@beebsymca.bsky.social Congratulations on that whole "Women in Heritage" thing. It's a great write up on a great subject

A modern fairytale: Jack the cat went missing from his home in North Holland. He’d got on the last train of the night to Schiphol. Luckily conductor Marcel found him, took him in the cabin then took him home for the night. “I’m responsible for all passengers, including Jack” nos.nl/artikel/2596...

Martyn Turner

Here’s to 2026

Our BIG end of year sale starts today - over 50.000 used books reduced to only €1.26 each, from today 27th until 31st December. The sale includes fiction, nonfiction & children's books -something for all reading tastes. #spéirgorm #booksale thebookshop.ie/big-1-26-yea...

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

-Alright Chris. You’ve been out of the public eye for ages. No one under forty really knows who you are. It’s a soft-soap interview in the Telegraph during Christmas, keep it light and irreverent and you’ll be fi- -BRING BACK HANGING

Quite the 🧵

Save this, it's perfect.

Like, my most mild opinion that is apparently beyond the pale and veering into rabid Bolshevism these days is you should be able to get an affordable bus or train to a neighbouring town or village, anywhere in the country.

Survived Lidl, BlueSky. Went early, even though Mum doesn't like going out before lunch, and it was like a quiet zombie movie.

Northern Ireland is now the only part of the UK where hunting wild animals with dogs remains legal. In 2021 a bill was brought forward to change this. The bill was defeated. Every Sinn Féin MLA voted against it. Why? Via @sluggerotoolepols.bsky.social sluggerotoole.com/2025/12/26/f...

Huge news from Blakeney Point...

The ratio of floret to stalk on supermarket broccoli is getting ridiculous. Charging by weight for that inedible bit is a massive con.

Wrenboys in Ireland #speirgorm

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

#duvetknowitschristmas This year I will be mostly sleeping on 1.5 x sofas #tootall #tooshort

Pretty tame entry for #DuvetKnowItsChristmas in some respects, BF's childhood room with an additional occupant, but I'm not sure how we ever sleep over the sound of that wallpaper

Being kept company tonight by an umbrella stand full of swords. Very festive (and handy for getting into presents in the morning) #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

A community I can relate to. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas Yes, that's a spine

I’ve just discovered #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, where people share the funny/awkward/downright strange sleeping situations they find themselves in while visiting family. While I’m comfortably in my own home this year, when I visit my parents in their teeny retirement cottage, my bed looks like this 🤣

Sorry, I was about to go to sleep and then this arrived and now I’m on high #DuvetKnowItsChristmas alert

Always good to see a fellow cat appear on #DuvetKnowItsChristmas - for any of my friends that haven't seen it before, it's shepherded by @rhodri.biz and sees people sharing pictures of their temporary sleeping arrangements while visiting family or friends on Christmas Eve. It's a delight x

Rather magnificently, my wife’s nephew Doug is quick off the blocks, superb effort, laundry dryer, bicycle #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Convenient access to stapler at 2am #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

For those late to all this, Duncan's "Lemon Meringue Prison" from a few years back is the Bohemian Rhapsody of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

So, I just discovered #duvetknowitschristmas and I think my situation qualifies

#DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025 The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz

I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

We demand another photo approaching midnight with the scene lit with a table lamp #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

A very merry WHEN IS BINS season to all who celebrate.

Thread. Something nice happened to me yesterday: the conclusion - or maybe not - of a story of interconnectedness, that made the world feel momentarily very small and intertwined. The story begins on April 21 2024 on a walk I'd taken along the Jurassic Coast for research for a book I was writing.

Belfast tonight.

Your annual reminder that if you get this cracker joke and are confused by it, it's apparently because "ffi" is a special character in some fonts and when the typeface is changed to one that doesn't have it, those letters disappear. It's supposed to be "coffin medicine".

Old Ladybird books updated. ‘Daddy learns to get involved' (1964 and 1974) Artist: Harry Wingfield

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach

Tis the season

A free Xmas day dinner put on by my local Belfast Bengali restaurant for people by themselves during the holidays #EverydayMulticulturalism

It's the time of the year when I share recipes from Kavey Eats that I think work well for Christmas! First up, my mum's tandoori roast leg of lamb. We have it with the usual British Christmas dinner sides and trimmings! www.kaveyeats.com/christmas-da...

If we could just take a fucking breath and admit "our kids are people, we don't get to decide who they are," and stop using "BUT THE CHILDREN" as a reason to attack trans people, and autistic people, and whoever else we've decided not to like, that would be cool.

Almost certainly the most psychedelic photo I have taken of a bullock at sunset.

Parisot (the Director) tells a story about how Tim Allen just started crying after a scene one day "I don't like these feelings i'm having." Says Tim. "I'm going back to my trailor" and walks off. There's silence for a second. "Oh my god." Says Rickman. "I think Tim just experienced acting."

While I normally focus on AI deepfake pornography, there's an under-discussed AI-gen harm that's particularly prevalent during the holidays: AI product scams. We counted down the top 10 holiday scams to look out for this year (check out the video), but here are some extra highlights below

Let’s give Joanne Young the same respect and support that Gisèle Pelicot received. At the time we all knew this wasn’t an isolated case and I truly hope more victims will feel confident to follow their lead. No man should ever feel he can get away with this.

I feel like I’ve been to the gym today, instead of having been cleaning the house. Giving the big, old Dyson a service earlier in the year didn’t half improve its suction. It'd pull the arms out of you.

Since everything is awful and it’s nearly Christmas, who’d like some pictures of ship’s cats? Don’t worry dog lovers, a canine thread’s coming soon! Let’s start with Tiddles, sitting in his favourite spot on the carrier HMS Victorious in 1943 (he liked playing with the bell rope) 📷 IWM A 10646 🧵1/17

This is the professor who is all over the papers today talking about how she's been cancelled