Blimey do they actually have a puppet called Marionette

2/ ~old jk is best jk~

Apologies for earlier celebrations, I had mistakenly understood that the strike was on a vuvuzela

When Breaking Bad was a hit and Hollywood came calling for Cranston, I thought "Well at least this means they won't bring back Malcolm in the fucking Middle" How wrong I was

The wrong episode of Strong Message Here has been uploaded to Spotify, but it's correct on BBC Sounds! Hooray @aiannucci.bsky.social

I was dropped from the school's third rugby team just in time for the weekend we played Eton, a team which featured a player as poor at the sport as me, His Royal Highness, the Duke of Cornwall and heir apparent to the British throne, William

Here we are, the gooch of the year

and Tiny Tim, who did NOT die NOT dif NOT dig NOT dih NOT dii NOT dij NOT

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

@jimmfelton.bsky.social did you just do a festive milk coke

Pyschopomp Paddington is now firmly entrenched

An escalator not working at a train station is not worthy of being flagged as a disruption to a train journey. This small change can reduce anxiety which will in turn reduce pressure on the NHS #VotePalko #SensiblePoliciesForStupidPeople

My next #ArtistFaveXmas warm up selection is thanks to @andrewmale.bsky.social and his Roger's Dream playlist. I can't stop listening to it's melancholy magnificence. This charted in December 1969 so fits my Christmas Adjacent criteria perfectly. Durham Town youtu.be/BbW0CeOfaZ8?...

Amazing to consider all of the many accomplishments that Jesus Christ was able to achieve in just, what, three or four short months between Christmas and Easter? Some serious output

(to the tune of Coldcut) # children get DRESSED # woo hooo # we're going to be LATE #

You're all missing the most egregious part of that Trump post

December? Old Trafford? Three-nil mate #afcb

"No one player is bigger than Liverpool" apart from Dan Burn, who is absolutely massive

Does the USA's crackdown on visas for fact-checkers mean there will be no VAR at the World Cup

"Santa Claus is coming to town" - festive, exciting "Santa Claus is goin' to town" - concerning, possibly problematic

It would be interesting to pinpoint the moment the word "Brexit" came to express the thing you have to own rather than the moment you pass through (see Creasy in today's Guardian). Suspect it began with reference to hard and soft varieties. It makes it much harder for its proponents to shake off

this has become a very important video to me

"That's it, Stoofer, you help"

My Spotify Wrapped was less of a review of the year, and more of an intervention

Yeah exactly, it's just like Bertrand Russell said: "Idiots are always getting things wrong, unless they are actually clever"

wife got a timer for all of our christmas lights so obviously thinking of this

Wife says I need to stop complaining every time I see an octagonal snowflake, I'm ruining it for the children

I present... Smol Paul's brain scan. How is it possible that EVEN IN 2D he is this much himself?!

Spike Lee needs to stop writing his name on his drugs, what if the police catch him

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

What if we just all agree not to tell the Bond Markets what the plans are #budget

OMG. The Guardian have confused Kenneth Clark, presenter of the 1969 series 'Civilisation' with Tory ex-MP & former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in their review of the new BBC series 'Civilisations:Rise & Fall'

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

I like that Christmas song by the Pretenders # dud dud der derrr # # I got pigs # # dud dud der derrr # # in blankets #

A movie that takes place where you're from

My favourite part of the AI Kingston on Thames christmas mural is the man using a severed dog's paw on a stick to subdue his chimera dogwife

@totallyshow.bsky.social As well as the Uncle Jeff Coefficient, am I right in thinking that someone on the show once suggested a way to predict the way the table will finish by looking at what the table is in terms of goal difference, once it gets to Christmas? I might be imagining this

It's Friday afternoon, so who wouldn't want to enter the weekend with one more round of my patented bubble plots of British politics? In this final (one hopes) of my mini-series I look at who the 'odd ones out' of British politics are. Who is 'out of touch' with the rest of the public. Let's see 1/n

Mirror, mirror On the floor Who is the clumsiest Of them all

I simply close my screen to 45° with absolutely no issues whatsoever

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

This is a vital essay by @johnspringford.bsky.social & @acjsissons.bsky.social - diagnosing the British malaise and providing a set of clear policy solutions. You will be much better informed for having read it getting-out-of-the-hole.uk

There's a couple in the IT Department who have one of those 'off-again, on-again' type relationships

There have been many attempts at lampooning Elton John over the years, but the brilliance in Neil Innes' approach from RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION is to emulate Elton's musicianship while gently ribbing the oft-times endearingly flowery/nonsensical nature of Bernie Taupin's lyrics...

Good to see so many parents at the school gates have decided to join in with the kids on Pyjama Day Yes this post is about the post-millennial decline in decorum

These weirdos have really put the 'elite' back in 'illiterate' #illiterati

I just shouted at my computer canasta partner who has once again undermined my efforts, calling them a Robbie Gibb, for those of you interested in "cut-through" #bbc

Oh, how we laughed. We pointed across the ocean and laughed through gritted teeth. But now he comes for Strictly #bbc