I have now seen about a dozen posts with that picture of some old people standing behind the Wotsit Hitler, but I don't know who they are (apart from Stallone) because no-one has bothered to do alt-text. In this day and age!

Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year

The anglophone disease.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

New report on immigration sets out a fairer, cheaper and potentially popular approach A new report from prominent migration expert Zoe Gardner has won the endorsement of several Labour backbenchers. The report, Time for change: The evidence-based policies that can actually fix the immigration…

Born #OTD 1910 - Louis Prima. I suspect he was a wrong'un, but his music is joyous and makes me smile. youtu.be/vG9o64V57T4?...

Big Caturday; Siberian Tiger returned to the wild: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

If anyone wants a nice big bowl of spicy beany sausagey stew, I have once again spent hours cooking food I am no longer hungry enough to eat. I would love to know which evolutionary purpose this phenomenon serves.

I grow old... I grow old... I shall wear the bottom of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white-flannel trousers, and walk along the beach. I have hear the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

What is the actual crime here? Littering?

In a selfless gesture of #Xmas charity toward wrongmoes everywhere, I am watching #DieHard on C4+1 even though it is not a #ChristmasFilm. No. Sorry. Not listening. It isn't. I love you, but you're wrong. Shush now. Let's watch the movie. Alan Rickman's about to appear.

*reposts smugly because knows what the joke is*

OK everyone, wish me luck... I'm diving into my dumplist of Christmas-related music I come across/think of between 1st January and 31st November. (I never rush the seasons. No #XmasMusic outside December.) This year we have a daunting 2068 tracks to curate. *gulps hard* tidal.com/playlist/726...

If we make it through December... #SWFC #XmasMusic #MusicSky #PhoebeBridgers youtu.be/wNfK819vnrQ?...

In bingo lingo - clickety-clicks! It's time to draw our pick of the pricks (standing between us and #WorldCup glory) #FIFA #WC2026

jessiez888 explaining that the neat Chinese tattoo you got might not mean what you think: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/hW...

No more bad times Only glad times in the...

The rich scum always threaten us with a good time, but they never follow through. We should keep doing the right thing (taxing obscene inequalities of wealth) harder and faster until these parasites really do fook off en masse to Dubai.

At some point someone told me it snows more often at Easter than at Xmas in the UK, and I chose to accept this as COPPER-BOTTOMED FACT.

But aslynn what if self-diagnosis is false, and people create better lives for themselves for nothing.

#OtD 5 (or 1) Dec 1903 Black Spanish civil war fighter Patrick Roosevelt was born in Long Island, NY. He joined the @IWW and Communist Party, and joined the fight against Franco in 1938, during which he lost his leg. He later worked as a machinist. workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e39-...

I'd never heard of a charity called Sense until I read this. Now I know that: - They exist - They get rid of people for political reasons - They claim that such a political act is necessary for neutrality - They don't understand which side this fantasy of 'neutrality' puts them on #StreisandEffect

As set out in this thread, the causes of the court backlog are chronic lack of funding and absurd inefficiency. The government has made no proposals to address either. Their answer is to remove juries. Rather than fix the leaking roof, their solution is to burn the house down.

The #trimmings are up! #MustBeSanta has been played. Must be #christmas! Snowball, anyone?

This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad

Every year we treat ourselves to a new decoration or two for the Christmas tree and this year’s additions are just absolutely outstanding Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree

Yesterday I had cause to say the phrase 'flaccid santa in the garden', and I will leave you to wonder whether this is the sort-of a thing I was referring to or not.

It's chriiiiiiiiiistmaaaaaaaas! Season's greetings, everyone. From here until January it's advocaat on cereal for your breakfast, Quality Street for your dinner, and your tea is whatever mad festive concoction you saw at Little Co-op on the way home. I bloody love #Xmas, me.

C4 are showing "Nordic Train at Christmas", the Bergen to Oslo line - my favourite (done 6 times). But edited down to 1 hour, and narrated (why?). However, there's a full 7h 14m version on YouTube. Fond of the hour or so from 1h 57m when it's up in the mountains: youtu.be/xisVS_DKpJg?... #Norway

There isn't one Best Xmas Film. But if there was, it wouldn't be The Holiday, ffs. Gets a very high score on my 'Shitness level x Number of times I've seen it' equation. Possibly the highest score of any movie ever made, Xmas or otherwise.

Aechidna Emu Eagle owl (unconfirmed) Red kangaroo Some stripe of turtle that should not have been by a lake in Oxford

Just so happy for everyone at #NMFC. It's one thing to be better than everyone else, but quite another to keep putting in the work to prove it every week for two years - and counting! Enjoy the night. Hard lines, Brisbane. Hurts now, but take pride later. #AFLWGF #AFLW #AFLWRoosLions

Often when I listen to music/have an earworm, I wonder how many others (if any) are hearing that exact song, at that exact moment, somewhere in the world? Today I have an #earworm megamix of 'Doing the Lambeth Walk (oi!)' and Sabrina's 1987 hit 'Boys (Summertime Love)'. Surely no-one else, ever?

My semiregular encouragement to use a fidget toy of any kind (playdough, a smooth rock, a rubber band) to rewire your brain away from the fidget impulse to scroll your phone while watching a movie. No diagnosis or labels needed! You can do it just to enjoy a movie/series more. That’s enough reason.

Spider-Manx Grand Prix

Got me. Fair dues.

Tiny brains!

Matchday for the #Owls! #Millwall v #SheffieldWednesday In honour of tonight's hosts, here is an #owl and some #lions. - Lin Fengmian - Owl - Kano Motonobu - Chinese Lions #art #arte #painting #birds #MFC #SWFC #MilShW #EFL #WAWAW #UTO #COYBAWW #HiHo

Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society

Had a dream about Glynn Snodin, for fook's sake. #SWFC

When we split ourselves into bullshit made-up 'generations' and throw hate at each other, we're helping the rich and powerful beat us. There's us (working class) and there's them (the rich/powerful class, and their lickspittles). That's it. That's the only categorisation that matters. Pick a side.

#RIP Jimmy Cliff. youtu.be/1fLeWPE444I?...

We Brits like to laugh at Americans trying to pronounce 'Worcestershire'. And with good reason. But at some point we will be called upon to say 'Launceston, Tasmania' out loud, and that's the cosmos keeping us humble.

No mucking about today. We're calling up the #Wednesday spirits from a warrior age. #SWFC #COYBAWW #UTO #HiHo #SingingTheBlues #SHWSHU #EFL #SteelCityDerby

Casual reminder that one of the great joys of movie musicals is that they make an increasingly inaccessible art form available to a much wider audience. You may have known what happens in Act II of Wicked for over 20 years, but lots of people excited for this movie don’t. Your spoilers can wait.

Today I had LEGITIMATE CAUSE to say the phrase "I can't be caught frotting the headstones", and I love that for me. How's your Friday going?

Bring me the red-hot-metal-ball bread slathered in the red-hot-metal-ball butter!

The painful realisation that, with every year that passes, fewer and fewer people will understand the title of my book that I am going to write just because I had a great idea for a title: "Jevons to Betsy! Lower-league British football players (1995-2015)" (This idea is now under copyright by me)

Being turned into a pig (maybe by Michelle Pfeiffer in her Stardust garb) and given a big comfy pillow would fix me.

FOOK. ME. BANDY. Beautiful arc on that. Beautiful. Now. Résiste! Résiste! #SCODEN