A new online radio station based in Hull has launched today and I have a show on there tomorrow. Honoured to be listed among the likes of Porky! vennradio.com

First find of the year

Beach? Beach.

This is the guy who had to resign as Keir Starmer's Chief of Political Strategy only three months ago after he was exposed having made racist and sexually explicit jokes about Diane Abbott. His author photo is the same one that was widely used by papers when reporting that very story.

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The fact that landlords can apply for a *direct payment* of rent arrears taken from a claimant's Universal Credit without even having to go to court shows that the poor remain a subject class, a conduit for public money to flow directly from the state into rentiers' pockets.

*looking at the sunset* And you have to say, that is magnificent

I still can’t tell the difference between Maresca and Guardiola. You cannot expect me to believe they are two different men?

Let’s leave plastic plants and flowers behind in 2025. (This post brought to you by Rotherham services)

A touch of class from Sadiq Khan here. A tribute to all the brave patriots who died this year erecting flags outside of other people's homes. 🎇🎆🇬🇧

Visiting friends in Sheffield tonight, but won’t have time for a walk or climb in the Peaks. Je telephone a la police.

My resolution is not to move aside for adult men riding bikes on the pavement. And given I played roller derby for seven years, I’m pretty good with my shoulders.

Just saw a man in a Labour t-shirt (bold) reprimand the small child he was with and take their hat, saying “That’s not yours anymore.” Insert your own pithy observation.

you do have to laugh/cry, Staveley is getting its 1770 canal but not its HS2 depot

I hate how these articles get framed. People go to A& E b/c they cant get a GP appointment. I was *sent* twice by 111 because my GP wouldn't see me for months. Im probably recorded in these figures. Cough and breathlessness. It was cancer (and they missed it) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

One of the best to ever do it

Just saw a man in a Labour t-shirt (bold) reprimand the small child he was with and take their hat, saying “That’s not yours anymore.” Insert your own pithy observation.

I am going to eat so much piccalilli

Going to be in Paris v briefly next year, anyone got recommendations for learning about the Paris Commune while we are there?

Just been to the vet (dog is fine) and when I parked up a guy next to me was idling. Half an hour later, when I came back, he still had it on. Whyyyyy?

Served Kate Lawler, Neil Lennon and various Leicester Tigers players while working in bars. Only Neil Lennon tipped.

Charlie’s kicked the bucket

Ruin two bands by combining them: Babylon Zutons

Journalism 👊🏻

This is a great piece on masculinity and it makes me miss raving! Great writing by @mckenziewark.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/journal/159/...

Finally put my out of office on, may the festive holidays begin!

Just seen a guy in a parked car, engine idling, napping in the driver’s seat and I’m so tempted to open the door and scream in his face.

Come on bro

This guy said bad things online, but we’re not going to tell you what he said, you just need to trust us that what he said was bad, OK?

youd think in this age of right wing 'christian' grifting the desecration of holy sites as part of a UK/US backed genocide would be mentioned more but apparently not

This Christmas has involved a lot more cleaning up dog shit from inside the house than I had planned. Poor pooch.

I’ve been trying to track down a thick, red, world history encyclopaedia I had as a kid and which my parents have since, sadly, got rid of. I always had my head buried in it.

A lot of non-AI content I would also consider slop. Have you seen some of the shit served up to kids on YouTube?

Really struggling to care about Stranger Things, not helped by the volume and sound balance being all over the place.

I've never seen or heard any reference to Will Stancil anywhere except here, where you lot quote-amplify him every day by posting screengrabs from X, an app I stopped using because I didn't want to read the content there.

The juxtaposition between the headline and the photo in the mobile article is off the charts. “Yes I am! For treason and murder. :)”

I am going to eat so many pickled onions

What’s everyone’s favourite Avatar quote? Mine is: “Avatartini. Shaken, not stirred.”

the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.

At least in printed newspapers I could just read around the adverts, rather than have them bounce all over the page.

“What has gone wrong in our societies that we no longer seem able to create or raise human beings? That is the most important question we can ask in the world we now inhabit, the world after Gaza.”

Awesome charity shop find by my partner, including a message from the author to I think Cori Thomas?

All I want for Christmas is to see him hanging upside down from an Esso roof

Shabana Mahmood has recommissioned those rooftop missiles from the 2012 Olympics to intercept Santa. The BBC will broadcast it live.

Blood nurse said I have “beautiful veins” 💪🏻🩸

Face first into his Christmas Big Mac