The dead hand of Michael Lowry having writ, moves on ....

Heidegger had a whole radio address about why he turned down a professorship in Berlin to stay in Freiburg, because the peasants in Black Forest pubs were the people who were real Germans. We know where this all leads.

For 2026, would like to see genAI masquerading as "local and handmade" get the boot from craft/art fairs and anywhere working makers earn their living, and for progressive movements to stop using it - you didn't need it before, and 100% don't need it now. Walk the walk as well as talking the talk.

Anytime some yahoo says, “all serious historians agree…” I want to say: 1. What is a “serious” historian? 2. Have you ever actually been in a room with more than one historian? We can’t even agree with how long the 19th century was.

Maybe someone could remind the serfs that, historically, they have been able to deal with mad Tsars

Looks cool - but also like Batman is standing guard outside

THREAD: Verified videos of anti-establishment protests currently unfolding in Iran Protesters push back police and security forces on Tehran's Jomhouri Street. Location: maps.app.goo.gl/LKZH6YbnT2WE... @geoconfirmed.org

Women in Iran—not just Tehran, not just students—have been openly flouting the hijab and other modesty laws (and notably regime has not cracked down) but now shopkeepers all over Iran have kicked off another front bsky.app/profile/pers...

any discussion of city transit improvement online ever

Found this insane mashup: Skeletor as Joe Pesci and and Evil Lyn as Marisa Tomei from My Cousin Vinny. Made with clever editing, not AI slop! Credit: @mylolthecat on Instagram

NBA downtime remains unmatched. The Cleveland Pogoliers.

Fireworks madness in Amsterdam (still ongoing). These ones are not organised by the authorities, but by ordinary people - banned as of next year.

Didn't expect one of the most powerful pieces of music I heard in 2025 to be a cover of an obscure Alessi Brothers song from the 70s by a character played by Jari Jones on Bob's Burgers - happy New Year

Bulgaria, welcome to the Euro! 🇪🇺🇧🇬 Добре дошла в еврото, България! 🇪🇺🇧🇬

"One does not simply walk into Moor door...oh...ok...carry on!"

Happy new year to ye all - let’s do this!

Can I get an update on this, Jane?

Curiously, suspect ship FITBURG carries the same symbol as infamous German WWII-era submarine U-96. bsky.app/profile/kale...

Well, this is unhinged...

Happy 70th anniversary to "One Froggy Evening” (1955), directed by Chuck Jones. One of a few #LooneyTunes shorts released on New Year's Eve. This one-toon wonder is considered one of the greatest animation shorts of all time. Spielberg called it "the Citizen Kane of the animated short".

🎶Pink Platypus I'm gonna keep on dancing with the...🎶

pretty sure there's going to be a Wickerman at the end of that...

Oh. my. god. This is the Asst. US Atty General calling people -- in print -- "hoes."

I've waited 3 years to make this post

What!!? Did Eoin MacNeill negotiate this snowfall?

Not sure FF/FG's highly original wheeze of 'Let's Blame the Immigrants!" is going to benefit them in any way - but it could well benefit others who should be nowhere near our politics

Rookie numbers etc etc #feckTesla

thinking about "Brother Lobo," a Twitter user with an ancient warrior avatar who said we need to defend objective beauty, but turns out he wears vibram five fingers

I didn't fancy clicking on the Telegraph link, but what a headline!

Ah Jeeze, Buggles AND Oakey & Moroder?

this remains the greatest synopsis of incel culture one could ever ask for

Temple Bar - which I've always said is great for Dublin as it corralls all the people & stuff you'd never want to be near in one, handy-to-avoid location - every city needs an Eejit Reservation !

🥁✨🎉 **My Top Image of the Year · #1 of 10** The jaw-dropping early C16th angel roof at St. Wendreda's in March, Cambridgeshire. Sir John Betjeman said it was “worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see.” 🤔 He was right.

@theatlantic.com I will post this across 12 social networks every week until a reporter follows my campaign

“having to mask made me go fash” is so common and it’s just baffling I mean, yes, it was annoying to wear one all the time? it also wasn’t that big a deal? if, today, someone asks me to put a mask on I go “ok” and put one on and yet so many people treat it as a life-ruining imposition

real sexy just like you wanted boss

I said chatgpt doesn't have a soul and got put on this list

I really just have had one question for the last six years, really it all boils down to this: What is wrong with these fucking children??

This is the single greatest piece of rock art in human history

Russia claiming an attack on Putin's home - very cleverly playing on Trump's atavistic fear of peasants storming the gates at Mar-a-Largo. They can play him like a Balalaika.

I seem to have woken up in 1529…

Had a great aunt who lost: father to gas gangerene - brother to TB, infant sister to scarlet fever - she believed vaccines and modern medicine to be miracles - she could never have understood this

Feck sake - on a total roll on University Challenge and nobody here to be stunned by my knowledge.... posset!

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

Here’s to 2026

** My Top Ten Photos of the Year · #10 of 10** Medieval Green Man at Norwich Cathedral. I’ve visited many places that offer a captivating glimpse into the past, but few have made me feel like the past was gazing back at me.