A *source* has alerted me to the sad news that this year's Gavle goat has met its doom - blown over by Storm Johannes. Alas, alack www.dn.se/sverige/stor...

An entire mood

I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7). Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!

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...

I managed 15!

If you missed your Brockley Market Xmas order, there is still time to bag pheasant! cc @chimpman.bsky.social @rhymerrigby.bsky.social

Hi all. The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs are the subject of a fantastic article, by Henry Wismayer, in today’s FT Magazine. We are proud to have advised, and be featured in it. We’re lead to believe that it is Christmas soon, so here’s a free link - our gift to you all xx as.ft.com/r/aa778cba-5...

I had no idea this is how the NORAD Santa tracker got started! www.npr.org/2014/12/19/3...

It’s the feelgood Christmas story we all needed

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

The deadline for sending written submissions to our egg donation and freezing inquiry is closing on 9 January. We're want your views on a number of key questions. Find out what we want to know and help us collect evidence: committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evi...

Also true if you were born at a similar time in NZ and had your MMR there but are now in the UK. I got mine done a few years ago when I found out we only got one dose of MMR at the time.

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

Well that's not at all ominous

This seems not good... Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham Councils are among London local borough governments which have reportedly been hit a "cybersecurity incident" www.mylondon.news/news/east-lo...

There is a milk tanker in Southland done up like a cheese roll. For real

Heads up that there’s a generous Interrail sale for the next 21 days - 25% off all passes, making it an even bigger bargain than usual. Passes can be activated at any point up to 11 months after purchase. From all your usual retailers. www.interrail.eu/en

This image of The Slits by Terry Lott is apparently from a 'Photoshoot At Home Of Band Member In New Cross'. I've seen it dated from 1981 and 1987, former seems more likely as they split up in '82 - for the sake of my completist SE14 obsession, does anybody know who lived where?

At New Zealand's Kawaiican cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived. www.wired.com/story/this-h...

posted by a friend who is Professor of Molecular Biophysics. PM me if you have any ideas and want to be put in touch.

I just want a government that is morally *better* than this.

The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling

Vile. Utterly vile. There is no such thing as a “war on womens’ sport”

Paywall lifted: At every turn, the Govt has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Govt’s other priorities. The long retreat: newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

Just added to my Etsy shop: 🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars 🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers) 🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos 💐tiny posy mental health kits Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/target-area/... Blimey. House phone rang and mobile just beeped

🏊‍♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision. In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019. Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts. 1/5

🚨 New on Substack: my post on the Honor Oak Estate, Lewisham - to some 'a successful endeavour to provide suitable hygienic accommodation for the poorer classes' and to others 'a warning for planners’ municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-honor-...

And here’s the crowdfunding link if you want to contribute or share www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful, (by-real-people) drawings because they should be seen 🧵...

To think of this man In his hospital bed, Watching the hate-filled racism oozing across the media, Talk of 'Britishness', and panning 'immigrants', demanding the race of the attacker be revealed, Never once demanding the ethnicity of the brave man who saved dozens of lives #SamirZitouni

Wow this is really terrible news.

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

MPs are rightly concerned about the economic impact of the EHRC's Code of Practice. Businesses up and down the country have made clear that it's unworkable. It's time for the Minister to send it back 🚮 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I've had to take a break partway through just to digest the first half of the story. So, so pleased to be a subscriber!

I'm publishing the weirdest story I've ever written tomorrow, for London Centric members only. So here's an one-off offer. Sign up for a year before midnight today and I'll give you 33% off. If the story doesn't live up to expectations, I'll refund you tomorrow. www.londoncentric.media/a21e85e7

It's #buyastrangerabook day. To celebrate Bluesky being back online I'll give out a book. FOR FREE. If there's one you'd like, let me know what it is. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. Here's what it's all about. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only

What policy themed visitor trail would you do upon retirement? I would pilgrimage to visit the 100 Rishi Sunak outdoor chess sets around the country. I genuinely think it would be one of those fun random things that would take me to places I’d never otherwise go to

It's hard to know how best to mark the death of Jilly Cooper - there is no Concorde to bonk on and I don't have a horse to go and pour out my feelings to in the stables while being groped by an aristo. Perhaps just a glass of fizz and a bracing walk with an unusually sensitive dog.

If you need to still your racing mind this Sunday and restore your faith in humanity, try this soothing thread.

A friend of mine (“London type; queer sort”) has just sent me a photo of herself wearing this. Apparently, it’s the Peckham Conker Championships today, and if you live in the south of our great capital and are not there, you’re missing out

Plestia Alaqad’s new book features her diary entries reporting on the ground in Gaza for 45 days after October 7. after a hospital is bombed on day 10, she uses the word genocide. 2 years later—as the UN has finally called it one—she says, “turns out, that's only the beginning.” @teenvogue.com

For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

Not only stupid and vicious but witless.

The Hampstead ponds have REPEATEDLY voted to include trans women. But the officious pricks at Sex Matters don’t care what other women think and are forcing a public consultation anyway. Throw the ponds some support.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

My column in tomorrow's paper: