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166 browser tabs and a few windows now closed! It's getting easier to find things and my dock is less cluttered. The open tabs require me to do more work, but I'm going to read things properly before closing them. Please join me in #TabClosed2026! #NYE2026

Beautiful moonrise over the Regent's canal tonight. January's super moon is looking 💫

A long poem An invisible line A 270-mile walk “The idea was to walk the line from Peacehaven to the Humber. I had devised the notion that the physical act of walking would help me to locate what was lost”. New year offer: £3 off Nancy Gaffield's 'Meridian' ngmeridian.wordpress.com

Similarly, I want nature docs that consist of someone knowledgeable ambling round a patch of landscape, periodically saying 'Ooh, look at this'.

In the words of the drawing I made in 2008 (part of a series that put together texts from pizza flyers and religious leaflets) It is time to rewrite our destiny...

An old drawing from my studio, part of a 2008 series that combined texts from pizza flyers with religious leaflets. The message holds though! #ItIsTimeToRewriteOurDestiny

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

www.spiegel.de/panorama/jah... „In Bielefeld kamen zwei 18-Jährige bei Unfällen mit selbst gebauter Pyrotechnik ums Leben. In Berlin gab es Hunderte Festnahmen. In Leipzig wurde die Polizei mit Flaschen und Knallern beworfen. Das war die Silvesternacht.“ Es wird immer so weitergehen.

An old drawing from my studio, part of a 2008 series that combined texts from pizza flyers with religious leaflets. The message holds though! #ItIsTimeToRewriteOurDestiny

Time for my annual #MendingSpree ! Instead of buying stuff in the post holiday sales, why not spend some time repairing things you already own? I got the sewing machine out and started with this beloved dressing gown today. #MakeDoAndMend #repair

One person died at Eisbachwelle in over 50 years and the city removed the wave. ~5000 people have been killed by cars in Munich since the discovery of Eisbachwelle and yet…

Jingle bells, AI smells. That is all.

Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, First Staged in 1922

You know, millions of us once dreamed of being famous authors, and millions of us are not, including BIPOC & LGBTQ folks. It's true that there's plenty of discrimination in publishing. It's also true that sometimes, one's craft, talent, and luck don't get you the desired outcome. *That's life.*

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

Low on words today, but high on hope: anything really helps these six families & a camp of fifteen more survive. It's still survival: of unceased fire, blockade, famine, displacement, health emergencies, deadly winter weather. We don't forget them. chuffed.org/project/hope...

I always find these memorials at Postman’s Park unbearably moving. They make my eyes water every time. It’s a lovely idea, to commemorate ordinary people who do extraordinary things.

Something about winter woods always conjures up @conniewillisdotnet.bsky.social Doomsday book, especially the green of holly in amongst the bare trees.

Someone asked me once what white people could do right now to help. I said make a group of white folks that have the sole purpose of clearing every Black, Brown and Native mutual aid effort they see. Never heard from them again.

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

I’ve just discovered #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, where people share the funny/awkward/downright strange sleeping situations they find themselves in while visiting family. While I’m comfortably in my own home this year, when I visit my parents in their teeny retirement cottage, my bed looks like this 🤣

Heartwarming news that is actually dystopian Exhibit #2000

So excited to be able to join in for the first time since discovering #DuvetKnowitsChristmas as I’m in my spare/junk room with 4 cats as my mum is in my bedroom. @rhodri.biz

Twas the night before Christmas, and throughout the land The sleeping arrangements were carefully planned Down in the kitchen, a picturesque scene A mattress, a pillow, a washing machine

One of the best things about Christmas is the tradition of people posting their awkward yet loving sleeping arrangements at their family gatherings. So heartwarming how people make room and make do. So do follow #DuvetKnowItsChristmas and enjoy, and maybe bung a few quid to charity as well. ❤️

Brother and sister in law have invited both families and thus I have been relegated to this classic #DuvetKnowItsChristmas arrangement in their downstairs office/music practise room. Had to lobby to get a lamp 😂

So, is this the place? #duvetknowitschristmas

This is where my daughters are sleeping this Christmas #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

The formica stool of chastity returns! #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

#DuvetKnowItsChristmas is also a great hashtag to check out on Christmas Eve/Day for some smiles. Some unlikely and fun sleeping places for people visiting others at Christmas. Here's one of my favourites from last year.

TBH I think a duvet would spoil the glorious austerity of this beautiful Christmas scene #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

I’m a new vicar whose vicarage wasn’t ready for me to move into. But I have midnight mass and early morning service so I’m camping in the mainly empty house tonight. There now after the crib service. A friend told me about #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Eslam's account keeps getting deleted, so not many people have donated to help her in over a month. It would be really nice if we could change that www.gofundme.com/f/a-final-fi...

Once again I am on the floor of my own study, with all the things that don’t fit anywhere else and once again I’m the one in the house working. #duvetknowitschristmas

Oh. My. God. Again, people who should on no account sleep tonight #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...

Pretty tame by #DuvetKnowItsChristmas standards, but by the time hubby joins me in this small spare bed/storage room tonight it's going to be cosy. Don't be deceived by all the cupboards & drawers: they're full. At least we have access to all the spare bedding (although there isn't actually a duvet)

Right then, no one asked for it (everyone seems quite happy with last year's!) but here we are anyway, your #DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025 bingo card! Some returning classics, some we missed last year and some new ones. Enjoy team, donation link below once Rhodri posts it!

Son's set up in the cellar at my partner's parents is a bit #DuvetKnowItsChristmas... There is a small window, and plenty of tools/DIY equipment hand. Disappointed by the lack of taxidermy....

I have to say I think the 2025 competition is over before it’s started. Jolies rêves.

Entering my daughter’s sleeping arrangements for #DuvetKnowItsChristmas this year. We have family over and staying in her room, so she is on a single mattress under her brother’s bunk bed. She brought the vine lights with her, but the cork board will be handy if she does any festive crime-solving.

We demand another photo approaching midnight with the scene lit with a table lamp #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Convenient access to stapler at 2am #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

What a privilege to visit the #KolbHalle artist community in Koeln before it's forced move in the new year. Since 1989 it's been running as an artist led initiative in this extraordinary former factory space. Thanks to #MaschaRodigina for the tour.

Enjoying this sign encouraging children to walk to school in Haan, Germany. But also finding the walking experience slightly challenging with some narrow pavements, pavement parking and what feels like high speed driving. Few pedestrians out & about (but it is Christmas). 🚶‍♀️🏙️🚸

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

It’ll be the Fifteenth YEAR of being sent pictures of people’s uncomfortable Xmas sleeping arrangements. Fifteen years. Jeepers. I was at a party last week and someone said “oh yeah you’re the Christmas guy” and I angrily referred him to my CV (I didn’t, I said “I guess so”)

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?

Walking is Medicine (2017). A group of six young people walk from Whapmagoostui, Quebec, to Ottawa. This short starts as a standard issue doc, but spirals out into a meditation on land, culture, and youth.