tfw you don’t think you can make enough money doing the thing your business does so you make more money just selling your customers’ information to data brokers and call it a day

I know it's a bit late to think about A Christmas Carol, but Jacob Marley's chains were made of 'cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses', forged out of the things he cared most about. It's a Pandora Charms necklace.

So, this happened today... It's not great having to ask for help - but if you've enjoyed any of our books, we'd be hugely grateful if you could let people know about them (and where you can buy them) Word of mouth is... pretty important, right now

One of the things that makes me laugh even more about this story is thinking about it from the house-owner's point of view - especially if the door hadn't opened. Just someone wondering why someone is harassing them by pouring Go Cat through the letterbox. And why next door's cat is dead.

If someone could get Lisa Nandy or Liz Kendall to explain, on the record, why they’re not treating this as a major issue, that’d be much appreciated

I prefer to say that Twitter left us. It turned into an absolute shit show before I left for good.

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It's 10 years since Cat Food Letterbox Day! Oh happy day!

I’m so furious that legal NSFW art and artists are being slowly gentrified off the internet while billionaires make CSAM-generating robots with impunity

There are a whole bunch of accounts on X arguing that creating bikini pics of minors isn't technically illegal. That fucking place.

Genuinely, don't sleep on that. It seems like a joke but this year was shit. The fact you're still here is because you're a winner.

fuck it HURTS that I understand this

I am once again reminding everyone that Hitler wasn't a genius. Hitler led his country to utter ruin. He killed himself in a bunker while his city was demolished by Russian tanks. His corpse was incinerated in a ditch like the garbage it was.

I remember the good old days when 43 episodes was a mere 2 years of work *sigh*

He's going to do a hell of a blade job.

Its weird that Stranger Things has been running for a longer time than the entirety of Buffy and Angel. I get *why*, but it's weird.

My YouTube shorts got 662,000 views last year and the ad revenue from them was $140 lol

I didn't love Sentimental Value the way I did The Worst Person In The World, partly because I felt it let one character off the hook way too easily. But I liked it a lot, and Renate Reinsve continues to be astonishing.

A gorgeous sunset in Bounds Green. For an area that's not *that* photogenic, I love this.

What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.

That was incredibly quick

Meanwhile, here in small town Bedfordshire, someone set a car on fire with fireworks and the comments in the town Facebook group are saying it's not fireworks, it's because it's an electric car. 2026 may have peaked already.

You’re going to be okay. Someone will hate your book. You’re going to be okay. Someone will not get what you’re trying to do with your art and judge you. You’re going to be okay. You’re going to keep creating, in 2026, because you need it and because the world needs you to. Okay?

Already did my end-of-2025 musings in the newsletter (see below), but in short - it was okay, if a bit sluggish on the writing front. Would like to do more next year but also it is my wedding so may need to moderate the ambition a little.

I hope Chris starts a faction to help him in this feud , the faction can revolve around him and how “great” he is Breaking new ground

Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.

A fantasy solution is thinking more of the same will magically work out this time despite decades showing the “moderate” model is an absolute failure

Another day, another liberal patronizingly explaining why getting serious about tackling wealth inequality is just a “fantasy” 🙄 I’ve been listening to this “both sides” tripe for 25 years (worse, I used to believe it) while billionaires have bled us all dry.

One of the cool things about being queer is that in the theatre of life you get to perform on stage but also see behind the scenes... You know the props are cardboard and the explosions are fake! When people make grand assertions about sex and gender you know it's all a show.

oh shit someone made a cool thing with The TNG Tech Manual CD rom!

There's less time between Jack Nicholson's performances in The Shining and Batman than the start and end of Stranger Things.

This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since the greatest piece of art of our generation

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I finished watching Last Dance last night, which was kind of for a project. I have no knowledge of basketball whatsoever but it was a fascinating watch. Just a whole mess of unacknowledged damage and ego jammed together. But what blew my mind was the reveal on why the team was ultimately broken up

Good thread. It makes me think about how the lack of coffee shops and hospitable social spaces without loud blaring music opened past 6pm led to my friend group just hunkering down in the cinema bar before/after a movie night rather than trying to venture elsewhere. Then the cinema also closed.

I totally agree with this thread. Customer service has basically stopped. Companies have worked out that people will buy their stuff no matter what. Sainsbury's has gone from being a nice place to be to flat out hostile, and they don't care, because people need food, so they still turn up.

Thinking about how moving away from people-first is a growing trend, and how this is something quite important. It's been on my mind since my local McDonald's refurbished, and there's a reason for that.

I really enjoyed that K-Pop Demon Hunters movie this year. I've watched it three times The music was great, and k-pop music is an undeniable phenomenon. But also this....

I cracked the code. Told my boomer dad that having motion smoothing on his TV 'makes it work twice as hard' and will 'wear it out faster' and now hes obsessed with making sure its off.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

This is the single greatest piece of rock art in human history

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

Hulk Hogan voice: hit me on the sizz-ignal brother

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

I hope WWE shows AEW how much they fumbled and put Jericho in a long feud with CM Punk for Wrestlemania, maybe even through to Survivor Series.