Anyone else sick to bloody death of the #Dior ad and wanting to pushing Natalie Portman off that cliff? #giveitarest

Demanding tourists handover 5 years' social media history is the ultimate way to put the final nail in the coffin of the US tourist industry. No sane, self-respecting international traveller should or would even consider this. The basketcase USA is now the last place on Earth I'd want to travel to.

We'd like to get tickets for #Spiers&Boden in 2026, but remembering from last time the venue has still not joined the 21stC & you have to PHONE for tickets. IIRC Last time, it took ages as the guy on call had a broken leg & couldn't get to the downstairs phone in time. So this should be fun...😳

🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter ☎️(516) 785-5220 📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793 💻[email protected] Will MELIA get her happily ever after? She doesn't want to spend another Christmas in the shelter. 😢 Santa claus must have a special someone for her. 24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...

Can't believe @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social isn't reporting excitedly on items that sank in the Solent on their maiden voyage: Bananas: ✅ The Mary Rose: ❌

TFW Your car has been scarily stranding you in random places for a week because it refuses to start, then on the day you have to take it for emergency repair it starts perfectly before sitting smugly in the mechanics' car park like it's on a jaunty day out. 🙄 🚗

Had to drive back from RBH today, through the grim, ugly & miserable hole that is Reading. The only thing that made me smile was passing the sign for @themerl.bsky.social, & an image of the iconic Absolute Unit popped into my head. 😆🐄🐮 Wish we could have stopped by! Maybe next time!

I've been on this planet nearly half a century, but this year I will finally have a Christmas in my very own home. 🏠 I've rented all my life, but can now spend #Christmas in a house with my name on it. So this little Xmas tree may not look like much, but it means a lot after such a long wait! 🎄

Forget Home Alone, Die Hard and Elf (never seen any of 'em), Santa Claus the Movie is my GenX go-to childhood Christmas movie. 🥰🦌🎅 #SundayMovie #ITV1

Very helpful of the #BBC to clarify that the King is the one on the left, just in case his similarity to Camilla confuses people...😐 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

8 hours MINIMUM ETA, #RAC?? You can keep it. I'll walk home or hitchhike. Called at 4pm as car dead and stuck away from home. First eta 8pm to 11pm, then 10pm to 12am, then 12am-3am, with still no guarantee of no further delays. I get they're busy but that's fcking ridiculous.

Hempstead animal shelter #1 thing they're looking for in an adopter for MELIA. "Hello, we would need an applicant that has experience with resource guarding and stranger issues, as she does have a bite history with both those behavioral issues." (516) 785-5220

Just another Saturday morning at home, with my 12 yr old niece and her gran discussing how to murder someone with a frozen turkey. 😬

So, let me get this straight.....the Orange Felon authorises multiple murders at sea by first sinking boats and then killing the survivors, but...someone just gave him a peace prize? 😳 What the actual living fck is happening?

All very well for the idealistic cotton-wool wrapped 'never seen conflict' Gen-Z's of #Germany to protest the new voluntary military service law, arguing 'war offers no prospects for the future & destroys livelihoods'. If Russia or other terrorists come to yr country & you have no military, what

It still baffles me that Vaughan Williams could compose something as sublime as the Tallis Fantasia, but also come up with a piece as awful as Lark Ascending, 15 minutes of ear-destroying, screeching violins and no discernable melody. Bizarre. #ClassicFM #classicalmusic

Thiis such a great idea! 😎 #museums #colchester #history

🏠 Home for the Holidays 🏠 MELIA is only 3.5 years old, around 50 lbs, needs a peaceful adult only home. No dogs. Cats are ok. Shes needs a patient, kind, caring, loving human. Please be her hero. Over 810 days 🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter ☎️(516) 785-5220 📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

Regardless of Israel's abhorent recent behaviour which, if it were any other country wd warrant automatic world censure, geographically they shouldn't have been admitted to #EUROvision in the first place. But yet again, they don't even get a wrist slap & are allowed to compete. Russia commits mass

It isn't only #BBCNews that struggles with poor or absent proof-reading. This gem is from the #Guardian. 😄

Second night in a row I'm hearing birdsong at 11pm and it's driving me nuts. I know some birds sing through the night because of artificial light pollution messing with their internal clocks, but I have honestly never heard it myself and it's making MY clock think it's nearly dawn....😳🐦

I discovered today that when #Gemini assistant was added to my phone in the last update, it hijacked my power button so I couldn't turn my phone off. It had to be manually restored. Seems to be a widespread problem, but not on all phones. If you have a #Samsung #Android, you might want to check! 🙄

We really have hit peak stupidity when 'competitive spreadsheeting' is considered a 'sport'.... #WTF

The who, Beeb? 🤨 What's even more embarrassing for the inept editor who has clearly forgotten Will and Kate's not-so-recent royal promotion, is that the accompanying article correctly identifies them as the Prince and Princess of Wales... #BBC #BBCFail

Looking for Xmas Dad inspiration & really tired of the stereotypes. Surely I can't be the only one with a dad NOT into football, golf, fart jokes, immature gags & getting pissed? #Etsy for eg is full of gifts of this type. Assumes dads are all sweary, immature, lazy, inept & unhygenic.🙄

🎄 We just have to find MELIA a forever home by Christmas 🎄 Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞 ⬇️ 24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...

