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Twas the night before Christmas, and throughout the land
The sleeping arrangements were carefully planned
Down in the kitchen, a picturesque scene
A mattress, a pillow, a washing machine

Right, the underpants are off! It’s time I, Gregg Wallace, had my say | Marina Hyde I am almost literally medically incapable of staying in my trousers. So who’s really to blame here – me or the BBC?

Right, the underpants are off! It’s time I, Gregg Wallace, had my say | Marina Hyde

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

This is an amazing read from The Oatmeal. Well worth a look.

theoatmeal.com/comics/plane...

Time to fix this big handsome boy ❤️🙌🏽

Big Tea came to us last week miserable and sick. He'd been left behind by his previous owners and some neighbors had been desperately trying to keep him alive.

elmo and kermit are standing next to each other with the words let 's go to the pride parade behind them Alt: elmo and kermit are standing next to each other with the words let 's go to the pride parade behind them

Have fun at World Pride today, everyone. Be safe and look after each other.
(Sorry, I’m always going to be a momma!)

Tom Cruise 🐾

We first met Tom months ago, living in a small community on the streets of Thailand.

He has an old leg injury that healed on its own — a little crooked, but it doesn’t slow him down 🩼

When you're helping street dogs, life doesn't get much better 🥰

With everything going on in the running of a dog charity, it's important to remember what really matters, the dogs themselves ❤️

#Dogs #StreetDogs #RescueDogs

christ, what a day to be an immigrant cursed with the ability to read

Outstanding

Paddington in Doctor Strange (2016)

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1523

Sir Terry Pratchett and his daughter, Rhianna, at the launch of Dodger.

Happy birthday, Dad. Time to come back now, it’s all gone a bit rubbish without you. ❤️❤️❤️

Bridget Phillipson’s statement is shockingly bad.

- “Move Forward” has never been more loaded.

- There has not been a single real reassurance for trans people.

- A load of bullshit about mixed sex wards which has nothing to do with trans people or this judgement.

Plus a load of culture war.

Written through big angry tears. Fuck anyone going along with this.

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

GOOOOALLL ENGLAND! ⚽️

They have the breakthrough.

Bronze with a diving header to turn it home.

1-0 | #ENGBEL | #UWNL | #GOTBLive

The fact that everything around us is burning to the ground & some people still have no clue that they voted for the arsonist or are complicit in the arson is absolutely mind boggling.

People are ok with it so long as the black woman isn’t their President 🤯.

America, we have a problem!

Can everyone stop putting tariffs on each other and crashing the global economy just for five minutes whilst mummy has a think, please?

This is ridiculous. It's just the dumbest thing I've ever seen: a nation destroying itself to prevent the sale of cheap products. We can't keep getting stupider at this pace, as a species. Within another generation or two we won't be able to speak whole sentences.

YouTube video by Marsh Family "I Put Up Tariffs" - Marsh Family adaptation of Bob Marley and the Wailers, "I Shot the Sheriff"

This is "I Put Up Tariffs" 🎶- perhaps the first ever parody song (?) to make reference to the Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930. It's based on #BobMarley's legendary "I Shot the Sheriff" and sung from the point of view of #Trump, unleashing his frenzy of #tariffs on the USA & the world.

youtu.be/_DyNjjSxO8s

On Tuesday the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions confirmed major cuts and changes to disability benefits.

Let’s look at what this might mean for specific benefits ⬇ 1/11

Did You Ever Think You'd Live to See It? ....A Labour Government Punching Down on the Disabled and Sick

I wrote something about Labour’s proposed targeting of those who are disabled and long term sick. I am, as you will discover if you read, really effing angry about it - open.substack.com/pub/tashthin...

You don't want to read this And I don't want to write it.

You don't want to read this. And I don't want to write it.

iandunt.substack.com/p/you-dont-w...

Tweet from @peacher_martin "I hear @JK_Rowling has a few spare bob kicking about." Reply by @Glinner "she's never helped me in any way, I doubt she'll start now."

Enjoy.

Every day I think about something @morganj0nes.bsky.social said (paraphrasing from memory): “At some point you have to decide if you’re going to be led by your values or your resentments.” The anti-woke people, the anti-anti-Trump people, chose their resentments and look where it took them

this is obviously bleak and horrid and I know it's a petty thing to point out but: god we fucking told you so, lesbians and gay men who decided to become transphobic for no apparent reason, we told you the entire LGBTQ community would end up getting screwed over, this was always going to happen

SECTIONED I couldn’t talk. Everything is a blur.​ Doctors and Psychiatrists try to talk to me.​ I give NO response. I can’t talk. I’m NUMB.​ I hear voices all around me. As they discuss me.​ A decision is made.​ ​ Shortly after, I was taken to a mental health facility to stay.​ My belongings are taken away,​ “for my safety,” someone told me.​ It felt like I was powerless!​ My rights and my dignity has also been taken away.​ ​ Meetings were held without me. To decide what to do next!​ A list of diagnosis was thrown at me.​ DBD!​ As they tutted. I was told this illness can’t be cured!​ And there’s very little help for this type of illness.​ I cried.​ Even more helpless.​ I felt total despair!​ Where do I go from here?? I thought to myself.​

We need you.

All of next week we’re holding an exhibition in Parliament to show MPs what needs to change in the Mental Health Act, with incredibly powerful poems and artwork like this from people who have been sectioned.

YouTube video by Randy Rainbow Defy Democracy - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody

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Oh, thank FUCK, @randyrainbow.bsky.social. I've been waiting and waiting and WAITING for this...🌈

youtu.be/KpPIxcntxkE?...