AlanCT
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#RecipeOfTheDay is the dreamy, creamy and comforting Orange-Scented Brioche Pudding. Yes, it’s a wonderful pud but, as one of the comments below the recipe mentions, leftovers make for a rather great breakfast the next day! www.nigella.com/recipes/oran...
Orange Scented Brioche Pudding
This is really an old-fashioned bread and butter pudding with a fragrant flourish. You can get ready-sliced long brioche loaves, which makes life simpler, but if you need to get out a bread knife your...
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January 11, 2026 at 10:36 AM
#RecipeOfTheDay is the dreamy, creamy and comforting Orange-Scented Brioche Pudding. Yes, it’s a wonderful pud but, as one of the comments below the recipe mentions, leftovers make for a rather great breakfast the next day! www.nigella.com/recipes/oran...
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With NI expected to leave the UK, to re-join Ireland, soon it opens up a conversation about the future of GB.
Support for the SNP in Scotland has surged after the 2024GE and recently the rise of PLAID CYMRU suggests some major changes are coming.
Support for the SNP in Scotland has surged after the 2024GE and recently the rise of PLAID CYMRU suggests some major changes are coming.
When Scotland votes for independence and Ireland unites, this union will end. We need a plan for independence!
Join YesCymru
www.yes.cymru/join
Join YesCymru
www.yes.cymru/join
January 7, 2026 at 9:24 PM
With NI expected to leave the UK, to re-join Ireland, soon it opens up a conversation about the future of GB.
Support for the SNP in Scotland has surged after the 2024GE and recently the rise of PLAID CYMRU suggests some major changes are coming.
Support for the SNP in Scotland has surged after the 2024GE and recently the rise of PLAID CYMRU suggests some major changes are coming.
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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Further to my post earlier today, this is my Gingerbread Stuffing which very much has pride of place on the 25th! You don’t need to make your own gingerbread for this. Indeed, I routinely use McVitie’s Jamaica Ginger Cake, but any sweet spiced loaves would do. www.nigella.com/recipes/ging...
Gingerbread Stuffing
Sometimes, it makes sense to use one’s obsessions to advantage. I know that most people don’t have trivial light-bulb moments when the notion pops into an already food-filled head to make a stuffing i...
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December 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Further to my post earlier today, this is my Gingerbread Stuffing which very much has pride of place on the 25th! You don’t need to make your own gingerbread for this. Indeed, I routinely use McVitie’s Jamaica Ginger Cake, but any sweet spiced loaves would do. www.nigella.com/recipes/ging...
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I have just gone through a weird mental journey from “never heard of these things” through “hang on just making stuffing as a snack, is that even allowed?” to “I must have this, immediately, where can I get some panettone” in the space of about forty seconds
Panettone Stuffing Squares are. #RecipeOfTheDay! I think of them as savoury brownies and serve them as a canapé with drinks rather than to accompany the turkey, but you could absolutely do that, too! www.nigella.com/recipes/pane...
Panettone Stuffing Squares
I have written a recipe for panettone stuffing before: the sweet seasonal fruit bread was cubed, toasted and mixed with Italian sausage; this is very different, not least because I see it not as an ac...
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December 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I have just gone through a weird mental journey from “never heard of these things” through “hang on just making stuffing as a snack, is that even allowed?” to “I must have this, immediately, where can I get some panettone” in the space of about forty seconds
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Midweek Treat: #RecipeOfTheDay is my Snowball in Heaven! You know you deserve it. ‘Tis the season, after all. www.nigella.com/recipes/snow...
Snowball In Heaven
If Christmas isn’t the time for a kitsch cocktail, I don’t know when is. And while I have nothing against a straightforward Snowball (and I make mine with one part advocaat to about 3 parts lemonade, ...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Midweek Treat: #RecipeOfTheDay is my Snowball in Heaven! You know you deserve it. ‘Tis the season, after all. www.nigella.com/recipes/snow...
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Banket Bars (more properly, banketstaafstukje) are #RecipeOfTheDay and I couldn’t love them more! Banket is the Dutch almond pastry that more usually comes in logs, but I cut them into short lengths before baking, which rather gives them a look of sweet sausage rolls. www.nigella.com/recipes/bank...
