Snigdha
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December 2025 Favourites list
A yarnbomb post box topper with a Christmas theme Dear friends I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! May 2026 bring with it...
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My Christmas themed December favourites list is here, with Christmas cooking and telly.
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I can't tell you how many people I know who have stayed on that platform while purporting to be opposed to Musk and his politics. The hypocrisy really gets under my skin. Nobody *has* to involve themselves in his "arena of free speech".
X is an absolute mess, just like its owner.
X is an absolute mess, just like its owner.
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 AM
I can't tell you how many people I know who have stayed on that platform while purporting to be opposed to Musk and his politics. The hypocrisy really gets under my skin. Nobody *has* to involve themselves in his "arena of free speech".
X is an absolute mess, just like its owner.
X is an absolute mess, just like its owner.
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also I've seen comment that hardly anyone pays attention to gov tweets so it's a complete waste of resources
January 3, 2026 at 9:16 AM
also I've seen comment that hardly anyone pays attention to gov tweets so it's a complete waste of resources
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January 3, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Please forward this to anyone you know who is still on X/Twitter, especially if they are your MP. "Our politics is increasingly normalised to racism – because politicians are addicted to X" from @drjennings.bsky.social. Archived version for those who don't have an account with "I".
archive.ph/B8doO
archive.ph/B8doO
January 3, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Please forward this to anyone you know who is still on X/Twitter, especially if they are your MP. "Our politics is increasingly normalised to racism – because politicians are addicted to X" from @drjennings.bsky.social. Archived version for those who don't have an account with "I".
archive.ph/B8doO
archive.ph/B8doO
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How many times do people need to be told that X is not a trustworthy platform?
Our politics is increasingly normalised to racism – because politicians are addicted to X
The platform has quietly dragged British politics into a dark place
inews.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 9:58 PM
How many times do people need to be told that X is not a trustworthy platform?
And now is 2026 the one thing we can still rely on is endless repeats. #plusçachange
January 2, 2026 at 9:42 PM
And now is 2026 the one thing we can still rely on is endless repeats. #plusçachange
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It gets *worse* than the nude deepfakes.
The UK and EU have said nothing.
The UK and EU have said nothing.
NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed.
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Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.
futurism.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:19 PM
It gets *worse* than the nude deepfakes.
The UK and EU have said nothing.
The UK and EU have said nothing.
Chief political commentator doesn't understand a basic statement from Mamdani. He means using long words, sophistry, polite phraseology & grammatically correct English allows awful people to present bigotry without the cruelty of the result of their bigotry being a matter of public criticism.
January 2, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Chief political commentator doesn't understand a basic statement from Mamdani. He means using long words, sophistry, polite phraseology & grammatically correct English allows awful people to present bigotry without the cruelty of the result of their bigotry being a matter of public criticism.
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It's deeply discriminatory.
Yaxley Lennon has another citizenship, not merely a theoretical one, and a history of criminality, yet we keep taking him through our courts at great expense.
Why not simply expel him?
Do that, and then explain to us the threat posed by a 15 year old girl.
Yaxley Lennon has another citizenship, not merely a theoretical one, and a history of criminality, yet we keep taking him through our courts at great expense.
Why not simply expel him?
Do that, and then explain to us the threat posed by a 15 year old girl.
January 1, 2026 at 9:38 PM
It's deeply discriminatory.
Yaxley Lennon has another citizenship, not merely a theoretical one, and a history of criminality, yet we keep taking him through our courts at great expense.
Why not simply expel him?
Do that, and then explain to us the threat posed by a 15 year old girl.
Yaxley Lennon has another citizenship, not merely a theoretical one, and a history of criminality, yet we keep taking him through our courts at great expense.
Why not simply expel him?
Do that, and then explain to us the threat posed by a 15 year old girl.
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Victims of the Post Office scandal who are seeking compensation have one month to go before the application deadline for a key redress scheme
January 31 deadline looms for Post Office Horizon compensation claims
Anna Wise Victims of the Post Office scandal who are seeking compensation have one month to go before the application deadline for a key redress scheme. Current and former postmasters are being urged ...
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January 1, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Victims of the Post Office scandal who are seeking compensation have one month to go before the application deadline for a key redress scheme
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Wonderful wisdom and advice for us all in 2026. Happy New Year! Xx
“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity... It’s as simple as that.”
-Tove Jansson
-Tove Jansson
January 1, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Wonderful wisdom and advice for us all in 2026. Happy New Year! Xx
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, First Lady Rama Duwaji, arrive at his inauguration ceremony.
January 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, First Lady Rama Duwaji, arrive at his inauguration ceremony.
A new year means a new calendar, right? But you've already got your 2026 calendar, haven't you? So why not enjoy this fabulous full scan of an antique calendar of salads?
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January 1, 2026 at 12:07 AM
A new year means a new calendar, right? But you've already got your 2026 calendar, haven't you? So why not enjoy this fabulous full scan of an antique calendar of salads?
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md...
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md...
Happy New Year! May 2026 bring joy, success, happiness and health. Stay awesome, Bluesky friends!
December 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Happy New Year! May 2026 bring joy, success, happiness and health. Stay awesome, Bluesky friends!
