Well this evening the Imrie household played host to the annual mouse hunt. The dog, the cat, the Mrs and I hunted the verminous pest in our living room.

Girl Scout Cookie Season comes around faster every year and since my little gingersnap is too young for social media I am sharing this on her behalf! digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/agatha...

Found this Danteworlds Dante's Inferno site from the University of Texas at Austin in some stored emails that I forgot I had! danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu

My best Christmas present so far is finding out that “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?” is on the official reading list for a science teacher training course at the University of Brighton.

here’s the 60 Minutes CECOT segment, which is temporarily available in Canada you all know what to do

Hopefully they will be renamed as the Kansas Free Staters and leave behind the racist baggage that accrued over the decades

David Walliams sowing: "fuck yeah this is brilliant!" David Walliams reaping: "oh what? ouch shit I hate this!"

CNN: "A soaked tent or a bombed-out ruin: Gazans face a grim choice this winter." Please don't turn away from the suffering civilians. They rely on our donations to survive. Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can take care of her children. And to others. ❤️ chuffed.org/project/1587...

Made a batch of fudge as part of my family’s Christmas tradition- brown sugar, condensed milk, butter, milk & a dash of vanilla essence

David Walliams teenlibrarian.co.uk/2025/12/19/d...

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Qu Enya

I have updated this with a response from Walliams’ publicist

If you ever find a nazi bar it is considered neighborly to bar all the doors and set the place on fire then shoot any nazis who try to escape!

David Walliams' behaviour towards young women was widely known, as were the racist/sexist/homophobic/agist etc. views contained in his creative output over the decades but he was a white man who made money so it was ignored for so long. This is a piece I wrote about him earlier today

It is almost like publishing is a business that cares more about the bottom line than protecting vulnerable, young employees from predatory behaviour!

David Walliams teenlibrarian.co.uk/2025/12/19/d...

No-one is untouchable forever - even if it appears that they are! The stories about Walliams behaviour have been known for years archive.ph/x43gU

No, no, I am sorry, you misheard me! I did not say that you were not hired because you are white - what I said was that you were not hired because you are shite!

Can anyone recommend any books, movies or tv shows that capture the spirit of childhood (think Bluey or Calvin & Hobbes)

AI is a solution for which no problem currently exists

Opening little doors and eating salted nuts A Nadvent Calendar

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

A young patron was returning books at my library, they stopped, hugged one book and whispered "Good-bye!" before dropping it into the book slot The book was Away by @meganefreeman.bsky.social

Three weeks until New Year's eve! We can make it!

AI is a solution for which no problem currently exists

I loved watching Buck Rogers in die 25 eeu (simulcast in English on Radio 2000) on Saturdays in the 80s

Now that Mozilla has shit the bed with Firefox, can anyone recommend another decent browser?

I made a Gingerbreadkrampus for a workroom display

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

I listened to this podcast this morning - a bite-size morsel of interesting information about the history of football (soccer). It got me halfway to work and kept me riveted!

We did not 'lose' Rob and Michele Singer Reiner - they were stolen from us! As were the 15 innocents on Bondi Beach! We need to stop using words like 'lost' when people are murdered, it hints at something accidental rather than a premeditated theft of life and potential. Their loves were a blessing

Nothing Gold Can Stay By Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

Solidarity and love to those affected by the dreadful antisemitic attack in Bondi!

Really appreciated this. Please #signalboost www.reddit.com/r/50501/comm...

It's the holidays so I must remind you of this sale, because I gotta feed my cats somehow in 2026 ;) www.patreon.com/posts/144914...

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

If anything, these days I am an Impuritan

I spoke to the insane train killer on death row to find out why he did it. It turns out he had a loco motive

Beelzebub’s full name is Weeliamzebub

I noted that the reporter used "pushed into the public eye" instead of "thrust into the public eye" I wonder if it was because they did not want to use the word "thrust" with regard to Olivia Nuzzi - or am I reading too much into it

Look, if you're going to buy some kid you know a sciencey book for Christmas, it really ought to be one of mine. You know, to show that you've really thought about it and not just grabbed the first science book you came across: alomshaha.com

A list of Roberts used in a research paper or Bobliography

FIFA stands for FIFA Is Fucking Awful!

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Gnome Man is an Island

The English always did like setting stuff on fire!

Madeleine Wickham, known for writing the bestselling novel Confessions of a Shopaholic under her pen name Sophie Kinsella, has died aged 55.

Hell has been bought out by a marketing company. Demons were fired and had to retrain as Sinfluencers to attract people towards damnation

GenAI is genaai!

Generative AI will not make people stupid, rather it will exacerbate a a decline in creativity and wonder in people that can ill-afford a reduction in these essential parts of being human