This creature just zoomed across the back of the sofa and headbutted me at all speed. I was not holding a cheez-it at the time

The Running Man is a fun action movie, but it feels like it wants to say something about the present moment, but isn't totally sure what so ends up sort a vaguely fuck the system

I'm watching the new Frankenstein. The chiffon budget must have been incredible

I bought this Moomin tea simply because it was cute, but it turns out it's really nice tea?

I had a slightly zany idea to knit myself a kitschy Hannukah cardigan, that may not have gone anywhere except I saw Cancer Research UK are holding a fundraiser where people "sponsor" you knitting a holiday jumper. Please consider donating fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/varinas...

My partner and I are both working from home, in different rooms so we're texting each other pictures of the cat sitting near us.

The penguin walk is so shockingly effective. You'll look like a twat, but you won't have to go to A&E Also you can get snow cleats to make any shoes snow shoes for about £10 on Amazon

This is so charming to me. AI could never

You've heard of Doggy Bark Mitzvahs, get ready for....

What should have been a 15 minute ride home took 40 minutes because of Christmas traffic and I arrived soaked to the skin in sleet. Only a warm cat and a huge mug of very fancy hot chocolate can fix what ails me

I keep thinking about the Objects every American Jewish family I know has. The ring a grandmother managed to hide knotted up in her hair from Nazi deportation officers when the family left, the menorah a great grandmother wrapped in dirty laundry and threw in the cart as they fled two steps ahead...

In the past 25 years, the Booker prize has been won by a woman 8 times (counting a shared win by two female writers once), and only half of the female authored winners had female protagonists, so I'm not sure the Booker Prize is deeply concerned with the inner lives of women, actually

🌍 42.5m refugees Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries. 🇬🇧 548k refugees = 0.78% of the UK population. It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us. My letter to my MP. #asylum #Mahmood 🧵

Making gingerbread Pokémon (as one does) and I have to wonder, why must we still live like this? Molasses technology have moved on. You could just put in in a jar! Even a can without that horrible treacle collection lip would be an improvement

"Since the Second World War", you mean when Western democracies refused to take more than a handful of Jewish refugees and so a third of the Jewish population of the entire planet, six million people, were murdered? That war? You want to roll back the protections given to refugees following THAT war

I had an urgent question listening to this episode and that is, can you guys buy Kinder Eggs yet? Like does the US let you sell swill milk because Freedom, but the chocolate eggs are still too dangerous?

I just realised my entire bucket list is just train journeys I want to go on. Truly I have neve been read for filth as much as in this @princesmweekes.bsky.social video about Dracula (I can't tell if my attempt to add alt text worked. Phone being wonky. Let me know)

At some point when I have time (ha!) a research thread I'd like to tug on is the parallels in how Jews and Quakers were treated under the law in Early Modern to Enlightenment England because it feels like there's something there....

People are always surprised when I tell them that the Netherlands is consistently rated one of the best countries to drive in, but it turns out when you eliminate all the abled people making under 3km trips/not hauling large stuff from traffic the streets are mostly empty and it's nicer to drive.

After looking at the piss-poor offering online I've come to a conclusion: If I want a properly camp Hanukkah jumper (ideally cardigan) that isn't actual garbage I'm just going to have to make it myself.

Do you think they use special agencies for cater waiters for eyes wide shut parties, or is it just one day you're doing a wedding, the next night it's a bar mitzvah, then you're laying out sashimi on a naked lady surrounded wealthy perverts in masks

James Bond is just English Comedia Dell'Arte. They're stock characters. You don't need to explain reviving James Bond or recasting Moneypenny any more that you'd explain Harlequin and Pantalone being played by the same guy in different scenes

Look, Meg March of all people would not wear her hair down to a ball! She's not a child! Her whole character is basically "manners cost nothing" and you have her hair down! At! A! Ball!

Honestly the perfect mug for a honey lemon when you're feeling poorly

This is why we need comprehensive sex education. There are really full grown adults out there who think women are werewolves.

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

1 trillion dollars is so much money, you could give every human living on Earth $125 In case you needed a sense of scale.

After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live! No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #transbooks The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.

I can't tell you how disappointing it was, seeing 'Wolves' trending, to click through and see they're a sports team. Please enjoy the current residents of my favourite childhood excursion spot, Wolf Haven, as some sort of repair to this www.wolfhaven.org/about/animals

Alternative history where everything is the same, except the scism in the Church of Scotland is about whether or not to embrace Mormonism

Ah yes, the annual holiday of explaining to Americans that Guy Fawkes day celebrates Guy Fawkes being caught and the gunpowder plot being thwarted. It's very much anti-Guy Fawkes, despite what you may have been let to believe by a major film.

Just throwing this out there: more people would also visit the city centre if you could get a bus fare for £1 after 5pm.

I do feel like it says something about the relevant cultures that one of the most beloved Christmas song in the US is about hopefully getting together with your crush over the holidays and one of the most beloved Christmas songs in the UK is about trench warfare

Everything I learn about this guy is like, this is the most New York City guy to ever live. No one place on earth could produce this guy. He shouldn't be mayor, because that's a job with actual power, but have we considered a mascot position? Head of flag design for sure

I'm less than ten minutes into Game of Wool and I'm too mad. Fair Isle knitting is a specific thing. You can't just make anything with stranded colour work and call it Fair Isle. I do like the German guy who's like "this is total bullshit, FYI"

Does anyone not named Paul Hollywood actually really like iced fingers? Just one of the worst school dinner deserts #GBBO

Now let's see if Jasmine wins that cake plate, or if she's abducted by aliens half way through

I got a new cookbook called "Long Day? Cook This!" and my god did it deliver. I made this super tasty garlic butter salmon fried rice with smashed cucumbers in about 20 minutes flat

Googling 'Who designed open plan offices?' to figure out who needs to go on My List.

By use of some (I assume) heretofore unknown textile technology, @thedailytism.com have managed to make a t-shirt with a genuinely non-chokey collar that I don't want to rip off and set on fire even a little (cat demanded to be picked up, and then immediately demanded freedom)

elon musk: people in the uk live like hobbits. um let’s look at you for a second bro

It really speaks to how deeply Americans have given up on the idea that actually it's your government's job to protect you from random violence that the only conceivable response to a violent attack is to arm yourself.

Are they planning on paying income tax in the UK for at least a few years before their kids go to university?

In case you needed a little joy in this weary world

The kids in this neighborhood just don't appreciate how I would shower them in candy like kings of yore

Watching Prometheus and it occurred to me: have you ever, even once, seen a film or TV show where a man's tragic backstory is that he's infertile?

Once again they've had a blood drive within days if Halloween and no one bothered dressing up as a Dracula. I mean at least the greeter could.

I've found it's really helpful to practice my presentation with the timing feature on PowerPoint. Then when you have it down in the right time you can save the timing and your slides will automatically move forward, prompting you to also move on if you get bogged down at some point

I love girls who are named Sara, without the H because they always go on about how they always have to spell their name and people always act like it's a problem. It seems rough. There are people I've known for decades who call me Vanessa