I agreed to watch The Amazing Digital Circus with my kid because it is very much their current special interest, and I did not expect to get this much into it.

This is amazing, people get proper angry at the idea of drivers being mildly inconvenienced.

Was playing a board game today where you arrange historical events chronologically and I was so relieved when I correctly placed the reign of Julius Caesar, I have a Classics degree I should really know that, but I was generally more into the weird literary stuff

Played at the West of England Brass Band Championships today, the judges described my playing as "Menacing and just-about balanced" which I will be getting tattooed on my wrist later this week

Been listening to Olivia Rodrigo because I have cool daughters, and now I have an irresistible urge to listen to early Weezer

The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.

I hate going into Co-Op with a Co-Op Bag For Life. It's like going to a gig wearing the t-shirt of the band you're seeing.

Just when you think you've expunged that latest earworm, you find a new They Might Be Giants song to be obsessed with and now your brain's all like COMBUSTIBLE HEAD COMBUSTIBLE HEAD

Anyone tempted to believe the Labour line that they have a shot in Gorton and Denton might like to notice that Goodwin's rhetoric has shifted entirely from "Starmer out" to "Greens are dangerous". It's clearly Greens vs Reform tomorrow.

I've loved The Bloody Inn #boardgame for years but the theme is so macabre it's hard to get to the table. The secret, it turns out, is to have a child and wait until she's old and Goth enough to get it.

this is an excellent piece of podcasting. it takes A Turn 2/3 through, after which I was laughing as hard as I’ve ever laughed at something that is objectively not funny. an absurd and sublime piece of history.

I really like this, but when he says "The People who've taken what's ours" and seems to gesture next door, I do get the impression he's talking about Ken Barlow.

Saw this on my YouTube feed and got a fleeting moment thought Nick Ferrari was really upset about the new Magic: The Gathering set

Radio 4 today, more or less: youtu.be/IOi7um5PtMY?...

Big change in Labour drugs policy, according to The Sun

My five-year-old nephew has received a certificate at school that reads "I have a Growth Mindset" so if anyone needs me I'll be in the woods screaming into the abyss.

Painting the living room ceiling, listening to an audiobook about Indo-European language. Now this is living.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

More on the "which plumbers are working class?" debate- youtu.be/rQDeU6dHX-c?...

Thrilled that @greenpartyhan.bsky.social is the By-election candidate, what a contrast to the charmless racist weasel Reform are putting up.

Hoping this student debt debate is the moment that normies of my generation look around and think "Wait, is EVERYTHING bullshit?!"

Whoever the Green by-election candidate is, we should organise a roundtable with them and anyone who has bodied Matt Goodwin in a tv debate- although we would need to find a very big table.

Hey @banesgreens.bsky.social I heard our membership numbers have hit 1200? From 500 a year ago? Pretty dang good! Let's go leafletting!

England’s most deprived areas are projected to get materially worse by the next general election unless investment and policy shift significantly open.substack.com/pub/domtrist...

What a badass

Come on everybody #DoTheAndyBurnham

Blocking Burnham makes a Reform by-election win more likely. Worth noting that that's not a mistake- a Reform win gives the Starmer Politburo cover to continue their push to the right, and deploy the "It's us or Reform" argument at the next GE. Greens have to fight them hard.

Gwan Hannah

Hannah Spencer running in the by-election with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Hype Man duty could be a real winner.

Labour have blown it. This is it. Time to take on Reform. Manchesters first Green MP is coming. Join us to help get them elected on Saturday. actionnetwork.org/events/a-gre...

Zack continues his run of videos that make me a bit teary. Lovely work, proud of you fella

New Boots Day! Very exciting. Solovair, made in the UK in the factory that used to make DMs until they moved all manufacturing abroad. Dark green because I am cool like that.

To show solidarity with President Macron, all European leaders should appear wearing a sweet pair of mirrored Aviators

Saft, Safter, Saftest

Wassail season continues apace, Kilmersdon this afternoon.

Lovely day, Trombone practice on the morning, Morris dancing at a rural Wassail, cider and cake, back to the village pub for more cider, dancing and tunes, bread and soup dinner with dancing friends, then home to read some Gramsci before bed. Can't beat that.

Once again, hot on the heels of last month's show, it's time for The Wrestling from Radstock's legendary Whisty Hall. Someone has just done the classic Double Noggin-Knocker spot, we love to see it.

Ok, #booksky, let's see if anyone can figure this out for me- I have a memory of a picture book when I was a kid with images of children exploring a house in cross-section, with the basements and cellars revealed to be full of crocodiles and demons and stuff. Like Bosch for kids...

On the cusp of handily winning a game of Root online as 4th-seat Cats against Otters, Moles and Tinker. My ancestors will sing songs of this famous victory. #boardgames @leder.games @direwolfdigital.bsky.social

I feel a mid -life crisis solo musical project coming on. All I need is a Fender Bass VI, a fuzz pedal and an enormous kick drum...

This is really going to sully the good name of the UEFA Peace Prize

Old episode newly unlocked on the @trashfuture.bsky.social feed in which @postoctobrist.bsky.social mentions it being "the week where everything falls apart," rendering the recording evergreen.

Found a bunch of first class stamps in an old box, and looked up how to switch them for the new barcode ones First Class stamps are £1.70 now?! These things have surely doubled in price since I bought them, easily the soundest investment of my adult life.

Quick run down of all the movies I watched this year: Trading Places- great movie, man there was a lot of gratuitous boobs in film in the '80s eh? First 5 minutes of Paddington 2 - No, Fuck Off. Super Mario Bros Movie - good to fill the time when you've just learned your dad died. End of list.

Just been to the little town just North of my mum's house, where they have a board game shop/cafe, a comic shop/cafe and a fantasy bookshop all on the same parade. All busy and thriving! The nerd economy is strong on the Wirral

One daughter busy crafting stuff with her new 3D pen, the other perusing her new D&D Monster Manual. Good times. Merry Christmas.

Christmas means Solo Gaming time. This morning- a run at Horizons of Spirit Island, where my Eyes Watch From The Trees quickly scared the pants off the Invaders

Beautiful little gig playing carols with the Brass Band in Timsbury. Felt like the whole village came out for it!

Tiny Tim (who WILL NOT DIE)