Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

Spoiler: They used the money just as wisely as anyone else would, and it's so frustrating that this still isn't a common sense assumption to make.

This is a key point. Dual citizenship isn't 'half British, half something else'. It's *full* British citizenship, and *full* the other citizenship. As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.

Having had a day to think through everything about El-Fattah, here's where I stand. Yes, it's possible to believe all of these things at once! In fact, it really shouldn't be that hard.

I think the answer is "they're not white".

Not a lot other than allowing the BBC to show something more like sport than darts. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis...

Yes, but no problem if you're an MP who was sent to prison for beating up his girlfriend.

No.

It’s the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote next year. Time, I think, to stop asking if leaving was a mistake and to start asking whether now trying* to join the EU is in the best interests of the country. *This is to ward off people telling me accession is up to the current member states; I know.

In surprising news, young men are idiots. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The banality of evil.

The easy way to tell who's got young children, or are doing a #parkrun, today is that they've already posted on social media.

NORAD is using "Gulf of Mexico" on their Santa tracker. That's hilarious!

A patently stupid and self-destructive idea, pushed by very entitled people who had nothing to lose and Putins disinformation machine and voted for in large part by bigots who thought it would make this country great again. All to the colossal detriment of the UK. F*** them all a million times.

As a festival of nine lessons and carols begins Christmas has started.

I'm assuming that this a rhetorical question. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Is it a tax dodge? www.theguardian.com/football/202...

#EFC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Finally catching up with the latest Superman movie. The dog is the best thing in it.

If anyone needs cheering up #parkrun

WHAT?

A positive story for a change. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I'm currently cross training by wrapping presents. I'm so useless at it that I'm working up a sweat.

FFS! www.edp24.co.uk/news/2571198...

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go…

(Chablis+ a good book + soft jazz)= contentment

It's got to be watched!

Just decided that we're now close enough that I can cope with Christmas music in the background so long as it's not too intrusive.

I do like buying real books from Watersones but at this time of year they must have the slowest tills in the country

Precisely.

Good job I stick to Talisker www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ok, it’s a bubble then.

Saving a museum would be a pretty cool thing to do for Christmas, wouldn't it? You know what to do, you awesome bunch....

I think that we all know that the answer to this is, "no." www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/whoo...

Cheered me up. www.theguardian.com/world/galler...

all of us will forever remember where we were when we heard that the UK-US Tech Prosperity Deal had been suspended. The shock on everyone's faces. People in the street, simply numb. Staring at their phones in disbelief. Our stoutest most reliable ally. How on earth. www.ft.com/content/afd4...

By my standards I'm way ahead of Christmas. All presents bought. All cards sent. "I think."

The CBI, the British Chambers of Commerce, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the Federation of Small Businesses, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, and Small Business Britain wrote: “Now is the time for parliament to pass the bill.” www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Well! This will upset Robert F. Kennedy Jr. www.scientificamerican.com/article/gett...

Dear TV companies please stop trying to convince me that darts is a sport.

Well that's Karen for #Strictly champion.

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This guy seems to be blocking everyone who disagrees with his anti-Semitic, murderous nonsense. So just in case you're one of the blocked here it is.

Just for context, murdering people in a terrorist attack is bad, regardless of their political views and affiliations.

FFS! The attack on the Ivy League university brings the number of mass shootings to 389 in the US for this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A very brave man. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

my latest

Genius. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOy7...

Most of them seem to have been swallowed wholesale by people on Bluesky www.theguardian.com/technology/2...