We’ll know when Yaxley-Lennon is a Christian when he repents, apologises and changes his ways, welcoming strangers and refugees and giving his wealth to the poor.

No.

A post from @nportnell.bsky.social last night sent me to work! Top 25 albums of the last 25 years. As the evening went on the list just kept growing, but here's my 25 in no order 🎶 Two points, I've only included one album per artist & I've probably missed out a number of albums I love.. #musicsky

Fun fact: Trail hunting is just hunting dogs following a scent....but then they happen to "accidentally" stumble across a fox/fox den when out, and rip them to shreds...

45 years after they allowed 10 Irish hunger strikers to starve to death, the British government are taking the same policy against Palestinian protestors. Back then it was Margaret Thatcher, today Kier Starmer. I hope he will be remembered with the same disdain as she is.

You don't know what day it is. You're eating countless meals a day with lots of snacks in between. You're napping throughout they day. Either it's the time between Christmas and New Year or you're a cat.

Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."

Im addicted to cold turkey but I don’t know how to quit it.

“At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”—Albert Schweitzer

Good news! Gut bacteria in reptiles and amphibians have #cancer fighting properties and a specific one attacks tumor tissue while amping up the immune response, enlisting extra help from T cells, B cells, and neutrophils to shrink tumors, sometimes completely. www.sciencealert.com/powerful-ant...

“You boy, what day is it?” “Fucked if I know, sir”

As Hannah Arendt put it: "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." Undermining that distinction will be a lasting legacy of generative AI.

So not a meeting. A spectacle.

RIP Perry Bamonte, guitarist for The Cure youtu.be/mGgMZpGYiy8

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan https://theonion.com/cat-clinging-to-side-of-christmas-tree-admits-that-was-1849899567/

Reminder if you haven’t posted your #VinylSanta yet, please do, sharing your VS here is a big part of the event. Be considerate and appreciative to your sender and post.

Huge thanks once again to the @vinylsanta.bsky.social gang for organising & shepherding yet another amazing community beano x

I’m so grateful for the kind words and kind gift. I’m completely taken aback. Thank you so much. 🤍🤍🤍 Sorry for missing 7pm last night, just lots to manage. I hope everyone has an amazing Christmas and can spend time with the things and people they love 🤍 #VinylSanta (And yes, I did cry xx)

Oh my - multiple parcels and a card! Maybe I did make the nice list after all?! #vinylsanta

Superb selection of sevens to bring instant festive cheers - Pinky & Perky (yay Xmas mixtape sample fodder) and 3 disco classics that I don’t have in the handiest of all formats; Odyssey, Sylvester & Evelyn King! 🥰

The mystery package was a jazz trio of tapes! Amazing scenes from #vinylsanta 😍

The delights just keep coming in the main parcel - Dillinger, Sinatra, Partridge Family Christmas, Country classics on Capitol, Keith Jarrett, HLM, Edmundo Ros & Ethiopian Urban & Tribal Music. All terrifically interesting looking, and none of which I have - #vinylsanta excels again, truly grateful!

And this excellent card, with a lovely message from #vinylsanta is the icing on the Christmas cake. What a brilliantly put together selection, a huge thank you whoever you are, and a big shout to @vinylsanta.bsky.social for organising in such fine fashion. Merry Christmas folks! xx

Sorry I’m late - terrible traffic, first layer of gaffer is off, I’m going in! #vinylsanta

For most, it's Christmas Eve, but for some of us it's #vinylsanta and whoever got me sent some bangers. Look at these Ralph Records 7"s with Gary Panter artwork!

#vinylsanta 🥳 Cor wot a lovely selection. Thank you 🙏 to you and the organisers 👏 always brings joy, some years of life are harder than others and bright spots like this help ❤️

Christmas Eve - the night where Vinyl Secret Santa’s gather to gift strangers records … opening begins at 7PM 🎁 I have been admiring this ritual from afar for years, so very pleased to be part of it this year #vinylsanta @vinylsanta.bsky.social

Bring some Trojan joy to your Christmas Eve with our festive playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7bBjMd1tsGzLlO6D5BBIsC?si=21517cff74ca4cb1

If you can spare a few bob in memory of our Late, Resident Thespian Vince @golfyfun.bsky.social it would be appreciated. He was a big fan and supporter of @vinylsanta.bsky.social as well as being a bloody fine human being. Miss him a lot Cheers & Thank You 🍺🍺

Lucy Dacus - Forever is a Feeling has been sitting comfortably in my top #5albums25 most of the year. I thought it had, possibly, slipped to 5th or even just outside, in recent weeks but I think it’s just played itself back in. Sounding absolutely lovely on wax through the Linn/B&W setup 🤤 #MusicSky

None of the flunkies in Trump's Cabinet will dare tell him he's doing math wrong. This is what Mussolini would've acted like if he'd gotten a lobotomy.

Gender-affirming care helps trans kids live happy, healthy lives. Health care decisions belong to families and our doctors, not politicians.

Meanwhile, they still have a good sense of humor in Chicago. This place has been around a long time.

BREAKING: Epstein survivors issue a new statement blasting Trump’s DOJ for failing to release all Epstein files and for not redacting survivors’ identities

This is becoming a very very shameful episode - and a tragedy for these young and courageous people and their friends and families filtonactionists.com

Off out for some final musical gifts? Or, fancy treating yourself to make up for the hell of all other shops? You need my final @clashmusic.com column of 2025 to help you make some excellent choices: www.clashmusic.com/features/jus...

jake paul entered a boxing match wearing the logos of a irl massive racist and then got his jaw broken by a black man. i think that's beautiful

Disgusting

We’re going to have one unhappy dog on December 26th.

Wanting energy 🤣

Howlsalva Gwav | a journey to the magical folk reality of Montol Montol is the Penzance Winter Solstice celebration. New film Howlsavla Gwav takes you on a journey as worlds and people intertwine

🎶"... She wore an itsy, bitsy, teenie, weenie..."🎶

Things have gotten so bad that Fleetwood Mac has officially announced they've stopped thinking about tomorrow.

Came across Clarissa Dickson-Wright’s autobiography in a charity shop. It is everything a devotee of weird history could hope for

simply having a wonderful Christmas time

Remembering Gwen McCrae on her birthday. Here's a playlist celebrating her brilliant work from deep soul through fabulous funk to joyous disco ▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/2dL...

Another one bites the dust 🎉 Let’s line up the others…. Tommeh Farage Trump Oh how glorious that would be.