Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Sorry but ‘grinded’ cannot be the past tense of grind

yes the Macron sunglasses are for his burst blood vessel also yes all European leaders should wear the same aviators throughout Davos

I just said the word Substack in a tone of voice which sounded a bit like Love Shack and that's ruined it for me forever now

Was Harriet just a bit fed up? #thetraitors

that (straight) women fancy them?

Surely the real news here is that Harry founded Birmingham

Oh this is proper Roy of the Rovers stuff www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

oh this is really sweet, RIP www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PSA - if your rear view mirror falls off during a drive of several hundred miles, you can buy a stick-on temp replacement at Halfords! I did not know this this morning. Now (drive completed) I do.

If it’s only a matter of time before you start listening regularly to the Archers (in this its 75th year) then this is a useful primer… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Eh? I think I’d find this quite stressful…

We have five remote controls here, only one of which works, so I have to walk it between the two rooms with a TV to change channels and that can’t quite be right 📺

Awful lot of fat shaming in #loveactually and not just of lovely Natalie

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...

My dad’s watching #EastEnders and I just saw a chap in a polo neck talking about Camus, this isn’t quite Dirty Den and the divorce papers

@scottygb.bsky.social I cannot find an Xmas Radio Times for love nor money (that is in the two shops I’ve tried) 😱

“Some wearing tiny leather boots” 🦃 🥾 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#OnThisDay in 1801, Cornishman Richard Trevithick travelled ‘Up Camborne Hill (comin’ down!)’ on his ‘Puffin’ Devil’ - the world’s first ever successful journey by steam locomotive. Trevithick had changed the world of transport forever 〓〓 ⚙️💨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s6x...

Matilda

I think she was *such* a good writer. I think about her book Daughters-in-Law a lot, it is so good on family dynamics and women's lives www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

OMG a sinkhole in Redruth www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Sorry what

Yes, Zohran, yes, I too had this *exact* revelation, just remove the New from New England

“Sorry I’m going to Kathmandu” wasn’t just my least convincing ever excuse to avoid journalist phone calls

POV: you’re going for a dinner date but you’re just not romantically interested

omg the number of people who think they're making a point about JL not selling vinyl when the actual article says they're gonna sell the record I am more taken with what appear to be the mum & daughter in the background quietly doing household chores while the lads listen to their music

BBC journalist barred from leaving Vietnam and repeatedly interrogated

The BBC is deeply concerned about the wellbeing of our colleague in Vietnam... statement www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

I do a French conversation class where we talk about what’s happening in that country and we’re not exactly short of topics at the moment

Watching #TheMorningShow and it’s very unrealistic, a search of emails on an iPhone revealed something relevant right away, where did they get this super machine from

Sure, the 🐌 stuff is good but for pure bathos you want this: “When two factions of the same Naples crime family were at war in the mid-2000s they asked Ball to mediate, which he refused — so they had a summit at the local Lancashire caravan park instead.”

If someone I know says they’re doing something for charity I always sponsor them

A story in three parts

“How stupid are we?” Enough with the plural love, you alone pulled that lever #celebritytraitors

Is one of the perils that girls are endlessly objectified and judged on their looks and clothing?

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Amongst the small demographic checking out the new #TaylorSwift album who realise ‘oh yes this is the song they played on the Today programme’

Not really sure how helpful a message this is

ME ON A TRAIN: Oh no, I accidentally clicked a video with sound! Oh god, people heard a second of loud sound from my phone. I have torn the social contract. EVERYBODY ELSE ON TRAIN: Shit yeah, train time, time to watch the loudest TikToks

GenX: simply can’t be arsed even knowing what our generation we’re in. #pride #slackergeneration.

BBC, with AFP, AP, Reuters, launch film calling on Israeli authorities for access to Gaza www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Perfect nominative determinism

Also the first time the three great offices of state (FCDO, Home, CX) have all been held by women at the same time.

Ah yes, the DPRK which famously spends much of its time chatting about its leaders’ dress sense

Has led me to discover they did this… variety.com/2025/music/n...