The spirit of an outdoors Christmas, filled with memories, love and a good dollop of idiocy. #hiking #TheOutdoorsStation podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

I’m on a WhatsApp group for the male participants of our antenatal class. I’m amused that as the dads-to-be on it gradually become dads, the primary topic of conversation is in parallel becoming the most dad-ish thing possible: thermostat levels.

The e-scooter isn’t new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...

And for those who find this time of the year a bit sickly sweet, how about a palate cleanser. youtu.be/vOlvo9x-w8k?...

Visited Wistman's Wood today & was excited to find 4 new fenced exclosures have just been installed, protecting naturally regenerating saplings from grazing Great work by Duchy of Cornwall + their tenant farmer + Natural England to help restore this temperate rainforest @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Someone is going to Hell for this

Yknow its less embarrassing to say “i asked my mom“ than to say “i asked chatgpt“ and not fascist coded

A thingy. Good name, up there with a wotsit and a howsyerfather.

HAHAHAHA!

This is my favourite book cover ever!

There is no reason why I should be quite THIS excited about our Christmassified Jingle. And yet I am. (Sound on, obviously.) A x

Don’t know about the rest of the world, but in the UK this is simply not true. It’s a conspiracy theory, and it harms charities when those who fall for it stop making donations.

It is DECEMBER you mad fucks!

It’s time for the Commonwealth Games to quietly fade away and disappear anyway, it certainly will now it’s no longer free-to-air. BBC replaced by TNT Sports as Commonwealth Games live broadcaster www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lovable Victorian Urchin's Guide to a Merry Christmas youtube.com/shorts/fLIh7...

Good to see Minette Batters, ex-NFU Prez, say in her Farm Review that "the principles behind Landscape Recovery and Countryside Stewardship are sound, but there is a need to scale the concept" - & propose Landscape Recovery projects for all 93 English river catchments! www.gov.uk/government/p...

Regarding the RNLI, you could direct your lovely listeners to this campaign by Simon Harris @mrjamesob.bsky.social share.google/mHNkkcJRd2c2...

The plan for the Broken Veil channel is to be able to make and share a lot more things like this, alongside the regular series of Broken Veil, and Discomfort Blanket. This is just the start…

A colleague used ChatGPT to make a themed comedy bingo game for our work social yesterday. I can now confirm that ChatGPT does not understand: - jokes - bingo

The official prequel to Derry Girls

I cannot stress how highly I agree with this view. I know trans people, I’m not sure how many people against trans do know individuals and see them as a real person rather than an abstract concept.

Listening to the excellently written “The Other Bennet Sister”, companion piece to “Pride & Prejudice” but coming to Mary’s greatest humiliation is painful. I'm listening to "The Other Bennet Sister" by Janice Hadlow (read by Kristin Atherton) on xigxag links.xigxag.co.uk/zy4D

obligatory map, I suppose he could fall under “sexy” but I feel he deserves a new category involving accents

I’ve heard some dreadful Christmas songs in my time but Kylie ‘s is really scraping the barrel.

I just saw Chris Rea checking his tyre pressures.

Here it is about using a sharpened pencil and see how far I can push it like Salt' n Pepa and Spinderella 😋 The heart as a multiplier of love, finding it's way...  #KeraDamo #Art #ArtAdventCalendar #Heart #Kunstenaar

Incredibly brave man. Next time a maniac commits some atrocity, remember that for every Islamic terrorist there are millions of peaceful Muslims just living a peaceful life. Or, like this wonderful guy, risking everything to save strangers of a different religion.

No Toilet Police? Great because I’m a firm believer in civil disobedience on this one (‘Follow the rules’? You mean those new rules that were unnecessary before then? Fuck right off.) 'Toilet police' not expected over single-sex space guidance, equality boss says www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is definitely big need design energy in that he ignores entirely that cheeses are round because it's important for it to dry at an even speed. It would have been much easier historically to make square cheese forms. We don't do that because square cheeses don't age evenly.

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

Difficult to think of a program that encapsulates the Reithian principles of Inform, Educate and Entertain more entirely than Robin Ince's work on The Infinite Monkey Cage, and difficult to think of a greater betrayal of them than forcing him out.

Er. SQUEE!!!! #ukgiftam #shopindie #mhhsbd

A little whimsical vintage musical libretto art for #caturday. A gift idea for your Belle Helene #ukgiftam #mhhsbd #bsnm #christmas

time for some serious jam selling

Napoleon absolutely loves his. To the point where it's one of his "safe spaces" when he's not well.

Scriptorium is fantastic and a perfect game to play over the xmas break.

Another client of Douglas Barrowman's tax avoidance firm, AML, loses in a tax tribunal. Barrowman's clients have probably lost hundreds of millions of pounds. Barrowman hasn't lost a penny. It's just wrong. buff.ly/DCsy5oy

#BBC Lancashire headline "Girl killed after getting off bus". First line of article "Girl hit and killed by truck". Actually, the girl was hit and killed by a human, the driver of the truck. The bus and the truck were not to blame. Stop using such evasive language! 😬🤬

A new way of sticking it to the man. I have bought a new blu-ray player* for Christmas because I’ve just discovered that they play DVD’s so will be scouring the charity shops for all the films I want to *own*. *(£74 from Richer Sounds, absolute bargain).

I have a task for anyone reading this, to be completed tomorrow. Do something nice for a stranger. Do this not because you expect anyone to reciprocate, or to know, but because it might make the world a better place. Random acts of kindness might be the thing that saves humanity. You never know.

AI tech bros promising to allow you to talk to a digital simulacrum of your dead relatives as a false comfort during your natural process of grief are, I’m afraid, in contravention of the 1736 Witchcraft Act, the 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act, and should be hanged. I don’t make the rules.

The theramin is an extraordinary instrument. Weird, and easily written off as an oddity, but when you find someone playing one well, in an arrangement like this.... Well, it is breathtaking isn't it? youtu.be/ajM4vYCZMZk?...

Just one real gold leaf one left, if you want a special surprise for a puffin-lover’s Christmas pressie not jus the Baby Jesus that likes gold, innit? #puffins #gold #artforsale #art #birdart #bsnm

this is such a baffling own goal I mean, I guess it makes some sense in that they’re trying to convince business leaders that their bots are capable of replacing workers, but the overarching message from Big AI has been “AI will take all your jobs” of course people hate that and hate you

[3/3] We've also got rid of the Munro Tops map and combined them onto the Munros map, if you have activated the Tops. More new features for the non hill-baggers amongst you are planned!

Today in The December Comfort Watches, I'm essaying Strictly Ballroom, a loving look at a delightfully weird little subculture, that is, in its way, an absolutely perfect film: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/09/t...

🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲 If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with: - pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!) - a link or details on how people can buy I will boost you! Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄

Hello! I’m an illustrator who prints and produces his own work. I’ve produced a high-quality 2026 Calendar. There’s 139/250 left! My shop: www.infinitebacon.com Thank you!

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case. She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

Having recently been to Tenerife on holiday and feeling slightly guilty about it, here is a timely and excellent vlog on Spain, tourism and identity (with an English comparison when tourists go elsewhere) youtu.be/BV6lnwWLUn8?...