As we shift toward sales marketing and 'New-Year-New-You' season, know that you are perfectly imperfect and still worthy of respect. Things in our lives (and our society) didn't get fucked up overnight and they won't get fixed by Jan 2nd either. Comic by Exploding Lobster.

Happy Wran's Day! The Wren, or Lá An Dreoilín, is still strong in parts of Ireland (notably Kerry), with elements entwined with nature and the pagan roots of this time of year. "Up with the kettle And down with the pan Give us a penny to bury the wran" Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

#3GoodThings • Xmas lunch turned out well. • realised in time I was getting into a dumb argument about what reparations are and noped out of that nonsense. • lots of rest today.

Making the bed, spraying it with scent, stretching my feet and nerve flossing, sending any pesky insomnia spirits away, gearing down for a nourishing sleep if that's at all possible.

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

shout-out to my people who are spending today alone thank you, @feelingndealing.bsky.social, for this gift

If you want soporific, low stimulation, lo fi music stuff, I am enjoying this. It's got sharks and gentle wave motion thatI find hypnotic. youtu.be/sSbABWGgRh0?...

My grandfather William died this Summer, he loved cathedrals, church history and telling me scary stories (when I was little he told me of a stonemason who put the lions outside Leeds Town Hall whose thumb got torn off and is still under a lion) so I was greatly comforted by this performance today.

Merry Christmas y’all! I forgot to post this earlier in the week: my block printed ornaments ready to go out to family #alienBlockPrints #linoCut #linoPrint #blockPrint

What reading material did people get? I have so many spooky books, I got White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi, The Captive by Kit Burgoyne, Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror and 2 copies of Hellebore zine.

Chosen family is still family. Survival is still an achievement. And making it through today, however that looks for you, is enough. ❤️❤️❤️

My Mr bought me a baren, a #printmaking tool with ball bearings that you use to press paper into an inked plate rather than using a press. I want to rub it on my face so badly. I won't though. But I wanna.

Instead of going out for drinks last week, my brother stayed home with drinks and s hot glue glun 🤣

If we're doing 'the Pope says feed the poor' discourse: Only a 1/4 to 1/3 of the Vaticans income (just under a billion in 2023-25) is from donations and 65% of their income between 2023-2025 was from capital assets returns. By contrast, the global church has a 70/30 donation to asset income ratio.

An oldie but a goodie from Hannah Gadsby. youtu.be/Eqq0B21fhAA?...

Ötzi and a 45,000-year-old Siberian were both infected with a cancer-causing strain of HPV. This is fascinating, and a reminder that we have a vaccine that *prevents cancer* and everyone eligible should get it.

Your parcel is with the gods now, let it go.... youtu.be/SBFAGQ6HqcQ?...

Happy holidays from Kona! Our Hawaii Christmas time has been filled with eating fresh papaya and oranges, along with plein air beach painting. Here’s my finished page of gouache plein air landscapes and mini fruit still lifes. #gouache #pleinairpainting #sketchbook #art #painting #hawaii

Christmas Light BY May Sarton. When everyone had gone I sat in the library With the small silent tree, She and I alone. How softly she shone! /1

#3GoodThings • seeing all the care and love in people's Xmas plans, regardless of whether they are traditional or not • I treated myself to a bowl I coveted from @wavingpines.bsky.social • I did a #GetTheFckOutside earlier.

It's our 2nd Xmas without Phantom, he died 9th Dec 2024. I don't think we'll ever get used to not walking a dog on Xmas morning so tomorrow my Mr and I are taking all the orange balls Phantom nudged under furniture out to the field. We'll leave them for other dogs to play with.

Eating sticky toffee pudding and reminding my Mr that people should give Holly Gennaro a break, womens right to their own mortgage (and banks being outlawed from asking women if they were pregnant) only happened a decade prior.

Not the Void UK spent 45 hours in 2025 talking about all the unique and common experiences of suicide we share. We held over 30+ meetings. 6 facilitators from 4 different countries gave their time to hold space. Over a 100 people reached out to join us for a meeting this year #suicide

Peripheral neuropathy flare up time!

Be nice to my brother and sister in law, who are navigating latecomers, rowdy diners and shoplifters who put packs of meat down their trousers all month long. Tip my brother cos the car will need MOTing and he makes good pizza.

'Metaphor and Epistemic Injustice in Mental Illness: An Experimental Approach, Prof. Francesca Ervas (Department of Education, Psychology, Philosophy Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy)' looks good!

Defrosting info for when all the food in fridge jenga planning gets so complicated your brain shuts down. www.bbc.co.uk/food/article...

This is why I have chosen organ donation over donating my body to Leeds School of Anatomy and also why I don't do witchy shopping anywhere that sells bones as kooky occult trinkets. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Growing up in MK, moving up North took some getting used to because old northern architecture has these beautiful sculptures, mosaics, flourishes and I was used to buildings being made of flat concrete and glass. I was not used to looking up!

Of all the birds who've had to sit through Epsom salt foot soaks for bumblefoot infections, Xander is just the best. He doesn't try to jump out. He doesn't poop in the bath - having to end it early. 😂 And we play peek-a-boo while he soaks. #chicken #kaporossurvivors #starlandsanctuary

Was not expecting this at all, absolutely chuffed. First time entering. I still see myself as that guy who rattle canned sprues and painted to three colours. The switch from 40k to the more narrative 30k really gave me chance to learn&grow. #cultofpaint #mpo #heresy #warhammer #cerastus

Yay, the astrology podcasts annual 2026 horoscopes for each sign are up, Lisa and Chris recommend you go by your rising sign, which makes me a crabby little cancer baby. 🦀 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

"The yule cat eats children." "Is that true? Do you eat kids?" "I don't do gossip!" youtu.be/bi40qvj7BAc?...

#3GoodThings • journalling is helping me a lot. • good sewing day. • i got two more Hellebore zines in my family secret santa.

The Christmas letter.BY John N. Morris. 1977 Wherever you are when you receive this letter I write to say we are still ourselves In the same place And hope you are the same. /1

I'm proud of myself for ringing the consultants secretary and saying look, I had a moment of frustration at the way the appts centre were behaving but I don't want to be discharged, please can we get me back on the books for an appt next year? Thank the gods for secretaries who are kind.

If the working week could be changed in 1886, then we can bring in a 4 day working week in 2026 so people have time to do what they will.

So much respect for Joanne Young for waiving her anonymity so we can see the names and faces of the men who drugged and raped her. Now the men who commit these crimes can no longer expect to hide behind anonymity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This affectionate yet rude parody never stops being amazing, it's evergreen 🤣 youtu.be/ks2i_yXD42k?...

Chris was on the dole when he wrote this song, this is one of many classic, beloved pieces of art that exists in part because a functioning welfare system supports people to make stuff.

I didn't do this until 3pm so in case anyone out there is stuck in inertia....

#artvsartist2025 It was a slow year for printmaking, but I’ve had a blast with medium format photography and developing my own film, and I’ve had a bunch of fun drawing for the wee one

RIP, you made it home at last youtu.be/DDt3u2Ev1cI?...

RIP, you made it home at last youtu.be/DDt3u2Ev1cI?...

If you use Twitch for any kind of streaming, this resource by Liz Wait can help you make your Twitch channel more accessible to people with disabilities. dev.to/auraswap/acc...

I wore mine today and the poor taxi driver was full of flu, his hacking cough was so wet that he opened the window and apologised. Instead of getting frustrated at the flu risk, I could grab a few honey, lemon and menthol sweets fron my bag for him.

I reprint this #lino plate often because it features Cha Cha, the goldfish gifted by an ex. Cha Cha outlived the relationship (and even the man himself) making the little fish a sort of emblem of longevity over 12 years of my then chaotic life. Cha cha would swim over if I sang to him.