It has never been more important in most of our lifetimes than now to make art that deeply offends and concerns fascists.

They’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas. For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare. www.startribune.com/walz-demands...

there's a very specific interaction I've noticed which ONLY occurs with 1. men 2. who think my vocabulary is pretentious and it manifests as this bizarrely overfriendly condescension, like they have to explain to me how the real world works. mate I live here too I just read books

hi, part of my job is being with grieving people and I want to say to you very gently DO NOT DO THIS, STOP TRYING TO MAKE THIS A THING

And finally, because I'm allowed a bit of beef occasionally: Noël Coward was not an authority on the Norfolk landscape.

My favourite way of saying “we’re on it” or “we’ll take care of that for you” is the Dutch we zullen dat varkentje wel even wassen. It means “we will certainly get that piglet washed.”

Indeed, Anne Frank was a teenager who was culturally Dutch, having moved here at age 4, but was not a citizen. For Americans asking what they would do for a non-citizen child facing deportation to an unsafe country they never knew, there is a lot to think about here.

To repeat: Abolish ICE.

I know I am!

Today I learned “Norwegian Christian laws forbade citizens from conversing with and interacting with trolls, and in documents dating from 1274 to 1781, doing so would result in severe punishment” (source: Wikipedia), and I kinda think many people nowadays would be better off if this law was revived

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

‘Could we just do that again? I lost the line’

It’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”

"Cardinal Tobin said he was struck by voices in the Trump administration who seemed to be advancing a moral framework he described as 'almost a Darwinian calculus that the powerful survive and the weak don’t deserve to.' 'I would say that’s less than human'...” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

Candles for Ukraine! Do you have any spare candles from Advent / Christmas Services? Any condition / colour, whole / stubs. If so, and you're in Buckinghamshire / Bedfordshire / Oxfordshire +, please get in touch and I'll collect them. They will be remade & sent to Ukraine, giving them light & heat.

Surely some PhD candidate out there's already written a paper about how True Crime has parallels with fairytales, right? In that a lot of ppl partake in them as cautionary tales, instructional narratives they listen to on the outside chance they wind up in similar situations, literal or metaphorical

I can't believe that this has been an option the entire time *sets up school for raccoons against racism*

The new Barbie comes with a range of accessories to reflect her status as an autistic woman, such as: - noise-cancelling headphones - a fidget spinner - intense social media scrutiny about how she's Being Autistic Wrong

Anne Sexton

if someone is being open about their struggles with mental illness & your instinct is to “warn” them that people won’t respect them or that their job is in jeopardy—you’re telling on yourself. silence & stigma & shame kill people. that there’s “safety” in silence is a lie.

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!

In Agadoo did Kubla Khan Push pineapples, shake the tree

Either my citizenship is the same as yours, or what's the fucking point

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

For your collective delectation this holiday season: Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!) loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...

Imagine, for just a second, Biden saying this about Fox News. And I bet the absolutely feckless White House press corps won’t cover this like the legit constitutional 1A disaster this is.

O Weihnachtschwein, o Weihnachtschwein, Wie lecker sind dein Schinken! Du gruntest durch ganz Sommerzeit Bis dein Winter-Schinkenhaftigkeit

How Pigs Shaped Medieval Life www.medievalists.net/2024/11/how-... #pigs

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🧵/ Today a damning parliamentary report on the state of palliative care services in England was published. Services are patchy, underfunded & “ill-equipped” to address end-of-life needs. Bereavement support is “frequently inaccessible. The palliative care workforce is in a “critical” situation”.

Every question headline should end like this “Is Trump’s cognition in decline? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer” “Will there be a third WICKED movie? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer” “Who will go 1st in the NBA draft? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons” etc

Le Royaume-Uni pourrait faire face à une invasion de petits kangourous 🦘 bit.ly/43HLRyh

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Let's see the Reformers and the uncontrolled immigrationiks deal with this: www.bbc.com/news/article...

From today's editing. In Bishop Wilton (inevitably in Yorkshire, @lvhicks.bsky.social): 'An early cricket challenge match for a purse of £20 was played at Garrowby New Inn on 4–5 December 1834.' Cricket in April is challenging enough. On the Wolds in Advent? Over two days?! Respect.

This is disastrous; hospices do such important work, not only to give people a good death, but to provide pain management and other services to people with terminal conditions. The staff in hospices work so, so hard and the fact that these institutions depend on charity to operate is a scandal.

Let’s be real: approximately ten seconds after you told Tolkien that Catholics couldn’t go to Mass because they were afraid of being disappeared by agents of the government, he’d be out there protesting.

#firstdraft feelings

Elon Musk should be excluded from the United Kingdom until he publicly withdraws his 13th September argument for violence in the UK. He should certainly be excluded from the Royal Society given his predictions of the inevitability of civil war *and* his argument for violence as therefore legitimate

Happy World Kangaroo Day to all who celebrate🦘

The point of Christianity is not to shore up British identity. Or American identity. It just isn’t.

Friends! Romans! Countrymen! Lend me your gears

#Racist #UK #LabourParty does not learn & continues to pander to rather than challenge the #FarRight I wonder how many " #NativeSpeaker " anti- #immigration #Reform supporters have A level standards of #English? #TESOL #AppliedLinguistics #EthnicDiversity #RefugeesWelcome www.bbc.com/news/article...

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand Audiolingualism makes a comeback