Bought the kids some noise-cancelling headphones for christmas, but I can still hear them?

Christmas card created by an individual who was compelled to live at Netherne Hospital in Surrey, during the midC20th, whose identity is currently unknown to us. This was made for art therapist Edward Adamson & is kept amongst his personal correspondence archived at Wellcome in London

Even with broad public support, no major museum has taken up the genocide in Gaza. No large institution I know of has put on an exhibition about Palestinian artists or Palestinian lives. www.equator.org/articles/how...

I'm at kier starmer's for christmas. bit worried. he's gone glassy eyed and keeps telling me about his "fuck box". says it's upstairs and I should come and have a look at it.

Realised yesterday that I had somehow entangled in my mind Gramsci's new struggling to be born with Yeats' slouching towards Bethlehem to be born, bet that happens to a lot of people

Is there a technical term for the addition of snow to letters, as seen in this Christmas Eve issue of Smash! (1966). A kind of visual onomatopoeia, seen (e.g.) on signs for 'ICE COLD DRINKS' or in the addition of flames to labels for RED HOT sauces.

NORAD tracks Santa but he's shot down with video posted by Hegseth for violating borders and harboring immigrant workers

Where does vinyl live in record shops? Is it racks?

It's pretty disgusting for the BBC to be using genAI slop images in an article about slavery of all things www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/1...

I've started shitposting on LinkedIn, it's time to Log Off

All images from the civil war and before are in the public domain. We know what enslaved people in the American South looked like. Use them.

sometimes it takes (and is worth taking) as long to explain the edits to the writer as it does to make the edits.

Mincemeat is an indestructible food. I just made mince pies with mincemeat that had been in a jar for two (maybe three) years, and they were lush. When the apocalypse comes, you can keep your tins, I'm going into the shelter with a bucket of mincemeat.

It's pretty disgusting for the BBC to be using genAI slop images in an article about slavery of all things www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/1...

Where in this list is the dividing line between 'central London' and the suburbs? Soho Fitzrovia Somers Town Camden Kentish Town Tufnell Park Highgate Muswell Hill Bowes Park Southgate Enfield

Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.

What is a good thing to read about the usefulness of archives for revolutionaries?

It's been a sparse couple of years for statue defacement/toppling, good to see some just squeezing in before the end of 2025 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Oxford provost goons to cow porn. Moo!

West End at Christmas, nuke it from orbit

How do people who live in Plaistow NH pronounce the name of their town?

We're all inhaling asbestos now

Happy 52nd anniversary to Spain's first manned space flight 🇪🇸🚀

We need to make this the Christmas number one open.spotify.com/track/46h8rq...

Really pleased that a family run Italian cafe is being replaced by "a category leader in brunch". FUCK OFF.

This is a terrible decision. The D'Auria bros cafe at Parliament Hill is ace and massively popular. So it's being replaced by - guess what! - another sodding chain share.google/wMS4IWtV4vzy...

Thanks to @jim.londoncentric.media I discover that Daisy Green has profits of £2.4 million a year, in case anyone was wondering how money is concentrated into the hands of the wealthy. Presumably the family who have run the Parliament Hill café for 44 years will be encouraged to retrain in tech.

LIVID at the City of London’s decision to boot out the existing café owners, some of whom have been there over 40 years, and replace them with Daisy “we are not a chain, but a group of independent cafés owned by the same company with the word Green in our name, serving the same £20 burgers” Green

Americans doing things Americanly etc etc

I hate Paul Simon, mostly just because his music is shit, but the funniest Paul Simon story I know is the time Steven Van Zandt (Silvio out of the Sopranos) had to persuade South African militants not to kill Simon for breaking the cultural boycott when he made Gracelands.

To everyone on Bluesky finding out about Walliams and despairing at the fact that "I read those books to my kids" I just want to reassure them that it's OK. He didn't write them.

This is some fucking bullshit -- corporation of London have kicked out all the independent famiky-run cafes on the Heath (and Queen's Park) and replaced them with Australian bankers www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/city...

Watching Final Destination (2000) for the first time in my life

Tired: shaming her for her consensual romantic choices Wired: shaming her for being at a Coldplay concert

Love to see a Jasper Carrot reference in contemporary pop music

Broke: Museums shouldn't use generative AI Woke: ban AI vendors from the MCG list

The oddest thing about this is that if AI translation is really good enough, it would make far more sense not to produce translations at all. Just give me the tools to read in other languages on my own time. We would also see a gold rush for copyright on minority language literatures

Midnight in the Midcentury Modern

Thiel vs Altman vs Musk vs Zuckerberg? Sounds like a 4 way tie to me. Yet another reason we need to BAN THE BILLIONAIRE. #CallThemOligarchs

Thinking of Kirsty today, of all the rich men who get away with murder, and of all us fucked-up kids of communist dads.

Jean-Charles de Borda proposes decimal time to the National Convention on 15 Brumaire, Year I

what domestic objects did you grow up with that have now more or less disappeared? for me: landline phone, tape recorder

Quite the week for rich men and islands

Thinking of Kirsty today, of all the rich men who get away with murder, and of all us fucked-up kids of communist dads.

He should have sent an android back in time to change his career

Nothing against people who want to talk about this but do you ever get the impression that we are being played into a vision of this as the last or only significant moment in a trans life? The frustration and confusion, the break, the becoming. One lives a whole life after, and recontextualizes

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You will never be one of the Good Ones under fascism. One struggle, one fight