Stop. Read the post below. Do what it says. Look at Earth - our home world - from the surface of Mars. You are a terranaut on that fragile planet. This moment brought to you courtesy of NASA Science.

30th December 2025 09.20

Feels like a Wassailing sort of day @thelongestjohns.bsky.social youtu.be/SiBsoMh03SA?...

🔭 Red Sprites and Circular Elves Lightning over Italy Image Credit & Copyright: Valter Binotto apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...

"Snow Globe" by Home Free. LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9i7...

Anyone else multi-tasking to try and get ready for Christmas? youtu.be/VCvz7uflMIU?...

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme... CHRISTMAS! 🎄🎅🎁

I am not in the giving vein today.  Richard III  Act IV Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday #Christmas

Sound on!

Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year and one of the oldest winter celebrations in the world. From here, the nights will stop drawing in and daylight hours stretch out again. What will you do with your longer days? Video: Timelapse of the sun rising

Today is the December solstice at 15:03 GMT/16:03 CET. This @eumetsat.int MTG‑I1 image from 19 December 2025, 06:00 GMT, shows Earth’s day–night terminator tilted near its annual maximum of about 23.5°.

'May good digestion wait on appetite And health on both' Macbeth #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Christmas

🎄 Just getting my last Xmas cards out there. ✍🏼 Dear cabinet....

If you need some energy to get through all the jobs you have to do on the last Saturday before Christmas - thanks @adamhfbeatbox.bsky.social youtu.be/NapYmvley64?...

I cannot state any more baldly or clearly than I already have about what an immense menace RFK Jr. is. The number of preventable illnesses and deaths - of *babies* - will be horrific. This anti-vax crap is grotesque anti-science, and always has been.

This is what RFK Jr. is making happen. And I wrote about this in 2009, after a baby in Australia died of pertussis; I wrote about her many times and eventually met her parents when I visited Oz. It was heartbreaking, but I was proud they became strong vaccine advocates. slate.com/technology/2...

A song that deserves your attention today, just as much as it did 5 years ago. youtu.be/q5H1i2GBxEc?...

You've heard of Elf on the Shelf but how about

Our contribution to the Annual Christmas Song Collection has been submitted, so now you get to enjoy! We're Sailing Home for Christmas youtu.be/fXKJmJsinis #TheLongestJohns #Shanty #Christmas #Holiday #ChrisRea

Discworld QOTD, from The Fifth Elephant

Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad "'I used to come over here quite often to look at her books,' Magrat confessed. 'And... and she liked to cook foreign food and no-one else round here would eat it, so I'd come up to keep her company.' 'Ah-ha! Curryin' favour!' snapped Granny."

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'Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;' Sonnet 29 #ShakespeareSunday youtu.be/UzcufXRLiPo?...

"These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes" #Pericles #ShakespeareSunday @homefreeguys.bsky.social #SkullandBones

Today's #ShakespeareSunday is theme free!

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Our episode on Wicked is wicked awesome and features our friend Sami Matarante who’s wickedly wonderful. And it’s available wherever you listen to podcasts :) #Wicked #NewEpisode #Photoshop

Occaisionally I like to spend some time looking at one of these images, trying to get my head around the scale of what I'm seeing. I never really succeed, but the effort puts our little domestic concerns in proper perspective.

11th December 2025. 08.05

This is a very important scientific outreach project: Hallmark Christmas movies… but in the abyss. High-pressure romance included. Underwater and scientifically questionable. You’re welcome. Expect bioluminescent meet-cutes and emotionally unavailable octopuses. #Trenchmas

Shoreline: Muckle Carr Acrylic on canvas www.mickoxley.com/product/orig... 25% of all original sales go to @newcastlefoodbank.org

The nights may be longer, but you can’t beat a winter sunset.

Not many people need a cherry-picker to decorate their Christmas tree, but the team at Cragside do. Their tree stands an incredible 44.7 metres tall - more than twice the height of the Angel of the North. And... it's a record breaker.

The onset of fast solar winds and a possible CME reaching Earth means that aurora sightings are possible tonight This is most likely for northern Scotland with lower chances further south Look to the northern horizon and take a peek ✨

Get on that mailing list quick (or join the Discord) for that presale code, to be the first to get your hands on tickets for The Ends of the Earth tour, coming in 2026! bio.site/TheLongestJo... Int'l dates will follow, so don't worry! #TheLongestJohns #EndsOfTheEarth #LiveMusic #Gigs #Tour

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

Highly recommended for information and entertainment - even if you don't live anywhere near Orkney.

The Roundworld year for 2026 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll] : The Year of the Curious Squid. Artwork by Discworld artist Paul Kidby.

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme: WINTER ❄️

In today's Budget, the Chancellor spoke about building the economy “brick by brick” but left out the very foundation that underpins it all: nature. The same Government that promised to restore our natural world appears instead to have wiped it from their agenda.

26th November 2025 07.40

Northern lights showing up off the beach in Northumberland www.youtube.com/live/8vZZMvq...

Always good to see a light on the horizon.

Solstice Haar Acrylic 25% of price to @newcastlefoodbank.org www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...

Happy Birthday to the legendary Billy Connolly who turns 83 today, and who from a young age realised the importance of #Libraries. 'When I was an unhappy little boy, going to the library changed my life. It may even have saved it.' Happy Birthday Big Yin. 🎉🎂🌟❤️

'In winter's cold and summer's parching heat' - Henry VI, Part II (I, 1) The Abbey's Gothic North Door pictured on a snowy December day and during this summer's heatwave. #ShakespeareSunday #HotAndCold

'Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold;' Henry VI pt2 #ShakespeareSunday theme #HotandCold @homefreeguys.bsky.social #WinterSong youtu.be/tJ5vFRp372w?...

'This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen' King Lear #ShakespeareSunday theme #HotandCold

Glory be, a politician with the confidence and honesty to admit he doesn't know something and ask for information.

Today, the California coast we cherish and the delicate ocean ecosystems just beyond it face a renewed threat from offshore drilling. We oppose the Trump Administration’s 5-year oil and gas leasing program and will continue to defend our coastline, wildlife, economy, and health from this threat.