'23rd december train is delayed by almost an hour and the seat reservations don't match anyone's tickets' type-beat

Where we send you if we catch you inferring future events on the basis of resemblance to past occurrences. Or, at least, where we've sent people so far.

wrote something about how dark youtube is and why Corrie reminds me of mashed potatoes. it's not festive but it's quite nostalgic, which is close?

🥚 We live in barbarism. No abortion, health insurance, or affordable childcare for you but please feel free, young lady, to endure a pregnancy, risk your life in childbirth, and throw your baby in a box so rich people can have it. Adoption supply chain infrastructure 👇 time.com/7299476/baby...

It’s that time of year when I look at my book sales and realize I’m just 5 copies away from a cool number and then beg some folks to make that happen! As a reviewer says, “I love strange short stories, and this book is full of them.” Available at amzn.to/4pTxcJp or bookshop.org/p/books/giga...

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

She really steps into her own this time of year

on track for a white christmas

#solstice sunrise

This is us peering out to check whether you've added alt text. Huge thank you to @rspb.bsky.social for providing the accessible birb pic - and lovely alt text - for Alt Text Advent day 20. Image credit: Ben Andrew

it's just such a wonderful christmas gift for bluesky that an annoying, far-right courting youtuber *volunteered* to get punched in the face repeatedly, on camera, by a professional face-puncher who is absolutely stacked

Anthony Joshua stops Jake Paul in the sixth round 💥

y'know how people decorate swiss rolls to make a yule log? i feel like you could get a very cute cottage from a basic loaf cake

can't believe i used to think advent calendars were for kids. kids have no responsibilities at christmas! if i don't have a small piece of chocolate every day in december i will disintegrate

You have until Friday 9 January to share your views on walking and wheeling in Wales! Whether you want to see an end to pavement parking or need better crossings, complete our survey to have your say: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LSstepforward

ive never seen this before and it's amazing. like the old woman who swallowed a fly, but for ice

writing a list of name ideas in my notes app but they're not baby names, they're for the blog i've been threatening to write for a decade

it came out in winter, and it's about a postman... christmas album!

the death stranding soundtrack is a christmas album

can't believe i used to think advent calendars were for kids. kids have no responsibilities at christmas! if i don't have a small piece of chocolate every day in december i will disintegrate

who keeps saving my posts, and why? why would you possibly want to look at them more than once

guy who is famous for being dramatically disproven publishes opinion everyone else already thinks is embarrassingly quaint. terrific stuff

If I had friends I wouldn't be on Blue Sky, dickhead

AFAICT, it would be more epistemically responsible to try divination (at least of this kind) than to just say that there’s no hope of making sense of things now that we’re in this epistemic environment.

once i fix me HO🎅🏻HO🎅🏻HO🎅🏻HO🎅🏻HO🎅🏻HO he’s gonna miss me

I believe in really leaning into what gives you joy when the world feels like it’s too much. It doesn’t have to be pomegranates, but it works for me

morale is improving

think i've pretty much nailed christmas sandwiches now

the exclusive use of festive, ambient lighting in *all* living spaces will continue until morale improves

Calling it now that 2025's Word of the Year should be 'slop'

we had a work christmas quiz where you had to identify celebrities based on a picture of their eyes, and i'm shaken by the one that had us equally split between gillian anderson and gillian mckeith

last night's stream highlights. featuring an incomplete induction to the top hiccup cure. been on a great streak of eudaimonia lately.

it's me! on the radio!

We should all be able to travel confidently and easily. In 2023, we asked disabled people to rate their experience of different types of transport. How do their scores compare with yours? Let us know what transport you use and how you’d score your journeys.

why did nobody tell me that michael hobbes talked about standpoint theory on a podcast? it's been a full two years!

“a bridge can’t hurt you” the bridge:

im watching the netflix christmas film 'Champagne Problems' because of course i am

just spent a good 15 minutes looking for this iconic playlist because i couldn't face december supermarkets without it

the most annoying thing about the AI crow video is that crows are fucking awesome and do cool stuff like this in real life all the time

what's the science of being grumpy? some days are just grumpy days no matter what you do. is it air pressure??

"You taught me to be kind and helpful, I stand with trans girls".

i need to document the increasingly aggressive posters and signs that are displayed in my local post office because they are getting out of hand

it's put-christmas-music-on-and-pretend-wrapping-presents-is-fun o'clock, wheee!

this would be such an incisive parody trailer for a fake film

speaking out about the male loneliness epidemic because all the lonely men are hogging the gym machines to play mobile games 'between sets'

i was on radio 4 today talking about making cycling and sustainable travel accessible (i start around 29 minutes in, and talk for 5 minutes) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

On the 12th day of #sketchpadvent it’s the 1971 Irvine New Town Plan, showing considerably more sunbathers and sports cars than was entirely realistic

someone is looping the chorus of "step into christmas" outside at full volume at 11.30pm, do we think this is a cry for help

just walked into the living room and caught @seanmorl.com explaining gettier cases on stream