Within an hour of arriving in Munich I stumbled upon the bejewelled skeleton of Saint Munditia clutching a goblet filled with dried blood, martyred in 310 AD, beheaded with a hatchet. Standard...

Poetry so powerful it can cause computers to break the Geneva Convention is one hell of a scifi novel concept. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Benoit Blanc Beignet Blanc Baguette Blanc Briquette Blanc The more Knives Out variants, the better

This would be an INSANE move, to anyone familiar with how local politics works in Walthamstow.

I have eaten the planets that were in the inner solar system and which you were probably saving for living on Forgive me they were delicious so crunchy and so warm

Does the far right work in mysterious ways? let's ask Principal Skinner: .

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

james cameron every couple of years for some reason:

idk what makes something a Christmas Movie but the plot of Die Hard does partially but not entirely rely on it being a holiday at least. also there's a Christmas song on the soundtrack.

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There ia an extraordinary sense of entitlement behind the belief that a political party should by default get your support regardless of whether its policy positions align with your values.

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

my son is a powerful little babbling creature who won't stop insisting we read books to him and not 200 years ago he probably would have died shortly after birth, if he made it that far

she master on my head til I floppy

THE INVERTED PYRAMID is a cool, appropriately gross horror TTRPG supplement made by a friend of mine give it a look, show him some love--it's only five bucks! jangusart.itch.io/the-inverted...

weather got me wondering if I can spray undercoat in the shed. it's not a big shed. maybe if I stand in the doorway with a mask on.

"immigration has to go up for our growth goals, but our policy is to bring it down" uk politics in a nutshell

BREAKING: According to a recent investigation by NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks illegally violated workers' protection laws in NYC 500,000 times since 2021. Over $35.5 million will be paid in restitution to Starbucks workers! gothamist.com/news/starbuc...

what’s actually happened is that Farage laid his eggs in the Tories like a parasitic wasp, except the whole process was less endearing

it's advent you know what that means

Millionaire Tory frontbencher Robert Jenrick billed the taxpayer £24,587.67 in rent expenses in 2024/25 for his constituency home in Newark, Notts His monthly claim is 77% higher than the average privately rented four-bed home in the Newark and Sherwood local authority area

This month's free game is ONE COURSE ULTIMATE MURDER MYSTERY DINNER. Shelby Deville is dead, one of you is the killer, and you've got twenty minutes to work out who (thirty if you chew your food properly). PDFs, text-only versions and extensive commentary here: www.patreon.com/posts/one-co...

I'm sick of Lore, give me Ambiguity

it's my favourite joke in the whole film

This is how @rikworth.bsky.social & I open our new kids book on animals in Ancient Rome out in February: tinyurl.com/PetsRome

@wangleberry.bsky.social o m8 its nearly time

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

The Munsters poses the chilling question, what if your parents were a vampire and a Frankenstein? The Addams Family poses the chilling question, what if your parents were openly sexual?

got some new weird little guys on the go

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An illuminating conversation with the man who was Willem Dafoe's stunt penis: defector.com/willem-dafoe...

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦

I have been obsessed with Hacchin-Pamos ever since I saw this thread. Today I received a complete set of Pamo gatcha keyrings as a gift from a Japanese friend.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

General Post Office poster, 1960

I don’t know how many ways there are to say “Manchester’s economy is growing, so if we’re not going to do much proactive on infrastructure, can we at least not do stuff that’s actively damaging” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I am SO EXCITED to share this Fifth Saturday extra: @annleckie.com and @byzantienne.bsky.social in conversation about questions of empire and imperialism in their respective novels. Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine

Hello. This is Oscar the Tesco cat of Stowmarket and was a local celebrity. He sadly passed last year and a shrine was set up for him www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Really valuable and honest piece by friend and comrade @nikeshshukla.bsky.social about the anti-immigration protests at hotels this year. There's a danger in trying to "understand" someone's hate if it's based on the faulty assumption that there's anything to understand in the first place.

Part 100! of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap.

Pitching new versions of A Christmas Carol in 2025 www.youtube.com/shorts/IqZrB...

getting black friday ads/deals on things I actually would quite like but then thinking I shouldn't get them because christmas is coming up but then also knowing that I'm getting these ads but anyone that might buy me a present isn't and

good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong this story delights me every year