New Years Eve plans? Yeah I got em

“Get a signed Brendan O’Neill book!” is a powerful threat

It’s so lovely that so many of you are throwing parties tonight to celebrate my new book launching tomorrow! atlantic-books.co.uk/book/the-gra...

Tommy Wiseau told me I have a beautiful nose

Doesn't seem like that much of a mystery. Most of the voting intention flight has been to Lib Dems and Greens. This means most people who might vote Labour have an interest in at least the appearance of liberal values, which tis not anti-immigration, anti-protest, anti-trans, anti-education policy.

Just cos something doesn’t solve all your problems doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing. Like renewable energy. If it doesn’t solve climate change, all we’ll have done is produced cheaper energy and reduced the outsized influence of fossil fuel companies… for nothing!

[coughing weakly in on the forest floor, as I lose consciousness from having slipped and smashed my skull on a rock] change TACK

Many people have probably posted this, but

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I once told a family member that multiple studies in different countries have shown that just directly giving poor people money a) lifts them out of poverty effectively and b) costs less than welfare systems that keep people treading water and he was like 'nah that doesn't feel true'

We have so much good evidence for cash transfers but so many just refuse to accept that those in poverty can make good decisions.

If your New Years Honours list results are disappointing, don’t worry. I got a C and two Us and here I am eating Haribo Tangfastics.

My 2026 resolution is to see if I can get An Post to start using that post van with the rainbow on it to deliver to the Burkes again.

pour one out to an icon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If we knew the price we'd have to pay for telling men to open up about their emotions, would we still have done it?

It's good to amplify this message whenever possible. The voices that drown out real issues with scapegoating and hatred really are a minority (as we see whenever it is put fairly to the test in e.g. WI or National Trust votes...neither notable hotbeds of leftist social liberalism).

People 300 years ago thought we'd never live in a world without kings.

Our pop stars continue to be both more accountable and more responsive to feedback than the editorial board of the New York Times

And so, my old nemesis, we meet again, doomed to repeat this battle to eternity

Last night I finished a novel about time travel that told a moving story about what makes life actually worth living in the context of a recognisable but alienating future and FOR SOME REASON I FEEL THE NEED TO TELL YOU THAT OLD SKIES IS ON SALE RN

Medical science is crackers. I started new meds today and one of the side effects is a serious complication, especially if you have Crohn’s disease - the very thing I am taking the medicine to treat.

I already agree with this in principle - citizenship is an untouchable status or it is nothing - but also for reasons of prudence. “The Home Sec can revoke citizenship when he/she deems someone’s online output sufficiently offensive” is a v dangerous precedent to set with Reform leading all polls.

Having a dog is way harder than having a baby. 'oooh, he's not sleeping'. Has your baby ever spent several hours out of your reach, defiantly eating an entire dead bird? Didn't think so

The last few days did not move the main story forward AT ALL. It's just a guy eating little treats and doing nothing. And so many plot holes. He says, "no more little treats," and then he's eating another little treat in literally the next scene.

Finished this morning!! What an excellent book, I really enjoyed reading this, and could barely put it down @abeewords.bsky.social Would very much recommend if you enjoy murder mysteries with ghosts and dark millennial humour, plus there is wrestling. Such a good book.

In under the wire, finished Sea Of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, thus managing a book a week this year

Just goes to show how the mega-church American Christian fundamentalists are digging into the pockets to fund right wing shit here to.

Can’t be bothered with this. The UK is just factually not a Christian country. Christians are the largest single religious group but they are less than half the country. The fastest growing and a second largest is “no religion”. We do not and should not make laws based on any religious doctrine.

My decision to avoid Stranger Things S5 means I am experiencing it through people's joke posts, which is way more fun than actually watching it

This is my new favourite picture of me and my brother

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

But the key one is that there is now a viable career path here. There is nothing you can say that won't stop you being invited on GB News. There is little you can say that won't get you your seat back on Question Time. You're making far more as a racist than as a spad.

They wish you all a chilled out Boxing/Stephen’s Day with leftover cauliflower cheese breakfast and naps

Supplemented my thin duvet with a skin from a hunt in Hawaii a few years ago

When I had surgery the NHS surgeon explained that if I used the health insurance I had via my husbands job there would be no difference in the treatment I received or even where I received it, but the difference was that he’d be able to remodel his kitchen.

five gold rings? jeremy that's insane

Merry Christmas from my very normal family table

I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

I'm tired, just imagine I rewrote the icebox poem to be about Tiny Tim or smth

But all of them were deceived for another Tim was made

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

Basher is having his terrible twos. He is very good at ALL his commands until he smells a medium to large bird, at which point he runs after it and will not return for a minimum of 40 minutes. We are doing a lot of impulse training but currently he has ruined every single day of my Christmas break

Well I know which book I’m reading next!! @abeewords.bsky.social Clearly post from the future as this isn’t officially out until 1st January. Very much looking forward to reading this 😁

In a just universe Odysseus would be played by Jason Statham

He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

I’m watching Face Off for the first time, and they just…they just take the faces off.

I like to imagine that there is a rivalry between two top ham-sniffers: one, a meticulous keeper of precise traditions, the other a brash bad-boy with a colossal nose.

God, Vince Zampella. It’s hard to fully conceive the gigantic impact he had on the face of games as we know them.

Throwback to several years ago when I was tasked with making dessert in my mother’s almost wholly unheated home.