Only 0.9% of pubs close despite economic pressures - is an alternative headline to this one bit.ly/3YEbpJP

THREAD: Verified videos of anti-establishment protests currently unfolding in Iran Protesters push back police and security forces on Tehran's Jomhouri Street. Location: maps.app.goo.gl/LKZH6YbnT2WE... @geoconfirmed.org

The missus: Did you use my expensive shampoo I got for Xmas?! My Balls:

Happy New Year all!

#Top31DavidBowie One legend. Four era-defining playlists ⚡ To Ziggy and Beyond open.spotify.com/playlist/1eg... Before, Berlin and After open.spotify.com/playlist/3Wc... The Mainstream Years open.spotify.com/playlist/4YE... Post-Imperial Era open.spotify.com/playlist/1U4... #MusicSky

how is this legal?

A modern Caravaggio

How Israel’s multi-ton truck bombs ripped through Gaza City - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

To celebrate Jeff Lynne's birthday, here's my brother's dog doing his best impression of the brilliant ELO frontman

Possibly my 2025 gig of the year. Certainly my gig photo of the year.

Cecilia Giménez, famed for ‘Monkey Christ’ mural mishap, dies at 94

Meanwhile, in the Mail on Sunday

I don't watch Dr Who, but I never new the Smurfs featured

Dipped into ep.4 of the Liz Truss Show for no more than a minute (using mirror site that does not boost numbers or revenue yewtu.be/channel/UCpI...). Quite aside from the INSANITY of what she says, camera is focussed on background, not her, THROUGHOUT. And what's up with the candy cane on the books?

Elon Musk appointed 19-year-old Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the grandson of a KGB lieutenant colonel to DOGE. He was instrumental in cutting funding for the United States Agency for International Development, which directly resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of poor people overseas.

all-timer

Your podcasts will never be as cool as this.

Poster design by Sergio Garrido

Sunday.

"and lo, Jesus had spent his lat 60 shekels on gak and there was only one line left..."

false idols challenge coming up Christians

Walliams seeing the light any day now at this rate

Fire and light... Sometimes, an image jumps out and grabs you by the lapels. Looking more like a still from a gritty British gangster flick than downtown Glasgow, this was the scene by the Clyde on the night of May 18, 1957, when the Riverside Mills, in Shearer Street, caught fire.

Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page: Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.” Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"you don't want Hotel Bastardos..."

Celebrating the life of Perry Bamonte respectfully through the medium of trivial statistics <Thread>

It's so good to see her like this 😍❤️ Rare portrait (October 2025): A recent photo posted on Facebook shows Poison Ivy with Rocky Schenck, the Cramps' longtime photographer. #punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #poisonivy #thecramps #history #punkrockhistory

It’s here, by the way www.arte.tv/en/videos/12...

How delicately a Romanesque angel uses the lightest touch of a finger to wake one of the magi, snuggled with the other 2 under their embroidered circular blanket at St Lazare, Autun, c1130 (& how beautifully the textures of pillow & blanket are represented). Season's greetings to you all!

The period between Christmas and New Year’s is sponsored by sweatpants and denial.

On behalf of everyone in The Resistance movement following the massive EPSTEIN coverup, I want to wish all my fellow Radical Left Scum the happiest of holidays!- ♥️, Mar🐫

Preach

There's a grave somewhere only partly filled A sign in graveyard on a hill reads Bingo-Master's Breakout #FallFriday

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 26. A song with love in the title My Love Is A Liquid - Tubeway Army youtu.be/PhBNShaZZF4?...

The Kindle ebooks of both of these are now only 99p on Amazon! See links in the quoted posts. Sale lasts until 1st January.

This is what every institution he threatens with frivolous defamation suits should be doing

With ZERO fucks left to give, Caroline Kennedy, throws down the gauntlet on the loathsome piece of shit for his desecration of The Kennedy Center. 😳👇

what? The intensity is acting?

There’s an old folks horror film in this…

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

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It is refreshing to see mainstream politicians using hope and kindness to unite people in 2026. Let us build a society where we are all connected and rebuild our planet to defeat climate change.