‘Sunroof’

Early Arthropods xkcd.com/3199/

I can quite imagine this being me.

Discoveries revealed at the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Gobeklitepe and Karahantepe near Sanliurfa, Turkey, are giving archaeologists new understandings of how humans transitioned from hunter-gatherers to settled societies more than 11,000 years ago. www.reuters.com/science/new-...

The stone now called The Devil' Fingernail was once known as The Old King's Arrow and may have been the folkloric place called Wōdan's Spear. The importance isn't in the names themselves, but that the Long Neolithic has to power to demand such naming. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Cinema is as important to me as books - and I think the 100+ films I've watched with my filmclub far exceeds what any book group I've belonged to has ever managed. So hooray for a new generation of viewers! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."

Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to give us hell and have us pay for it.

One of the best in recent years - he seems to understand where most people are and maybe we should give him a chance to fix it.

“You have been murdered, signed The Secret Traitor” From the new Private Eye, out now.

In my teens, I rehearsed a scene from a play I finally saw today. Can confidently say #MichaelSheen is an absolute God, and spending 12 hours travelling to Swansea and back to see #OurTown is totally worth it, even if you don't have total recall of a scene that warns us never to attempt to go back.

Tom Baker is 92 today

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

Genuinely think world leaders need to watch Back to the Future and focus on the character of Biff, who the screenwriters expressly modeled on Donald Trump. In the 1980s! There is one way to deal with bullies and it’s not by accommodating them.

My #TheTraitors tactics: - tasks: be the keenest, give away shields, carry older people on my shoulders - round table: whenever anyone asks what I think, just say “I have no idea, and – with respect – neither do you”; vote entirely randomly - the rest of the time: play snooker, read, ignore everyone

"And what did you learn from your time in the Castle?" "How to position the white perfectly off a long red to pot the black and then open up the rest of the pack"

At least Obama's hypothetical Death Panels would have decided who deserved to die based on a rubric more complicated than "did they just piss off a high school dropout armed by the state"

Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."

This pollarded willow stands on our local Common and is thought to date to the 1600s. It’s been set fire to in the past and then a year or so ago disintegrated. Here it is, throwing up new branches. I’m sure there’s a message in that somewhere. Happy New Year!

BREAKING: Hundreds gathered at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach to form a human banner reading “It Was Murder 🇺🇸 ICE Out,

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online www.openculture.com/2026/01/dict... #books #literature #language

The Mordant girls hold to the wall and listen for death The Mordant girls hold to the wall and cease their breath The Mordant girls cling to the wall listening for the dead The Mordant girls! Is it any wonder they’re full of dread? - Trad. Hookland rhyme

Uk are you looking at this

The Daily Mail: a daily drag on the nation’s sanity, dignity and prosperity. Rocking back and forward in the corner shouting that Brexit was a win and improving on our relationship with the EU is a BeTRaYaL of all the special things it cannot name. Subverting failure. How very dare we.

Made a new playlist

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

Just a gif of the EU flag projected onto the London Eye as part of Mayor Sadiq Khan's London's New Year's Day fireworks 😀 The UK is £90 billion a year poorer because of Brexit i.e. tax rises and spending cuts, it's absurd One day soon the madness will end and the UK will #RejoinEU ☺️

Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!

Look no further for your Hogmanay party mix (NME Christmas 77).

Sarah Cooper is back. 👏

If people admire you, they put your name on buildings. If you have to do it yourself, well… that’s different.

Rewatched Four Weddings and a Funeral as it was on BBC iPlayer. Always thought I preferred Notting Hill (while loathing Love Actually), but wow, such brilliant choreography of multiple storylines. RIP Charlotte Coleman - a stand-out star in a fabulous cast.

Just so much BS that this planet has to put up with. Tech is out of control.

While Reform's millionaire Islamophobic leaders are just interested in getting even richer, here's someone they won't be praising ... meme via The Horse School

I read this similarly great piece of human decency on the beeb today. There's hope for humanity yet. BBC News - Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Last Christmas Ich gave thee myne hearte The verye next daye ther came a wolf Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost - And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars. Seek now myne hearte, Return it within a yeare and a daye: Thys ys thy queste Fayle not

He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

⛔️ FINALLY: Epstein Scandal "Now Over.” Latest Files “Put An End To Everything.” Everyone “Innocent.” 👇🏻 #BrokenNews Leads With The Truth. Please Like and Share: youtu.be/DAmF-n31N2I

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

Half Ma’am Half Brisket