same page or, as you mentioned, there will be lots of fights and resentment in the future.

You can disagree on stuff like sports teams, restaurants, vacation locations. As soon as your disagreements reach "Human rights", then you're in a major issue. You will be with someone who believes some people are destined and deserve eternal punishment for the love they show being different. Take that how you will

Was reading up on these protests trying to find any updates and was fascinated:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/canadas-trudeau-says-us-far-right-misinforming-muslims-lgbtq-schools

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-progressive-left-discards-muslims-as-un-canadian

Holy shit trudeau literally said the teacher who said it's uncanadian to be homophobic was in the wrong

Muslims are gonna win this thing and erode every liberal values, ppl are so afraid of being racist they let you do whatever to women, gays or any other minority