Just in case you were thinking of getting tickets to a Bellowhead concert NEXT November … they are selling out incredibly quickly!!! Just sayin’ bellowhead.co.uk/home

Concerning that experts are going to warn against routine testing of all men for #prostatecancer unless they have the brca gene. Given most men are a bloody nightmare to get to a doc even if they DO have symptoms, and are highly unlikely therefore to know if they have the gene or not, many will

Thanks to my sister's steely nerves on the ticket site, WE'RE GOING TO SEE #BELLOWHEAD In OXFORD NEXT YEAR! Says it was a bit of a bunfight though and tickets were mostly gone in minutes. Always a stressful activity! 😵‍💫

Turning off #ClassicFM every time they play Christmas carols because IT IS NOT CHRISTMAS!!!!!!! 🤬 Jingle Bells and Bleak Midwinter on the 27th November is ridiculous. #stillNovemberfolks

Anyone know what the average wait time is to receive UK Gov wills? I know they'll be busy after the surge in requests before the price rise, but other than the 'thanks for the money' email I've heard nothing at all....🫤 #genealogy

Today noticing the stark difference between #Etsy sellers, who package items beautifully & use postal tracking, & mass-selling #ebay vendors who don't give a crap if their non-tracked, 'just bunged in the post' item is AWOL in transit, arguing 'Sorry, but at this time of year RM often has delays'. 🙄

A li'l timeline cleanse to hopefully make you smile! Introducing Susy. 9mths, mad as a fish, currently in Spaniel adolescence so not listening or responding, destroying everything in sight & making us wonder WTH we were thinking. But she's loving, hilarious & still just a baby. We'll get there! 😁🐕

I really need to learn Latin. 🤦 #genealogy

I'm curious, what software do others use when working out tentative trees? There are a lot of tree-builders, but I've found nothing to beat Genopro for letting you create from scratch. It's brilliant for adding notes, & workings out, and the page expands the more you add. 💙 #genealogy

YES! 🥳 Back together at last! For over 300 years William & wife Judith's portraits hung together in the same collection, until it was sold off in the 1950s & they were separated. Judith was bought by Tate, & William by a private collector. Now with the purchase of www.tate.org.uk/press/press-...

Fascinating conclusion to #Hitler dna doc last night. German newsreel of him greeting troops was edited for best effect, but original shows his left hand behind his back, shaking. Likely Parkinsons. A great example of why you shd always read/view the original source to see the full picture.

So sick of seeing this #Cloudflare page everywhere when trying to access websites lately. Gave up trying to use Music Magpie because the fecking thing just wouldn't verify (on any browser). Close to quitting #Waterstones too for same reason. The amount of faff just to view a site now is insane.

Just narrowly avoided having to go to a work away day where the first item on the agenda is "Ice-breaker". 😱😫 Away days are horrific enough, but having to drive to the city at 9am, find the damn venue & then do enforced peopling is my personal hell. #introvert #introvertproblems #nopeoplingforme

📣 We need your help! There's 5 days left to reach our fundraising target for our project to decarbonise the Museum! 📣 Thanks to Avivia Community Fund and the Friends of Royston Museum, every donation now goes further! 🌱 Please help us cross the finish line by donating online: buff.ly/ABYWU44

Tonight's 'why the heck did I start this' project is to try to untangle the Shropshire families of Jones, Bailey, Ferriday & Carter in Dawley & Wellington, in the early 1800. Hopefully I can identify which Jones line is mine, as my brick wall ancestor is stubbornly refusing to tell. 🙄 #genealogy

Aaannd...that's it for the #snow. Now just rain. ❄️ Feeling a bit nostalgic for the snows of my toddlerdom here in Oxfordshire (early 1980s). The kind of snow that lasted, when we could go sledging in the field behind us, and it was so deep in the back garden the white spaniels disappeared. #sigh

With the insane price rise of wills from UK Gov tomorrow, I'm almost relieved only one quarter of my family is English, and left no identifiable post 1858 wills. This is going to massively affect #genealogy and researchers of #oneplacestudies. There seems to be nothing UK Gov won't hike. ☹️

So frustrating when people match closely on DNA but haven't added a tree & don't respond to messages, so there's no way you can work out the r'ship. I've got three people who are cousin matches to my gran, but I have absolutely zero way of knowing how coz they won't share anything. 😡 #ancestry

A little concerned this #Hitler DNA documentary on #Channel4 seems to be raising ADHD as a potential contributing factor in his growing up to be a mass-murdering genocidal nutbag. Are we really going down this route? 😕 You can't blame mental diagnoses for every abhorent person's actions. Sometimes

Down the rabbit hole I go. On my German gm's dna results, #Ancestry has assigned one of her closest matches to BOTH sides of her family. Trying to work out how & who, but I'm not helped by the fact her town was WWII bombed so v few surviving records, & even fewer available online. 🤔 #genealogy

Advice, please! I have an ancestor known only from someone else's transcript of her marriage record - no image available - as Felicia Massy. She married Charles Leighs at Church Aston, Shropshire, in 1704. Problem is I can find no birth or marriage for Felicia (or 'Philice') Massy anywhere.

Watching #SaraCox limping the last mile to Pudsey and I had to donate. Just phenomenal. 👏🎉 #CIN2025 #ChildrenInNeed

This is why I love #AnimalCrossing. 😆 #Nintendo #games

The Friends of Royston Museum have agreed to donate the same amount we raise in our Goes Green campaign, making every contribution now go even further! 🎉 🌱 This means we're at 58% of our crowdfunding target. Help us cross the finish line and make the Museum greener for the future: buff.ly/ABYWU44