Goodnight from The Ghost Bear’s Bowl pub, where there’s much talk about what the oil extraction company up at Trotton Grove might disturb. Goodnight from Ali Weaver, wishing her mother wouldn’t tell the children stories about the Hairy Pike at bedtime. Goodnight from Hookland.

Drunk man in Hoxton: The thing about women is, they misunderstand shoes. Coz shoes aren't meant to hurt you at all, not even the first time.

nowt quite like the little pleasure hit when someone says 'are you on facebook?' and you blithely state 'oh, I'm banned' to see their faces. And then the 'fuckssake' eyeroll when you explain it was because you only used it for marketplace and freecycle which they registered as 'suspicious activity'.

The best part of having POTS and needing extra salt to stabilize your blood pressure is when someone starts selling counterfeit electrolytes that have no salt in them at all! If you have POTS, double check the site you’re buying from, especially on mobile.

I am so sick of hearing about Dubai. I don't ever want to go. I went to the airport once on a stopover and the airport was a gigantic shopping mall and I was told "the rest of the place is just like that n all". Stop trying to make me go there, all ads. I don't wanna go on holiday to a slavery land!

watchign Fantastic Four. It's so pretty I keep rewinding to watch shots. However, I just keep shrugging and saying 'send in squirrel girl, like it's hard?'

#TodayInQueerHistory November 9 (1928) The Well of Loneliness' trial begins. It came under fire for defending "unnatural practices between women". It wasn't published in England again until 1949. (1965) Master of camp baroque TV, Ryan Murphy is born. Pose is the jewel in his televisual crown.

The Aramaic inscribed above the crypt reads "Death is only the Beginning" But I'm sure this is all fine

Thousands of folk horror fans

Forensics question : does a body having had organs removed make trying to find cause of death more difficult?

If you want this stuff not to happen again, you need consequences. Significant ones. Justice must be done and must be seen to be done. Truth and reconciliation is important, and so it is the rule of law must be reimposed and respected.

It is, & it’s too moderate. For example: only 24 top Nazis were tried at Nuremberg. Everyone involved in horrendous abuses such as those reported in the thread below should be tried, down to the lowliest prison guard. The “Nuremberg defence” – “I was only obeying orders” – must be disallowed.

petition to rename all american sports teams to a standard thing like 'Leeds united' (like PROPER SPORTS) so I don't have to mute common nouns.

There was a vintage car meet in our village yesterday. One of the cars (an Austin Healy) had a huge…and I mean comically massive poppy on the front. I didn’t know cars remembered things but I’m expecting it to cut out and stall for a whole minute today as it’s driving.

horrifying outfits seen on public school accented student on bus : brown corduroy baseball cap, badly fitting brown sweatshirt and some sort of brown trousers . all with a ralph lauren logo, all different shades of brown. He looked like SUCH a wanker, even before he opened his mouth.

November’s early darkness enfolds us. The smell of applewood fires and rot is a constant companion at twilight. We hurry between home and evensong, home and pub. Ghosts crowd the lanes, our folklore becomes filled with tales of cold teeth. Winter begins to growl. - #CLNolan

An "alpha male" is a male who's too unstable to be let outside of development stand-ups. "Beta males" are ones that are still being watched to see if the patches on emotional stability and empathy have taken hold.

Much like using the word “beta” unironically is a tell, “high testosterone males” probably means a trip to an island where you’re kept for both your safety and ours.

I really need one interviewer - just one - to do a little snort laugh when one of these freaks starts going on about "high testosterone males" or whatever.

Thought you’d all enjoy this folding paper fan that MrsH found while we were tidying our bedroom. I think it’s 1940s?

Aquarius: Some self reflection will show you that you and your partner have a symbiotic relationship, in that you turn them into a darker version of Spider-Man.

I went to the craft fair (picked up 4 xmas pressies as well), grocery shopped, hung up pics *and* cleaned the bathroom.

excuse you, you plant the tree *after* I've died and you've taken the useful organs out. You don't want to disturb the root system.

Aries: Is this the best you can do? Seriously?

Gemini: Stop blaming yourself for things you can’t control and start blaming yourself for your terrible choices.

Virgo: Sometimes you are your own worst enemy. Not today though. Today it is Jeff.

A film you're seen more than 7 times with a gif (probably the film I've seen more times than any others)

never underestimate my love of rattan furniture. *scrolls through ikea Frykas section sighing*

We went to BBC T.V. Centre at White City last night & saw them recording a colour film of Scotland.

Instead of a necklace that alerts authorities if you've fallen and can't get up, how about an amulet that releases a clattering cloud of ravens across the earth? How about a brooch that summons the help of the old gods of darkness and wine-stained debauchery?

Sometimes you find wisdom where you least expect it. Was just scrolling through Facebook (don't judge) and saw a picture of a woman checking her makeup. The caption, however, was "If you can't picture her throwing a lit Molotov, she's not the one," and, yes, that is correct, sir/ma'am/other.

mamdani is gonna implement shakira law. if your hips lie, prepare to be be indicted for perjury in multiple jurisdictions

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

I disagree. He should have immediately been put in charge of the investigation

I think he should be allowed one actual museum heist, as a treat

this is the best possible explanation for this photo the kids are truly alright

Finally got round to picking up a doormat from the ghost fishing people who make stuff from dicarded rope. Apparently winter is peak fishermen dumping season.

Discworld QOTD, from Thief of Time “‘Dojo! What is Rule One?’ Even the cowering challenger mumbled along to the chorus: ‘Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men!’”

Discworld QOTD, from Making Money “She had the slightly wistful, slightly hungry look that so many women of a certain age wore when they’d decided to trust in gods because of the absolute impossibility of continuing to trust in men.”

“I don’t want to pay more taxes” good for you, neither do most people, that’s not worth a news article

The cover-up of the Michael Prescott report, which the BBC were given last Summer and sat on for months, was the final straw in a catalogue of serious failings.

Gazan Food bloggers drinking lemonade from IDF shell casings www.instagram.com/reel/DQNQMV9...

CE mark not relevant to UK anymore - we now have the UKCA mark. Also there are a lot of 'fake' CE marks out there as China created 'China Export' mark which by pure coincidence? looks very similar.

At a private equity firm on “5th and Wall”? Actual New Yorkers know Fifth Avenue (never 5th!) in NYC doesn’t intersect with Wall Street. It ends at Washington Square Park. Can you find the other clues that this account is lying and probably a foreign-run bot? Good luck on leaving the “5 bureaus”

I barely tolerate spellcheck on my devices, let alone clippy 2.0.

excuse me, none of you told me young leopards make THIS noise?

* Bring back Doctors and similar daytime dramas that can make for a good proving ground for new talent. * More anthology shows, such as the old Screen One/Play for Today strand. * Outright ban any use of Gen AI for programming and/or "restoration". 2/4