Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

this post has annoyed some people on Twitter. good. naomialderman.substack.com/p/i-love-pri...

Not my house but I know my way around

Polite Society is on Film4, Wednesday night at 9pm and I'd hugely recommend it: teenage would-be stuntwoman plots to stop her older sister's wedding, having decided the bridegroom is secretly evil. Enormous fun - this was my NYE film a couple of years ago.

I support experts getting called by the BBC to give comment and their comment being "this is really cool".

Quite impressed with the integration of the "pay your tax return" page. Scan a QR code from the .gov.uk website, it opens my bank app, the correct details and reference ID are already filled in for me to just approve.

Blue Monday is a lie. Pink Monday is REAL. Why not buy Cursed Under London and/or Cursed in the Lost City today and enjoy the fantasy Tudor romcom hijinks on what is no worse a day than any other? farragobooks.com/book/cursed-...

Operation Mincemeat (1943)

“Your mad wife burned Thornfield to the ground? Surely you can’t be serious.” “I am. And don’t call me Shirley.” — Jane Eyreplane

Todd Draws The Wheel of Time, Book 12 The Gathering Storm - Chapter 27 - The Tipsy Gelding #ToddDrawsWoT #TheWheelofTime #WheelOfTime #WoTSkies #WoTSky #WoTBookSpoilers

Made a silly mistake in checking what size of this jumper has the correct width, but not checking the length. Is not cropped, the designer is just 5'1!

Possibly my favourite recent Thing With Shakespeare In It.

Daffs o'clock already!

We’re visiting a high-school friend of my wife and LOOK AT THIS PAINTING HER DAUGHTER DID

Most of these brands aren't even available where I live but I applaud this guy's dedication www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/s/...

Off to AO3 to see if there's any fic where Murderbot and Breq have a nice chat about not being robots but maybe sometimes it's easier if people kind of think you're a robot.

What we have established in this thread is that there’s a club in Cambridge that is to this day called Cindie’s, despite being renamed multiple times since the early 80’s, when the name was Cinderella Rockefeller

Status: Just finished reading an ARC of Platform Decay Emotion check: I still fucking love Murderbot

Having colleagues in Norway makes this suggestion extra chaotic. How long is this meeting? My time or your time?

Truly an adaptable queen

What's this? Black jeans? I must immediately rub myself against them

I once got locked up in the Battlestar Galactica boardgame because I had misunderstood the rules and none of the other players believed I could *actually* be that incompetent so I must be working against them as the Cylon.

I need a nice official page that I can use to invite / bully people into coming

Probably a bit late in the day to be mentioning it, but if you're able to pop along to Up the Creek comedy club* tonight, you'll get to see us doing our thing alongside a whole bunch of other legends. It could/should/will be a lot of fun. *In London. Centre of the universe.

"Deceptive behaviour is something we can look for with the Traitors right?" Not really? Not pointless deception? Why would a Traitor want a shield more than they wanted money in the prize pot? Especially when there's the risk of people finding out and thinking you're a bit of a dick. #TheTraitors

It's a doggy dog world

If they try to murder someone with a shield, does the non-victim get informed? I don't think so? #TheTraitors

What a NOVEL way hurr hurr #TheTraitors

People need to remember that "I'm not a Traitor" doesn't mean someone is right. Just like "if I die it was Sarah" isn't reliable. #TheTraitors

This one with the sideburns probably thinks he looks like Greg Wise in Sense and Sensibility #TheTraitors

Yes girl you hold onto that shield #TheTraitors

Rachel is not going to be able to act normal around her bestie #TheTraitors

personally I think that in a world with reproductive freedom, there will always be a majority of people who are deeply genuinely drawn to have kids and who love children, and there will also always be a large minority of people who go “nah, no thanks, I would prefer to do other things”

This is just Galadriel as played by Jennifer Coolidge

When I read a fantasy book I'm always very invested in the food so this is great news

Neighbours took on my delivery of cat litter and released it on the condition that their seven year old could meet the cat. She'd clearly been cat-trained, very careful and quiet, and Pixie was friendly!

The pub in my parents village is a UPS parcel drop off/ collection point and they're posting on Facebook telling everyone to bring their parcels and have a pint. I like it.

I'm running a popular romance course at the University of Liverpool... but only if enough people sign up! Come and join us! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

Don't be suspicious

Reposting this because 1 - good alt text on a chart 2 - the headline is "same procedure as every year" and I understood that reference (sorry for being so late reading your end-Dec newsletter @thatsoph.bsky.social )

NEW: London has recorded its lowest homicide rate since records began. The evidence is clear - our approach to tackling violent crime is working.

Fancy a trip around the British Museum with a weird nerd lecturing you about Videogames?! This Friday I'm running an evening tour... it's the next closest experience to being locked in a lift with me for a couple of hours. Marketing is my passion... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-videog...

it was SO GOOD let's DO IT AGAIN www.eventbrite.com/e/heated-riv...

#CookJan Made some lunches for the freezer as well

You’re right—swallowing the bird was a half-measure. The bird did eat the spider, as planned, but now you have a bird in you. It reminds you of swallowing the spider to catch the fly. You’re seeing the pattern. Would you like me to suggest some animals which could eat the bird?

"Please be aware that this programme contains some discriminatory language" Going in on the gay ice hockey show

Public service announcement: If you wear hearing aids (even if you're only a little bit deaf) you can get a Disabled Railcard, which is a very good railcard to have.

anyone know if you can get the glasgow airport bus (the 500) free with a disabled NEC?

I love my city

You wouldn't click on a link you don't recognise