This really is utterly grim: the latest Epstein drop has so much about what a creep Andrew MW is, including his links to another man convicted of trafficking young girls for sex. www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...

A very merry WHEN IS BINS season to all who celebrate.

How I'm turning up to the Bluesky Christmas party

I don't watch #EastEnders very often but I've been dipping in and out of the Nigel storyline and this evening's ep has been incredibly affecting. EastEnders is never afraid to play with the conventions of soap and TV drama, and often knocks it out of the park - and has done so here. Beautifully done

Saving this for tomorrow #duvetknowitschristmas

Such a small but lovely Christmas thing is the massive Big Yellow Self Storage building near the Hammersmith Flyover turning off the S on either side so it now reads ELF STORAGE.

There needs to be a #duvetknowitschristmas drinking game Creepy dolls head? DRINK Perilous box on a shelf? DRINK

Best communal online thing of the year!

Here is some cheeky tit's arse for you

it's not trite to the actual Beckhams, I'm sure, but the rest of us could really do without endless bloody coverage of their private family grief.

I particularly love the ginger mog with the kitchen roll. Absolutely weapons-grade catting.

Good morning to everyone except Fortnum & Bloody Mason, which has catastrophically failed to deliver a Christmas gift to my sister despite me ordering it in plenty of time, and which now tells me it might arrive by the 27th, or maybe not, idk.

Some of my dearest friends are men, but honestly, I am increasingly really happy with the decision after my last breakup to stay single, thank you very much.

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

One of my colleagues woke up and chose violence: they have put a call in my calendar for 3pm today

Please gambol responsibly

I remember the production secretaries opening a secret document on the primitive BBC Lime Grove editorial computer system that we used as a kind of chatroom. I'm pretty sure it was password-protected, too. And this was in *counts on fingers* 1986.

lovely obit for Chris Rea on the BBC Ten just now. What a great musician he was, and what a rotten time of year for his family to lose him.

Dear GOD. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

who was it the other day saying it's boomers who get scammed most? 🤨 (it's not boomers - it's Gen Z www.virginmoneyukplc.com/newsroom/art...)

honestly, kill this fucking awful meme with fire.

My top tip for a harmonious Christmas lunch is to stay away from the subject of immigration, tbh. Your Brexity uncle doesn't need schooling on Christmas Day.

We used to be a proud nation, idk, such failures now

oh no, what sad news www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...

"The writer hasn't spelled out ROI at first mention, human. Fix that."

Stop. Trying. To. Make. Smart. Fridges. A. Thing.

Good afternoon to the robin who dropped by the bird spa for a bath

yeah, this is a really good piece. So much of the discourse around AI water use doesn't consider it in the wider context of how much water *everything* uses, and/or flat-out gets it wrong.

Right, having upset the panettone freaks by championing pandoro, I'm going to get really controversial and ask which is the best In The Bleak Midwinter version and why is it Darke?

I've seen this movie and it does not end well 😬 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pandoro has entered the chat to point out that it is superior to panettone because it doesn't contain the annoying sticky bits of indeterminate dried fruit that get caught in your teeth.

The snow penis wishes you a good Christmas week.

Lots of us are travelling for Christmas over the next few days, so here's my favourite poem, TS Eliot's Journey of the Magi. May your travels be smooth and hopeful this year.

He looks like an old school Mancunian who never got over the Hacienda closing.

I'm working today and tomorrow and was fully expecting to have no actual work to do and not one but two of my colleagues have dropped editing tasks on me and this is just plain rude.

Dude, have you considered simply going to a restaurant that doesn't do small plates?

[guy standing sternly at a Porsche dealership next to a Taycan] Paywalled.

I mean, I think it's a tool for recording and summarising meetings, but you do you.

I have just made the mistake of checking the Unifi Europe store which has various bits of kit I have been eyeing up that are not in stock in the UK store and it is 10 days yet until payday.

Here’s why writers share paywalled articles, and why we get tired of hearing people complain about it on here www.jamesrball.com/p/so-youve-d...

When I were a lass, the summer holiday and sofa sales adverts didn't start until after Christmas, but Channel 4 is already showing them. Whatever happened to the magic of Christmas, idk.

I bloody love Michael Caine in Muppet Christmas Carol. Love the way he plays it absolutely straight. Brilliant work.

*sticks head above the parapet* There is absolutely joy in a creative process, which should be celebrated. But a lot of people using AI are doing so for work reasons; entirely functional tasks such as producing minutes of meetings. There's no creative joy there, and AI is useful here and has a place

The lyrics imply that Mommy is not kissing Daddy dressed up as Santa. I've always assumed it meant Mommy was having an affair with someone else dressed up as Santa

"Nice tree, pal, be a shame if it fell over"

Evri is crap, a story in four images: Pic 1: yesterday lunchtime Pic 2: yesterday, 20.32pm Pic 3: yesterday, 21.09pm Pic 4: tracking details, now. Will it be delivered tomorrow? Will it be delivered next Saturday? Who knows????

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

Your usual reminder that the UCKG is an extraordinarily shady outfit. It is not clear what the money they collect is for or where it goes. They are collecting all over London today. Avoid.

The Times is constantly finger-wagging about the GLP-1 drugs and really unwilling to concede that actually, they're helping millions of people live healthier lives.

Your reminder that the sunrise isn't the actual solstice - that happens just after 3 this afternoon www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...