Going on a Bluesky break for a while. Enjoy the new year, all!

Plato argued in the Republic that the 'tyrant,' or someone with unlimited wealth and power, would live the worst possible life because his soul would be devoured by lawless, unlimited desires that could never be sated. I think we've gotten confirmation of this from more cases than Trump lately

Me, waiting all day for my third Christmas meal in 24 hours

My Christmas cake decoration this year is a scale model of York Minster fashioned from marzipan surrounded by 12 edible choristers

Into what the King is chatting this year, he's had a top year of Kinging. Nice one king matey 🫡

props to this christmas lad I’ve just spotted on @flightradar24.com

My parents have such a wildly different sense of what is a good temperature. At my dad’s this morning in arctic conditions ❄️ Now at my mum’s and I’m pretty sure we’re in the high twenties 🔥

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄🎅🏻

I love this country and its traditions, perhaps none more so than how Smithfield butchers are treated like rock stars on Xmas Eve

Eight hundred across two services celebrating Jesus as the light of the world. Including Ryan Giggs, which I wasn’t expecting

Acknowledge, we humbly beseech thee, a sheep

Looking forward to seeing this as I peer out the window at midnight

This year on Bluesky I wrote 866 posts and 3,510 replies. I received 26,802 likes, 4,880 from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "not" and 🟩! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Having to tell your Dad who is complaining about the old people walking slowly around the supermarket that he is the old people walking slowly around the supermarket

It’s that time of year #Christingle

NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹 They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating. A new scoop for The Reengineer! www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...

He's making a list, He's nailing it high, Indulgences, No longer apply, Martin Luther's coming to town

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

The Fats, Oils & Grease Strategy lead used to be a senior figure at Little Chef head office

Would take the job just to answer the phone "fats, oils, and grease!"

That reminds me of an old joke about actuaries: Q: how does an actuary take precautions against a terrorist attack on a plane flight? A: he packs a bomb. The odds of there being *two* bombs on board are astronomical.

I love that someone has that job title

Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use

I can’t help but love stories like this (which makes all the teenagers I work with cringe immensely)

Woke: Forbes rich list Bespoke: Forbs Santa list

Now on to the second day and discovering they fade out Fairytale of New York before *that* word

Come on, ‘The Mancunian Candidate’ was right there.

Absolutely crazy statistic there

Just in time for the Light of World to come next week

"So it's like the Olympics but only for ex-British Empire countries, aside from Rwanda because Paul Kagame, and we sort of kept it going because of the Queen and now no one wants to host it so the UK is now paying for Glasgow to do so." "Oh right. Still, at least it's free sport on TV, right?"

Oh my god…

Quick question what the fuck was Merrick Garland doing for four years

Is it really Christmas if you don’t have to listen to compressed versions of Christmas hits whilst on hold with BT because they messed up?

I’m sure churches did food banks when I was a kid but I do not recall hearing the words “food bank” until the 2010s. About three million people rely on them now and it’s not even a problem, let alone a crisis. And that’s how easy it was to just revoke your living standards, without any great fuss.

Big news across the pond

Soon to speak in front of seven hundred students from high school group #1 about Jesus, then the same number for #2 group this afternoon

It is once again that time of year when every Books Dad gets absolutely bodied by Molesworth.

NEW: judge-alone trials would save just 2% of time in the Crown Court. In total, we estimate reforms to jury trials would save <10% of court time. Great write-up from @reporterrwright.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/8a9f...

Never great when a govt dept just ignores the law

Presumably he’s going to organise sending Greece AI-generated Marbles, which used the originals as training data

One day I hope to be able to write press releases as lacking in substance as those from the House of Bishops. An incredible skill. Each House of Bishops meeting for the last three years on this issue has decided to make decisions next time www.churchofengland.org/media/press-...

one ping only, vasily

I want Jewish people to have holidays where they are not also mourning the massacre of Jews

Honestly, today reminded me that I do not want the church to talk to me about what books mean, or how to be more present in this moment, or how to be more grateful. I want church to tell me that God knows the world is messed up too and is working so hard to fix the whole thing.

That’s a funny looking ecumenical conference. And Helsinki has some very London-looking doors

The real lesson of Christmas is that if God had wanted to win over working-class Judeans, he should have sent down a less divisive Messiah.

I think this is my Graph of the Week

“Don’t drink or tweet” is an interesting thing to need to remind candidates

An update on this: he has improved amazingly considering his condition and the car involved has been identified. Thanks to all who shared the post. Sue (his mum) is very grateful for your thoughts and prayers.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork