Paola Pivi

A good relationship is all about anticipating wants and needs. Pay attention to when they want to socialise and when they need their space. You'll also need to balance the temperature and humidity in their terrarium, and remember to hand-feed them live crickets at least once a day.

One of my favourite Christmas traditions: Margaret Cabourne Smith adds to #FelizNavidad Source: YouTube share.google/mVuh5DiDR6DJ...

So grateful to an amazing colleague who made this beautiful advent calendar for me 📷 So far I have opened doors that held: Chocolate Toy cars Puzzles and a miniature deck of cards It's a thing of beauty that's made me laugh every day.

Joshua vs Paul was the best boxing fight betwèen the authors of the sixth book of a Testament.

So I relistened to the It's A Wonderful Life episode of Comfort Blanket with @gralefrit.bsky.social Carrie Quinlan and it's just as beautiful and funny as I remembered #comfortBlanket podcastaddict.com/comfort-blan... ...

Please don't use genAI. It's no more "inevitable" than any other new thing we've carelessly invented that doesn't work and does damage. We're just currently ruled by billionaires who need you to think it's inevitable, need you to give in, or they'll lose more money than you've ever seen.

🎶Well my email inbox was quite full, I've replied to all the rightful, And I'm closing up my office so, OoO, OoO, OoO🎶

I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

Question: is there anything more intriguing than seeing "this message has been deleted" in a work Teams channel?

Unconventional Director Sets Shakespeare Play In Time, Place Shakespeare Intended https://theonion.com/unconventional-director-sets-shakespeare-play-in-time-1819569151/

Back home after a trip to A&E. (Youngest child had a bit of a splat whilst somersaulting - no long term damage thankfully) I'm ever in awe of the calm competence of the staff who don't know what crisis will come through the door next. For all its faults, the NHS can be bloody marvellous.

hang on… hang on… in the princess bride, christopher guest plays a six fingered man. which means his fingers… go up to eleven!

Had a sudden fear that the future might contain a musical prequel to The Princess Bride. Count to 6: how Rugen's childhood turned him bad

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In memory of Rob Reiner, please enjoy my favourite Wikipedia entry of all time, which is Former Members of Spinal Tap. Any time I need a laugh, I pull it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_...

Kudos to the headline writer

All this talk of space and sewage means I'm going to have to rewatch Avenue 5

7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed A 43 year old married father of two He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland No experience with guns He was walking past He has two bullets in his arm

"You've been a lovely audience, have a great Christmas, goodnight."

Statistically the history of this species is the oppression or slaughter of humanity by a minority of men in the name of personal profit or deluded ideology. This will never change. And we'll always have science, culture, art and God Only Knows to remind us of the species we could have been.

Smudge 📷 #UncomplicatedBeauty

Also, there’s no visible means of support.

Sean Hecker, Kilmar's attorney, once hailed how much courage it took Kilmar to challenge what DOJ/DHS is doing to him. That stuck with me. Kilmar Abrego is just some guy, vulnerable in a way most of us are not. But he has taken on Trump and ... thus far at least, prevailed.

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Sky under construction 📷 #UncomplicatedBeauty

Marvellous mail boxes of Paris, largely Modernist and you can see more here www.instagram.com/romainlaprade

6 December 1942 | Grigol Peradze, a cleric of the Georgian Orthodox Church, an archimandrite, perished in #Auschwitz. Since 1933, he lectured at the College of Orthodox Theology at Warsaw University. The Germans arrested him on 5 May 1942, and, in November, deported him to Auschwitz.

Wile E. Coyote is getting LAZY.

George Bailey when he's shown that if he'd never been born his brother would have died as a child: 😔 George Bailey when he's shown that if he'd never been born Mary would wear glasses and work in the library: 😭😭😭

Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit By Anthony Robinson @anthonybylines.bsky.social

Cumin in the Air Tonight

I named my fists Granny and Weatherwax because the most terrifying thing in the forest is me

My heart is a little larger than the entire universe. Fernando Pessoa, 1934: tr. Richard Zenith

I named my fists "Dunning" and "Kruger" because I haven't trained in any sort of martial art but am confident I would do pretty well.

For context: Jack served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush administration. He’s widely regarded—especially in conservative legal circles—as a leading authority on executive power. The fact that he’s expressing this view in such stark terms is significant.

it’s funny how when people who own big houses are alive they had nothing to do with its value, but when they die their kids shouldn’t have to pay any inheritance tax because they worked VERY hard all their lives for it

This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is currently 50% off on GOG! A bargain opportunity to play our folk horror adventure game inspired by movies such as The Wicker Man & the works of M.R. James, with a little pinch of Twin Peaks and Lovecraft. www.gog.com/en/game/the_...

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Spent the afternoon listening to a concert of Handel's Messiah where the audience was the minority and that was the point. Glorious www.nidderdalemessiah.org.uk

Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social

As a member of the Care and Support Alliance we want to remind the Chancellor of the real figures that matter this autumn #Budget. Older people, disabled people and their unpaid carers cannot wait another year for social care funding #FiguresThatMatter https://ow.ly/pvmN50XsL7f#Budget#FiguresThatMatter