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He saw the light.

Jennifer Lawrence is a menace

Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."

Extremely tedious that these people always imagine their endlessly affable chatbots are women

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

FWIW, people (strangers) on facebook are still arguing with me that Sadiq Khan is cancelling Christmas, four days after I commented on a post about the Reform carol concert. Logic cannot help these people. I'm not engaging at all, but still the comments come. All of them absolutely convinced.

Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.

Just checked my Xmas to-do list

Winter is pinker than you'd expect:

11 people in Australia were killed today by gunmen while they celebrated the first night of Chanukah at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Targeted because they were Jews. As Jewish families around the world, we place our menorahs in our windows. Our message to the world: Light will outlive the darkness.

I commented this on the Facebook post of the Reform MP who attended the carol service. 48 hours on and I’m still getting comments from people who are insisting that ‘they’ are cancelling Christmas. Who ‘they’ are is unclear, but Sadiq Khan seems to be the main culprit. I’ve stopped engaging, sigh.

If you’re in the UK and were born between 1970-1990 you can just go to your GP and get revaccinated for MMR because you may have had single vaccines, which are no longer considered valid. I went & did it this summer. Easy way to help protect yourself & your community.

I hate how much I enjoyed this BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦

Remembering the time in CCD as a child when I raised my hand really high and eager like IF GOD LOVES US WHY IS THERE SUFFERING??? And the teacher, Mrs Murphy, a mother of three with a thick Brooklyn accent, sighed, pinched the bridge of her nose, and said, “Donegan, I’m having a hard day, alright?”

As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet. Forever.

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

Women speaking more than men in the Nativity story? You mean, just like in the Gospel according to St Luke?

Jesus Christ is always at the centre of Christmas. And everyone's invited to experience it with us. Come and celebrate Christmas at a church near you. Find services and events in your local community at AChurchNearYou.com/christmas.

Also! I am, by any measure, a member of the woke liberati. I’m also a church going Christian who is hitched to a priest and I’m not cancelling Christmas. The two things aren’t mutually exclusive.

If you’re literally in a church service singing carols, I don’t think Christmas is being cancelled.

I’d pay my licence fee entirely for the radio output by the BBC. I had a bout of insomnia last night, and the World Service kept me company. I listened to a documentary about dinosaurs and then one about insulin pumps. Informed if exhausted!

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

obviously not the major driver of his health concerns but it is very funny to read A Christmas Carol as an adult and realize that when tiny tim first says "God bless us, every one!" he's a severely malnourished child and they've given him a cup of hot gin

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

"Hello. My name is Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor. You killed my mother. Prepare to die."

Food prices are also just incredibly tangible. Most people aren't economists but they can notice with their own eyes when a loaf or broad or block of cheese costs more!

Imagine some poor person at immigration at JFK scrolling my facebook posts about going to church, baking bread and 10099 photos of my dog. Great use of time and resources.

[12hrs into my ice interrogation] agent: in 2021 you posted “they should call him matt hardcock am i right fellas” can you explain that? me: do you know who matt hancock is? a:… [43mins later] a: he had his own app? for parkour? me: no the parkour was a separate issue

OK this is my favourite thing I’ve seen in AGES and it has cheered me up immensely. Stayin’ Alive as a 16thC madrigal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zGf...

“you should put socks on that baby!” I did. So many times.

Does anyone else do that thing when they look at their diminished bank balance halfway through the month and begin forensically analysing your transactions, convinced there has been some sort of fraud, only to come to the inevitable conclusion that you just spent it all?

Christmas CANCELLED in London 💔🎄

Steven Moffat writing SHERLOCK

A Prayer for Those Who Struggle to Feel God’s Care: O Lord, open my eyes and ears, I pray, to see and to hear what I cannot see or hear on my own—signs of your gracious presence all around me—so that I might not remain blind or deaf to the evidence of your tangible care for me this day. Amen.

When I worked at the Commons 'Jerk Chicken Day' at the canteen was the most popular day of them all - queues out of the door. I had colleagues who changed their 'in office' days on the weeks Jerk Chicken was on the menu.

This is a pretty good answer. A better one is that for some folks it was never better. Some of us just barely touched the hem of the garment of better.

Today is Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. May you always go in prayer to Mary, our mother. Image: Lady Chapel, St. Patrick’s Cathedral

Just because you are unable to imagine how someone else’s mind works does not mean that person’s mind does not work like that

the twelve days of christmas - and I cannot emphasise this enough - are 25 December - 5 January. we are not currently in a day of christmas. marketing departments stop it. STOP IT

I want this woman thrown in prison for at least a decade.

As a person who has a visceral hatred of The Big Light - this is me every evening.