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The Onion is undefeated.
This holiday, give the gift of The Onion.
#theonion

With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year:
smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts.
But before you give one, think twice about what you're opting that person into.
One big problem with giving these sorts of gifts is that you're opting another person into a company's intrusive surveillance prac…

Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays
With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts. But before you give one, think twice about...

This holiday season, maybe consider buying gifts from fair trade places like Ten Thousand Villages or directly from artisans (e.g. @…) rather than from big box stores.
#ShopSmall

CeeDee Lamb Gifts Air Force Vet, Cowboys Superfan Epic Trip of a Lifetime https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/ceedee-lamb-gifts-air-force-vet-dallas-cowboys-superfan-epic-trip

Cyber Monday 2025 deals on Las Vegas Raiders gift ideas https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/shopping/2025/11/30/cyber-monday-deals-las-vegas-raiders-gifts/87464181007/

NFL Week 16 risers and fallers, plus ranking 2025 gifts for (or from) all 32 teams https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6911846/2025/12/22/week-16-risers-and-fallers-ranking-2025-gifts-32-teams/

I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic

Can't help but wonder if this might be relevant to the legal challenge to the orange toddler's #tarriff actions. It must be hard for the Thomas wing of the courts to ignore these abuses.
Swiss gold and Rolex gifts to Trump raise questions over personalisation of US presidential power

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Isaac Albéniz, Ian Tindale & Santiago Sšnchez:
🎵 The gifts of the gods
#IsaacAlbéniz #IanTindale #SantiagoSánchez

Norway Stunned After Machado Gifts Nobel Peace Prize Medal to Trump (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/norway-stunned-after-venezuela-s-machado-gifts-nobel-peace-prize-medal-to-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p36#a260116p36

To cut tariffs Trump imposed on their country, the Swiss sent a delegation of industry tycoons bearing gifts
— a special Rolex desktop clock,
a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar,
and loads of flattery.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/14/trump-swiss-gifts-gold-rol…

How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.

Black Friday 2025 deals on Las Vegas Raiders gift ideas https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/shopping/2025/11/25/black-friday-deals-las-vegas-raiders-gifts/87411269007/

Mahomes, Doncic and Irving surprise teammates with epic gifts: From Playstation 5s to golf carts https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6906712/2025/12/20/mahomes-doncic-irving-christmas-gifts-teammates/

Rock legend gifts entire music archive to Greenland in sharp Trump rebuke - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/neil-young-trump-greenland-2675045986/

NFL Week 16 risers and fallers, plus ranking 2025 gifts for (or from) all 32 teams https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6911846/2025/12/22/week-16-risers-and-fallers-ranking-2025-gifts-32-teams/

I've spent almost all of my life with highly intelligent men. They're not
like other men. Their spirit is great and stimulating. They hate strife;
indeed they reject it. Their inventive gifts are boundless. They demand
devotion and obedience. And a sense of humor. I happily gave all of this.
I was lucky to be chosen and clever enough to understand them.
-- Marlene Dietrich, on her friendship with Ernest Hemingway

Good to remember, the US is selling weapons with profit to Ukraine, the EU is paying for them. No "gifts" or "favors" are involved.
#ukraine #weapons #usa

I love The Onion.
Go buy a gift subscription for loved ones this holiday season.
#gifts

Santa's Elves are pelting the bad guy with Xmas gifts :-D
#RhinoMichaels Boldog Karšcsonyt!!!
Season 5 Episode 12 "Silent Night Baywatch Night: part 2"
#Baywatch #lvdlpx

NFL Week 16 risers and fallers, plus ranking 2025 gifts for (or from) all 32 teams https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6911846/2025/12/22/week-16-risers-and-fallers-ranking-2025-gifts-32-teams/

pitting the hardcore christian-leaning conservatives against the alpha male-leaning conservatives by framing christmas as something for weak needy pussies who will grow up to be welfare queens from receiving gifts as a child

I bring gifts:
https://bsky.app/profile/leyawn.bsky.social/post/3m5cf5fy5e22r

Good Morning #Canada
No nonsense news or fun facts this morning. I'm taking a few days off due to a busy schedule and a compressed family gathering. My oldest daughter has scheduled radiation treatments this morning and early on Boxing Day, so we're having a Christmas Eve dinner and exchanging gifts early tomorrow. I might post if something snark-worthy pops up but otherwise look for the next Good Morning post on the 26th.
I hope all Canadians have a safe and happy holidays.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MerryChristmas

Supreme Connections:
Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Using the new database from @…, you can now search for organizations and people that have paid the justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.

