Mother in law's rave nativity scene. Huge Jesus.

Last Christmas, partner insisted I put wrapping paper over the door to the living room as they did it when they were kids so wanted to do it for my son to run through in the morning. I wasn't keen but did it. Lying in bed I realised I was probably meant to leave the door behind it open.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Tiny Tim R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Timely festive reminder

Just finished this by @hutchinsondave.bsky.social, and it's a mighty, mighty thing. A rip-roaring page-turner, but also properly weird, as you'd expect from Dave. Heartily recommended.

Happy Christmas BlueSky people, you are an island of kindness and sanity in a sea of, well, all this.

Just bumping the link for donations, if you can spare any moolah #DuvetKnowItsChristmas www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Just had an automated email from @oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social to tell me it's #bins tomorrow. Huge if true.

I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Is "Wanky cans" considered pejorative? In the sense of brightly coloured tins of hipster beer which taste of things that aren't beer, like rhubarb crumble stout, or camembert IPA? I thought it had solidly entered the language, but it just prompted unexpected surprise in one of its firm enthusiasts.

Note to all the accounts that started an “on the first day of Christmas …” thread on December 1st … THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS IS FUCKING TOMORROW!!!! Now do it again … properly!

“Police nabbed me dad!” Magnificent.

And Tiny Tim, who did *not* dye, was sacked from his job at the textile factory.

Look, the Beatles were HUGE for me as a kid, and I still love them as much as, if not more than, the next #BeatlesGuy. But I’m BEGGING someone to put this kind of energy into the KINKS, for the love of god

Indeco IFP28X pulverizer with googly eyes.

Now's as good a time as any to restart the Good Things thread. Where else to start but: 1. That bit at 3.25 in American Trilogy when the horns come back in youtu.be/0FT3SmZ_zx0

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

It's #buyastrangerabook day today. Yes, I know it's not Wednesday. But I don't really want to do it on Christmas Eve, so here we are. I've offered a few books out already. Some are unclaimed. So, I'll do them again. How does all that sound?

What book has a character that helped you think differently about how minds work? Next up at the Weston Library’s Space for Reading: Neurodiversity We’re looking for books that explore diverse ways of thinking, learning and creating. Nominate a book: https://forms.office.com/e/bRHBxTXBSY

(Found the wizardry table. I happen upon this at ABC carpets and was entranced. Was kind of hoping there would be knockoffs by now.) youtu.be/PRsLKiqiDXg

Loved this on our walk today - a tiny cat plank bridge from a balcony to a tree in the front garden. 😊🐾

challenge – how well do you know Canterbury? (looking for an unidentified building and/or more volunteers to look at glass slides from the early 20th century!) collections.sal.org.uk/gls.02.1353

Me drinking from the skull of my enemy "does not indicate wrongdoing".

You know how it's apparently still legal to kill a Scotsman with a bow and arrow within the city walls - does it mean that you can kill them with a bow and arrow, or that you can kill them if *they* have a bow and arrow? Need a super quick response on this one please

Thinking of the actor Ernest Thesiger, who, when asked what it had been like in the trenches of World War One, replied "my dear, the noise! And the PEOPLE!"

OK. I've made a decision. Tomorrow is Wednesday, which is traditionally #buyastrangerabook. However, as you may be aware, it's also Christmas Eve. And I don't think I want to do #buyastrangerabook on Christmas Eve. So, I'm going to do it today instead. I hope that doesn't upset your plans.

It’s the Clarion Christmas newsletter! Featuring: 🚠 Cable cars for Oxford 🫡 Remembering Ian Hudspeth 🗳 Elections to be postponed? 🧀 Queuing for cheese 🎶 Beautiful Oxfordshire Christmas music Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...

Please think about doing this if you can. I donated blood for years. It was one of the very few altruistic things I’ve ever done and it meant so much to me that I cried when they told me I couldn’t give any more. Please - if you can, it’s a lovely thing to do and you get free Seabrooks crisps.

Hello language guys! I found a note in my annotated Python scripts that says "squiffy" (as in "What ho, Squiffy") derives from "Asquith" and is thus upper-class. However OED just says "Of unknown origin". I assume separate uses then but anyone know of an Asquith-squiffy connection? #NotVeryXmassy

It was supposed to be 8 foot Artist: monkeon https://b3ta.com/board/11423950 From the 'Rob Reiner' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/robreiner/popular/ #RobReiner

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

hello skyline it is time to post the song of the season ~it's beginning to look a lot like FISHMEN~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTH...

Oxford University Hospitals Trust has refurbished 17 abandoned bicycles for its staff to use. Bikes left on hospital grounds are repaired by prisoners in Aylesbury and Peterborough as part of a corporate social responsibility scheme called Recirculate. www.ouh.nhs.uk/news/article...

At one point Sully, making a rousing battlefield speech to fire up his warriors, literally holds up a fasces! "Together we are unbreakable"! This film is strictly fascist! Also everyone is angry all the time. AVATAR: IRE AND FASH.

My letter to the Oxford Mail today on… the cable car. 🚡🚠💚

"Tiny People In Your Soup" is a hell of an album title.

Shrooms 2 just dropped

Then they came for the sarcastic people and I was like oh great that's exactly what we need right now well done to all concerned.

"potentially complicating escape" The word "preventing" was right there.

Ok art folk, does anyone know who carved this sculpture? There is a monogram on the base. #art #sculpture #figure

My Mom has been in my house for less than 12 hours and she has already thrown out all of my condiments. Merry Christmas, everyone.

Ever wondered what it’s like to work in a museum? We're offering a week-long work experience placement for 4 students in years 10–13. Apply by 4pm, 16 January. Learn more here: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/events/work-experience Please share with any young person who’d jump at this.

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Check out Cyclox interview with Cllr Emily Kerr www.cyclox.org/index.php/20...

@secondmentions.bsky.social "The brightly illuminated attraction" "The famous piazza"

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One of my favourite Xmas cards ever. @screwfix.bsky.social

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