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In memory of the unsung Theresa Harris, groundbreaking classic film/TV actress, singer, and dancer, on her 119th birthday.
The most in-demand Black actress working in classic Hollywood during her time at every major studio and with some of the biggest stars of the Golden Age of cinema.
The most in-demand Black actress working in classic Hollywood during her time at every major studio and with some of the biggest stars of the Golden Age of cinema.
December 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
In memory of the unsung Theresa Harris, groundbreaking classic film/TV actress, singer, and dancer, on her 119th birthday.
The most in-demand Black actress working in classic Hollywood during her time at every major studio and with some of the biggest stars of the Golden Age of cinema.
The most in-demand Black actress working in classic Hollywood during her time at every major studio and with some of the biggest stars of the Golden Age of cinema.
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My tomato obsession took on a new level. I ordered some Murice from Spain, am chuffed
/cc @paulburley.bsky.social @kavey.bsky.social
/cc @paulburley.bsky.social @kavey.bsky.social
December 31, 2025 at 9:59 AM
My tomato obsession took on a new level. I ordered some Murice from Spain, am chuffed
/cc @paulburley.bsky.social @kavey.bsky.social
/cc @paulburley.bsky.social @kavey.bsky.social
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MTV shuts down music channels that started in 1991. BBC radio, which started in 1922, is still broadcasting
December 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
MTV shuts down music channels that started in 1991. BBC radio, which started in 1922, is still broadcasting
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Not everyone supports teeny tiny tommy 10 names. Great to see him being barred from this pub.Kudos to the landlord. But sad to say followers of rancid robinson have been posting horrendous reviews about the pub. Something should be done about this.
youtube.com/shorts/y6ZCT...
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Tommy Robinson kicked out of the rose in Bedford.
YouTube video by Working Class Patriot
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December 31, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Not everyone supports teeny tiny tommy 10 names. Great to see him being barred from this pub.Kudos to the landlord. But sad to say followers of rancid robinson have been posting horrendous reviews about the pub. Something should be done about this.
youtube.com/shorts/y6ZCT...
youtube.com/shorts/y6ZCT...
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This is a key point. Dual citizenship isn't 'half British, half something else'. It's *full* British citizenship, and *full* the other citizenship.
As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.
As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.
Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
December 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is a key point. Dual citizenship isn't 'half British, half something else'. It's *full* British citizenship, and *full* the other citizenship.
As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.
As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.
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"More than a third (37%) of Reform UK voters said they would be prouder of Britain if there were fewer people from minority ethnic backgrounds in a decade’s time, and 10% [compared to 3% overall] said it was important to have white skin to be a good British citizen."
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"More than a third (37%) of Reform UK voters said they would be prouder of Britain if there were fewer people from minority ethnic backgrounds in a decade’s time, and 10% [compared to 3% overall] said it was important to have white skin to be a good British citizen."
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A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
www.propublica.org
December 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
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Terrible, always a total magnet. His story about getting cast in Goodfellas, basically his first movie, is so charming www.avclub.com/isiah-whitlo...
![Well, fast forward to Goodfellas. That was sort of like a feeding frenzy in New York City, and I got an audition for it. I went in and I auditioned for the guy who gets who owns the nightclub—he gets hit over the head with a bottle by Joe Pesci. And I thought, “Well, look, they’re not going to cast me as this guy.” I mean, it didn’t make sense, you know? But I got a callback! So I went back and I go into the room, and Martin Scorsese says, “What do I know you from? I know you from somewhere.” I said, “Well, I did those readings at Paul Newman’s for you, for The Color Of Money. He said, “Oh, that’s right, that’s right! Look, that part you auditioned for—obviously, you can’t do that part of. It just wouldn’t work. But I have this character!” He’s a doctor and it’s in the part of the movie where he’s like the only person that that Henry Hill trusts while he’s all coked out and everything like that. He said, “Do you think you could do that for me? I know it’s not much, but if you could do it for me, I would really appreciate it.” And I’m sitting there thinking, “Okay, act like you’ve been there before.” [Laughs.] I said, “Yeah, sure, Marty. I mean, you know, it’s not about the size of the part. It’s what we do!” So he says thanks, and that’s how I got cast! [Laughs.] I didn’t say, “Well, gee, Marty, I have never done a movie before hardly.” But I got cast in Goodfellas—that’s how all of that happened.
I do remember I went to my day job—I was a waiter at a place on 10th Avenue—and I said, “I just got a part in Goodfellas!” And they said, “No way! Get out!” I said, “No, I met with Martin Scorsese, and they’re going to cast me as this doctor.” And one of the guys said, “Oh, I’m going down there tomorrow, and I’m taking my stuff, because if you got a part, I know I’m going to get a part.” [Laughs.] He was like, “They must just be handing out parts—they must need tons of people if they cast you—you just got here!” So he went down there and he didn’t get a part. And here I a…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bck7uabvjt4xu5uzn3exzhqj/bafkreihprpksbsipsbrgqrbrjh2t7moeap457yglhouhssilvkmowqc654@jpeg)
December 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Terrible, always a total magnet. His story about getting cast in Goodfellas, basically his first movie, is so charming www.avclub.com/isiah-whitlo...
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“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”
OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation
OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.
futurism.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”
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Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
December 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)