Rewatch. This movie had no right to be as good as it is. Action packed. I love it!

Daughter is wearing her Christmas tee

My wish for 2026 is for the people of Cymru to do electorally what the good miners & their political supporters did in Tonypandy in the Rhondda, ninety years ago. They sent the far-right packing at the Battle of De Winton Field (June 1936). Let’s do it again. Blwyddyn newydd dda i bawb.

This line is some weird fantasy too... “We need to demonstrate competence, and that’s most obviously around small boats,” [Dromey] says. I'd like to see NHS competence. SEND competence. Equality competence. Green energy competence.

YES: Epstein survivors impatient with Congress for not enforcing the Epstein Transparency Act say they will start naming names in 2026. 💪👏

For a government that is led by a former human rights lawyer, the treatment of these hunger strikers is truly debased

“Self-deport” is a whitewashed way to describe “fleeing the country under the threat of state violence.” I agree with Maria here — it’s important to call that exactly what it is.

Rest easy, Isiah Whitlock Jr. 🙏🏾🕊💙

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

This is just one.

As fine an actor as he was, Isiah was an even better spirit and the greatest gentleman.

The Land That Time Forgot was a formative cinema trip for me at the age of six - and a movie I still adore. So it was a treat to track down director Kevin Connor for a chat about dinosaurs and Doug McClure, all in the latest @sfxmagazine.bsky.social… issue 400, no less!

As ever, marvellous but I like that Sweep is literally attempting a Bush impersonation. The vibrato is in all the right places.

'Celebration in the Forrest' hand stitched embroidery by Irem Yazici, Turkish born textile artist #WomensArt #NewYearsEve

if you can't afford clothes, it's not clothing poverty, it's poverty. If you can't afford sanitary protection, it's not period poverty, it's poverty. Divvying up poverty into little bits hides the fact that poverty is poverty and gives right-wingers an in to say "poor people need to budget better."

And look at the Zionists at the NYT carrying water for genocide. Not even an “Israel says”. This is criminal.

Discuss.

Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders. Let that sink in. File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"... www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...

This *has* to be the year Britain kills off fascist ideology. And a good start would be anyone who publishing articles like this facing criminal charges for hate speech. Unfortunately our government agree with her.

Recommend The Salt Path Scandal on NowTV What awful people.

If you live in Bristol, love horror and want to support local businesses, please consider doing some of your Christmas shopping at The Haunted Bookshop in Stokes Crofts. You may have seen Monika at some of our events and her shop is a wonderful sanctuary for those looking to find their people.

Another health breakthrough. (h/t Gav)

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

"The US can destroy a European's life with the swipe of a pen. This week's US sanctions against European lawmakers and privacy activists is a major escalation. And it shows the dangers of Europe relying on American economic infrastructure." davekeating.substack.com/p/the-us-can...

I can relate to that. During the time I had to commute to the studio, I sketched different train passengers every morning/evening. With a ballpoint pen. You can choose any line thickness, from wafer-thin and delicate to opaque and bold. For a long time, the ballpoint pen was my first choice.

I am fucking dying at this kid’s impression of Jon Bernthal in Chris Nolan’s The Odyssey www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrKmUd2N/

How lovely is the music in #SentimentalValue? Both the score and the track choices. I need to buy Terry Callier's What Colour is Love. Dancing Girl is beautiful. youtu.be/cyOAocNFJqM?...

The Agreement ~ Hans Printz (1920)

It drives me nuts when a terrible person dies, and we are all supposed to pretend they were great, like telling the truth is somehow uncouth. Brigette Bardot was a truly despicable racist, homophobe, bigot, and lifelong supporter of fascists. Acknowledge her work, I guess, but don't celebrate her.

Anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention could see that was happening.

I sketch almost exclusively in ballpoint pen nowadays, and it's still my medium of choice for plein air studies:

Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol

Nearly half of the journalists killed this year were murdered in Gaza by Israel. Since the beginning of its genocide, Israel has killed more than 270 Palestinian journalists and media workers. Read the Reporters Without Borders report: rsf.org/en/2025-dead...

Center section is filling up, but there are still seats available

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

This dramatically enhanced pressure on Europe/Denmark and the new outrageous sanctions on info researchers coming at a time when Putin is escalating his physical attacks on Ukraine suggests that the US is now *coordinating* with Russia to weaken Europe and Ukraine. bsky.app/profile/donm...

Fascism.

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...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure, dies aged 65

UK authorities have refused to meet with the activists, some of whom have been on hunger strike for over 50 days.

She was fired for teaching what she was hired to teach. She was fired for doing what she did not do. She was fired for breaking a law that does not exist.

Yup. I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡 Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money. Actions: Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly. Words: Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine

Note the date. We knew a long time ago.

This Needs To Stop!🛑 Peeps, you DO realize that our non-white friends and neighbors...are now carrying their birth certificates and passports so they can PROVE they are US citizens "just in case"? There is NO version of America where this is OK. Defund ICE. Restore due process and rule of law.

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

Christmas books ❤️

The ADL and AIPAC labeled Carl Cameron “antisemitic” for reporting that Israel tapped millions of U.S. phones during a major Mossad spying operation against America.

Merry Christmas!