I’ve been really moved by stories that people have shared today on Bluesky. I’m convinced this is the right way: kindness is both the antidote to and the opposite of everything Trump and Farage and Putin represent so let’s weaponise it against them. It’s so powerful. And they can’t understand it.

Oh my goodness, this is such a lovely story www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fash populists: how dare you disrespect our King?? Also fash populists: how dare our King disrespect you??

It’s a joke, really. The Express is talking to a group of people who were never going to vote Green and who have already made up their minds about Zack; and Zack is talking to a group of people who really do not give a shit if the King is on the other channel. Like the man says, take a day off ffs.

Amaury and another one of his chocolate youtube sensations

Happy Christmas to bollard fans across the world! #WorldBollardAssociation

Busy introverting

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

Merry Christmas, friends.

🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻 #CalvinandHobbes #Christmas

EU citizen dies while being detained by US federal paramilitaries

This is so so wrong

Children 2 and 4 watching the Muppet Christmas Carol together and I’m 😍😭🥰🥹 #feels

German Christmas carols are the best, this is not open for debate, but they do love recordings of kids’ choirs singing them. Technically they’re excellent but it does end up sounding like Pinky & Perky’s Christmas album.

Reciprocity is a core principle of EU visa policy, so…

Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”

Oh GB News. Have a day off and enjoy a mince pie. How dare I talk positively about migration & refugee rights at this time of year that should be about *checks notes* good tidings and warm wishes. Tune in at 3pm to watch and judge for yourself. Merry Christmas everyone!

The vicarage Christmas decoration is… missing an L Merry Christmas and chapeau, vicar 🫡

Anyone else watching the #darts? A month’s sub to Sky Sports over Christmas and New Year for the #PDC #WDC is my annual indulgence. Enjoyment this year is even greater as my 7yo has really taken to it too. He loves maths and it has clicked for him. #DartsWM

The future Trump class warships.

Errr what is up with his ears??? 🖖🧝‍♂️

‘Nativity’ 1992 - #RSThomas (Mass for Hard Times, @BloodaxeBooks) #Genedigaeth #Nadolig #Christmas

The thing is, there is nothing, NOTHING here that we didn’t already know, from his own mouth no less, so I fail to see how this is any kind of gotcha. We thought these revelations would sink him forever the first time in 2016 and they did bugger all.

They could just use this one it’s pre-made

So many of the concerns folks have about EVs come from simply not owning or experiencing them. All I ask for Christmas is you let someone take a ride in your EV if EV curious and offer sage advice like this, and, if supported, please sign up for Recurrent Auto, their data is invaluable.

One of my favourite examples of what I shall call nominative indeterminism. The leading British pro-Zionist archaeologist in mandatory Palestine and Israel was called, I kid you not, P.L.O. Guy.

FWIW here is my correct Christmas music opinion: the only acceptable Christmas music made post-1970 is from Buble or Rutter. The only exception is the Muppets Christmas Carol soundtrack.

FACT: Regardless of American promises to Ukraine, which have been proven unreliable, the only thing that really matters is Ukraine’s European future, which the EU must now assure.

Yes, because the security guarantees in the Budapest Memorandum proved so helpful

busted

Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

It's maddening that so many are still indirectly supporting the enemy by not leaving X.

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.

The years have not been kind to Tim Wetherspoons

😒 Private Eye

Petition to rename Dubai to “the B Ark”.

As @robfordmancs.bsky.social says, why would the EU negotiate anything ambitious with us like a Customs Union when they know our ridiculous voting system could put Farage in power on 30% of the vote who would tear it up. There’s a pro Europe majority but we need #PR to express it and reassure the EU

At this rate I’m expecting tomorrow’s advent calendar surprise to be Tommy Robinson being mauled by a leopard

Quebec City is an absolutely magical place to visit in the deep winter, strongest of recommendations ❄️ ⚜️⚜️

Great win by Pikachu! #darts 🇩🇪 🎯

Trying some reverse psychology on Evri

I read this book in the 1980s

Antifascist stickers spotted in Dundee, Scotland

Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers Me:

Did you know that on Christmas Day, it is perfectly acceptable to raise a glass and remember the dinosaurs In the "Cosmic Calendar", a way to visualise the entire history of the universe by compressing it into a calendar year, the first dinosaur would appear on December 25th (at approx midday) 1/3

I must say Donald Trump is looking much better since he had his face redacted.

The EU will have to start requiring vaccine passports for American visitors