Now we're cooking on gas (quite literally)

🎅🏻 The “Santa Claus effect”: booming tourism in Lapland is eating into green space in Finland, with a huge number of UK and Irish Irish tourists descending in Nov/Dec The finding is part of a major cross-border investigation into landtake in Euro 🧵👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’m a few days late to this (busy life, what can I say)... 🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨Guardian data analysis shows how a public Facebook network helps incubate far-right ideas in the UK. The scale is staggering: the combined membership is >600k and rising week-on-week👇 www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

@johncreedon.bsky.social I am very much NOT in the Morrisey camp...but my god you made up for it with Sam Cooke, the Strokes and the Libertines...you're a good egg John. No request required but tell Tim he isn't a bad egg either.

There are so many things to love about the Isle of Scilly's autorresponse to our recent FOI that I'm considering moving there... no casinos, no high rise buildings, no car parks or parking spaces from which we collect fees or charges...no parking inspectors"...

A labour of love with an insanely good Guardian and international team. Simon Goodley, Zoe Wood, @michaelgoodier.bsky.social , @juliettegarside.bsky.social , @occrp.org, SVT & 30+ news organisations across Europe 💪

Exclusive analysis carried out by the Guardian found 760 rooms being advertised in hotels, apartments and other holiday rentals in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank inc. East Jerusalem on AirBnB and Booking.com. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

"Dressed in black stockings, and wigs for the Lords, clerks carry bundles of messages tied in silk ribbons...the language in which the messages are written is…Norman French" A bizarre (& fascinating) take on the House of Lords www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Béau travau fait @direthoughts.com

Can the EU stop Musk? ‘Only one institution on the planet is large enough and powerful enough to write and enforce laws that could make the tech companies change their policies. (…) But for how much longer will the EU have this authority?’ www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

@johncreedon.bsky.social I must say I very much enjoyed the Boom Town Rats on Jools the other night... any chance of a the Great Song of Indifference by himself? And a very happy 2025 to you JC

@johncreedon.bsky.social John, you are an actual legend (Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis"...WHAT a shout!!!) Xmas eve eve is myself and Tim's Xmas (before the family madness)...so can you please wish him a very happy Christmas from me. Thank you for another year of savage tunes

Christmas begins...

🎼On the 12 days of Christmas, My young cousin and me, Will get into a very cold sea... We are doing it for two brilliant local charities: Cancer Care West and Liquid Therapy. We'd really appreciate your donations, big or small: gofund.me/d4036430

Is it just me or does Elon Musk increasingly seem like a man intent on taking down society for the lulz

What I know about football (soccer to our American friends) you could write on the back of a tiny stamp... ...but if it's your thing HERE is a list of every male player ever to have received a Guardian top 100 ranking...happy Xmas football fans ⚽️🎁!! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Tech millionaires and billionaires poured almost $400m into either side of the US election campaign...more than half that total was from Musk to Trump. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Anyone have a good US data journos starterpack please and thank you @sandhyak.bsky.social @renlarson.bsky.social

Sure, completed crocheted amigurumi are cute... ...but I have to live with the grisly headless versions

Anyone know how to mute new follower notifications (and just them)? Happy complaint but they are a bit annoying.

Bluesky data exercise: counting how many dog pics I need to like before I see more dogs than cats in my feed.

It felt like it took as much time to get a pic of all of these facing forward as it did to crochet the thing (although the sheep was having none of it...)

“Some of them look at you and hold their nose and walk backwards, and stay in eye contact with you, as if to say ‘you are smelly’.” I love Ireland, but this kind of ugly anti-immigrant sentiment is growing and needs to be called out. Necessary reading by @lisaocarroll.bsky.social

Me of 4 minutes ago: "my logic is flawed...I'm going to have redo EVERYTHING 😤" Me of 2 minutes ago having made a tiny tweak: "I am a genius! 🤗"

Anyone else get all their 2FA codes wiped after the last Google authenticator auto-update? Or am I just special?

In the never ending battle of me versus the number of tabs open on my laptop, the tabs are most definitely winning

What just happened? Here's the piece you need to make sense of "the blue shift" that never was. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...