It's that magical time of year, when bloggers try to out-twee each other on instagram while slamming diet Coke and perfect brownies. Bloggers will decorate and bake and style their holiday lives, and then Amaro filter it all just to make those of us sitting around in our unshowered glory aspire to a more a pinterestmas worthy life. So if you've been too busy hustling your cats out of wrapping paper and taking your rum in shot glass form to follow along, here's what your favorite bloggers are doing today. The Million Dolla Skallas and the Derp family did matching...

Click for video Jenna Cole, everyone's favorite parenthood storyteller, is once again spreading the magic of Christmas with her sympathetic approach to childhood dreams. Oh wait, no she's not; she's reminding everyone - mainly her small son - that Santa isn't real, lest anyone but Jenna get credit for those gifts under the Businesslady Balsam she has erected in her honor. I knew that this was my chance to let him in on the Grownup Secret...I emphasized how important it is that he keep this secret to himself and not tell any of the other kids. When I said that...

Dooce, mother without children, attempted to sound uplifting by posting a making-the-best-of-it staged photo to her instagram. The caption was a long novella full of missing her kids, something something new traditions, and a lukewarm acknowledgment of her fangirls' support. (more…)

Mandajuice, stinky, tried to join in the "criming while white" nonsense with this proud moment of whitery. A little over a year ago I got pulled over for running a red light in St. John's (the most racially diverse neighborhood in Portland). I was on my way home from a party at which I had more than one glass of wine. Likely more than one BOTTLE. My car was not registered. I was uninsured. I thought I was FUCKED. But lol nope! She's blonde so it was totally ok! "But me and my shiny blond hair got off with only...

Welcome to the city, Amber! In other style blogger news, Caroline over at Unfancy had emotions about some commenters, and I know how you hams enjoy a good eyeroll with your Sunday roast. Apparently a few people didn't omglove her attempt to solicit donations for some friend of hers. Caroline responded pretty well in the comments (in my opinion, at least) but sort of spoiled it with a follow-up post chiding readers for being negative. As you can imagine, it took a little time to process exactly what went down on Tuesday...I feel repulsed — because of the way we tend to...

Two and a half months after it began leaking out that the Ex-Mr. Dooce had packed his duds and moved to the Big City, Dooce has publicly confirmed the news. (more…)

Danielle somebody, yadda yadda yet another fashion blogger, is crying into her guacamole because everyone has called out her terrible photoshop diet. oh noes pass the chips The regram, which said simply that Wah-nielle (hm, too forced?) had 'photoslopped herself onto the naughty list', apparently ignited a debate over whether the account's behavior is bullying. Comments ranged from saying the account "may tell the truth but that's not the right way to do it", to the usual #yougogirl malarky such as "ore often than not, if someone is unapologetically themselves, they get picked apart". So yeah, I guess pointing out really...

As reported back on the 10th, Instagram has begun wiping spam and ghost accounts from their system. The results so far are a combination of 'lulz' and 'womp womp'. Pink Peonies, after jumping to 292k followers during the week following the announcement, is now suddenly down to 287k. Ramshackleglam started out with 12.8k followers and is now down to 7.7k. Eat Live Run is down about 1k, as are Rosie the Londoner and What I Wore. Dooce and Kelle Hampton are both down about 2k. Racked is showing Eat Sleep Wear had a drop of around 4k followers, while Song...

Trisha Bell, of the subgramming Bells, is reacting to the Great Gram Purge with maturity and resignation. Oh, wait.

Amber, apparently a successful blogger, announced that she would be moving to New York City today. I assume she has already arrived at this point and begun placing triangle patterns and all white furnishings throughout her no doubt bonkers insgrammable apartment. As for why she has relocated her entire family to a city with the most expensive cost of living outside of Cohaagen's dome, Amber takes the usual blogger route of claiming vague 'projects'. A lot of you have asked WHY we are moving… so let me sort of explain. First and foremost, David and I have been working on...

Taza has finally birthed, and it's a boy. It's a boy! I love him so much already. Pageviews Davis joins older sister Income and older brother Click$ in the family business known as Love Taza.

