Wishing everybody an infinitely better 2026 as we begin the countdown to bidding good riddance to its predecessor.

At the height of the Earth's 6th great extinction - in reality its first great extermination - we still have to put up with this drivel Use your wads of cash to save the thousands of species threatened with extinction every year - you idiots www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Performing the Doppler effect through the medium of dance.

Match 2, one vote in it...

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This is just fucking hilarious while a guy who used to mimic the sound of gas chambers aggressively at his Jewish peers is running the UK's most popular political party, while maintaining that somehow that wasn't him being racist, & remains free from consequence by the UK press & govt.

I know we didn't really do this en masse before the pandemic. I know we all want to move on from the pandemic. Masking is a reminder of that tempestuous period in our lives. But when people know better and want to do better, that's a good thing. For god's sake, let them do better.

'Look,' said Ratty, 'there's the Moon in the Willows!' 'Oh my,' said Mole, 'the Sun hasn't even set yet....' #TalesfromtheRiverbank #Dorset

Almost everyone used to take COVID seriously. Most people stopped. If you stopped, you are under tremendous pressure to “not know” about COVID. To not pay attention.🧵 People are not really the story. COVID is the story. #OneOfTheTwo

I'm #OneOfTheTwo who Jon Stewart mocked for masking as well. I wear mine for several reasons! The list keeps growing And no, I didn't get sick from this Uber ride despite the driver coughing

#OneOfTheTwo and one of the many Jon Stewart mocked this week. COVID took my job, my voice (I was a classically trained mezzo soprano), for a long time my ability to read. I don’t want to invite it in again. Attitudes like Stewart’s stigmatize, make it hard to socialize or exist in public.

Farewell then, lady who gave the world Monkey Jesus. You tried your best, you brought us delight, we will not forget.

I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself

Group of us on a tour in deep caves in the south of France. Some Americans on the tour were whining about all the stairs down, because "we don't have stairs in Florida". We passed a small but very phallic stalagmite and our friend pointed to it saying "Errol Flynn". All the non-Americans laughed.

My son and I were returning down a street where earlier in the day there had been scaffolding outside a house, and now there wasn’t. We joked maybe we’d slipped through a time portal and should ask someone what year it was. A women walking the other way called out, “1981”, and started laughing.

My favourite ever was when I was in a noodle place in Edinburgh, dining alone, and another old woman came in to dine alone and she ordered sake. She asked if I wanted to share it. I said yes please. We didn’t speak other than that. She paid for the sake. It was wonderful.

I was walking back after viewing and having my offer accepted on my first home. A guy with a bicycle and several large flattened cardboard boxes stopped me and asked if I would tape the boxes too him so he could cycle home. I wrapped him and his boxes in tape, he thanked me and cycled off.

I was loading some shopping into my car when a passing dog jumped up to try and get in one of the bags. "He must be after the ham" I said to the owner to which he replied "I wouldn't have thought so, he's Jewish".

I was walking down a supermarket aisle when I met a little old lady trying to reach the top shelf. I offered to help, and she gratefully accepted. So I bent down cupped my hands and said “ok - up you go” She called me an arse. (I did get what she was after though)

I once stood in Sainsbury's beside a man choosing from a stack of bell peppers. He picked one up, dropped it, half caught it while throwing it in the air, finally caught it, while exclaiming "Jings!"

I still mask because fuck you, that's why.

My cartoon for the latest @newscientist.com

Can I check with anyone who knows – if I get a canvassing letter from Reform and it contains a first-class reply envelope for my 'opinions', do they get billed extra if I stuff that envelope with something heavy and send it back to them? #FuckReform

Yet again all my picks are losing. I am clearly *not* in touch with the zeitgeist this year.

Can I check with anyone who knows – if I get a canvassing letter from Reform and it contains a first-class reply envelope for my 'opinions', do they get billed extra if I stuff that envelope with something heavy and send it back to them? #FuckReform

A good breakdown of why 'but I'm vaccinated' means very little if your last covid jab was in autumn 2022 – like the overwhelming majority of people in Britain.

Respectfully Jon Stewart, you were wrong on the @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social to mock people who mask. ICYMI: there are tens of millions of Americans who have been disabled by #LongCOVID and must do everything in their power to prevent further infections that make them vulnerable to further 1/

“The news where we are is the news. It comes first. The news where you are is the news where you are. It comes after. We do not have the news where you are. The news where you are may be news to you but it is not news to us…” James Robertson, “The news where you are” m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhL5...

Top Adrian Chiles Columns of 2025: I’ve given up wild swimming. So why does my Volvo smell like mince? Should I tell the postman he has halitosis? My first wife wouldn’t let me wear shorts. I buried my father with my bare hands. It’s time we stopped talking about glamping. 1/3

Prescient. Or not.

Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.

Just practised my 1 mile route for my January 31-day fundraiser — a VERY slow 14:49 mile but I took the dog, and had to stop four times to pick up poo plus multiple moments of jogging on the spot waiting for dog wees! Please help me raise money for cancer research and treatment: giving link below 👇

Welcome to the thrilling Quarterfinal round of the 2025 Headline of the Year contest! (🎆🎆) Mostly proceeded according to seeds, but second seed Resolved and Unresolved had a close scare with the Drunk Raccoon. Let's review the results so far:

To understand still-maskers (if you currently don't) you just need to read some quotes and replies to this post to see we are not weirdos or permanently anxious or whatever we get dismissed as. We're just living our lives the way that suits us, sometimes out of necessity, sometimes out of choice. 😷

My mother died of Covid complications this year. She not only refused to believe Covid was ‘that serious’ she also refused to mask when people visited her at our home in India. Anyone anywhere who wants to mock people who mask can fuck all the way off.

Read Jim's whole thread! I also want to add some historical context. During the 1918 pandemic, there was so much confusion because many scientists still thought that a bacteria, not a virus caused the flu (because, as Jim notes, we couldn't even see viruses under a microscope yet).

I appear to have backed a lot of losing horses this first round.

What was Jesus in for?

A good example of why we need more people, not just "the vulnerable", to be vaxxed, so that chiller and others who can't are protected by those of us who tolerate the vax well. Wouldn't that be great? To function in a way that protects each other? We could give it a name like oh, I dunno, "society"?

Nurse?!

I could repeat every word of this thread but not nearly as succinctly and by replacing half the words with 'fucking fuckers'.

Stuff like this winds me up. The absurd noblesse oblige. “Social leadership is important”- noone asked you for it. Noone wants it. You think you should have it because you have land. Well good for you. But it’s not the 18th century. Just shuffle off into the night.

I don’t know man if capitalism has just resulted in a small network of pedophiles destroying all life on earth then perhaps we should consider that it is a complete and utter failure as a system

A good example of why we need more people, not just "the vulnerable", to be vaxxed, so that chiller and others who can't are protected by those of us who tolerate the vax well. Wouldn't that be great? To function in a way that protects each other? We could give it a name like oh, I dunno, "society"?

1. Sometimes, the absurdity of the situation we're all in just hits me. Going forward, ongoing and continuous transmission of SARS-CoV-2 will lead to an ever-increasing percentage of the global population developing chronic illnesses due to sequelae of infection.