Make a Bond movie academic A view to a killing (published by your academic publisher of choice)

If your primary concern about dog breed is not about finding a dog whom you can look after well and who will fit in well but instead you’re worried about appearances, then you don’t deserve to have a dog. Or any pet.

Gingerbread 2025 Dumpster 🔥

December 26, welcome to The Void.

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

SCROOGE: you there! what day is today? BOY: today? it's Christmas Day SCROOGE: the spirits did it all in one night! BOY: NINETEEN SEVENTY THREE [Life on Mars plays, a Ford Cortina suddenly crashes into Scrooge's front room] GENE HUNT: OI, DI Scrooge, get in, we've got a nonce in Didsbury to bust

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate - and given that it’s a difficult time for a lot of people, wishing everyone a gentle day as well.

PS: despite, or because of, me virtually begging for it in the alt text, this is of course the best Wikipedia photo caption edit ever...

I would love this show, someone please commission this.

What is dead may never die, like Tiny Tim.

The new Wallace and Gromit is a bit dark...

#DuvetKnowIt’sChristmas is delightfully low key Christmassy and very British

this is actually more journalistic scrutiny than cbs managed in a whole hour

Lovely internet friends, acquiantainces: wonderful book readers, publishers, sellers and related trades, enjoy MrsRJ's Christmas card. Have a lovely holiday. (Forgive my awful photograph.)

🎶And did those feet, in ancient times, Walk around barefoot on the beach, Because they’d taken off their boots And thrown them all into the sea🎶 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

For today's #ArtAdventCalendar, another of the pet portraits I did this year and the drawing I may have spent the most absurd amount of time on, but getting the shell textures was quite a challenge. Lovely turtle belongs to @hravn.bsky.social 🐢

Last-minute gig idea! A knock-off VHS that looks a bit like a classic Disney cartoon:

On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.

Happy 21st December evening everyone. May the Great Veiled Bear pass over you house tonight and not present you with one of his cursed Christmas cookies.

Tis the season for… the Tractor run!

The shorteste daye The longest nighte Welcome, sun Welcome, lighte

Tag yourself, I’m approximately the word “back”

#scd final - here we go

3yo: “daddy’s phone is in his pocket!” me: “that’s true!” 3yo: “why isn’t mummy’s phone in her pocket?” me: “… buckle up, kiddo, we’re gonna discuss five hundred years of fashion and misogyny”

Straive is the name of the company that provides publishers with these AI tools, so you might want to watch out for that name when you’re considering where to publish.

We'll be taking a break over the next couple of weeks, so wishing everyone who celebrates a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and we'll be back from January 5th.

UK folks - don’t forget to check you have the meds you need for the Chrimbo period And remember there are processes (incl. NHS 111) to get emergency supplies of repeat prescriptions Inspired by a post from @scaryboots.bsky.social on IG

Welcome to my parents’ house. All bets are off.

Mozilla approved the Times New Roman to accessible fonts plugin! You can find it here for Firefox and it'll update automatically when, and if, anything more is requested. 🙌

“the only way to get to the truth is by speaking to one another” no it’s research, you’re thinking of research, that’s why you don’t get given a medical degree for debating whether bones exist

Yorkshire Water boss said "not being transparent" about receiving £1.3m payments from the parent company was a "mistake". They carefully planned to circumvent the rules, civil society exposed it. No retribution Customer fleecing, sewage dumping continues for bigger profits and exec bonuses

More epic downpours. Did an enthusiastic rain dance prove rather too effective? Did someone accidentally snub weather deities? Has St Swithin lost his calendar and we get the 40 days now? Or is it because Fran Healy from Travis lied when he was 17 and doomed us all?

PER MY LAST TABLET,

Probably very childish of me, but I do love fairy lights.

Maybe this is why I'm not a Beltway journalist, but I think the fact the United States is about to invade Venezuela to take their oil is an 100X bigger story than Trump's chief of staff going on the record with Captain Obvious characterizations of their dysfunctional regime

We're super excited to be returning to the Bagpuss Universe for Yaffle Origins. As mega fans of the Oliver Postbox multiverse, we always dreamed of telling the story of Assistant Professor Yaffle getting his first pair of glasses or whatever. Join us on this barren sphere, in this living death.

Omg can people stop coming into work ill. Don't even work from home, have a rest.

Instead of Elf On The Shelf, we are featuring Cthulhu In The Loo. Wash your hands, or face the unspeakable terror of the lord of the lightless abyss.

My brother over found me crying at “The Wizard of Oz” because Toto was dead, then he pointed out all the actors were too.

Seven quiet wins for climate and nature in 2025

Doesn't matter how many times you've done it, scream singing This Year with a crowd will get you there every time

A volunteer shift at medieval Barley Hall where we have a cheerfully anachronistic tree because CHRISTMAS and what the heck. No visitors have been bothered, but one very angry man passing by outside shouted at me through the window about it, which struck me as a sort of metaphor for Bluesky really.

This parody article has got me giggling! Simple reminder that if your praxis doesn't include disability justice, you're lacking and should start doing better. 🤗