I've eaten so many sweet things over Christmas that my body has formed into a shape hitherto unknown to mathematics... I have become a caramelogram.

This is how it has been for me in magic

We’re looking for volunteers! We’re volunteer-run, and we need people like you to make it happen ❤️ We’re looking for new people to join, whether that’s pre-con or at-con, everything helps build the convention. Just fill in the volunteer form linked below! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Its so amazing that we've finally, after years of research, managed to invent a machine with which to kick ourselves in the balls

Got my tickets for New Years Eve. It’s going to be a fun night!

Bluesky buddies, I now have a 3D printer in my house, a relatively simple design little counter design I've had sketched out for several years, and a complete inability to 3D model. Does anyone know someone who could work with me to get this together? Happy to pay the going rate, whatever that is.

Reasons to join a Union Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions. Apple doesn't recognise unions. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union.

now for the traditional eating of the christmas tree

#PPOD: This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the largest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star. It spans nearly 400 billion miles — 40 times the diameter of our solar system. Tilted nearly edge-on as seen from Earth, the dark, dusty disk resembles a hamburger. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Big thank you to all the people working through Christmas looking after everyone

Merry Christmas! :-)

Merry Christmas to all those celebrating. Happy Thursday to all those who are not. And I hope this day passes bearably and swiftly for anyone struggling today. Dragon with Christmas Gift, Edward Gorey.

Breaking: The ATA picked up an unexpected signal… turns out it was Santa, piloting a saucer through the Saturn system. He was navigating the icy fractures of Enceladus to deliver presents to any single-celled residents who might be hiding in its subsurface ocean. 🎅🪐🛸 Happy Holidays!

they’re bluffing when they say you can still get knocked off the nice list this late in the game. santa’s been delivering gifts in japan for hours by now; that list is locked, do whatever you want.

This is my wife's favorite photo of mine from 2025. She convinced me to include it in our photography club show and sale and it's one of the photos that sold.

Looking to track Santa this year? You can find him on Flightradar24 at www.flightradar24.com/R3DN053/3d9f... right now as he warms up the reindeer and tests sleigh upgrades. Looking for a way to track Santa on a larger screen, like a smart TV? Head to www.youtube.com/live/rI_A_dc...

My great grandmother went to Russia on her honeymoon before the Revolution and at the Faberge store in Moscow, she bought this Christmas ornament. It has been in our family ever since. My parents passed it on to me to hang on my and Dennis' Christmas tree. #Christmas #Faberge #RussianOrnament

Samaritans ☎️116123 Childline ☎️1800666666 Women's Aid ☎️1800341900 Aware ☎️1800804848 Men's Aid ☎️015543811 Dublin Rape Crisis ☎️1800778 888 Bodywhys ☎️1890 200 444 Pieta House ☎️1800 247 247 AA ☎️1800 459 459 Gamblers Anonymous ☎️01 872 1133 Nollaig Shona…🎄

Ghosts of Dublin 😆

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the catchiest sex-ed BOP you will ever hear

Christopher Nolan’s next film, The Odyssey. The Odyssey | Official Trailer - Matt Damon - Tom Holland - Anne Hathaway - Robert Pattinson - Lupita Nyong’o - Zendaya - Charlize Theron [ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2... ] #TheOdyssey #Trailer

Excuse the link to this channel, please, but this is pretty great so I have to share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Nl...

Over the weekend, the Garmin Emergency Autoland system was activated for the first time in a real emergency scenario. The aircraft landed safely in Denver and all onboard are safe. www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...

Holiday Lights 2.0 (1995)

Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74

Christmas Day will be cooler than normal in many parts of Western Europe. Especially France where some areas could see a white Christmas!

I *love* this.

🎵Simply having a wonderful Christmastime🎵

Kalecki, M. (1943). Political aspects of full employment. Political Quarterly, 14(4), 322–331. "workers would 'get out of hand' and the 'captains of industry' would be anxious to 'teach them a lesson'" Article: [ doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.... ] Google Scholar: [ scholar.google.com/scholar_look... ]

0_0 List of national emergencies in the United States "48 are currently in effect, each having been renewed annually by the president" [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... ]

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Just found this picture is Stonehenge that I took back when one could get close and even touch the stones. From 1973

Today is 2025-12-21, the sun sets at 16:07:44 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 02 mins and 1 sec. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack

The solstice sunset! From tomorrow, the days will be brighter. This is the 2nd of 3 celebrations, though: the evenings started to get brighter last week, the days start brightening tomorrow, and the mornings will start on the 31st. More celebrating to look forward to! #TheGrandStretchIsBack

The December solstice is today, 21st December, 2025. Today the sun will be directly above the most southerly latitude of the Earth for a moment, before heading off north again. And that moment is now, 15:02 Dublin time.

Way to go everybody we broke Time

NIST reassures the world that despite atomic clock power outage time is not broken. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

I have formed the council

Dublin Airport... I have questions...

There’s a great expression from Argentinian Spanish about someone who’s sticking their oar in that goes vos no te peinés que no salís en esta foto. It means “don’t comb your hair because you don’t appear in this photograph.”

I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful. A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.

HTML invoker commands are newly baseline! Here's how they work…

Do you remember when the entire internet could fit under 14 categories?

Christmas Lunch begins! :-) #Crown

This is Millie. She just learned how to sled. Hopes you brought a second land frisbee, because she will not be taking turns. 13/10 (TT: millietheredlab)