Like this Lisa Nandy line from her interview with @theguardian.com.

The Ring surveillance story is bigger in the US than UK. But Apple fans who went with Aqara doorbells instead because they worked with Apple Home may still feel a bit smug. (Until the inevitable 2027 story about how their doors are being monitored by the Chinese government instead)

Macbeth: SHIT

Q: What connects Darth Vader (18), Luke Skywalker (4), Han Solo (3), R2D2 (2), Princess Leia (1) and Boba Fett (1)? A: It’s how often they are named in the #Epstein Files.

Still getting my head round living in a UK where the most popular party with women under 50 is the Greens, while for men over 50 it’s Reform.

Thank you yes, her website is great. May her fame grow exponentially today.

Didn't see that one coming... #webcomics #comicsky

Celebrate #TheTraitors finale day by addressing colleagues in meetings using reflexive pronouns (“yourself”) instead of the objective case (“you”) for no apparent reason.

“It’s a rorsarch test, really. “And for some reason liberals keep insisting it’s a butterfly and not a bat.”

It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".

Three of the top five British grid electricity records smashed in 2025! This is a huge success story, despite what Russian bots and U.S fossil fuel shills scream on X. Every unit of clean domestic energy we produce means a safer future for our children…🥳

I, for one, would happily watch The Muppets Maltese Falcon. Bogart = Kermit Astor = Miss Piggy Lorre = Gonzo MacLane = Fozzy Greenstreet = Sam The Eagle (Etc)

Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans

My brother could not have got me a more “Best TV of 2025” surprise Xmas present unless he’d obtained a lock of Rhea Seehorn’s hair.

If you're looking for a short spooky story to listen to while wrapping Christmas presents, then you'll enjoy TOND, starring @carrieq.bsky.social. It reminded me how much I used to love the "Fear on 4" plays on Radio 4.

vibing with this chat support agent

So ZipCar's exiting London. Which means you can't plan to do anything past New Year's Eve. But it's OK! We can use @hiyacar.co.uk instead, right? Right? Nope. At just the perfect time they've got a bug with their app so haven't been able to process new drivers' licenses for weeks.

We ended up with another kid’s Christmas artwork so have sent their family a ransom note.

This kind of error annoys me. When commentators complained in the past that pupils at a particular school “can’t speak English” (but meant spoke it as an additional language) my first action was to pull up the school’s English test scores, which were normally above the national average.

Absolutely devastated by the news about Rob Reiner. By all accounts a good man, and an incredible director. I wouldn't be who I am without his run of '80s classics - and his wife Michelle shaped those because their love story fundamentally changed When Harry Met Sally, for the better.

"Post a favourite work of art from the year exactly 50 years before you were born."

I’ve long wanted to write an angry rant about how misleading Reform / GB News / the far-right have been using per capita stats - but, helpfully, @donmcgowan.bsky.social has written a better one. open.substack.com/pub/donmcgow...

The case review of Mossbourne is balanced, but I think it really shows that the journalists who pursued the story (especially @annafazack.bsky.social for The Observer) were wholly right to do so and the concern for childrens' wellbeing was justified.

Tried helping two kids with a story that combines their loves (one adores "Swallows & Amazons", the other "K-Pop Demon Hunters"). Suggested an earlier demon hunter iteration back in the 1920s. Then realised that sounded like a @stephaniehans.bsky.social + @kierongillen.bsky.social #WicDiv special

“Keep your eye clear as the bleb of the icicle, trust the feel of what nubbed treasure your hands have known”

“How are you doing, fellow kids?”

This is what posting on Bluesky feels like #pluribus

I already have a long list of “Transport things that Dutch cities do brilliantly and London doesn’t” but never thought I’d be adding this. Zipcar going is a huge, huge pain in the arse for Londoners who deliberately don’t own cars (including me). www.londoncentric.media/p/zipcar-lon...

My colleagues have published a kind post describing my new gig.

Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a… on.ft.com/4ahkNKa

If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

some of what they hate is globalisation, which like, what do you want me to do about that? uninvent oil tankers?

"We grant people different rights based on their genetic heritage and on which scrap of land they happened to be born on. That’s mad, isn’t it?" I just think, when debating immigration and so on, that we should try not to lose sight of the fact that "nationality" is a made up thing.

An image I sent to a colleague earlier before the outage was fixed...

There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million In New York - population 8.5 million - there were 391. London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago. And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing

I was tagged and asked to take a look at this claim - cos, well just look at it!🙄 Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque? It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage 🧵 1/26

@annodracula.bsky.social Am I just imagining that the first idea here was something you were suggesting maybe 20 years ago? mrmichaelshaw.medium.com/my-obvious-p...

If writers really are struggling with what to do about the next James Bond film, after blowing him up in the last one, they're welcome to my plan... (Part of it lifts an idea that @annodracula.bsky.social had many years ago) mrmichaelshaw.medium.com/my-obvious-p...

After years of being told that Microsoft software works better on PCs than a Mac I'm finding baffling how many things are actually much worse on PCs. Like if you're a working parent with a family calendar in Google, Outlook on PC insists on blocking out your whole working day for no reason.

If you report on things that are true your organisation gets decapitated, but if you let people invent racist drivel on air you're fine. Every single aspect of our information ecosystem is so, so broken.

A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset. This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI. Except... it's bollocks.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

Niche post, but as someone switching to a heavily Microsoft environment it is baffling how poorly Loop compares to @notion.com. Not just the absence of simple relational databases (Notions' USP) but basic stuff around subpages, page covers, etc. Makes me glad for the Notion team, I guess.

It’s fascinating comparing the front page coverage of the Huntingdon train attack (below) with how the British press treated another case 30 years ago. I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.

Ukrainian computer game-style drone attack system goes ‘viral’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

“We are spending scarce resources in ways that have little impact on the teacher quality needed to help pupils.” The findings from today’s @teacherdevtrust.bsky.social ‘CPD Landscape 2025’ report are concerning.

Trying to imagine what the reaction would have been if the Govt had casually announced they were replacing A-levels with no details, as they have done with post-16 vocational qualifcations today. Probably not total indifference.