my top film of 2025 was definitely FUCKTOYS, which I have thought about pretty much every day since i saw it. really wish it was being distributed more widely and available for more people to see. what a gorgeous movie!

I used to be make cinema verité for NYMag! I loved making those narrator-free shorts!!! Here's one I made entirely on my own, about a lady who teaches piano to dogs:

the cat is on her second trip to climb on me in bed and knead me methodically. she’s very good at it

So ends The English Year, quotes from journals, diaries and letters for every day of the year. I loved it so much and came to appreciate diarists I’d been unaware of, particularly Dorthy Wordsworth and Francis Kilvert. Huge thanks to @tambourine.bsky.social for letting me know this exists.

it is once again time to appreciate this look:

all i achieved this year was keeping going & hitting the five year cancer anniversary. it’s fine

Can’t have humanitarian aid groups that tell the truth, deliver aid, save lives, and don’t randomly massacre people trying to access aid.

I need to show you this nativity scene from the Church of San Geremia e Lucia in Venice.

what’s the best mythopoeic fantasy, fantasy with a touch of the numinous? fantasy that looks at scientific magic systems and just laughs?

Agnes LOVES to chase her own tail

people do not discuss the raven tower enough, one of the greatest books

what’s the best mythopoeic fantasy, fantasy with a touch of the numinous? fantasy that looks at scientific magic systems and just laughs?

why do all these terrible dramione books keep making her a healer. is this the burden of womanhood

you know how evolution keeps trying to create crabs again? i feel like that’s where we are with television. social media? tv. podcasts? tv. explanatory articles? tv. movies? tv.

One of my favorite works this year was this illustration of a pigeon on a hero's journey, commissioned by my MFA program as this year's student/staff shirt. I later made a risograph print of the image!

cat and husband both asleep on me. the most normal occurrence

looking at an encyclopaedia of the new york school poets on the internet archive to find poets i haven’t heard of to then also look up on the internet archive. told tom about this and he was just like yep, sounds like something you’d do

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

feeling a bit like i need to sleep for ten years

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

just saw a squirrel get run over in Bethnal Green. christmas ruined

To me, my X-Mas!

This Christmas 'Channel D' will open on #TPTV Channel Premiere! Classic Spy-Fiction Series begins Sunday 28th Dec at 4pm! THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (1964) #TPTVsubtitles Stars #DavidMcCallum #RobertVaughn

First published as a 'digital pamphlet' in 2023, and briefly available as a print edition in 2024, here's the free, downloadable PDF of our 'Winter Songs' mini-anthology, with poems apt for the year's end, and the year to come. longbarrowpress.com/wp-content/u...

six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO

agnes’s face 😭🥹

reason why the cat started yelling at me: there was a biscuit on the floor on the other side of the chair. terrible news. why is the biscuit there

I've got to be honest, we may as well call it a night #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

steam being down is v inconvenient for me, personally, as i wanted to send my brother the game where you help a crying block of tofu run a failing mascot agency

Some December midnight Christ, lord, lie warm in our byre. Here are stars, an ox, poverty enough. —George Mackay Brown, “A Child’s Calendar” published in FISHERMEN WITH PLOUGHS (Hogarth Press 1971) #Christmas #poem #poetry #Orkney

"we can reclaim control over our bodies, our time, our collective destiny. it is not easy and no one, myself much included, can do so without making many mistakes. but it is our duty to try and try again." - Jon Cink

won a hippie shake dress on ebay, like it fine but don’t really know how to wear it lol

why have publishers made it so much harder to find their catalogues? do they not want us to know what’s being published?

NEW “Twelfth Night Till Candlemas” - one year on A couple of footnotes to last December's remarkable story of a book quest By me emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...

Six Time Machines.

Center of Universe https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19611

look at this photo of Poppy that my brother sent me

last night i accidentally fell asleep on the sofa and spent the whole night dreaming about how my life was being ruined by mysterious unbearable leg pain. and then i woke up on the sofa and it was 7am and my legs HURT

Police arrest three people outside insurer of Israeli arms maker Elbit, including Thunberg for holding placard.

Elegant couple at goldsmith’s shop for a ring, in 1449. But what about those 2 men in the mirror? And what is luring us? Wonderful wares, wonderful painting, Petrus Christus. It’s his day today.

So in the UK, they'll arrest you for supporting Palestine, and now we find they'll also arrest you for supporting those who support Palestine. If you hold a Free Greta sign, will they arrest you for supporting someone who supports those who support Palestine? British Matryoshka doll-ass fascism.

taskmaster champion of champions is on tonight, which we only just realised fifteen minutes in (the c4 app should let us watch on a delay). so in case anyone else somehow managed to miss the news…!

anyone else working Christmas Eve AND New Year’s Eve 👎

The only known photographs of mathematician and computing pioneer Ada Lovelace have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery just before they were expected to be sold to a private buyer. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/nat...

NIGEL FARAGE STOLE MY SATSUMAS