Good morning! Last night I learned three important things: 1) My flight today from Toronto to NYC to give a talk in the Planetarium at AMNH tomorrow was cancelled due to the snow 2) The best alternative Air Canada could offer me was Wednesday morning: too late! 3) But there is a TRAIN 🚂

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

Why do I keep missing the Northern lights!?

Folks, I am cautiously optimistic!

@teeleeau.bsky.social thought of you

Perfect, was just starting to look.

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

Perhaps it is the season to leave social media behind. But how to be informed about what's happening?

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

They fixed it today around noon. Which was pretty quick. It's not warm yet though but on the way. Underfloor heating is a sloooow process.

My timeline is full of cats, dogs, rabbits, and all other kinds of animals. Thanks everyone. Happy New Year!

Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

One of the best accounts on BlueSky

My 2026 word is preeminent @merriam-webster.com

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.

464. Die Affen von Sulawesi (Meet The Monkeys)

Our home heating is out... How is your 2026 going so far? 🤣

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

It's -3°C (feels like -7°) in Ziegenrück

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Someone torched a "Kältebus" (Cold Bus for the homeless to be brought in) and damaged another last night in Berlin and they need help. www.berliner-stadtmission.de/spenden/onli...

After 36 years in Bangkok, I’ve decided to jot down some of the experiences I’ve had around SE Asia during some tumultuous times. Starting an ad agency, opening a nightclub, traveling the region. 7 chapters so far. Give it a read if you have some weekend down time: open.substack.com/pub/qbarandrew

On the A4 heading east. -2.5°C. We are about 20mins from Eisenach (Herleshausen).

That's not the moon!

I have no more goats to give in 2025. Also read this thread!

Prepping for risotto

Remember folks, there is one more day where Rewe (Aldi, Edeka etc) is closed. Hope you all survive.

Warning, this is home made for taste and ease. None of that lemon zest stuff of authenticity.

This was also exactly our breakfast today but I forgot to take photos.

German Christmas biscuits for breakfast.

Christmas dinner is served!

Ossobuco Step 1 Buy a lot of Beinscheibe And let them warm to room temperature at least.

Tomorrow lunch will be Ossobuco. Will share a WIP thread. But first enjoying Bibi Blocksberg this afternoon.

Beautiful sunny cold Christmas day. Merry Christmas y'all. Happy holidays and celebrations whatever you celebrate!

It's Christmas and you've forgotten to buy any presents for anyone? WORRY NOT and wipe those tears away. Surprise them with a FREE DEMO of the hot new thing in town, INSECTA VINDICTA. FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY! store.steampowered.com/app/4100290/...

Us Lankans believe in hospitality and getting the post delivered right #SriLanka #lka

But was it also December 1985!?

It’s an angel! My husband bought it for me. When the light shines through, it glows.

Do what's the best thing this year for you? Anything at all

Expand the post to see the cat

How many meetings to go before the holidays?

26 years ago today, Q Bar Bangkok opened with a bang. Bangkok in the late ’90s, was a different city – The story of how an advertising agency led me accidentally into co-running one of Southeast Asia’s most iconic nightclubs. 👉 qbarandrew.substack.com/p/chapter-6-... #Bangkok #Nightlife #History

"Seb, what are your christmas plans?" Well:

Become ungovernable

I am making a unashamedly anti fascist game. Is it art? I don't know. But it's brought me joy store.steampowered.com/app/4100290/...

Today is the 5 year anniversary to when I slowly started losing my mind during the pandemic and began dressing up as works of art. As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky? This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862

Donate to WWF today and you can help support our conservation work around the world AND pick an item of your choice as our thanks to you. To receive your item before December 24th, we recommend that you donate before the end of TODAY (December 15th): https://wwf.to/4a5dUeW.