This is a great bit of podcasting

A harpist playing expansive, questing jazz? With a tight rhythm section and various horns? Yes I'll have a helping of that please! Here's Bardo by Cassie Watson Francillon: cassandharp.bandcamp.com/album/bardo

Lots of new followers this morning. Are people finally getting the message that the other place is a shitshow owned by a right wing nut job? Hope so.

Can I ask you a favour? Could you tag your posts with #traitorsuk? Your takes are my absolute favourite, but with US traitors airing now there’s too much US content on the other hashtags!

Thanks to Maths Gear for stocking my book! If you buy it through them, you can combo it with some fun maths toys or accessories

Fascinated by the maths of the flixbus coach tracker that is capable of showing a vehicle steadily travelling in one direction while you watch it but then when you click away and check back it’s moved significantly in the opposite direction

#TheTraitorsUK I love how chill Maz is. But could we just have no white people at all next season please?

A time to log on and a time to log off; A time to follow and a time to unfollow; A time to like and a time to DM; A time to reply and a time to scroll; A time to share and a time to block; A time to post and a time to refrain from posting.

Federal immigration agents have now shot and killed multiple people since Trump took office a year ago. Today alone marks the second deadly ICE shooting IN A WEEK. An off-duty shot and killed a 43-year-old father in CA on Dec. 31.

Today’s news summary sure looks like an extinction burst. If only the end of oil could also be the end of all robber barons

By water to Deptford, and there among other things viewed old pay-books, and found that the Commanders did never heretofore receive any pay for the rigging time, but only for seatime, contrary to what Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten told the Duke the other day.

Today I am that precise level of slightly ill where sticking on a DVD feels more effort than scrolling bluesky and occasionally having a thought. Further studies needed but I’d bet on this being diagnostic of flu-I’m-successfully-immunised-against

ROBIN OF SHERWOOD (1984): Michael Praed was The Hooded Man in Richard Carpenter's dark ITV drama, which fully leant into the mythology of the character. Magic, demons, the supernatural, pagan myth, and Robin's Obi Wan Kenobi, Herne the Hunter, all featured. Still the best Robin Hood ever!

Please stop posting stuff I don’t like. In the future try to do posts that I would enjoy

Via @londoncentric.media london.abscond.org?utm_source=s... do you actually live in London?

Echoing this to say that $1 a month to a creator whose work you like is equivalent to easily a thousand ad-supported views on their videos. Even a little bit of support makes a hugely outsized difference - pick your favourites and support where you can.

I don’t know. Yesterday a woman in the Bloomsbury Waitrose described the one in Granary Square as “the good Waitrose” and for a moment I thought “huh, maybe David Betz is right. Maybe we will start to see civil war on the Strand”.

We have a brand new series of Digging for Britain ready for your delectation, and an expanded team of expert presenters bringing you the latest on a range of exciting discoveries from across the UK.

We may regret it, but we're allowing #CuratorRob out in public. We've hosed him down and locked his cider shed, so it'll be fine, right?🙏😬 For ONE NIGHT ONLY (15 Jan, 8pm) he's giving an online talk about the recent discoveries at Palace. Huxley may feature. £5 plus booking fee. bit.ly/flaevents

Because they took all the salt out of crisps!! I end up eating way too much fat to try and get enough sodium when I don't have time to cook and can't face just licking up a sachet of NaCl. We don't all need the salt bullies thanks

My ancient and chaotic indoor avocado plant is making flower buds. Eat my shorts, houseplant perfectionists.

Happy New Year to those who licked zero boots last year, and intend to keep that streak alive in 2026

Today I am thinking about the middlegame

This is simultaneously incredibly cute and ever so slightly menacing, which is an impressive combination! Or maybe that's just how my brain processes it ...

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

January (detail), Castello del Buonconsiglio (Trento, Italy), c. 1400

they reaalllly need to whittle down the Young White Guys squad on this season of #TheTraitors because it’s legit baffling, I cannot even figure out how many of them there are 😅

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

That little folded card they put your premier inn room key in

Hugo is so The Rest is Politics-coded #thetraitors

the state of the gaydar on these people that amanda even had to come out #thetraitors

I wouldnae be wearing shorts in that grass, lads #TheTraitorsUK

About to pass out looking at this

From the Wikipedia article about Solvej Balle: "An English translation [of her earlier work] by Barbara J. Haveland, According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind, was published in 1996." Has anybody seen this book? No copies online. I wonder if anybody is planning to reissue it?

Watching the first episode of Outbumbered and wow, less than 20 years ago we still had CRTs and Teletext

That woman‘s every facial muscle is copper #TheTraitorsUK

I feel it at least possible that the nation will not be as charmed by Hugo the barrister as he's currently imagining

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Quantum leaping to the life of the creator of the Metropolitan Police… in late 1845, to recall Parliament, resign as Prime Minister, unresign, and do away with the Corn Laws. Just to repeal something.

We must imagine Sharon unhappy.

Happy new year when it comes. I‘m gonna watch the fireworks with a hot chocolate and then I think I’ll start on the high stakes 2026 ambition to read a load of Daphne du Maurier

I have just heard the Ladbaby Food Aid song, and am recording it here in case we need a supervillain origin story later

Today I am thinking about entertainment

imagine a world where ai exists and everything is stored in data clouds BUT ALSO you need a stapler so often you pay a monthly subscription for your stapler robot. you have to update the app like once a month. it has access to your biometric data. but you need that stapler robot. a good product.

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On the fourth day of Christmas I ate the onion-free menu. And it was truthful!

Finally I have cause