Arthur Rackham - Santa Claus 1907. watercolour, gouache & ink on paper.

Have just been reminded that my friend Christina once overheard the following in Waitrose: it’s perfect. “Mummy, does Lego have a silent T on the end like Merlot?”

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Isn't this pretty? Alas an edge warp means it's unplayable, but it'll look nice on your shelf. If you'd like this comment "ANTMUSIC" and a random wheel thingy will find it a new home later. I've not done an adoption for a while, so it'd be good to rehome this.

And now Linktree is wanting to copy and exploit our content. 🙄 Obviously they can’t own the stuff on the websites you link to, but the new T&Cs mean that any content - embedded videos, photos, music, etc. - that you have on your Linktree profile, they can copy and sell on without paying you.

Indian artist Bharti Kher "Squaring the circle" 2007 Bindis on painted panel #WomensArt

Me: What if Allan Sherman were in Daft Punk. He'd be all like, "hello muddah, hello faddah, fasta stronga, betta hahda 🎶" My date who I will NOT be seeing again: you don't have to do the voices 🙄

Geometric sculpture by Japanese glass artist Ikuta Niyoko #WomensArt

Creating self-contained bubbles of space-time? DID IT www.popularmechanics.com/science/a696...

Beach Finds #Withernsea

Remembering Shuhada Sadaqat aka Sinead O'Connor on her birthday. Here in 1992 by photographer Jane Bown #WomensArt

It is not a bad thing to occasionally consume art that challenges you.

It took 52 years to discover I’m AuDHD. If anything, ADHD and autism are underdiagnosed: people instinctively honing coping mechanisms, thinking this is just how everyone experiences life. All the while accumulating CPTSD and debilitating burnout until they either seek help or succumb.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

It’s not readily apparent as she was European but my grandmother was a refugee and the absolute state of where we are now disgusts me

Digital tix for the King Crimson Listening Party are off-sale but you can still pay on the door - five seats left! Peter Giles, David Cross, Jakko and Jeremy all in the room, perhaps even Mel C… 1pm-4pm at the Water Rats 🦎

'40 Below 0' painting by painter, singer and musician Joni Mitchell #WomensArt

This is Jon Lonsdale, cofounder of Palantir.👇 That’s the Palantir whose software Wes and NHS England are wanting to roll out to manage our health records. We’re putting our health records in the hands of a man who would bring back public hangings.

'Cley windmill in winter', machine and hand embroidery by UK textile artist Rachel Wright #WomensArt

Sarah Evans, contemporary Welsh artist and landscape painter #womensart

Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS

Print by contemporary Polish artist Laura Makabresku #WomensArt ❄️

Five seats left for our King Crimson Lizard listening party now... want some ridiculous literal poster artwork? You can have some ridiculous literal poster artwork. Includes Prince Rupert playing Robert Fripp's black Les Paul and a lizard wearing headphones. www.tickettailor.com/events/themo...

Get a load of this. 😆

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Word of the Day: SOCKENSCHLÄFER (German) a wimp, literally ‘someone who sleeps with socks on’.

Today is release day for To Risk Your Heart by my band High Wire Act. It's 9 songs about feelings and loud guitars, and possibly a secret alien but that might be a metaphor. Please have a listen over on bandcamp (or wherever you like to stream music) highwireact.bandcamp.com/album/to-ris...

I can't help but feel as though all this heat over whether Nigel Farage was a racist bigot fifty years ago is a distraction from the same discussion the press and political class continue to dodge: That the party he leads, right now, is a, racist, bigoted, far-right political party.

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Into the blue, where once the Danes slipped by eleven centuries past. River Lea looking north on a cold wintry day. #Hertfordshire

just at the end of a snow squall you'll see for maybe ten seconds the weirdest and most beautiful light on earth. thats what you tell an old person when they ask you why you always have your phone

In 2019 a group of Bolivian indigenous women aka the “Climbing Cholitas” summitted Mount Aconcagua, Argentina (highest point - Southern Hemisphere) The women had previously worked for years as cooks for mostly rich male mountaineers. They climbed in traditional dress #WomensArt

Christmas card created c.midC20th, by George Buday, at Netherne Hospital where he was compelled live. One of many cards he designed for art therapist Edward Adamson, Buday was a professional artist & historian of Christmas cards, who had his own studio in an old summerhouse in the hospital grounds

After the urine collection device in his spacesuit broke, Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon with a boot full of pee.

Oh no, that's really terrible news. If you like soul music at all, you've loved something that Steve Cropper was intimately involved in at Stax

Landscapes painted on the surfaces of cut logs by US artist Alison Moritsugu #WomensArt

'Way home' by contemporary German artist Katja Lang #WomensArt

December's #FullMoon is known as the #ColdMoon. Artwork by Catherine Hyde, contemporary UK artist #womensart #ArtAdvent

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

OMG, there’s just seven seats left for Sunday’s Lizard Listening Party at the Water Rats. Thanks so much for supporting me, Sid Smith and Mike. Still a chance to come along, scoff a mince pie with us, and enjoy Steven Wilson’s excellent new stereo mix. tinyurl.com/Crimson-Lizard-Tix

Turned my multivitamins into an advent calendar. Treat yourself x

Once again, the Supreme Court ruling on the interpretation of women has nothing to do with whether a private organisation can admit trans women or not. The WI can adapt its constitution as it wishes. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If you love retro, brutalist artwork as much as me and my friends do, do have a look at Gail's designs. Perfect Christmas presents!

This BS is the result of weak lawyers giving cowardly advice. I have been advising numerous firms on inclusion issues since the decision on the legal definition of woman. That judgment does NOT require any organisation to exclude trans people from membership.

Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.