Best Christmas ad yet! Knocks John Lewis into a cocked hat.

Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...

I heard there was a Cohen song, And all the Christians got it wrong, But you don’t really get the meaning do ya? ‘Cause you see its about getting laid, It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith, But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”

"Reform would be worse" is both entirely correct and entirely irrelevant until polling day 2029. What matters right now is that Labour's approach is morally repugnant on its own terms, *and is empowering Reform*. As things stand today, its not Labour or Reform. Its Labour *then* Reform.

The Los Angeles Record November 22, 1921

As Maya Goodfellow shows in "Hostile Environment", this is a recurring theme in the political discourse on immigration. Racism is framed as a regrettable but natural response to a number of migrants arbitrarily deemed to be excessive, rather than a socially constructed and contestible subjectivity.

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

Now this is how to start a history book. A Wiltshire story teller 1890s. "There were a time, 'tweren't in my time, neither in your time, nit (nor yet) in anybody else's time; 'twere when magpies builded in old men's beards and turkey-cocks chewed bacca”.

Now that’s a lede. Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social. Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

talkin' about the AI bubble

Martin Clunes in a 1983 Gilbert and George (post Doctor Who, pre sitcoms).

So Elon Musk's AI engages in Holocaust denial now, and there are still democratic governments with active X accounts.

we don't mess with no prison industrial complex 'round here we here know you ain't the worst thing you ever did you're gonna be lookin' at five whole steps of fixin' this mess, and we're gonna be here until you do 'em all ... so let's start with fessin' up, eh?

Châtchun s'pliaît - lé chein, respé, tch'embraichait sa trie en disait autant soundcloud.com/jerriais/cha... = each person pleases themself - the one (pardon my French) who kissed his sow said as much #Jèrriais

This is a bad title. Better titles I have come up with: • SILENT HEIST • NAUGHTY OR HEIST • MARY'S BOY CHILD JESUS HEIST WAS BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY

This evening, I’ll be in conversation with George Monbiot about political dysfunction and ecological collapse, and I want to tell you all briefly about a ritual involving an ancient Hittite king, a throne, and a tree from 3,000 years ago @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

I made my son a Pikachu birthday card. It was five seconds after drawing the line that I realised my mistake.

bill maher with one of the craziest flop jokes i've ever seen in my life

RFK Jr.: ‘The President Having Sex With Children Is Fine From A Purely Nutritional Standpoint’

#3157 A helpful tutorial

And a reminder that in 2024 jewelley stolen in similar historical policies was returned to families because it was wrong www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Everyone’s favourite - the ‘Wolf and Twins’ mosaic from Roman Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum) depicting the legend of Romulus and Remus. Dating to the 4th century AD, the mosaic is now part of the collections at Leeds City Museum. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain

I finished her and she is so darling

Tom Crowley and Mr Paul F Tompkins in the same podcast? What is this, a crossover episode?

If the UK is on the brink of civil war, as Musk claims, it follows that in 300 years time there will be be a new generation of civil war re-enactment societies. "Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."

New insult to life itself just dropped

Just leaving this here www.thenational.scot/news/2545164...

Peter Thiel’s company Palentir, has a massive data contract with the NHS.

books have no tech tree, no fog of war

By @stephencollins.bsky.social #comics

Gremlins fans baffled Metro film reporter still has job after calling G2 “terrible”

lol she got his ass and he knows it

In Penny Lane, the beatles say that a nurse is selling poppies from a tray but then fail to make it clear that any of the other characters are wearing theirs, or that the beatles themselves all have one on as they should. MR MCCARTNEY MUST ANSWER FOR THIS

"Annihilation" (2018)

ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty] OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food] OSIRIS: you already ate ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad] OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good

What's it like to return to your home town years after leaving? This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't finds that nothing's changed. But then everything's changed too...

Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?

Ev’rybody’s talkin’ bout those trunkless legs Trunkless legs (Boop boop) And a manly kind of visage That the sands of time have wrecked (Boop boop) Trunkless legs In the desert, see the mighty staring Looking at his works and hopelessly despairing…

London Backwater, near St Pancras', Woburn Walk by James Finlay Watson (1898–1981) (Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens)

Happy #Halloween from the Arch-Druid of Menez-Hom on the simple dolmen of Menez-Lié in St-Nic (Finistère). One of my favourites.

Make sure you check your kid's Trick or Treat chocolate tonight. Last Halloween my son bit into a mini Mars bar and found a John Virgo ‘Gotcha' from Noel's House Party inside

Happy Halloween! Keep a close eye out today for witches being driven around the countryside by their root vegetable chauffeurs in a hollowed out marrow car.