Absolutely pathetic

It’s 2012. Trump is a joke reality TV star. Manchester United are a successful, serious football club.

I’m reminded of the ‘communists for Trump’ group I knew of in Sheffield in 2016. Believed he’d end US interference in foreign countries. Very pro-Venezuela and Cuba regimes too…

Dressed for the blizzard in Dresden but it’s 9 hours later and I’m now in Sicily where it’s 18 degrees

So you’re telling me the FIFA peace prize wasn’t a real thing?

If you are still posting on X, surely this is a red line? You aren't fighting against this; you're facilitating it.

And still the fireworks go on…

I like to think of myself as not authoritarian but zero tolerance for this lot

Someone has emerged for their pancakes

Pitoni messinesi

The fireworks are starting to ramp up now and the cats have gone under the bed. I guess we won’t see them until tomorrow morning now

Turn away for an hour and this appears

"When adults learn a new language, the brain undergoes a period of active rewiring. You're forming new neural pathways and strengthening existing ones to link unfamiliar sounds, words and grammatical patterns to meaning. It's a workout for memory, attention & problem-solving.”

Setting off industrial quantities of fireworks on the 29th December is absurdly pathetic

Incidentally, if "migrants should have fewer rights" is stage one, then "dual citizens have divided loyalties" is almost invariably stage two of every historical example of mass oppression. Usually followed by second/third-generation migrants or full citizens of a particular minority being targeted.

They haven’t started here (yet) but this is ready for when they do

Must have drink a lot last night because I seem to think England have won a test match in Australia

I am again regretting buying a Day 4 ticket for next summer

Farcical. Again

Might open a bakery

December classics - sinus irritation

Nah he’s a one nation Tory who would grudgingly vote Lib Dem

Feliz Weihnachten y Buon Christmas to alles

Christmas Eve lunch plus wine

Surprised Trump isn’t ranting about how unfair it is that Jesus is getting all the attention today and not his totally awesome super economy

Italian man stopped at Swiss border by customs www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...

‘England are being coached by a New Zealander’ ‘Judging by the performances is it Murray from Flight of the Conchords?’

Christmas is here: random Psych episodes streaming for free

“Thank you for the invitation. I’m sure your Christmas event will be fun but I’m going to be busy”

I assume England will have lost by the time I wake up tomorrow

Today's the neighbourhood christmas gathering, I have a cold, a mountain of spreadsheet checking and paper reviews to do, four more working days to go, England are once again bad at cricket, I still can't drive, my cat is running around screaming with a pillow in her mouth. Can I go back to sleep?

#Ashes 0-5

Meanwhile England's cricketers consider batting sensibly and to the conditions....

My driving instructor was very friendly but there’s just something about the way errors are communicated that made me think I should just get a bicycle

No England are not doing well. It’s a very obvious trap and we’ll have lost by an innings by Friday

Yes I am that petty

A bit different to last night

I genuinely think that was one of the best shows I’ve been too. It’s often better when a band has no album to promote and just plays good songs (and The Gloaming…)

It’s Radiohead day! And I am now aware it’s been over 15 years since the greatest live performance I ever witnessed youtu.be/asqFSCySFck?...

On the latest, unsurprising "Farage likes Hitler" news bsky.app/profile/jmor...

"Resisting is hard, but maybe if we do almost everything the far-right want now, when they inevitably take power from us they'll go easy and not march us up against the wall first..."

So Dresden elect a cult of car lobbyists and at the first opportunity they get they work with the AfD to gut the public transport authority...

This is the worst ‘I need a holiday after the holiday’ feeling yet

I detest Stansted Airport