You turn to your AI girlfriend and say "I dunno, I'm just having a really hard time, I'm stressed out and I don't know why." "It's normal to be stressed," she says "especially knowing that all your data is out there being sold by unscrupulous brokers. But with my sponsor nordVPN--"

Dear Sainsbury's, I want to know whether you have something in stock at my nearest store, which is rarely used as it is twice as far as your competitors. Making me jump through hoops to register on your app to then be told that it only covers select stores (not mine) is no use. No love, Me

The Irish trad version of Golden I mentioned last night, well, RTÉ are no fools and they have it up on YT already! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qpz...

Here's a thought (or goal) for your new year: Once you have thoroughly ruined your reputation, you can live your life with complete abandon.

So far Mist has celebrated the new year by biting me when I went back to bed after the gym, and more recently trying to stick his face into my freshly served lunch. I hope this will not set the pattern for 2026.

I, maybe naively, think this won’t be permanent. But right now, I can’t imagine just how difficult it is to be trans (or enby) right now. @davidkr.bsky.social writes on one of the most shameful legal cases in UK history. livesrunning.wordpress.com/2025/04/16/t...

Quote with a GIF that depicts the energy you’re going into 2026 with.

Whoa! Had my latest blood test today and the results are alreadt back including the HB1AC today. It came back as a very acceptable 36 mmol/mol, despite Christmas and an overseas trip since the last one. Yay!

They’re selling #Stargate at the aquarium store

Not sure about Trump’s new design for the American flag tbh.

I adore these, just like cats every home should have one of Rose's tentacle pots in residence.

Fuck Trump for his staggering absence of good manners and lack of grace. Fuck Putin, too.

You boy, what colour are you?

Don't threaten me with a good time!

My family and I, and the entire Japanese American community on the West Coast, were denied due process during our internment in WWII. It is a cherished, critical right for all people within the U.S.’s borders.

'I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.' These words were spoken by mathematician and computing pioneer Charles Babbage FRS, born #OnThisDay in 1791. He is known for his work on the 'Difference Engine' and 'Analytical Engine', the mechanical forebears of today’s computers.

Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.

This morning is brought to me by Boxing day zoomies at 3:30 am.

Like, this is the infinite money glitch for ruining these assholes, I really don't see what's objectionable here...

God bless us, every one

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

muiqefij chierpmas

Still my favourite Christmas song.

Merry Christmas everyone!

want to know something terrifying? hippos have only 2-5% body fat. they are chaos tanks from hell

The new "Trump" class battleship

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

It's been some years since I have been "in the zone" for #DuvetKnowItsChristmas , mostly because there is no way I am sleeping on the sofabed my mother peed all over when the Alzheimer's & incontinence really kicked in. But I will be driving to London tomorrow to cook for the remaining parent.

Right then, no one asked for it (everyone seems quite happy with last year's!) but here we are anyway, your #DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025 bingo card! Some returning classics, some we missed last year and some new ones. Enjoy team, donation link below once Rhodri posts it!

Christmas giveaway time! I've got a 2026 Calendar in need of a good home. For a chance to win it just click Follow/Like/Retweet (and if you can spare a couple of quid a month & want to encourage me, sign up to my Patreon.com/happytoast - but that bit's not necessary to win)

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

I am wrestling with my conscience. On the one hand I have eaten all my calories for today and drunk the remains of the 70 Fonseca, so should be sated. On the other hand I quite fancy some nachos, and what with them being made or corn tortilla chips that's healthy for diabetics, right?

Just like those people who got stuck in their luxury smart beds during the AWS outage, it is insane to me that these companies are unable to contemplate something going wrong The bed thing was ridiculous, only after the outage did the company agree to work on a 'backup' mode

Not now, 68-million-year-old egg!

Happy Sunday. Never give up against the monsters. And always save the cat.

Continuing the theme of joyous music... Here's Steeleye Span's pure-voiced folk songstress Maddy Prior, performing their hit "All Around My Hat" with the assistance of - errrm - Status Quo 🤔🤣 Maddy bouncing around with a huge grin, obviously having a tremendous time! 👍 youtu.be/m0FkSaFTV2A?...

If you have used 23AndMe, you are advised by California’s AG to delete your DNA right now from the company’s database as it has declared bankruptcy

It's a Winter Solstice celebration!

With the Winter Solstice upon us, it is time to take a step back from the frantic business of daily life and quietly reflect on the true meaning of Gauda Prime #GaudaPrimeDay

Me guessing my blood sugar before testing "Oh, I think its going to be over 8 and I can delay lunch for an hour or so at least." Glucose test says 5.2. Hum. Maybe I'll start making lunch.

It was 44 years ago today that the BBC ruined Christmas for 9 million viewers #Blakes7

Ventured out to get things from Tesco & drop off card to friend nearby. Big Tesco resembles a war zone inside. My scan as you shop handset was unable to recognise any bar codes. Escaped with essentials. Car almost written off on the way home by someone who doesn't know what "give way" signs mean.

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

Just to remind you that the livestream of the solstice sunrise from Newgrange starts 12 hours from now. heritageireland.ie/visit/newgra...

[scottish castle] JK Rowling: ugh! i'm tired of all thesssse people online making fun of my black mold! Rowling: that'sss it! Rowling: today isss the day that i do sssomething about it

Only 24 hours until the Winter Solstice at 21/12 15:03 UTC. Please prepare all virgin sacrifices in advance and form an orderly queue before the Bleeding Stone. Be prepared to clear up your own blood, entrails, ichor, etc. and leave the sacrificial space clean and tidy for the next user. Thank you!

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

Lancashire tea is like Yorkshire tea but slightly more bitter.

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

I AM PREPARED TO DRAG THE COUNTRY INTO AN OIL WAR IN SOUTH AMERICA AND A RELIGIOUS WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST, IF IT MAKES YOU FORGET I FIDDLED WITH CHILDREN ON PEDO ISLAND. THANK YOU FOR YOUR LACK OF ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER.