The setter could have made this 23 across.

Terrible old year everyone

How long before Donald Trump tries to get the international date line moved so that the USA gets the new year first?

What's that? RokTV is cutting its music channels? youtu.be/A1rNnxfCxQs

Corfe Castle, the model of Corfe Castle in Corfe Castle Model Village, and the model of Corfe Castle in the model of Corfe Castle Model Village in Corfe Castle Model Village.

Go round the outside.

Watching all the Ken Burns documentaries on conflict has taught me that war is a terrible source of suffering and waste of precious human life but the Vietnam one had the best tunes.

Couple of redwings spotted in Fenham Carr (Williamson Park, Lancaster) this afternoon. I don't think the Lancaster Bird Watching Soc has made it to Bsky yet... #lancaster #birdwatching

Whenever I use one of those toilet paper holders that require you to faff about to find the loose end, I always, without exception, always leave the loose end visible for the next person yet where's my MBE eh?

how all youtube ads sound to me

Yes! www.drive.com.au/news/melbour...

Maggie Aderin-Pocock's changed...

I remember the first lesson with our French teacher, Mr. Harries, 45 years ago. He got us to say "Monsieur Harries est beau" and "Brigitte Bardot est belle". She featured quite a bit in his lessons.

Did everyone know there was a Frank Muir Memorial Field just east of the western side of the M25? I can imagine him on the swings and roundabouts but the skateboard park?

Google maps: "Police reported ahead" doesn't have a "Well actually a National Highways traffic officer isn't police" option.

Happy Merryneum everyone.

Is there any way I can use Google maps to generate fake traffic problems on the motorway so everyone avoids it until we get there?

It's flipping gorgeous down here on the south coast. Heading north in a couple of hours, please avoid the M25 EVERYONE.

I avatar feeling about this..

Lazy journalism in The Guardian: "But now a team of scientists from universities including Harvard and Oxford...". Do you think maybe the other involved universities would like a mention? Also no link to the research.

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

Due to budget cuts, just the one ship sailing by this morning.

Xmas tip: if you accidentally say "Happy birthday" when giving a present tomorrow, just add "Jesus".

Morning everyone!

The existence of panettone implies the existence of panetttwo.

My tado heating app has a little Santa on the GPS tracker.

"At least 80% on-site" is not "Hybrid". It's "Oh go on then you can work at home on some Fridays". For a 2 yr London job its actually "you already live in London because nobody can afford to move here and commute for this". Way to lose 90% of the best candidates for an essentially non physical job.

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.

My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

Just got my new driving license. Yeah, bit different design to the old one, what's changed since 2015... oh, no EU logo. Same thing will happen with my new passport next year.

Just recovered some tracks from a band I was in 30 years ago that I thought I only had as mp3s. None of the CDs I'd made back then play properly - if at all - but I found the master CD-ROM of the wavs in the loft yeterday and that's copied perfectly.

Can't decide if trying to cycle the length of the M6 Motorway would be a stupid idea. Obviously not *on* the M6 itself, but trying to keep within earshot or visual distance...

A second earthquake in Morecambe Bay this month? Is Bayzilla stirring? earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/...

🏆 Our C20 Activist of the Year 2025 award goes to… The protectors of the Sheringham Bus Shelter! Their 9-day occupation of the humble 1950s shelter earlier this month thwarted an attempted demolition by Norfolk County Council, attracted nationwide media coverage and even drew support from the PM.

This button in old BT phone boxes has a representation of itself on it. Buttonception.

Just misheard Ed Sheeran singing "When you said you looked a mess" as "When you said you looked at meth" and he should sing that now.

Fork 'andles.

They're bred, in their millions, to be stupid, slow, clumsy and noisy, so that they're easy for so-called sports people to shoot. 😬

Are UK betting shops allowed to put up seasonal decorations? I've been wanting to take a picture of "A Christmas Coral" for two weeks.

Date for your diaries - Lancaster, UK Wed 25 March 2026 - free to attend, registration required. Hear me talk about my soon to be published book 'Up - A scientist's guide to the magic above us' www.lancaster.ac.uk/scc/about-us...

A source close to the penguin said, “He stayed in all morning but all he got was one of those ‘Sorry we missed you’ cards.”

15 minutes total to renew my driving licence for ten years, from the comfort of my home, including downloading a gov ID app, scanning my passport (visually and NFC biometrics), and a face ID. Now, how often do my USA friends have to take a trip to the fearsome DMV?

You've got your Christmas pressies sorted, now you need some lovely gift wrap to make them look proper smart ⏰ Order by Wednesday 17th December www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...

@cheeseford.bsky.social is that usually jazz-named botherer back with a new, slightly less jazz, alt?

Happy 100th birthday Dick van Dyke, inventor of the DVD player.

"What kind of dance music are you into, mate?

People in the UK Hiking reddit suggesting drying boots by stuffing with newspaper and I've not had newspaper in the house for over ten years.

This took me far too long to make. If only there was some kind of machine could've done it for me…

You can hate on AI generated infographs as much as you like, but I'd like to see you calculate how logh a hob dog is with your bare hot dugers