R.E. the Brooklyn Beckham drama. I don't know the Beckhams, or what goes on behind the scenes. But I can share this. 1/14

The sun will rise in #Cardiff #Wales tomorrow at 8:04, 67 seconds earlier than the day before. It will set at 16:43, 101 seconds later than the day before.

“I'm glad you have enough love in your life that that response comes naturally. If anything, you should be proud of that :)”

My vintage mirror has a crack. There's a crack in my reflection. You don't see the true me. The crack is always there. It never goes away. I thought this old mirror obscured my reflection. But it's the only one that shows my true face. #trigeminalneuralgia www.instagram.com/p/DTszjl_jKa...

Wrote the car off in a hedge in the middle of the nowhere in the Brecon Beacons, fortunately no one hurt. A German family in their campervan picked me up and drove me 20 miles out of their way to a garage.

I love victorian names 😍 @actualnames.bsky.social #Wales

I dug out an old art journal in readiness for a course tmrw, and what I'd written then could serve for so much right now. 😢 (printed text in the alt)

Ultimately the crackdown on transness has never been about trans people its never been about us. Its the struggle between the firm hand of heteronormative patriarchy and the freedom of feminism, bodily autonomy, reproductive rights. We are just the border where that war is fought

So when I shared this chain of ICE incident posts, I made the mistake of thinking 'door dasher' was a colloquial term for someone fleeing to a neighbour from ICE, didn't understand it was a term for takeaway delivery.

very much enjoying the quote tweets here.

I only learned about door dashers today.

Me in the evening: I'll wait until the morning to take a photo of that thing for Freegle, it'll look better in daylight January: lol. lmao

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

Reminder that feeling heartbroken, weary, scared and bewildered is the absolute normal response to everything that is going on. You are not failing as a human being, you are actually being human. Love and Solidarity.

Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.

What's your mythical creature that turned out to be real? As a kid, I had a book that had humming bird illustrations alongside dragons and princesses, so when I discovered they were real it was like hearing unicorns exisited! (not extant in Afro-eurasia - which often surprises North Americans)

I practice piano with headphones on. Five minutes before food was due I could hear this one demanding food.

Help, help, I have a v dangerous black panther hiding under my furniture!

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

I'm still not over knowing about a Palestinian women who died in her car in labour, at checkpoint because the IDF refused to let her get to a hospital (I worked at Oxfam years ago + NGOs coordinate). It's unbearable to hear about this. This is despotism, and it's beyond ugly.

I am this >< close to returning my PS5, can I get ANY support from @playstation.com?! Apparently not. Url to verify email expired so can't reset password, can't register the damn thing. Can't purchase online games. Oh they took my credit card no. quite happily! Lost HOURS trying to find workaround.

Rolling out the pie crust this morning and was like wait why does this look familiar

Generationally, the US Senate is comically unrepresentative of the general US population. Source: buff.ly/SvkDT4I

Garden dreaming: My garden slumbers under stone, and hides behind the meadow grass. The leaves whisper it to me, “Not long now, I’m almost here.” Happy New Year 🌱

This is so wonderful. My mom painted this at age 68 when her dementia was still in the mild stage. It was just far along enough to quiet the internal “you’re not artistic” voice in her head — a voice many of us have and shouldn’t listen to.

Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.

Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s: www.rigb.org/christmas-le... I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!

OMG I have to have this: sylvandesign.co/collections/...

I suspect there are many of us who'd love to stand up and go "Social media? Fuck that shit, I don't do it! I'm all about being the proud mysterious anti-digital artist, me" but I guess we weigh it up and conclude, "Actually, much as the concept appeals, I think I'd prefer to be able to pay my rent."

Exactly this. Scotland, Wales & NI are ridiculously underpolled. Between late September and Late November: - Scotland had 2 polls (1 of those was commssioned by a party) - Wales had 1 - despite one of the most remarkable by-elections in recent history. - NI had 1 Westminster had over 40.

Tiny posy from the garden in a cobalt blue Victorian jelly ink bottle, December 30th 2025

The origin story of Clair Obscure E33 puts me in mind of a famous art collective or the Ballet Russe. Guillaume Broche etc are impresarios in the truest sense — nurturing creative talent. It’s not just a game, but a masterpiece of incredible writing, art, acting, motion graphics and sublime music.

Today I asked a friend what he was doing the rest of the week and he said "that's only 2 days" and I snapped back "I mean into New Years Day and you know it"

Public service announcement Just so we're all clear, this week the bins go out on Fratunday morvening, with the exception of mixed glass clippings and general garden food. Those go out on Modnesday, before 15.87am.

Have some how hit the vein of migrants to Britain on reels, desperately waxing lyrical about the solstice, the lack of light, the imposition of the season, their desperation for the return of the sun and OMG am I hear for it. "Dude it goes dark at 4pm, what is that even all about..." LOLSOB

🎄🐐🎉 For people who’ve left toxic family (or who want to!) Escapegoats Anonymous: No-Contact Affirming Zoom Christmas Party - sharing, silly games & prizes. Dress-up welcome but optional. 🎄🐐🎉 www.eventbrite.com/e/escapegoat... 🎄🐐🎉 #mentalhealth #survivors #alternativechristmas #mentalwellbeing

Someone's had a nightmare here 😂

yesterday we cleared out the painting area at work and some of the trays were glorious

And you can farm underneath them! With very little loss of productivity!

😂😍

Lovable Victorian Urchin's Guide to a Merry Christmas youtube.com/shorts/fLIh7...

Brilliant 🧵

If you wanted to know how many pubs in the UK had a specific name in a specific year (eg "How many pubs called The Bell were there in 2020"), what would be the easiest way to find that out?

Was wondering how to wrap the 'I've put some money for your holiday in your account' presents. Must remember this for next year 😇🎄🎁

I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful. A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.

Why doesn't Cardiff have a Tom Forth to do graphs and machine learning about why we're never getting trams?

It took me five minutes to find out that an online anti-queer hate preacher is on Utah's sex offender registry. Start taking anti-queer smears as confessions. Seriously, if we actually care about kids' safety, that's what we should do.

UK gays, go play Kylie’s XMAS. Keep her on top. Make sure she’s the Christmas #1. YouTube streams count as part of the official UK charts. youtu.be/3B5Zcou91yA?...