Me explaining to my husband how one of the stars of Heated Rivalry posted a picture of his dog on Instagram several months ago and how the same dog showed up in a photoshoot of another star of Heated Rivalry from this week, and the implications of this

🚨 HIMBO EMERGENCY 🚨

I definitely noticed that the backlash to Amanda Dobbins as one of the hosts of The Big Picture increased a lot after they started releasing a video feed of the podcast.

Something interesting about Heated Rivalry is that all the narrative tension, yearning, longing - basically everything that makes the show emotionally powerful - comes from homophobia, but not a single character is homophobic even once.

I love the Western Cape. There is a man at this farmer’s market with a cap that says “bitcoin ubuntu” on it.

Heated Rivalry finale is the most fanfiction thing I have ever seen outside the medium of actual fanfiction (complimentary)

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

Boxing Day wine tour with mum

I pissed everyone off with my “shoes inside” take yesterday so I might as well go one better and say: it’s weird to watch TV on Christmas Day!

During Rhodes Must Fall someone told me to “stay in my mayo lane”

The three wise men when they looked up and saw the star was nearly overhead:

We need to go back to this being weird. I’m tired of pretending it’s not silly. Why am I in my socks in your home!?

All the tiny Tim jokes are great well done everyone

And Tiny Sim, who DID die

Papped reading a very festive LRB article about humanity’s demise.

We dug too greedily and too deep into the veggie gravy yesterday, meaning we had none left for our leftover nut roast today. Brother-in-law suggested using Mrs Ball’s Chutney instead and it’s……..so good???

Luke 2:6-7: While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them. Wes Streeting: this is just like The Traitors.

Meryl Streepmas!

I find her style of writing, filled with allusions and winks, so unpersuasive. She has no interest in convincing anyone not already aligned with her worldview.

*at a christmas party* oh Rudolph is your favorite reindeer? That’s cool yeah yeah he’s pretty great *in reindeer chat* BlitzenBoy92: at the work thinh. take a guess DonnerTime: buncha dolphies? VixenLover: fuckin lame bro just keep ur cool change the subject The Dasher Enjoyer: thinh

Farage says it confidently, Davey, Polanski and Swinney refuse to say it. Starmer tries to avoid saying it by muttering in such a way that the left thinks he said it and the right think he refused wokely. Badenoch sings the wrong word by mistake then makes sure to say the slur on telly the day after

The British political class: ah, Christmas. Finally a time to relax. More in Common: WE ASKED THE BRITISH PUBLIC WHICH PARTY LEADER THEY THOUGHT WAS MOST LIKELY TO SAY THE SLUR IN FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK

My sister and I had “the birthday bird” for some reason

Me (Labour voter) to my gay kid: why are you being so unelectable

Incredible post

Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night

latest heated rivalry episode would have sent 14 year-old me into a coma

Has anyone posted this here

Maybe some of them are answering “disappointed” in a Sarah Jessica Parker in The Family Stone sense

Love this website

A particularly ridiculous use of Chat-GPT in this Deputy Mayor’s response, where she claims that firing a gun in public is a feminist attempt to “take back power”.

It’s humid

it must be a good time to be a gender critical lawyer. “yes of course I’ll help you sue the University of Bristol because students protested your talk. oh by the way, my rates have gone up 50%. you know, inflation.”

Saying children need to be "protected from the Labour Party" is playing around in a very dangerous place.

every gay man I know is watching Heated Rivalry

GET HIM, BABS

Took this picture literal seconds before my dad asked “so who is this Jeffrey Epstein guy?”

Feeling very “the two genders” about drinking an aperol spritz while cooking a dal makhani

please drop everything and watch this trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyZI...

As I've said before. You can make anything for your Christmas tree

I love South Africa. This sunset concert has been paused so Pick n Pay can give away an air fryer.

Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.

Badenoch’s post is obviously incorrect for the reasons outlined below but it also strikes me that she’s perfectly happy to recognise the sexual violence of adolescent boys when, for example, banning trans girls from using girl’s bathrooms. An entirely unprincipled, opportunistic person.

Angela Rayner memoir announcement……she’s coming for everything

When I drove to school myself for the first time after turning 18 I couldn’t quite find my way there despite being driven to the place for two years.

I love her.

“Mainstream” gender criticals like Allison Bailey and JK Rowling are now openly calling for, or at the very least tacitly supporting calls for, their opponents to be jailed.

New Christmas tree decoration just dropped.

Amia Srinivasan on the unconscious- we’re eating good! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...