Latest middle-aged thought: relief at not having a ticket for tonight because 815 is an unreasonably late kick-off.

Jesus christ. www.npr.org/2025/12/30/g...

I've become pretty jaded over the past decade but this for me is up there with the worst things he's ever said, the bit about Putin's generosity in particular has a certain 'arbeit macht frei' quality about it

I’m in.

Definitely don’t feel seen here

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We took a Minsky-style approach to understanding the refinancing risks across the sector and how they all interact. In other words, we made a TON of T-Charts to show exactly how capital flows. Balance sheets gotta balance!

Omg. @katie0martin.ft.com

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So either JP Morgan has gone bust after losses substantially smaller than the London whale losses which didn’t stop it making a decent profit that year or some people need their internet access supervised.

Second generation leftovers: Turkey curry toastie

Sandy and Sandier

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Was @dsquareddigest.bsky.social not me (though I do go on about betting a lot). Quite the fact though.

I know absolutely fuck all about cricket but even I know that England reliably get a meaningless Ashes win after the series is decided.

Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵

Gotta admit, even among all the horrors wrought by AI, I didn't imagine we'd be joining the war on dementia on the side of dementia

Intellectually I understand that the Championship is itself an increasingly lucrative global business now etc but no I’m sorry, it is always going to be deeply surreal to have an American channel advertising their coverage of the big 26 December matchup of Birmingham vs Derby County

‘Tis the season to remember this classic tweet

“Pliers stick too”.

Teen has a nose for terrible Christmas movies like a veteran pig has for truffles.

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

Having a normal Christmas morning

Can now not listen to Wham’s Last Christmas without singiing “Zubimendi” over “someone special”. This is not regarded as endearing domestically.

welcome to the Second Annual Bluesky Christmas Eve Snowball Fight! please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light

Finally. A gift list I can use

This is a touching story, but how sad and worrying that the church hosting much of the support work is afraid to be named because they are scared of attracting far right attacks. It’s a growing phenomenon and it’s outrageous.

I think the label “antisemitic” gets thrown around awfully freely, but this is the genuine article:

Honestly, this is better than Sainsbury’s. “We didn’t have your turkey so we’ve sent you some binbags “

Proper Christmas spirit here.

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

Marxists: AI is a technology for capital to crush labor power and take control of everything. Sensible people: this is doomerism and hysteria. Navarro: AI is a technology for us to crush labor power and take control of everything.

That’s ONE way to get “consumption” up. 🤡 #GDP

I don’t care what my daughter says, I do not wrap presents „like a blind man from a culture which doesn’t have sellotape”

The UK really has lost its mind, 1,881 isn't "modest" it's miniscule. The trans community are a tiny minority requiring protection. There's nowhere for floods of sex offenders making bogus claims to hide in these numbers. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Westfield three days before Christmas? I’m sure this will be fine.

*gasps and clutches laptop screen* GIVE IT ME

Sure sounds like taking sides

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

Mike Lee wants to license Americans to become literal pirates to help Trump's Caribbean campaign In ye olden days this would mean seizing a Spanish Galleon and selling the gold dubloons, but what do you do with a boat full of cocaine? Are privateers supposed to pull up and sell that in Miami

I see a lot of people celebrating violence against Andrew Tate and Jake Paul and really we should be better than... Oh who am I kidding get Tommy Robinson in a ring with Oleksandr Usyk.

Teen has us watching a terrible terrible Christmas movie, but with one character who seems to have wandered in from a much funnier, darker film.

Think you can understand a lot about British politics from the ONS survey reporting that 56% of people said they voted in the last local elections, when turnout in those elections was about 36%.

Makes you proud to be British www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

We put Putin's 19 December speech next to Hitler's 1939 Reichstag address. Seven steps. Same sequence. Same wording. "I wanted peace." "They rejected everything." "I was forced to act."

First away trip in maybe 25 years