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Another year, another trove of utterly useless headlines.
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I admit I’m not up to date on trending fetishes, so I had to look this one up.
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Gooning” primarily refers to a prolonged, trance-like masturbation practice involving intense edging (bringing oneself to the edge of orgasm without climaxing) for extended periods, creating a “high” or hypnotic state, often linked to online subcultures.
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Talk about delayed gratification.
Geesh.
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And you thought the loaves and fishes thing was something.
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Religion.
It never fails to surprise me.
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Whaaaat?
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Wow.
There really is one born every minute.
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Apparently not.
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This seems perfectly appropriate to me.
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“Why ‘slop’?
“The flood of slop in 2025 included absurd videos, off-kilter advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks pretty real, junky AI-written books, ‘workslop’ reports that waste coworkers’ time… and lots of talking cats,” according to the dictionary.
“People found it annoying, and people ate it up.”
Like it or loathe it, they argue, the digital sludge is hard to ignore.
“Slop oozes into everything,” Merriam-Webster said.”
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That sums it up nicely. Digital sludge.
Though I’m sure the talking cats disagree.
And now for my last useless snippet of the year.
I’m going to flip useless on its head and drop something that’s not only useful… but almost mandatory for the state of the world right now.
Something we can all use.
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Am I right?
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River's world..... 
Give a frog to the pastor, the exercise buff, the sculptor and the woman when she wakes up. Maybe an invisible pigeon will crap on the sculpture.
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The sculpture remind me of the 1970 album “The Best of Marcel Marceao” which contains 19 minutes of silence followed by one minute applause on each side.
And the farting pastor reminds me of the 1942 Spike Jones song “Der Fuehrer’s Face”, which includes a fart sound just before the lyric “right in der Fuehrer’s face””.
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Well, none of this was useful to me.
Wait, you told me before I even started…
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I’d say my work here is done.
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The only story I even remotely read was the finger flipping frog. That pretty much summed up 2025 in a nutshell for me. Everything else…..no.
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Another win for me in the books.
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The farting [pastor is a hack. Look up farting preacher on you tube to see how it’s really done.,
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I’d rather not, but thanks.
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Please tell me people who enjoy gooning are not referred to as Goonies. I’ll never watch that movie the same way again…
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But… but…
You almost have to refer to them that way.
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It’s nearly impossible not to.
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I have an invasive frog species in my post today! Here’s to frogs and a new year! Lots of news I can not use today. I don’t know where you find it!
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It comes to me.
Like a very bad gift…
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Modern art is money laundering. This is proof.
And now that I’ve see the fart-huffing religion, I’m convinced religion is a form of money laundering too.
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Proof that some people will believe anything..
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And yet, I am still left I incredulously asking why? Why?!
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Even worse, clearly that effin’ deviant knows it’s BS and is enjoying it.
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Slop is a rather civilized word for the past year I think. I was asked to be on the arts council for my small town but seeing the pieces they had chosen, I had to pass. There are too many talented artists out there to choose pieces imply because no one understands them!
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Wow. Modern art and religion scamming equally.
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Pretty much. Yup.
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