Episode 14 of Dead Funny History is about a power couple who survived riots and the indignity of their own favourite sports team turning on them, and most importantly includes my star turn as 'injured chariot racer'. It's Justinian and Theodora! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The only resolution you need. Essential text: lokibooks.com/lokifesto/ by @louiestowell.bsky.social, patron trickster god of fun and of reading for JOY 🙌

In 2026: Generative AI is not inevitable. You can say no. You can refuse. You can reject the disgusting lukewarm slop that the richest and worst people in the world are trying to force-feed you. You can tell them to eat shit and die mad. You can break the machine

Happy new year 🌅❣️

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025? (She's one of the enduring loves of my life and absolutely blazing here)

Does the new year even start before you’ve bought your first book of the year?

Happy New Year, start it off smiling with this golden oldie

It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".

Well, that was it, folks! Not the 5 ⭐ reads I would have chosen to feature in my top 3 (will have to think on that later!) A new page on the reading diary awaits! (My book of the year was, hands-down, @neillcameron.bsky.social's Donut Squad vol 1 and GUESS WHAT, THE NEW ONE'S OUT TODAY 🥳🍩🥳🍩🥳)

(art by @wardsutton.bsky.social)

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

my reading goals for 2026 including reading more picture books bc they contain wonderful and beautiful stories 🥰

More of you next year, please.

REMEMBER Feliz Año Nuevo = Happy New Year Feliz Ano Nuevo = Happy New Butthole

Mat Cauthon my beloved ❤️‍🔥

Here's a New Year's Resolution you might be able to keep, visit your library and borrow more books! #NewYears #Resolutions #Libraries #BookSky #Books

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM PORTLAND it’s gonna be a good one bitches I can already feel it make art, punch Nazis, read romance novels, drink water, throw out the clothes you hate wearing, smash the patriarchy, say “I love you”

Happy New Year's Eve everyone!! 🎉🎊 Wishing you lots of happy things in your new year.

Seen in Another Place...

As the year end draws near remember this.

Capy New Year you magnificent bastards xxx

Drive Responsibly this New Years! Be Safe out there. #NewYearsEve #HappyNewYear #SuperTroopers

Happy New Year, Bluesky.

Look, friends. I am here to tell you that it is absolutely fine if you did not unlock any achievements in 2025. Did you *see* this year? Christ on a bike, what a mess. Just be good to each other. That's all that really counts.

This year on Bluesky I wrote 1,340 posts and 3,089 replies. I received 13,603 likes, whereas 824 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying 😂! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Cat Follows Man Through Apartment Like Racist Walgreens Employee https://theonion.com/cat-follows-man-through-apartment-like-racist-walgreens-employee/

And gleefully so! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/boss...

As 2025 draws to a close, we seek inspiration from the protests around the country in response to the Supreme Court ruling on 16 April 2025 which dealt a blow to the rights & dignity of trans people. Thousands upon thousands of people gathered to say: we'll always stand with trans people.

This year has been exhausting/shitty and the last decade has been an ever growing snowball of terrible but I'm really grateful for all the folks out there who are doing good work and fighting the good fight. Without y'all things would be so much darker and with you things will be brighter next year

Oh without a single doubt: youtu.be/PeonBmeFR8o?...

I really enjoyed Cursed Under London. A funny, sweet fantasy romance adventure with vampires and werewolves and dragons and more. It's only £6 for both books at the moment and I can definitely recommend the first. I'm about to read the second. 😁

“I cannot remember any of the things that were on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing,” said Toad.

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

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31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

If you're looking for a good new year's resolution, how about making your posts more accessible by adding alt text to your images? A quick guide: bsky.app/profile/mann... If that's too hard for whatever reason, put #Alt4Me in the post or the alt text field and volunteers will help you out (nofeed)

A bookseller getting close to £1200 on her London Marathon fundraising. Can I get there by midnight? I'm running for @booktrust.org.uk and it would be a great way to kick off the Year of Reading! #kidlituk www.justgiving.com/page/helen-t...

2026 will be... The Year of the Curious Squid! | Terry Pratchett terrypratchett.com/discworld/20...

Two books to look out for in 2026 👀 Bridge of Storms is set in the world of Mortal Engines, and is the first of two sequels to Thunder City. Of Mice and Mummies is the eighth book in the Adventuremice series, co-authored and illustrated by @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social Happy New Year!

What children's books are you excited about for 2026? This one has caught my eye - more kidlit about fascism pls (I may currently be writing a children's book about fascism). www.waterstones.com/book/the-min... #KidLitUK #UKKidlit

VERY niche book rec request: I'd like to read a non fic about private military contractors in the late 20th/early 21st century. Also one on private government contractors who are rubbish, a la G4S. (Or one on both, rubbish private military contractors also welcome!)

And now I'm remembering the late great Benjamin Zephaniah writing Bought And Sold, about how the state uses honours to tame influential radicals, and then him getting offered an OBE for services to poetry and asking "did you... not read my poem?"

In which I personally wax enthusiastic about @emilytesh.net, @aptshadow.bsky.social, EJ Swift, Claire North, Darkly Lem, and @tashasuri.bsky.social, while @mondyboy74.bsky.social and @ghostspecies.bsky.social in particular make me add books to my TBR pile.

1942. George Cukor's _Keeper of the Flame_ with Hepburn and Tracy. The path to fascism was paved a long time ago.

Don't forget to leave your pork pie out for the Hogfather, lads.

New Year's resolution unlocked.

Great affirmation for today from Finch ☺️ 🎆🎇🎆

Today’s your last chance to buy a book until next year - so don’t wait! - Michael

This starts tomorrow at @thestorygraph.com! Anyone here joining? app.thestorygraph.com/january_page...