#40: Christmas

#1: Apples

#11: School

🎶 In the ocean The freezing ocean Titanic sinks tonight www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Absolutely amazing account

#23: Spoons

Top Adrian Chiles Columns of 2025: I’ve given up wild swimming. So why does my Volvo smell like mince? Should I tell the postman he has halitosis? My first wife wouldn’t let me wear shorts. I buried my father with my bare hands. It’s time we stopped talking about glamping. 1/3

I am dead serious when I say that, if Ukraine holds out until 2029, not only should President AOC (or whoever) give them ∞ aid and assistance to crush the bear, she should extradite the entire Trump foreign policy team to Ukraine, with instructions that they are outside of America’s protection.

Saw some good art at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya.

Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.

To use a much lower key example: we no longer have the path to citizenship that Kemi Badenoch took. I won’t pretend that I think someone who talks about her “ethnic enemies” (!!) is well-integrated into British society. She is IMV stealing a living and endangers much I value. Still a citizen!

Dune: Tokyo Drift

The Mumbai metro looks strangely familiar

Amazing levels of socialist realism in the murals at the naval base

Hello police? I'd like to report a murder

Chhatrapati Shivaji's Secret (formerly Victoria's Secret)

otto von bismarck, still undefeated

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

Every time I see this sort of topic come up, I think of something from 2015. "Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents' forums" which now reads like one of many precursors to a certain modern reactionary media & political mindset. www.issendai.com/psychology/e...

(he beat him up for being Mexican)

Genuinely amazed by the performance of Pato Banton's Baby Come Back at this Indian hotel buffet; the lounge singer is doing the chorus in a full Tom Jones operatic tenor style and the verses in a deep Jamaicindian accent I've only ever previously heard from my Jamaicindian neighbour in Manchester

Very impressed with Bengalaru Airport efficiency so far. Immigration was the fastest manual stamping system (as opposed to e-gates) I've used in years, and bags were on the carousel (economy!) in the time it took to clear immi and change some money. Amazing change from India trips in the past

My father in law has done his traditional Christmas Day Facebook post to remind us of the true meaning of the day: Reminding us of the greatest Christmas of all, December 25th, 1989, when they shot that bastard Ceaușescu

The Titanic was a perfectly good ship. If you drive any ship into an iceberg it will sink.

all of these people (in the screenshot, not Sam) need to move to a city and get a different job than what they were doing there is in fact not a right to have a particular job or to live in a place where there's no viable economy

I mean, it has this guy in for starters

Well, it’s Christmas Day, so it must be time to talk about Jesus – specifically, about how on this day 1,225 years ago, Charlemagne, who was in Rome to be crowned Carolingian Emperor, presented Pope Leo III with the very holiest of relics: the Foreskin of Our Lord 🧵

I don't think you can explain people staying on X without saying something about their discomfort or lack of it with the use of the platform to promote racism and fascism in the US and elsewhere. Not mentioning the topic is very revealing.

not sure how to explain to the atlantic and I guess a large swath of elite media that no one, literally no one, has sworn an oath of loyalty to bari weiss.

Not that it matters but I would find this a lot more annoying than actually existing migration patterns

Excellent work by all concerned!

Absolutely pathetic cowardice by the SMH taking this harmless-if-twee piece down because extremist loonies complained www.deepcutnews.com/p/ahmed-ouf-...

As one of many people who ditched Sarah D as a friend when she went full TERF, it's hard not to see this as transference of those feelings

Terrifying booze/cute label/good cause - UK people should buy this now!

Being on David Shrigley's mailing list is a source of joy in the way that almost anyone else's mailing list (even the good ones) isn't

Merry Christmas one and all!

people on here will skeet anything. “charlie brown died on the cross for our sins.” no he didn’t. that isn’t true

Impressed at the fellow in Surry Hills who has bought a personalised number plate to advertise his erectile dysfunction as if the vehicle itself provided insufficient information

Starmer seems fundamentally unable to rise to an occasion. "He would make an excellent Permanent Secretary" from a former PermSec seems an excellent summary of Starmer's faults

United States government strengthens the position of Liberal Democrats in UK politics

This is really good. Still think Britbox was a missed opportunity (and a terrible name). If BBC, ITV & C4 had decided to share a domestic platform (iPlayer best of the three) that they could sell subs for internationally (inc. massive back catalogues) they could have been a major global competitor.

Highlights of the festive open-mic singalong in a Scouse pub tonight: -my amazing* rendition of I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus -people singing Police Nabbed Me Dad to the tune of Feliz Navidad Good times Just as an FYI, Christmas songs are much harder to sing than you expect

I hate the Feliz Navidad song but I love the land of my fathers for this bit

We've now had longer of Kirsty MacColl not making songs even though she still should be than we had of Kirsty MacColl making songs. #banbillionaires #banspeedboats

Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”

there is literally no engineering or science profession other than mechanical engineers which is even close to parity. tech workers literally donate to Democrats over Republicans by a factor of 17:1. and that 1 is almost entirely executives.

Bruno Mars and Rosé making out at the National Railway Museum

Trump is both the culmination of all this stuff and an incredible aberration at the same time, somehow. Clear product of the trends, but as an individual profoundly unusually lucky to be where he is.