Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

I know a man in Aberdare; his eyes are blue as sky. He rides along on Siôn Corn's train - they call him Platfform Dai.

it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set

Please remind me not to use the word "forcemeat" around my mother-in-law this Christmas. It might be accurate but it wasn't popular.

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

Happy We Can Probably Open One of the Cheeses day to all who celebrate.

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

Morning. I’ve finished for Christmas 🎉. I’ve stripped beds already this morning. Now I love Christmas but I read this this morning and some of it definitely resonated with me. For those that feel some mixed emotions this time of year xx

[first day as a shepherd] boss: where are you going? me: [pointing] star boss: what? why me: [shrugging] baby

After last year's close run with danger, 5.5kg turkey is purchased and defrosting. I may even have enough spoons to dry brine it.

Just been handed one of these for using the word Christmas in Birmingham. The Daily Mail articles were true.

Leaked audio from Cass talking to NHS Sheffield. drive.proton.me/urls/EPMR96E... Leak is thanks to Trans Kids Deserve Better www.instagram.com/reel/DSf3rqb...

It's taken two years to get round to, including a last minute trip into town on the Saturday before Christmas specifically to buy a cone to replace the one I bought in April and lost, but I've finally done it. The Charcutertree.

not making it to streaming this year probably, apparently seamless albums are banned now, keep buying on bandcamp, thanks Symphonic Distribution

Labour's Barry Gardiner speaks up for three of his constituent who are amongst the Palestine Action hunger strikers Lindsay Hoyle jumps in and basically says, move on

Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.

Nozomi Tanaka, Tama 2017.

Don't forget if you're an OPR fan, this year the official Röknaut Army Book launched! army-forge.onepagerules.com/armyBookSele...

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping 55% off in the Steam Winter Sale! Inspired by movies such as The Wicker Man & the works of M.R. James, with a little pinch of Twin Peaks and Lovecraft - our folk horror adventure is the perfect play for Christmas! store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...

Alison Bailey told me pro-trans lawyers keep eating her legal fees so I asked her how much money she has and she said she just goes to JK Rowling afterwards so I said it sound's like she's just feeding money to trans lawyers and now Helen Joyce is crying.

sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣

Glad to have voted for Andrea. No system is perfect but she at least appears to be facing in the correct direction.

Young people love Plaid and hate Reform There has been a lot of talk about Reform being really effective at reaching young people. However this polling suggests that just 5% of those aged 18 - 24 would vote for them.

For your collective delectation this holiday season: Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!) loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...

I'll save you the bother its going to be Russia and China and in no way US Extreme fundamentalist Christians and Zionists.

Oddly enough, this isn't actually Sally Phillips dressing down the minister for Social Care. Kinnock is just that pathetically useless in real life.

We're super excited to be returning to the Bagpuss Universe for Yaffle Origins. As mega fans of the Oliver Postbox multiverse, we always dreamed of telling the story of Assistant Professor Yaffle getting his first pair of glasses or whatever. Join us on this barren sphere, in this living death.

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

That first line didn’t leave much to the imagination 😮

Interesting to note that the trans hostile EHRCs and Labours line is pivoting hard from 'follow the law' (legal) to 'follow the rules' (social contract). Almost like they know segregation isnt allowed under the law.

the line is actually "no JESUS for us meeses," an oblique reference to the fact that, as muppets are unable to take communion, they are forbidden from entering the kingdom of god

In the context of Girl Guides anti-bigotry protests 😃

Liberalism can only ever wear the masks of the radicals it slaughtered Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

JFC. Abolish the Home Office.

'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed

🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid. A pissed off thread using data. Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10

Recommending the Trump administration use the font whose creator really captures their spirit: Gil Sans.

Our Will and Grace.

A fun Christmas breakfast is Baileys poured over Ferrero Rocher. I call it Executive Coco Pops.

I saw Mummy chrism Santa Claus underneath some old sarcophagi

I started working on this one originally because I was struck by the fact that men were registering more concern than women about falling birth rates, but also voicing greater support for a return to traditional gender roles

The Guardian editorial desk reporting 'partial victory' for Nurse Peggie'

I spent all of yesterday roasting a pork shoulder (which came out lovely) but then immediately stabbed myself in the gum with a shard of crackling (which is now achey) because of woke.

A constant blazing terror that somewhere, somebody might be getting a free cheese sandwich. Or indeed brief use of a wheelchair.

Gladstone would have one of those vlogs where he interviews OF girls who have become tradwives.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Alright that's it! I'm doing it! I'm doing the James Connolly totes! Gets yours here: selkiesstudio.com/shop/connolly-tote

Sadly there's no contradiction between Labour both claiming mental illness is overdiagnosed and declaring all their opponents as mentally ill. They believe there's lots of mentall illness about but that it is a personal failing and those afflicted should suffer, not be helped.

Don't mind me, just plugging this pressure valve shut. Think of all that expensive pressure we're wasting!