Dolly

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Christmas in the Age of Google   is christmas in the bible why does christmas make me cry is christmas dinner tax deductible do christmas elves ever die   christmas is a time for giving christmas is a load of crap christmas is a coming and the geese are getting fat   can christmas pudding make you drunk can christmas lights kill a cat can christmas island crabs be eaten is christmas skins coming back   christmas is a hippopotamus christmas is a rockin time christmas is a proper noun christmas is a state of mind   is christmas getting too commercial is christmas celebrated in Peru is chris packham related to jools holland is christmas music bad for you   christmas is all around bill nighy christmas is a time to share christmas is just around the corner christmas is in the air Brian Bilston

Today’s poem consists of popular searches on Google to do with Christmas. It’s called ‘Christmas in the Age of Google’.

Illustration of the airborne viral load of someone speaking with & without mask. One-way masking is less effective as long as an infected person speaks at you maskless.

Maybe I should print this on a t-shirt for all who tell me, "If you want to protect yourself, fine. Just wear a mask."

I do.
It's not fine.
Because you don't.

#COP28 was a historic success... for its oil executive president and the fossil fuel industry

Good morning, friends. 😊

I always wondered how folk allowed atrocities to happen under their noses. I don't need to wonder now.

A rhinoceros (now officially known as a battle unicorn)

Better names for existing things, number 22…
 
BATTLE UNICORN

A sign that British politics is healing will be when news channels no longer feeling obliged to report the pronouncements of Mark Francois.

It's very like early days twitter, which was lovely.

Article 1 of the International Human Rights Act.

75yrs on and, if anything, we seem to be regressing.

Hope you're finding this a calmer place than t'other.

Hello and welcome!

RIP Ben.

BBC's Newsnight to be cut back as part of savings plan The long-running show will have an overhaul, but more resources will go into BBC digital journalism.

BBC's Newsnight to be cut back as part of savings plan

Nottingham City council declares itself effectively bankrupt The authority announces it cannot balance its books and will have to stop non-essential spending.

Nottingham City council declares itself effectively bankrupt

I find I don't disagree. 🤗💗

Morning folks.

I've stolen this from Sally at t'other place.

Hope...

So adorable

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The idea that Starmer’s actively pro Brexit stance (here we are & here we’ll stay) is some sort of genius is THOROUGHLY debunked here by Sir John Curtice,

“Labour’s presumption that they couldn’t get into an election winning position vis-à-vis Brexit has been demonstrated to be false.”

Doctor Who has always been political Right-wingers may wine about “woke” storylines now, but in the 1970s a communist was writing scripts about imperialism.

"A belief that Doctor Who was ever small-c conservative, I suspect, says less about the episodes than the age at which someone first saw them."

The NS let me write about the politics of Doctor Who, so nothing in ze vorld can shtop me now, etc.

@dolly-fauxpaschick.bsky.social This cat has noticed that the Chancellor is rising the price of Kit E Kat and he is NOT impressed! ;D

Screenshot of a Sunday Times opinion piece by Matthew Syed titled "Migration is being used to enfeeble us, so it's clear what we have to do"

📢The Sunday Times yesterday published in its opinion pages what appears to be a variant of Great Replacement theory, the conspiracist fantasy that lies at the heart of several extreme right-wing ideologies🧵

Ahhh, say no more. 🤭

The man's an absolute 💩.