Some cool clouds from our drive today

Listened to the new Big Finish Eighth Doctor boxset (Empty Vessels) and thoroughly enjoyed it. Liv + Helen + Eight is my dream TARDIS team and both the stories were terrific.

BREAKING. Enormous news in the hockey romance world... I am thrilled to announce that CHECK, PLEASE!: YEAR FIVE, a brand new volume of Check, Please! will be serialized in 2026. #omgcp 🏒🥧💕

A small but concrete task for today: Sameer Project told us on 12/25 that it costs $38 for 1 blanket, which can help keep a family that is in their 3rd winter in genocide (😢) warm. Can anyone join us today in donating the cost of one blanket to Sameer? Can you get 1 other person to join you?

Those of you who came along to the 2024 Bellowhead tour will remember our wonderful helicon player and dear friend Ed Neuhauser taking centre stage for the introduction to Fire Marengo. What you wouldn't have realised is that Ed had been diagnosed with a brain tumour twelve months previously.

@vajra.me 's multi award-winning THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS is part of Amazon UK's 12 days of Kindle deal! UK readers, prepare to have your minds blown... "an outstanding, genre-shattering work" - @theguardian.com Grab it now before the deal ends on 5th January 2026!

If you’re in the UK & are so inclined, from Dec 25 to Jan 5 you can get the Kindle edition of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS for 99p as part of their 12 Days of Kindle event! This means in the UK you can also get that price matched at other etailers, like Kobo! Merry Christmas! www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

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Saint of Bright Doors is incredible, super recommend

Happy jerboas 🐭

Samuel Barnett's Unknown is back with a Christmas Special Investigation - were two priests really terrorised on Christmas Eve in their Mini Metro by aliens? pod.link/1850303958

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

Christmas advice for ladies courtesy of the Dundee Courier (1930-1934) #OldWeirdScotland

Visited the Saxon crypt at St. Wystan's in Repton today, originally constructed in the 8th century.

voila - some unaired Heaven Sent material and How We Filmed a castle in the middle of nowhere. dropping some unaired materials and how to build a castle in the middle of nowhere. Heaven Sent #doctorwho www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNf2...

Your auntie Deborah has, once again, bought you a present featuring all the overly aggressive markers of femininity, despite the fact she’s met you on several occasions and – crucially – has eyes.

Just passed the gym in the old church - it's called Give Me Strength

Having enjoyed the recent Jonathan Barnes Sherlock Holmes, am now listening to the 40s radio version

I saw an Irish Setter so I am contractually obliged to tell you they are the best of dogs if not the smartest.

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We are very excited to finally announce, For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music. An 8 part docuseries coming to screens next June. The entire history of music, from The Big Bang to AI, in a way that's never been told before. Presented by the wonderful Charlotte Ritchie. View the trailer now.

Lady in the supermarket with the I'm a delight racoon t-shirt I salute you

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 22 Durham Cathedral Artist: SRBadmin

Happy Yule! Just a little quick and messy Litwick Yule log to celebrate the longest night. May your new year be bright. 🕯️

Hoping you all have a warm, light filled Longest Night from my little family to yours

Everything Aliette says here is spot on. If this goes on it’s going to be shit for translators, but it will also impoverish everyone else since we’ll be getting crappy, inaccurate “translations” from the slop machines.

A tower that was constructed in approximately 1318. Love seeing historical buildings. #filmphoto 🎞️

This is such awful news, Amanda was so great to work for. We spent ages on the boards for Lux, had so much fun getting the episode together. I recently congratulated her work in Riot Girls and she wrote back, enthusiastic for the show. I had no idea Rest in peace www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do...

Rugby is one of the only places you might hear a woman described as a hulking weight (positive). PWR 🏉 Quinns v Sale 🦈s

Oh, the book "Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History", by @moudhy.bsky.social, is on offer today in Amazon UK 👀

Had fun with some line weights and negative space with this painting! It's called "Black Cat in Sweater," and based on a bunch of cute kitties I saw in chunky sweaters. #cat #art #blackcat #painting #catart #caturday

It's your birthday, Duane.

I keep saying please don't look away. I don't know what else to say most of the time.

To me, artist Allen Seaby is best known as the illustrator of the first Ladybird bird books. But I also love his Japanese influenced woodcuts. ‘Snow and Hare’ (c.1923)

December 20th. A partially rubberised torso stands on the corner of Edward Street and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing.

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why not put count von count into various vampire scenes: thread

Start today if you want to read The Dark is Rising on the days the story happens, in the run up to Christmas! Link below to the excellent BBC audio version, if you'd rather listen:

Beatriz Bernal, a 16th-century Spanish novelist, wrote a fantasy novel about a female knight - with dragons, sorcerers, and a giant - decades before Don Quixote appeared. A children's adaptation, devised by children's author Diego Arboleda, is forthcoming! #fantasy #renaissance #earlymodern 💙📚

I've just finished A Memory Called Empire and now I'm excited to listen to @writingexcuses.bsky.social series on it, followed by an In Our Time on Byzantium.

"The country lay bare and entirely leafless around him.... He had never seen so far and so intimately into the insides of things as on that winter day when Nature was deep in her annual slumber and seemed to have kicked the clothes off." - Kenneth Grahame, "The Wind in the Willows" #BookWormSat

It's all 'protect women and girls' until its actually a legitimate situation that affects women and girls.

Ahead of Christmas, it feels fitting to share this Roman fibula - a decorative pin once used to fasten garments - shaped like a stag. In my Christmas-influenced imagination, it looks rather reindeerish! 🎄 Is it Dasher, Dancer, or maybe Rudolph? 🎅 From the Roman Villa at Borg, 2nd c. AD 📷Villa Borg

The surprise bestseller in my Redbubble shop this Christmas was my dinosaur card, which has been on sale for multiple Christmases but somehow only got popular this year (go figure). Since it's a bit late to send cards now, here's my original Tweeted version for all your paleofestive needs!

UK folks - don’t forget to check you have the meds you need for the Chrimbo period And remember there are processes (incl. NHS 111) to get emergency supplies of repeat prescriptions Inspired by a post from @scaryboots.bsky.social on IG

New book announcement!

the developer of Calibre has doubled down on this nonsense after encountering user criticism and getting mad about it definitely don't update, and maybe regress to a version before ~8.11 there are forks in development right now, so this won't be the only software in the ebook management niche!

Translation is so so much more than literal translation of words. Turns of phrase, intent, dialect, all of these things and more have to be thoughtfully considered by a human and adapted for the new language.