Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Youngest daughter has already received flowers more often (twice) from her boyfriend of 4 weeks than I think I have from my husband in nearly 25 years of marriage 😆

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

What are the performers that you have taken an inexplicable dislike to for not a single good reason? I'll start - Sheridan Smith. Really want to watch the Cage thing but have a completely irrational dislike of her.

Now two differences in US Cluedo: (i) It's called'Clue' (ii) No deaths can happen in the Ballroom.

Just been to see "Project Hail Mary" and for a spent a blissful 3 hours imagining a world where nations worked together for the greater good and aliens were friends. * Sigh *

Saying Artemis 2 is going to the moon is like me saying I'm going to London but just driving around there M25.

Monday is going to be hard....

What a huge decade of learning for the Right! Economics: EU scale matters Geography: Iran is adjacent to the Straits of Hormuz History: 1930s Germany can repeat itself Sociology: Oligarchs will feck you over Physics: Fossil fuels are heating Earth Biology: Vaccines actually work!

Reposts appreciated, last day tomorrow, cheers. x

As usual Farage and Badenoch will rely on us being goldfish and forgetting they were pushing for the UK to attack Iran so in case anyone forgot #2LyingShits👇🏼 Feel free to share

2/3 So I'm asking the Great British public to help because NF is seeking to be our master. Were you at school with NF? Worked with him in the City when he was a tin trader? Met him through politics? Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk

Well. #theRugby

1 in 4 pupils receiving Free School Meals said the £1 book they 'bought' with their £1 #WorldBookDay book token was the first book of their own. If you're in any doubt as to why today is important, that should bring it home.

So apparently it's hayfever season. #atishoo

Popbitch!

Apologies in advance to anyone who was hoping that the rain would end anytime soon in the UK. We're having solar panels installed this week, which obviously guarantees that the sun will never appear again!

If it could stop raining until the roofing chap comes round to look at my leak on Wednesday I'd be eternally grateful. #theWeather

great stuff, 10/10 #WinterOlympics

Spent 4.5 hours in A&E with my father this afternoon after he tripped and fell. X-ray confirmed it as a dislocated shoulder. Truly amazing that the remedy was two doctors pulling him with a bedsheet, just like in the films.

how far is Davos from Dignitas

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

My father is gaslighting me by suddenly insisting that we have ALWAYS added boiled eggs to decorate the rosolli (Finnish Christmas Eve salad). I don't remember having this before in my life. Which of us is going mad?!?

Faux dick-dangling influencer Lyas Medini is surging ahead of Melania trump and Heidi Klum in the fabled WTF Christmas Turkey Poll. Have you voted yet? Get voting! 18 #fashion horrors for your selection. www.wtffashionshark.com

Amazing sky tonight

I've mentioned this quietly, but - since the summer my hobby has been making this ambitious murder mystery podcast. A story. Narrated by me, with a mouthwatering cast. Partly interactive. Trailer is coming tomorrow but if you like the sound of this, please follow @murderbastard.bsky.social.

It's actually quite amazing Donald Trump can still astound us with his depravity.

Whilst having lunch, I remembered it was my friend Kate's birthday today. Didn't have my phone on me so wrote a "K" on my hand to remind me to text her when I went back upstairs. Just realised it looks unfortunately like a mini swastika. 😱

Just London looking pretty tonight

Errrrrrrmmmmm....?

Your annual reminder that the first of December is not the first day of Christmas (and neither is the 13th!). The first day of Christmas is Christmas Day!

Off on holiday on Saturday, so of COURSE I appear to be coming down with a cold.

PS: And why do UK governments seem to always choose women of Southasian heritage to do the dirty work for them?

Of course if the whole Epstein email thing was happening today it would be a bunch of Microsoft Teams messages. Eurgh.

If you don’t like the BBC, I suggest that you go to America and watch their TV for a day. It gives you a migraine. The BBC also keeps the standards of the other outlets relatively high. If you think we watch shit now, imagine it with no BBC. And they actually care about drama, children’s, factual.

There’s no screening for ovarian cancer and it’s really difficult to spot: you can’t squidge your ovaries in the shower to check for lumps. Also it’s very good at masquerading at other things, like IBS and diverticulitis. Please take a look at this list of symptoms - and share if you can.

1960 - His Royal Highness The Prince Andrew 1986 - His Royal Highness The Duke of York, Earl of Inverness, and Baron Killyleagh 2022 - His Royal Highness The Prince Andrew; 2025 - Prince Andrew 2025 - Andrew Mountbatten Windsor 2027 - Andrew 2028 - Andy 2030 - A 2032 - .

As we have been saying: Keir Starmer could personally machine gun refugees in the channel and *it still wouldn't be enough* because the entire point of the fascist worldview is to rage against the external and internal enemies of the people and the soft traitors who enable them.

It just so happens I stumbled across this yesterday. I thought, if only someone showed this on TV every time they show or discuss Pochin or Reform or Farage. Buy ad time. And show this.

We had to read Kafka when I was at school. Always assumed "The Castle" was fiction, but it was clearly an accurate look-ahead to dealing with local authorities/ social services in the year 2025.

I recall in the 60s, Remembrance Day was one solemn Sunday morning. That was it. It was a moving occasion at our local memorial and attended by actual WW1 and WW2 veterans. Unlike the mawkish weeks long competition for the most tasteless display of a poppy that it's become Often, less is more.

Decisions, decisions

Current status - sitting on someone's tote on the train because, when asked, they declared the seat to be free but didn't move their bag.

Seen on French site for selling second hand stuff

This ->

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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I had been vaguely contemplating going to see "One Battle After Another" until I read this review....

Obviously, it is racist so vote in the poll and no you don't have to give any personal details to submit

Dear fellow pedants, it’s National Punctuation Day and I’m not going to make it. Leave me here with some apostrophes, Oxford commas, and a loaded semicolon; I’ll try to hold them off - save yourselves: run! #NationalPunctuationDay