They drew a Christmas cartoon strip especially for me!

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Javier, our new CEO, wanted to thank everyone for a fun and motivating first week. You all have made his transition process enjoyable. He has much to do but insisted on relaying that his initial numbers indicate that the dogs are all very good and will likely continue to be ❤️

After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained. He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year. trib.al/p9Edy6F

So… my orders have dried up… I was hoping for a few more for Christmas .. 🙁 one hungry cat to feed.. *nudges Banksy* look hungry Banksy >>>>> craftysharp.etsy.com

Where have we got to when a European govt is telling Afghans who are at risk of being killed for work they did for said govt that they will not be brought to safety as promised because there’s “no longer any political interest” in helping them? Terrifying shift www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it

the growth government is at it again www.ft.com/content/2b60...

No democratic country has ever successfully protected its people by eroding civil rights.

Now why would anyone want to 'reinterpret' torture and degrading treatment?

The AAUP Ad Hoc committee on AI and Academic Professions & colleagues will discuss ongoing strategy building in the movement for tech justice and freedom from surveillance. We also want to hear from you – what you are thinking about, your needs & how you engage with the topic of AI in education.

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

A constant blazing terror that somewhere, somebody might be getting a free cheese sandwich. Or indeed brief use of a wheelchair.

Not only do I not want to use your new A.I. mode, I want you to stop telling me about your new A.I. mode, this is like the waiter trying to tell me the specials, but what makes them special is that the chef is blindfolded and we've started keeping roach poison in salt shakers

An illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from County Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. 🌌 Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Is it possible to have too much Lego? I’d like to say that this is all of it, but…

“What do I do now for a home? I'm homeless.” Hemsby is collapsing to the climate crisis and government inaction. Yet the people who did the least to cause this are paying the price. We're taking legal action to force Starmer to step up: https://goodlaw.social/h5ik

The thing about Sam Ashworth-Hayes is he thinks it's fine and good for kids to go hungry and live in poverty provided they're brown.

Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground: “He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage memorably said 'Shamima Begum was absolutely old enough to know exactly what she was doing'* I hope he now doesn't try to change his test when he applies it to himself * an SNP MP pointed this out on the telly the other day

Well that’s a nightmare for the judges. #Strictly

this is really grim

Kander & Ebb - 50 years later & still too edgy for the mainstream. #Strictly

WHY ARE THEY BUTCHERING THE CELL BLOCK TANGO??! #Strictly

✨Inside the medieval roof timbers at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, one of the rafters has been dated (c. 921) and was a sapling during the reign of King Æthelstan, before England was an entity. Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.

This is why I cancelled my membership back in May when it became clear that this had become the chosen direction of travel for Starmer's #Labour goverment. Fucking shameful & not in my name.

I will use this as photographic evidence to explain to my wife why I haven't been to the bakers yet.

'The broadcaster Sangita Myska, whose long career in British journalism has included presenting shows for the BBC and LBC Radio, said she was told by the former Staffordshire council leader Ian Cooper that she was English “only in your dreams”, because of her south Asian heritage.' 1/3

Morning! Blended by the light

This is so disgusting.

"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."

shocking tale of peak British officialdom from @patrickjbutler.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Every day we fall further and further from God’s Light

I took a photo of the cold super moon last night. #moon #coldmoon #supermoon

Please buy a postcard sketch to raise money for domestic violence charities. Or at least repost & share :)

Need some hopium? Listen to Dave's podcast with @brightsaver.bsky.social on balcony solar. The cultural and narrative potential here are huge! Cut the red tape and let me plug in!

In a surprise to absolutely no one, the mum she’s describing is not claiming benefits as a “lifestyle choice”. This paywalled article is full of “in my grandparents day, blah blah blah” and nasty sneery comments about latest iPhones for spoilt children🙄 🧵 1/9

Honest Robbie Jenrick.

"immigration has to go up for our growth goals, but our policy is to bring it down" uk politics in a nutshell

🚨Some personal news. I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker. A profile of Jonathan Gullis. "You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis." open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Day 4 of #Mystic #Advent. Hildegard Of Bingen (c. 1098 –1179): "Sibyl of the Rhine", German Benedictine abbess, composer, philosopher, visionary, and as a medical writer. #Quote: 'The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms'. 💚

Well said.

I have a confession, I wander the picturesque small towns of America, killing young married women. You may think me monstrous but it must be done so there is a bountiful harvest of sexy widowers for busy corporate women to fall in love with in Hallmark movies next year. I am a cruel necessity.

As a person who has to buy and use small boats for work, and has my name on an extensive report filed with DfT into them, do I just report to the police station now or will they arrest me at home?

@mozilla.org please explain yourself.

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

@cosmichope.bsky.social Just seen your feed for the first time and I love you already.

Day 2 of #Mystic #Advent. Julian of Norwich (1343] – after 1416): English anchoress. #Quote: 'God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall'.