We were there! It was both amazing and great!

Day 7 #artAdventCalendar my #linocut horseshoe crab (Tachypeus gigas) in grey, blue-bronze and dark brown on 8” x 8” cream-coloured Japanese paper with bark inclusions. 🧪🐡 They get their name from their horseshoe like shape but they are not crabs; they are chelicerates, more closely related to 🧵

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share! Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...

70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

Click to view the thread, which lists eligible groups

Of course women don't like the cybertruck. Women only want one thing and it's a house with chicken legs

In London, hate will never win.

This, on the frailties of human bodies fighting the passage of time and Ozzy Osbourne’s last gig, is well worth a read. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Sasquatch: *to tv camera* Tonight we will try a human call and hope for a response. *clears throat* 🎵Sweet Caroline🎵 From a distance: 🎵bah bah bah🎵 Sasquatch: You heard that! It was a human! Camera Sasquatch: I don't know. Could be a bird.

Forty years ahead of his time with the zoom from the waist up get-up. Basically my wfh uniform

THE BIGGEST NEWS! Rob and I are offering up a hand-signed hardback, first edition/first printing copy of Monstrous Regiment straight from the Pratchett archives. Those who know the story will know why it’s a pertinent one for this cause. (More pics to come.) www.32auctions.com/organization...

The earliest yellow-legged Asian hornet nest found so far in the UK was discovered in Langley, Kent, on 16.4.25 These small embryo nests are created by queens that survived winter. Report all sightings using the Asian Hornet Watch app

I used the facilities during a trip up Seattle's Space Needle. Every time I see it (and there are a lot of Frasier repeats), I like to mention that I've had a wee up that. If I'd been to SPACE I would be simply unbearable

This is a really nicely written article about a man who has changed the way I travel. If you haven't heard of him, you're in luck! Now you have

Bees. Just bees

Just realised I heard (or, at least, noticed) my first chiffchaff on the same date this year. Huh

Last year, the eggs sadly didn't hatch and the parent eagles dejectedly abandoned the nest for a while. They're back now, and two chicks are growing. Give yourself a moment

P.S. If anyone knows of a village with one of these in the South West of the UK, please let me know. I plan to deliver to as many as physically possible over the next fortnight...

The family that @fesshole.bsky.social together stays together

James Harrison, blood donor, 1936-2025: on.ft.com/4iyANZ6

Psst…wanna buy a tomb?? For the past few years a group of us have been working to bring one of #Orkney’s major heritage sites, the Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles, into community ownership. Now we need your help to make the site safe and accessible. Please share widely and donate if you can! 🏺🧪

Leaving aside how personally ATTACKED I feel by Jay's mild chutney snark, this is a delight

As well as being patron saint of love & romance, legend says #StValentine was a beekeeper & was regarded as the patron saint of beekeepers (as was #StAmbrose) He was charged with the protection of beekeepers, having a gentle, caring disposition & a love of bees💕🐝 #FolkyFriday #StValentinesDay

My voice is shaping the future of UK live music, yours could too! Please share your thoughts on the UK music industry by taking the #MusicFansVoice survey 👉 musicfansvoice.uk

Jesus. Twister in Donegal right now.

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

Thinking of the much missed Priorité à Gauche today youtu.be/nOwGAaXUzlc?...

I helped someone with hypothermia a while back, after they fell in the icy river where I live. It's terrifying how fast it can make people extremely unwell. This man did something brave, risky and lifesaving. Humans are mostly wonderful.

A UK forum for student members of uni Rag societies. Friends and yet-to-be friends all over the country, we'd plan meet ups, discuss fundraising methods and, y'know, dick about. I miss those old style forums so much 💔

I’m only a failure by human standards. if I was a children’s book badger in an apron I’d be like “whoa this house is massive, and I own so many cheeses and jams.”

incredible plot summary

Glad this popped up it was much needed.

Have you used, or ever considered using, the shared parental leave scheme? We'd really like to hear from you as part of our inquiry. Take our short survey: forms.office.com/e/2j4FvKhJBm

Hopping on the Mildmay line on World Aids Day and remembering one dear friend in particular who died many years ago ❤️

That's it, tree's gone up. I waited as long as I could bear

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

If you always mean to add ALT text but you forget until it's too late, there's a toggle to prevent that in the accessibility section of your settings!

What's the stupidest thing you ever got in trouble for? I have... a few, some of which I've detailed here before. But you might not have heard about the time the Daily Mail did a bullet-point scare job on me in 2016, because I tricked Selfridges staff into printing rude words on some Nutella jars.

In the nearly two years I've been here, I've really appreciated people's commitment to alt text. If you post images and sometimes forget to use alt text, this setting is so helpful! Settings > Accessibility > Require alt text

In the nearly two years I've been here, I've really appreciated people's commitment to alt text. If you post images and sometimes forget to use alt text, this setting is so helpful! Settings > Accessibility > Require alt text

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now 1. Post office counter clerk 2. Ice cream van dogsbody 3. Bar staff, pubs, nightclubs 4. Alcohol researcher 5. Recruitment agent 6. University tutor 7. Charity director

Five bands I've seen more than five times Dogs D'Amour Levellers Skunk Anansie Orange Goblin Stoned Jesus

Here’s our jack o’lantern for the cats this year: The Dreaded Cone!