Supreme Connections (home)
Search Supreme Court financial disclosures for organizations and people that have paid justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.

Venezuelan opposition leader Machado meets Trump at White House, gifts him her Nobel Peace Prize medal: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/venezuelan-opposition-leader-machado-meets.html

Oh my goodness, Gakpo gifts Salah a free run in on goal and he's got Jones for a tap in and instead duffs it badly.
#LFC

Our Blockchain Rookie Club loaded gifts donated by players, coaches and staff for @SalvationArmyDFW https://www.youtube.com/shorts/autxL5hkc3U

Football's best gifts to fans, from intercepting Joe Montana to the Immaculate Reception https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6917555/2025/12/24/football-gifts-2025-nfl-history-week-17/

Gifts to the US President are generally considered to be the property of the United States rather than of the president as a person or the president as an office.
So it seems to me that the US National Archives is now the proud owner of a the physical object of a Nobel Peace Prize.
(Of course, el cheato will try to retain physical possession and we will have to pry it from his cold dead fingers, a task that , I suspect, many of us would find rather appealing.)

I love The Onion.
Go buy a gift subscription for loved ones this holiday season.
#gifts

With our children now nearly 17 and 20, my wife's just told me of a #ChristmasHack she's often thought of - but never told me, or acted on it (because she always thinks of it at the time, and never before).
If your child puts an empty stocking out awaiting Santa to fill it with (little) gifts, we've sat outside their bedrooms stuffing them when wanting to go to bed eve…

12 days of Soundtoys.
6 free plug-ins.
https://www.soundtoys.com/12-days-of-soundtoys/

12 Days of Soundtoys
Get up to 6 free gifts from Soundtoys December 8-19, 2025. Happy holidays and thanks for being part of the Soundtoys community!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Binker and Moses:
🎵 Gifts from the Vibration of the Light
#BinkerandMoses
https://open.spotify.com/track/6fe4affq4awMuEVs0DP1D8

I have WCAG shirts for sale.
One that moves the “Punch Nazis” to the same line (this one’s new), but available in white on whatever and black on whatever.
And two variations of the MASH logo (yellow or black text).
Get them as weird holiday gifts!
https://aardrian.threadless.com/collec

A friend sent me a gift (knitted gloves) from abroad, to the UK. I had to pay a "customs tax" for it to be delivered, even though postage had already been fully paid. Why is that? Like, what is the justification for taxing gifts? 🤔
#UKQuestion

Australian artists and craftspeople please hit me up with a link to your website. I'd love to see your work as I'm looking to buy a couple of steel or silver wire knotwork (Irish style) pins / brooches to buy as small gifts (after the Christmas rush).
#Silver #Steel

The philanthropist MacKenzie Scott
announced on Tuesday that she had made donations in the past year
totaling nearly $7.2 billion,
vaulting the total value of her gifts to over $26 billion.
Since divorcing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos,
Ms. Scott has come to embody a new brand of philanthropy.
She has made large gifts to nonprofits that were distinguished
not just by their dollar value
but by the fact that she gave without dictating how the money s…

Mackenzie Scott Announces $7 Billion of Giving This Year
The philanthropist known for donating to historically Black colleges and nonprofits working on climate change offered the news by updating an October blog post.

Hangikjöt (dung-smoked lamb) on flatkaka (flatbread) with smjör (butter), might be one of Iceland’s great culinary gifts to the world. Need to figure out if I can make some version of it at home.

Why Rams-Seahawks was perfect, plus ranking the Zachwards Pass among 2025 gifts https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6904843/2025/12/19/rams-seahawks-classic-nfl-history-scoop-city/

Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ --
You deserve all praise, honor, and glory.
We thank you for so many precious and wonderful gifts.
We ask for power and knowledge to do your will.
Make us sensitive to what displeases you.
Forgive us our many stumbles and keep us from temptation.
Jesus is Lord.
Amen.
#prayers

Damning Poll Reveals Americans Struggling to Buy Holiday Gifts Under Billionaire Trump
https://archive.ph/qDrFS

The office of the presidency in particular has never seen anything like the petty jobbery and open malfeasance of Trump and the people around him.
All misdeeds are not the same, and there is a real difference between the unseemly revolving door
between business and government — the plum position on a corporate board or an easy lobbying gig
— and a new status quo in which business leaders and heads of state give the president actual tribute in order to put themselves in the…

Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
They came bearing gifts. They left with what they wanted.

