There is no subject under the sun so fascinating, intricate or challenging that it can’t be made less appealing by a pair of wankers with a podcast.

Brian & Ed Krassenstein: #epstein #pedoführer

Thanks for the superb ideas. My friends aren’t vegan, just mainly veggie, but their daughter and grandson are, or I would have bought cheese! Anyway you guys rock.

Unconvinced as ever that I can drink my morning coffee without her close supervision.

I would love to go to the Syrian baker but baklava isn’t vegan, at least not the way they make it. Thanks!!

Ok hive mind, please help. Last minute decision to join friends in Thursday. It’s a vegan meal. What wee treat can I source quickly and locally, ie: small urban Tesco, Lidl, Sainsbury, that’s edible and not flowers? I will be off in the hunt later, but you may have a brilliant idea.

The Pulp Tarot: A New Tarot Deck Inspired by Midcentury Pulp Illustrations

Collage Club Christmas card and a piece that may need a Mary to be finished. Astor, Pickford, Steenburgen, one of ‘em.

My first poetry book came out in Summer 2025 - ice cream models own cosmicshambles.myshopify.com/products/ice...

A bit early for last Collage Club of 2025

Great post on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social by @rouhiroo.bsky.social @tteleen.bsky.social & more on their #ScholarlySocial talk about #DEI under threat & strategies to #DefendResearch 👏👏👏 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/22/g...

It has begun. Stay away from the supermarkets, children.

Invited to have my shingles vaccine (first ever) on Valentines Day. Isn’t it romantic?

I know what I *should* be doing, but what I am *actually* doing seems to be sitting quite still. And a load of laundry, though that required little in the way of exertion.

My final Monkey Cage is broadcast on Radio 4 on Christmas Day - I hope you have enjoyed the latest series - I am proud of what we created www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A NEW POETRY SHOW FOR 2026 … HOW TO LAY AN EGG WITH A HORSE INSIDE I’m heading off on tour next year with a new show, based on my forthcoming book ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’. The tour starts in September. Tickets are now on sale at most venues. Details here: brianbilston.com/events/

Morning everyone. I’ve got a new play on tomorrow (Tuesday) and on @bbcsounds.bsky.social thereafter. It’s about PG Wodehouse’s war and it’s a comic defence of laughter in dark times. BBC Radio 4, 23 Dec, 2.15pm.

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

Gull stands on Lego

Cat in the lap. #Smudge

Now you see them. Now you don’t. #ShortStoryCabinet

Overheard: “Here’s the thing, yeah? ‘Inherent’ does not mean ‘inherit’.”

Solstice day!

Geologists, a question. How long does it take for a hill/mountain/extinct volcano (such as Arthur’s Seat) to cool down after being expelled from the hot centre of the Earth? Thousands of years? Millions? Because we don’t burn our feet on them now, but how long did it take? Thanks!!!

Simply irresistible. Good reason to come home.

What a perfect opportunity to promote, once more, our journal Draught, and this great piece by @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social (Includes photographic proof.)

My god. It's full of stars. This sparkling #JWST stellar scene is Westerlund 2, a young star cluster only a few million years old and containing some of the hottest, most massive stars known. Westerlund 2 is situated within the Gum 29 stellar nursery, and is around 20,000 lightyears from home.

Geologists, a question. How long does it take for a hill/mountain/extinct volcano (such as Arthur’s Seat) to cool down after being expelled from the hot centre of the Earth? Thousands of years? Millions? Because we don’t burn our feet on them now, but how long did it take? Thanks!!!

On a bench at Duddingston Loch. Have always had a hankering to live in the village, but never the wherewithal. Yes i am aware this doesn’t show the water to my left. Blinding low winter sun.

3yo: “daddy’s phone is in his pocket!” me: “that’s true!” 3yo: “why isn’t mummy’s phone in her pocket?” me: “… buckle up, kiddo, we’re gonna discuss five hundred years of fashion and misogyny”

Back at my beloved Innocent Railway. Especially lovely when not too busy.

How to make a portal unnecessarily frightening. Exhibits A and B.

Argument in progress

The look of love. Directed at the automatic feeder.

Welcoming me home by giving herself a bath on my lap

Antci. . . . Pation. #SunsetBoulevard

Contemplating the music of the spheres

Some of last night’s hosting T shirts - don’t forget that we do a collection for Euston food bank at every Nine lessons show - if you can bring something that is great. Main requirements listed at cosmicshambles.com but all non perishables gratefully received

Over the next 48 hours or so you will mostly be hearing me shout, “No, get down!” “Oy, you can’t swing from that,” and the ever-popular, “Smudge, that does not require your attention.”

Me, in The Guardian, wanging on about geese. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Remind me not to do this to whoever sits next to me in the cinema this evening! (Whomever?)

I know sweet FA about Amanda Seyfried except, now, that if she doesn’t star in a Joni Mitchell biopic then someone has a screw loose. #GalCanSING

Thinking of this for my now annual Christmas reread. Photo 2 (r) demonstrates my geekiness. Love Tey enough to have multiple editions of her work.

Racist, ridiculous, and wrong. Badenoch is a horror show.

Checking if I have done the washing up properly.

Unescorted Brain: This wee open house is just next door. Wonder if I need to wear shoes? Minute later: Nah, could only go barefoot if we were friends.

Me (batch cooking): You know you have the run of the flat and there’s no requirement to cling to my feet. Right? Smudge: Know. DGAF.

Clare Youngs, contemporary graphic designer and artist who works with collage, paper and fabric #WomensArt

Just printed off something for Kolleague, you might enjoy this if you've not seen it before (one for @strongmisgiving.bsky.social who will know it well) www.jessamyn.com/barth/baby.h...