VampyVera

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

No, we did not teach cases at the Naval War College where the president loses his last grip on reality and wants plans to start wars against our own allies. Amazingly, we did not think we had to design cases about a POTUS in a de facto alliance with the Kremlin to destroy NATO.

[Dipti Sharma @Diptish09]

You've been blocking spam calls wrong this entire time.

Every time you decline, you confirm your number is active.

The calls multiply.

Here's what actually works:

[VampyVera @MagicSpider]

@AnnaOdesitka @ProjectLincoln This is an illusion. In fact, the government will never let Americans have enough guns to outgun them, only enough to kill each other. And most of the people with guns are maga and they like what's going on.

[VampyVera @MagicSpider]

Holiday heartwarming fun from Ukraine.

[Natalka @NatalkaKyiv]

Yesterday, some Muscovite left a comment under my post claiming that Ukrainians have no culture.

Since it happened just before we went to a Christmas party at my son’s dance group, I found his comment amusing.

Ukrainians don’t merely have a distinct culture; we are born with it. It lives in our genetic memory.

This video captures only a small glimpse of that truth.

All the children danced non-stop. The little ones copied the older kids’ moves. Girls danced steps that are usually done by boys, and everyone loved it.

It was loud, crazy, and full of laughter and clapping.

There was a powerful sense of community, and I felt reassured that Ukrainian culture will not only survive but continue to thrive because of who we are.

We love who we are. We are proud of who we are. And no one, neither Putin, nor Russians, nor anyone else can take that away from us.

[VampyVera @MagicSpider]

@kmelkhat My holiday motivation!!

[VampyVera @MagicSpider]

@naretevduorp Looks like AI got you to do what it was supposed to get you to do.

[Pete @splendid_pete]

Some Americans are going to lose their shit over this.

After 13 years in Europe, he realized the US model he was taught to idolize is far less free in practice: daily gun fear, unaffordable healthcare, car-dependent cities, weak worker rights, high costs, and political dysfunction. Europe gave him walkable neighborhoods, safe streets, universal healthcare, stronger consumer protections, better food standards, real worker rights, and a government that can actually pass laws. The quality of life shift was so dramatic he no longer sees the US as the benchmark, just a place where people accept hardship as “freedom.”

[VampyVera @MagicSpider]

@dieworkwear Yes, such a handsome boy. 💗

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Student to J.D. Vance: When did you decide there were “too many immigrants,” and why sell us a dream? We spent our youth here..., paid what you asked, followed your path. How can you say we don’t belong... and remove people here rightfully? (October 2025)

[VampyVera @MagicSpider]

@dieworkwear I like your tweets and the way you get under people's skin. Raw talent right there.

[VampyVera @MagicSpider]

@DecodingFoxNews He's exaggerating and this works better for procedures as opposed to well visits. The out of pocket cost is sometimes even less than your co-pay, even with regular insurance so its always a good idea to find out what that rate is if you can. Its not just for rich people.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

When a beaver fells a tree it pauses mid chew to listen for cues about its fall direction

[VampyVera @MagicSpider]

@mmpadellan CBD oil seems to have helped my dog.

[VampyVera @MagicSpider]

@SundaeDivine Her body her choice, except when you have an opportunity to be catty and put her down for choices? Super classy.

[VampyVera @MagicSpider]

@DrAnnaOdesa I agree with your dad. It explains Tucker Carlson going after Ted Cruz about if the US is involved. But maga won't abandon Trump over Iran or war. It's going to take more than that. Also will Vance be obedient enough?

[VampyVera @MagicSpider]

@GaleGalebonnie @heathem1221 That's not true. You're just pushing very stupid antisemitic propaganda.

[VampyVera @MagicSpider]

@Angry_Staffer He's probably paid for by Russia.