Why Rams-Seahawks was perfect, plus ranking the Zachwards Pass among 2025 gifts https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6904843/2025/12/19/rams-seahawks-classic-nfl-history-scoop-city/

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#LateJunction
- Max Syedtollan and Mermaid Chunky in session
Verity Sharp hosts a festive party with Mermaid Chunky and Max Syedtollan meeting for an exclusive collaboration session. Expect sonic gifts and audiophonic crackers!
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002nbfm

Why Rams-Seahawks was perfect, plus ranking the Zachwards Pass among 2025 gifts https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6904843/2025/12/19/rams-seahawks-classic-nfl-history-scoop-city/

"The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times.
Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value,
plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt."
-- Nicholas Grossman

Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social)
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar" https://www.axios.com/2025/11/14/trump-swiss-gifts-gold-rolex

Good Morning #Canada
Prior to #Retirement, my last decade in business was spent in #ReverseLogistics managing major retail and manufacturer clients. Reverse logistics is the process of managing customer returns with the objective of recapturing value or ensure proper disposal. It covers activities like processing, restocking where possible, repairs, recycling, refurbishing, and resale. This company in Mississauga is relatively small in comparison to a Costco or Walmart reverse logistics warehouse but it provides a glimpse at a little known industry that deals with $880B USD in annual returns worldwide. The industry is about to enter its busiest period as consumers will return over 10% of Christmas purchases, close to 30% for clothing. In the 1st 3 months of 2026 some remarketing B2B auction sites (representing Costco, Walmart, Home Depot, Target, etc) will be liquidating 100 tractor trailer loads per day, including stuff you're about to unwrap in a few days.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://www.orilliamatters.com/ontario-news/inside-the-warehouse-poised-to-process-your-unwanted-gifts-this-holiday-11646891

Good Morning #Canada
Did you know that Interac, the Big Brother organization that knows if you're naughty or nice based on your shopping habits, tracks the busiest shopping day of the year? According to their data, Canadians are apparently getting smarter. A decade ago, December 23rd was traditionally the busiest day of the year for retailers based on how many debit and credit cards they swiped. About 5 years ago it began to shift to earlier in the month and in 2025 December 19th was forecasted to be the pinnacle of purchasing. Maybe we ran out of money 4 days earlier.
How prepared are you for #Christmas? Not including food prep, how organized are you for choosing gifts and getting them wrapped and ready? Please take part in our highly scientific survey below and please boost for a larger data sample.
#CanadaIsAwesome #ReadyOrNot
#POLL - My Christmas gifts are selected, wrapped, and ready for Santa to take credit by this date:
Always before December 1st (Liar)
By December 15th at least
December 20th at the latest
Can't think right now... busy wrapping...

The ‘Boys best gifts 🎁 @BankofAmerica https://www.youtube.com/shorts/onIhXRNgx0c

Good Morning #Canada
Happy #BoxingDay to all Canadians, and good luck to the estimated 8.6M Canucks who will wade into this significant sales day looking for bargains. December 26th was traditionally a day when the nobility gave gifts and leftovers to their servants and staff. The practice was famously put to song when the Duke of Bohemia, patron saint of the Czech Republic, and inspiration for the Christmas carol "Good King Wenceslas," was known for feeding the poor after Christmas. His charitable nature didn't prevent his murder by his brother. Today it's known as a major shopping day, although less important than 10 years ago. Check out the attached article for a really boring look at recent retail Boxing Day trends. Summary: Boxing Day is more like a Week and shoppers are less impulsive and more focused on specific purchases that they delayed.
#CanadaIsAwesome #EverythingMustGo
https://retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2025/12/boxing-day-still-matters-for-canadian-retail-new-data-shows/

Cowboys make 36th annual trip to area hospitals for holidays https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-make-36th-annual-trip-to-area-hospitals-for-holidays

Cowboys make 36th annual trip to area hospitals for holidays https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-make-36th-annual-trip-to-area-hospitals-for-holidays

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #MusicMatters
Joseph Brackett, Joel Frederiksen, The Boston Camerata, Schola Cantorum of Boston, Shakers of Sabbathday Lake & Joel Cohen:
🎵 Simple Gifts
#JosephBrackett #JoelFrederiksen #TheBostonCamerata #ScholaCantorumofBoston #JoelCohen