This looks like one of the questions in the NY Times' "Copy Edit That!" quiz series where you had to identify the mistake the copy editors overlooked. Except that 'mistake(s)' doesn't do this bullshit justice. And it's not remotely amusing.

How 2026 was depicted in the sci-fi classic 'Metropolis' (1927)

Wow: great paragraph on the British obsession with graded music exams. This is piano teacher Alice Pinto quoting from @jessicaduchen.bsky.social 's novel, Alicia's Gift, in an interview with @crosseyedpianist.bsky.social . Here's the whole article: crosseyedpianist.com/2014/09/22/a... #PianoTeaching

How I'm entering 2026:

This is exciting. Imagine the possibilities of #Tidalpower! www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Tidalpower

Me, at a fascinating lecture. But I couldn't see the presentation.

Epic vegetarian gravy from roasted vegetables. Never again.

I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.

As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch’d.

#Newsnight asks (rhetorically) if there is anything they should be focusing on next year that they havent been covering. irony is dead.

Do read this. It’s by Brian Eno for @thenerve.news & it’s about this generation’s BandAid. Lullaby is based on a traditional Palestinian melody, all proceeds go to Gaza, it would be amazing for it to be Xmas no 1, but more than that, buying it is a political act 👊

The very definition of #MiddleClassProblems: Since scalding my fingertip while taking a polenta and orange cake out of the oven, I can't use the Touch Recognition button on my Mac.

When in Rome... (By my nephew.) #BlueSkyArtShow

"He doesn't push the notes around. He just plays them," says my mum of Paul Lewis. I'm so looking forward to taking her to this in January. www.saffronhall.com/whats-on/vie...

After years of being curious about my lineage, I finally received my ancestry results. Apparently I'm 12% Scottish Highlands cottage, 16% used bookstore, 9% October, 13% cat rescue, 11% rainswept cobblestone side street, 7% dimly-lit café in Prague, 17% scone, and 15% Oxford comma.

I'm concerned about Shirley's make-up artist. #Strictly

Karen never screams. She never does that running-on-the-spot, squealing. No histrionics. She seems like a lovely person. #strictly

I asked an assistant in John Lewis if they had any fairy lights, just now, and she said, "Oh, THANK you!". People seem a bit distracted.

This FIFA award actually looks like I feel: someone burying their head in their hands.

To borrow from Orwell: All of my students are my favourites. But some are more favourite than others, and I always feel the joy after Charlie's lessons on Wednesdays. #PianoTeaching

The remarkable end-papers for 1966’s Rupert Annual, by Alfred Bestall.

The Backs of Houses, Harley Street, London, 1925, by Algernon Cecil Newton.

'The Skate Girls of Kabul' photographic series by Jessica Fulford-Dobson featuring girls from the Afghan capital before the Taliban took control. #womensart #NeverForget women and girls of Afghanistan #HumanRights

Just started watching #bbcqt with a hollow laugh at the idea of an 'immigration special'. They've all been immigration 'specials' since around 2011. This is the fulfilment of the BBC's own agenda for over a decade. How proud they must be.

I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on. Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.

'We wouldn't have been able to strike any trade deals if it hadn't been for brexit' - we wouldn't have HAD to, you asinine Tory fool. What fitting end to a particularly stupid episode of #Newsnight

It's not "We" who are "talking about Rachel Reeves and her errors". It's YOU who are trying to get us to do that, #Newsnight.

I did. Me. I confess. I voted for a Party that would, I hoped, raise 450,000 children out of poverty. #Newsnight

Chris Mason feels misled. He wishes he could trust politicians. I know the feeling. I wish I could trust #bbcnews.

Lost Album Covers of the 90s

The men braying in the House of Commons when a woman speaks is a very ugly sound. #budget #pmqs

I'm sure BBC staff will be reassured that there is a 'metric' in place to assess their plummeting morale: an annual staff survey. And what's more, the Chair wil also "speak" to some of them. #bbc

Don't know which is more fanciful: Clive Lewis stepping down for Andy Burnham; Burnham winning the seat; or Burnham proving to be a saviour given that he can't hold a consistent line in a 2-minute i/view. Not that I am not longing to vote for for a new Labour leader, but Burnham is not the answer.

Teenage pianist S's deeply-felt lyrics to help get the rhythm of a jazz piece. Other lyrics will involve Donald Trump, climate change, having to fill the dishwasher and fold her clothes. (I can't reveal her 1st name as that's apparently 'so cringe'.)

I have no time for Ken Clark, but euw, Fiona Bruce, chuckling patronisingly at the old person and shutting him up. #bbcqt

A second BBC has hit the BBC

Well that was peculiar - an entire #newsnight based around a leadership challenge that hasn’t happened, with 3 panellists who couldn’t be more peripheral - and 1 enormous elephant sitting in the room.

Not now, Universe. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

*How* does testing 8yos improve their literacy? How does *telling* teachers to provide enrichment activity *enable* them to fund it? This sounds like McSweeney playing to the union-bashing gallery + checking Starmer's Music 'to do' item. @lucympowell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Now that's what i call a treat-ise.

In Peterborough Cathedral today, unexpectedly, I found heart-wrenching poetry by children from Gaza. Part of a project by (I think) @handsupproject.bsky.social. One is about (our) silence being worse than war so i thought I'd share, even tho' people may know about this @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

Amazing light! Looks like a demented giant woodpecker is rapping its beak on the railway bridge.

Oh please. Make it stop.

I'm driven mad by the over-representation of Reform MPs and spokespeople in the media.

Just did an income-tax-rise calculator thing that shows I'd be £16.06 worse off a month if Rachel Reeves puts up income tax by a penny. So we'd all be £16.06 better off. Do it! Do it! #ProgressiveTaxation

I sense Jess Phillips is becoming the new Angela Rayner, a strong recognisable Labour voice – a strong recognisable FEMALE Labour voice – who is the focus of an orchestrated campaign by others to neuter the government. We won't even mention "Rachel from Accounts". The next target – Lucy Powell.

Margaret Atwood writing The Handmaid’s Tale, West Berlin, 1984 (Photo by Isolde Ohlbaum)

"“Our solidarity with Palestinians is not a betrayal of Judaism, but a fulfillment of it... We shall not rest until this ceasefire carries forward into an end of occupation and apartheid.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Still triggering to hear Boris Johnson spluttering in unbearably smug Etonianese.