I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

Barring the addition of the latest Knives Out (which is the planned New Year’s Eve viewing) I’ve seen some 70+ films this year A few highlights…

This from @markgoodrich.bsky.social, is one of the only reasons I've found where I wish I were still on twitter - so I could share it to encourage others to leave open.substack.com/pub/markgood...

Tomorrow marks 10 years since the greatest piece of art of our generation

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Have been listening to Euro Country every day for the past week What a brilliant, funny collection of great songs

I only heard this for the first time a week ago but I think it’s my favourite song from 2025 youtu.be/85nNjT4YaKM?...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

I’m drinking baileys, eating panettone, and doing a jigsaw Final festive form achieved

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Would be interesting to see if the rugby figures were different for Wales and England One of the things that shocked me when I went from playing schoolboy rugby in Pontypool to watching my son play in Barnet was just how posh everyone was 2/3 of his team went to private schools; none of mine did

Cooked Christmas Day dinner yesterday with 14 different elements Which sounds impressive but I accidentally turned down the oven and messed up the yorkshires Have been haunted by guilt and regret ever since

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

The four wise men gave Jesus gold, frankincense, myrrh and nickel but Jesus gave the nickelback and that guy never made it as a wise man

Martha Stewart is a close friend of Snoop Dogg and he has convinced her to join him as a minority owner of Swansea City FC. Reality is letting its hair down for a bit over Christmas. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Can we maybe stop with the obviously fake photo of Trump with skiddy trousers because lying makes you as bad as the fash and incontinence probably isn’t funny to those who suffer with it.

No Your fridge has stopped working 10 minutes after your Christmas order was delivered

Wonderful evening at Ashridge House Christmas lights We do it every year. It’s one of few things we can do together as a family E loves looking at the lights and was delighted by his first ever ride on a ferris wheel But…

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

My daughter just said I look a lot like Robert Redford and it’s literally the best compliment I’ve had since a 6 year old mistook me for Sportacus

It’s the time of year when I comb through the best-albums-of-the-year lists for all the albums that I didn’t get time to listen to in the past 12 months First belated observation: CMAT is flipping brilliant

Whoever made a wish to see the worst people get the smug punched out of them is having the best Christmas

Shocking new photo from the Epstein files.

Yeah This is still an easy 5⭐️ album

god damn the opposite camera's views of each of their faces is peak schadenfreude

To everyone on Bluesky finding out about Walliams and despairing at the fact that "I read those books to my kids" I just want to reassure them that it's OK. He didn't write them.

we go live to David Walliams’ front door

Wanna see something crazy? Drone warfare in Ukraine has changed the frontline dramatically. A huge, chaotic grey zone with no clear “line” demarking armies as individual soldiers hunker down, pinned by drone attack. EW initially helped defend against drone attack by jamming or spoofing signals

Not a serious country. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ok, this is nuts. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. Do you see it? (OP @drgbuckingham.bsky.social )

Suffering my way through Man Vs Baby as we mistakenly thought it would be a fun family watch Turns out an infant in CGI jeopardy isn’t a rich vein for comedy Few people have lost IT quite as much as Rowan Atkinson has sadly

Not to be the conspiracy theory guy but Steven Miller is the only one not reflected in the shiny table

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

utterly incapable of grace

anyway I’m gonna go cry for a bit

WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney

Sharing this to commemorate Dick Van Dyke’s centenary.

It is obscene that Ince has been forced out of his non-news, non-politics-focused role at the BBC for opinions like "trans people should not be eliminated". Fucking monstrous.

Here’s a poem called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.

Well this is sad, upsetting news from every angle

An overly fizzy Coke causing bubbles to erupt out of my nose and me to spill the entire cup over myself as the BBFC card came up I had to sit through the whole film drenched to the bone That film: Magnolia

Just finished our unit on learning disability history with y9. Lovely but also sad to think that they now know more about this than almost anyone in Britain.

When Dani Dyer got injured her replacement literally had 2 days training before the first live show so it wouldn't have been fair to throw in someone with zero dance experience #Strictly #SCD #JusticeForAmber

Not to go all politics (unlike me, I know) but a reason McLaren is loved in Woking is that it takes on people sans degrees with technical skills and offers them a brilliant future. Those kids won this for Lando. And it makes you very happy to be from there.

Lando!

The best part of being a parent is your children achieving things that are just beyond belief Latest in this series - my daughter singing in this extraordinary choir last week Have listened to it at least 3 times a day since and well up every time www.facebook.com/share/v/1C4Y...

I’m the least religious person you’ll meet but the Christmas Carol concert at St Albans Cathedral for the Willow Foundation was utterly extraordinary Just the most wonderful sound

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

Growing up with a sister who has a learning disability, I’ve seen people shout the R word at her. That was in the 80s and 90s. Now we’re in the 2020s and I am seeing world leaders and tech leaders use it and I cannot begin to tell you how devastating that is.