A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

Terrible, always a total magnet. His story about getting cast in Goodfellas, basically his first movie, is so charming www.avclub.com/isiah-whitlo...

“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”

Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British? Interesting www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein

Reform UK Review 2025 Nigel Farage's nephew Joseph was found guilty to upskirting a woman in a Co-op after placing a mobile phone “beneath clothing of another without consent”. People who committed the same offence were put on the sex offenders register. He was only fined for £576...

Sunday lunch out (were planning small plates but the place we fancied only so Sunday roast on Sundays now so we did that). And then just chicken satay skewers for dinner, followed by cheese!😁

'Still life of asparagus.' (1697) Adriaen Coorte's still lifes set against a plain dark background, are enormously appealing to the modern eye, his work fell into obscurity in the 18thC and 19thC; a reappraisal about his career was published in the 1950s.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

I'm not always the biggest fan of the honours system, but this is wonderful, and very well-deserved:

Life really does come at you fast when you're Liz Truss

For those who would like to avoid 🤷🏼‍♂️

AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Accidental Pink Floyd 😆

Even just a few years ago, it would have been inconceivable for a major political party to have tolerated this sort of behaviour as long as Reform UK Ltd has tolerated Parry

Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying www.france24.com/en/americas/... @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

Absolutely! I live in a very rural village in the Low Weald of Kent and am an active member of our local wildlife group/ farming cluster. Every single local farmer and landowner wants a ban on trail hunting / hare shooting due to the damage to their land and brutality of the fox hunt. Ban it!

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

Festive broth is on. Turkey scraps off the breast. Turkey stock 1 Chicken Oxo 1 large parsnip diced ½cm 2 large carrots diced ½cm 1 finger shallot diced Ten peeled and chopped sprouts 2 onions sliced ¼ moon ½cm 2tsp garlic granules 1tsp salt, pepper, parsley, sage, rose, rosemary and thyme, and

70% of people living in rural areas want a ban. The Countryside Alliance is an astroturf organisation which doesn't represent ordinary rural people. Why platform their views when The Guardian could do some actual journalism and talk to rural people? And turn comments on?

The health service is being put at risk because overseas health professionals increasingly see the UK as an “unwelcoming, racist” country, in part because of the government’s tough approach to immigration www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

THIS is one of the easiest ways to take action against Palantir EVER!! All done with a click & I urge you to do the same Thank you @goodlawproject.bsky.social notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

Winter tomatoes with olive oil and oak smoked tomato balsamic vinegar, Speck, Comte, Montagnolo, sourdough bread, some hummus, and some black grapes. 😁 And a few bites of a salted caramel brownie.

@avochie.bsky.social has a hot take for us. Banning cruel sports is bad because (checks notes) people should be allowed to do whatever the fuck they want to if they live in the country and they've been doing it for centuries. #blockable

New study: AI-related water use now exceeds the entirety of global bottled-water demand www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Scrooge was the good guy

These two are awesome

Happy Christmas to all my Bluesky friends!

Off to bed now. Merry Christmas to those that mark it. If you don't, enjoy the day off all the same. If you're working, I feel your pain, having been on shift for a good few over my years, but you chaps keep the country running. Hope you get a decent break when it comes.

BBC News - Russell Brand charged with new rape and sexual assault offences

My Christmas themed December favourites list is here, with Christmas cooking and telly. snigskitchen.blogspot.com/2025/12/dece...

North Berwick allows the jaded lawyer at Christmas to step off the road and onto the street.

Something tells us that we're going to be correcting a lot of people today... maryrose.org/discover/his...

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Gravy making has begun! These chopped turkey necks and whole turkey tails will be browned in the oven. Then I'll put the contents of the tray into a large stockpot, pour in stock and more fresh herbs and simmer for an hour before straining. If there's too much fat, this is when I'll remove it.

ICYMI - the third recipe I published from Sabrina's Persiana Easy is this fabulous Ginger Broth with Chicken Koftas and Noodles. SO DAMN DELICIOUS!

#PostOfficeScandal 'The revelation directly contradicts the Post Office's claims during criminal prosecutions - which led to hundreds of wrongful convictions and civil cases that destroyed livelihoods - that no bugs existed capable of causing accounting shortfalls.' BBC www.bbc.com/news/article...

I read the blurb of one of his books & that was enough. I often buy books for family & friends. Never his. They should be pulped. There are some fabulous authors for children, Michael Morpurgo, Julia Donaldson etc... their characters are funny, original - never ever stereotypical, racist or cruel.

Massive sinkhole collapses part of a Shropshire canal, flooding a paddock, claiming narrowboats, and making several people homeless this Christmas. youtu.be/pjZuOZQGDZU?...

Just seen this reported.

Fun fact: when Michael Flatley drinks champagne he turns into Michael Bublé.

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.

My Christmas themed December favourites list is here, with Christmas cooking and telly. snigskitchen.blogspot.com/2025/12/dece...

This is such an insultingly implausible lie. She's clearly supposed to be black.

It's the time of the year when I share recipes from Kavey Eats that I think work well for Christmas! First up, my mum's tandoori roast leg of lamb. We have it with the usual British Christmas dinner sides and trimmings! www.kaveyeats.com/christmas-da...

If anyone missed the Algae × Hello Kitty exhibition at Osaka Expo, it's now on display at the Kanayama Minami Building Museum Wing in Nagoya through 2/15/2026. cte.jp/hello-kitty/