Audrey, of some "Frassy" blog, evidently doesn't mind if folks know she has automated her Instagram in order to gain "real" followers. Maybe try email next time. And what is 'instagress'? Apparently it's a service that is "designed to attract attention to your Instagram account and gain more comments, likes, and followers". Rather than, I dunno, growing followers organically, bloggers now buy followers and carpet bomb social media services with random likes and follows until they get their numbers up. And with 31k followers, the strategies seem to be working for "Frassy". Seems there are a hundred ways to game...

Linda, of All & Sundry, seems to be having a quarrel with her husband. Apparently he "scheduled a drywaller today, then disappeared into work meetings and became unreachable" and while Linda says the worker was "very very nice, and is a friend of a friend so works cheap", she wanted twitter to "tell me I’m not completely crazy for being LIVID". Meanwhile, her husband didn't understand what all the yelling was about. And then all holy sriracha enema broke loose. Linda's rage grew until people began to wonder if she had been caught in the blast of gamma radiation, and...

Bloggers who buy fake Instagram followers to inflate their numbers might discover their follower counts dropping over the next few weeks. It seems Instagram is cleaning up their system - and deleting fake accounts. In December 2014, we're fixing an ongoing issue that incorrectly includes inactive or fake accounts in follower/following lists...We're in the process of fixing an issue that incorrectly includes inactive or fake accounts in follower/following lists...As we remove these accounts, some people may notice a decrease in their follower/following counts. They did a similar sweep back in April, but since then the trend of buying fake followers...

Taralynn, "healthy" living blogger, has a dream - and she wants you to finance it. As you all know, I've been blogging for almost five years...I love what I do, but my dream is to open a cafe here in South Carolina. She wants you to imagine "walking into a cafe/coffee shop that makes you feel as if you were in a different country, being able to order fresh food, and spend hours in the corner reading a book", and says she is the girl to make that happen. While traveling in Europe, I was inspired by the little coffee shops/cafes...

Taza, life for sale, announced a couple of days ago that contractions have begun for her third little cash cow. It's been radio silence since, and her fangirls are frothing at the mouth for an update on little Edith or Mallory or whatever hipster name they throw on this one. I'm checking out your profile for about 7 times in one hour! So excited about your third baby! Randomly checking in after 3 in the morning hoping for a baby update from either @taza or @tiesandfries Seriously, who gets up at 3am to see if some blogger's baby was born?...

I can't tell if That Wife is trolling or if she really doesn't remember that thing that just happened. Either way this tweet is one of the best examples of wearing blinders I've ever seen. And how often is she going to remind us that she omgdrinks now?

Cecilyk, race relations justice fighter from her sofa, jumped on yet another hashtag this week. During her train ride to LastStabAtRelevanceville, she tweeted this claim. If you're wondering why you've never heard this story before, don't worry - you have. Just not this new version. One version tells of a young Cecily joy riding with a friend's car and being forced to apologize. Pretty quickly we found their liquor stash, and soon we found their car keys, and we were driving their car through town, drunk...It was New Year’s Eve of 1981 when my mom asked me about the car...I...

Some of you hams may remember Beverly the Ghost. She's the blogger who created a thread about herself, denied it, and then posed as her husband to come back and pull the old They're Dead You Jerks routine. If you'd rather not kill about 9 hours of your day by reading the entire thread, you can read a summary here, with links to the relevant lols. Anyhoo, there's a couple of updates on our resident poltergeist. It seems when she's not busy posing for Scooby-Doo episodes, she's running a photography business and getting pregnant. I guess this means she's given...

It's not you, it's her. Jenna Cole, profitable, has decided she's had enough of your feedback - she has removed comments from her blog. I don’t invite strangers into my home to comment on my choice of curtains or the cleanliness of my bathrooms, and I’m not sure it makes sense to do so with my writing either...We are strangers, and I would like to utilize other spaces to get to know each other, keeping That Wife as a space that showcases my views absent the influence of others. Saying "I’m terrible at moderating. I struggle with defensiveness" she encourages...