"The question is whether political leaders are brave enough to speak the truth? Immigration is good for this country and that we have a clear, moral responsibility to protect those failed by global injustice and political neglect." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

It's my boy's 14th birthday and a total nostalgia festival with Wall-E lego. We still maintain one of the top 5 movies ever.

Dear AI bros, it's not AI itself we have a problem with, the kind that can detect cancers early or help people walk. May that continue. It's the content generation slop you foam at the mouth defending that we hate. It's theft and will never, EVER replace actual human creativity.

Sad times, I'll be cracking an egg in to my bath tonight in tribute www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...

It's a Winter Solstice celebration!

There’s much mumbo-jumbo about the Solstice & ersatz ‘Celtic’ religious practise about this feast. It can be quite painful hearing self-appointed foreign ‘believers’ combine everything from the Tuatha Dé Dannan, to Nazi mythology, in their ignorant claims. So here’s some factual info on Grianstad!

For anyone who may be hastily returning certain books they bought as Christmas presents, here's a thread of excellent children's books I highly recommend you buy instead: Loki A Bad God's Guide To Being Good by Louie Stowell Funny, chaotic and a little bit naughty okay, a lot naughty

This is what Trump calls transparency.

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

Well, well, well…it looks like Frank was Antifa.🫡

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

A tiny bundle of winter cheer is bouncing through our snowy woodland today… Shall we see who’s behind door 20? ❄️✨ #RSPBAdvent25

Seeing as they've broken the legal deadline, can't they simply put Trump in prison until the Epstein files are released? It's only for two weeks right?

📂 By NOT releasing ALL the Epstein Files... They're literally saying that Trump’s involvement in the PEDOPHILE sex trafficking ring is far greater than anyone thought it was. #TrumpEpsteinPedoCoverUp

Button news! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE

Doctor Worm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHli...

I remember the night I first introduced Count Dragomir Vasile Mihai Neculai Alexandru Constantin Dodos of Josenii Bârgäului to my wife. She grimaced and said "That's a terribly elaborate name for such a small penis".

Merry gentlefolk, it is time. Today is the day. Today is comma-mas. Today is the day where we contemplate the correct placing of the comma in 'God rest you merry, gentlemen'. And if we are lucky, we can have a row about it. >

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

'Whatever prompted our ancestors to mark this time of the year is still alive in me. The first strains of whatever their equivalent of Mariah Carey was must have stirred them to leave their candle-lit homes and seek out a shared fire...'

During World War 1, fighting temporarily ceased in the trenches for Christmas and the German troops put up a sign meaning God with us – GOTT MIT UNS. The British troops then crawled across no-man’s land and under GOTT MIT UNS they wrote their own message… WE GOT MITTENS TOO!

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Absolutely shocking. We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases. We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.

Happy Advent to you and your kin! And everyone else's kin too, come to that. As every December so far this decade, I'm going to do an Advent Calendar of beautiful and brilliant carols, with each day's added to a YouTube playlist and also to the ongoing Spotify one, now in its sixth(!) year. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

16. The most familiar carols do very well when someone takes a wire brush to the verdigris and polishes them up all nice, like. Danish choral composer John Høybye did that favour for 'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen', here sung by I Dodici, which translates as 'The Dodici'. youtu.be/lfvcPnSTpBs?...

Described by the American Humanist Association as a lifelong humanist, Rob Reiner grew up without religion and was open throughout his life about not believing in a god, grounding his values instead in decency, empathy, and how we treat one another.

It's all lies

“No less an authority than the United Kingdom’s former Prime Minister, Liz Truss” That’s a real sentence that someone wrote, which made it into Trump’s legal filing.

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

Two beautiful human beings

Thou shalt not condemn “violent rhetoric” after your ally is murdered and then mock the murder of someone who criticized you.

Rob Reiner wanted you to remember the goodness of humanity. Donald Trump wants you to be miserable at all times and think that nothing good will ever happen again. But as the kids say, better things are possible.

Someday he will be gone. But we will never forgive or forget the people who supported him.

Marketing people of the world, please stop giving things one or two letter abbreviations and stacking them in boxes and calling it a 'periodic table of the (whatever)'

the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them

I had never seen a scene like this before in film, a scene that spoke to me so profoundly. As boys turning to men, we were not allowed to cry, to feel, and to bear our pain silence. Again: Rob Reiner was one of the Greats. youtu.be/UJT9M04j1-s?...

If you’d like to read the actual 33-page defamation lawsuit Donald Trump has filed “for damages not less than $5,000,000,000”, then here it is: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Can't see this without reposting

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

Launching into the weekend, Waxwing style. Happy #FlyDay! 📷 @manxmannin.bsky.social

The release of the Epstein files is required by law to happen on December 19th. On December 18th, we will "officially" be at war with Venezuela. Bank on it.

This took me far too long to make. If only there was some kind of machine could've done it for me…

A white British father and son BOTH raped the same child and pled guilty to multiple counts of Sexual assault. This has been in the press for 2 days. The Mirror is the only National newspaper to report on it… And THAT’s why people have such a skewed perception of the links between race and SA🤷🏼‍♀️