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I failed to finish my French cheek-kissing map in time for Valentine's Day so I'm having a sale on my equally romantic cholera deaths map instead. Now 15% off!

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This is so on point. Literally just had a meeting where I had to back the ladies trying to save the “flower room” in the redesign from value engineering (tbf they want little kitchens everywhere)

Not enough people in the UK know about Stephen Miller. Glad you’re spotlighting him.

Yes. And AirTags on the other stuff.

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Chicken in some Welsh school dinners imported from China and Thailand Chicken from thousands of miles away is particularly prevalent in some Welsh counties.

@CardiffCouncil.bsky.social Relieved to see the figure isn’t higher, but we should not be feeding school children chicken imported from outside the EU. Any at all is shocking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The problem is that they last indefinitely, there’s just no urgency….

Beautiful! Also maybe I’m not the only one with a Tesco’s finest Christmas pudding hanging around?

and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter

we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news

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Maple syrup is a liquid of unknown density, I’ve found out repeatedly.

A quick look at Reform run councils should disabuse them of the notion they'll "get things done".

Absolutely. And in this context, the quote is an implied threat to Bari’s political opponents.

Lust for life / Recessional Carrie Frye on the romances of Moby-Dick; a farewell shanty from Joe MacLeod and friends

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Feat. a glorious essay from Carrie Frye, and an original SEA SHANTY via the offices of @joemacleod666.bsky.social I am not KIDDING.

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Great photo.

The family have maddeningly voted to wait until New Year’s Day to exchange. I’m looking forward to winning at Secret Santa.

Noooo!

Is the web page down?

This @peterbakernyt.bsky.social paragraph is a perfect summary of our descent into authoritarianism.

He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…

For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)

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Wishing you recovery and some IRL encouragement. December can be hard in so many ways.

Politicians can’t claim a mandate to do whatever they want on the basis of voter will if they deceived the electorate to get those votes in the first place.

A deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration.

NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday.

We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

ME: god i'm so sick of hollywood making movies and tv shows about "the industry." nobody cares
ALSO ME: ANACONDA (2025) should be 85% jack black and paul rudd playing slightly exaggerated versions of themselves pitching execs on an ANACONDA reboot. at the end they fight a giant snake for like 10 min

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amazing entries on the theme: HERO'S JOURNEY

very lol

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www.economist.com/britain/2025... plug!

You could have looked under my living room rug for free. (Just kidding, there’s only 700 down there, max)

an elderly woman in a green shirt says it 's been 84 years ALT: an elderly woman in a green shirt says it 's been 84 years

It was big in the 90s