Also, nobody ever EVER wants to be told how many people are looking at a product right now. Especially with a pop-up that prevents you from also looking at it.

ME (Terrified, tearfully repeating this over and over again under my duvet):

Hey everyone, guess what's back on BBC Two for a new series tonight? #SkiSunday #IDontLikeSnow youtu.be/hCIWyKey0BI?... @jeremylion.bsky.social @bigedwards.bsky.social

What if all countries now start stealing each other’s heads of state, like college students kidnapping rival college mascots? Does the UN have a plan for this kind of hijinks?

I hope he’s had a measles vaccine

This photo of a floating head proves nothing

Countdown to Trump claiming the $50m bounty on Maduro…

My gf and I decided that you had to have a name that sounded like a Beatles song to join Wings. Denny Laine, on guitar, Don Letmedown on drums, and Tristan Shout on horns.

Look, it clearly says the Peace Prize only applies to 2025.

Dear Jay-Z,

Clearing out my house and keep finding long-forgotten noisy toys hidden from the kids at the backs of drawers.

In a Claudia wig and cape, pretending to do links in a mirror.

Put-it-in-H Cars more like

FWIW I think podcasts and social media fulfil a similar role to what pubs and working men’s/gentlemans/golf clubs provided men in the past - a kind of low/no-commitment social interaction. Yes, it’s the same people having the same conversations. That’s the point.

Betty Boop looks weirdly like Nancy Drew and Pluto got in a teleporter together.

I reckon this year we’ll see a change in what people call “AI”. It’s not helpful for anyone that specialist machine learning tools get called the same thing as p*rn-generating chat bots. Also, there will be new genAI tools which the makers will want to distance from the old stuff.

Guys I can’t watch Traitors tonight. Do you mind if everyone on Bluesky just catches up with it tomorrow instead? Thanks awfully.

So now there’s a weird situation where the rw press complain about flags appearing incorrect on the Eye (prob because they’re actually projected small onto gauze so details are lost), and City Hall having to defend it by saying how small they were (which they wouldn’t be if the projection was real)

Boom! Bring on the jet skis and Faberge eggs. I’m going to get a string quartet to sit in my living room playing Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, like rich guys have in films.

The #Traitors railway is running on New Year's Day and until January 4. A lovely day out if you are near Aviemore

Ah, New Year’s Day! That can only mean one thing. YES, THAT’S RIGHT! The 148th anniversary of New York Herald proprietor James Gordon Bennett Jr being banished from polite society for pissing in his fiancée’s fireplace, thus giving the world the phrase ‘Gordon Bennett!’ 🧵

Thinking about it, both M. Gustave and René Artois - work in hospitality - during military occupation - are popular with the ladies - handle stolen paintings

-You boy! What day is this? -Why it's New Year's Day, sir! -New Year's Day? Those ghosts did it, all in one night! Tell me, young fellow, you know the stationer's shop around the corner? Do they still have the prize calendar in the window?

I rewatched Grand Budapest Hotel, and still think Ralph Fiennes should do more comedy. Everyone compares him to Leonard Rossiter. But I think in Grand Budapest there are elements of René from Allo Allo

Oh - the animations in the middle of the London Eye aren’t added to the feed digitally. Instead they set up a small Hologauze projection right in front of the camera so it appears like it’s in the middle of the Eye. Why?! Somehow that’s worse? www.avinteractive.com/news/project...

Happy New Year and all that but they shouldn’t be allowed to add CG images to the fireworks coverage. Either it’s all real or what’s the point?

I wish everyone the kind of 2026 which ends in the full, upbeat version of the Boswell Sisters, and not the slow fade up version.

Evelyn But The Girl.

And a special Happy New Year to all the anime bots out there tonight, thanklessly liking every damn tweet.

Just time to get started on this year’s new year resolutions

If you start watching When Harry Met Sally at exactly 9:56pm at 0.5x speed, you’re an idiot.

Prediction: the London fireworks will feature a giant floating drone Paddington head like in Zardoz.

It’s fackin cold outside. It takes 20 seconds to donate here. Probably a good way to start the new year? You could donate the money you would have spent on fireworks if you were awful? england.shelter.org.uk/donate_winter

I don’t think this kind of ersatz Top of the Pops should be allowed. #totp

“Why don’t you shut the door, and close the curtains, cos you’re not going anywhere”

First day of 2025 vs. last day of 2025

These book counts everyone’s posting - do you have to have finished the book? Because I’ve got about 30 on the go.

I’ve only made a tiny contribution to the internet this year, and it was this screenshot.

Did you know? Tonight’s Jools Holland Hootenanny Show was *actually prerecorded* next October. Also, his piano is a time machine powered by boogie-woogie.

Parents: Remember, tonight it switches from 6-7 to 6-8. Make sure you’re up to date.

Thirty years ago today. The most beautiful, hopeful farewell.

Happy New Year’s Eve! Hootenanny!

If you’re starting a tech-based company today you can name it one of three things: - a word like you’ve headbutted a keyboard e.g “gXtrl” - something confusingly everyday like “kettle” or “everyday” - the name of something iconically evil like “Vader”, “Skeletor”, or “Cruella”

This is one of those headlines that is improved massively if you add the words “by accident” to the end.

“Brrrrap!” *flicks fingers*

We should lend this photo to France while we’ve got the Bayeux Tapestry. Quid pro quo.

This is a perfect piece of scriptwriting

Another case for Europe’s greatest detective.