Banket Bars
It can be hard to adopt other countries’ Christmas traditions and cherish them like our own, but when it comes to this Dutch log of almond paste, encased in puff pastry, I have no problem whatsoever!
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December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Banket Bars (more properly, banketstaafstukje) are #RecipeOfTheDay and I couldn’t love them more! Banket is the Dutch almond pastry that more usually comes in logs, but I cut them into short lengths before baking, which rather gives them a look of sweet sausage rolls. www.nigella.com/recipes/bank...
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And we’re off! The season starts on nigella.com with my Christmas Rocky Road as #RecipeOfTheDay to get you in the mood. It’s fully festive from here on in! www.nigella.com/recipes/chri...
Christmas Rocky Road
It’s not that I felt my usual Rocky Road Crunch Bars needed any improvement (though fiddling with recipes is one of life’s pleasures) but I thought they would benefit from some seasonal adjustment.
S...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
And we’re off! The season starts on nigella.com with my Christmas Rocky Road as #RecipeOfTheDay to get you in the mood. It’s fully festive from here on in! www.nigella.com/recipes/chri...
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I never really need an excuse to make my Black Pudding Meatballs – a deep love of mine – #RecipeOfTheDay, but since it does happen to be St Andrew’s Day, it felt like a particularly opportune moment! www.nigella.com/recipes/blac...
Black Pudding Meatballs
When I included these black pudding meatballs in Cook, Eat, Repeat, I thought they would be a niche choice, but I have been gratifyingly overwhelmed by the number of people who have made and loved the...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I never really need an excuse to make my Black Pudding Meatballs – a deep love of mine – #RecipeOfTheDay, but since it does happen to be St Andrew’s Day, it felt like a particularly opportune moment! www.nigella.com/recipes/blac...
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🚨 the #dragonageday panel's been announced!! and WAAAHHH I'M SO EXCITED LOOK AT THIS AMAZING LIST!!
#dragonage
www.youtube.com/live/K0dqF77...
#dragonage
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Q&A Panel!
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November 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
🚨 the #dragonageday panel's been announced!! and WAAAHHH I'M SO EXCITED LOOK AT THIS AMAZING LIST!!
#dragonage
www.youtube.com/live/K0dqF77...
#dragonage
www.youtube.com/live/K0dqF77...
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Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
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Friends, this is a low hanging boycott action.
Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.
You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.
The working class has much more power than they think.
Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.
You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.
The working class has much more power than they think.
Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. Stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops running ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Friends, this is a low hanging boycott action.
Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.
You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.
The working class has much more power than they think.
Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.
You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.
The working class has much more power than they think.
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Midweek treat: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake is #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/choc...
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
Over the years, I’ve made many different cakes for my children’s birthdays, but for some time now this has been the chosen one, the cake of cakes, elected to celebrate many special occasions, and with...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Midweek treat: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake is #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/choc...
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Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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For no particular reason I’m thinking about game studios who fire their entire narrative team after six years of development because their CEO is a delusional malignant narcissist who is all-in on AI.
I wish them all the luck they deserve.
I wish them all the luck they deserve.
October 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
For no particular reason I’m thinking about game studios who fire their entire narrative team after six years of development because their CEO is a delusional malignant narcissist who is all-in on AI.
I wish them all the luck they deserve.
I wish them all the luck they deserve.
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#RecipeOfTheDay is Bara Brith, that wonderful Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread, which I recommend eating so thickly spread with butter you can see your teeth marks in it when you take a bite (what the Danes refer to as tandsmør)! www.nigella.com/recipes/bara...
Bara Brith
I have a particular fondness for Bara Brith, the traditional Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread. My late sister Thomasina lived and worked in Wales, and my first taste of it came courtesy of her next door...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
#RecipeOfTheDay is Bara Brith, that wonderful Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread, which I recommend eating so thickly spread with butter you can see your teeth marks in it when you take a bite (what the Danes refer to as tandsmør)! www.nigella.com/recipes/bara...
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From the Larchives: The Rocky Horus Picture Scroll. One of my favorite works. I had the assistance of an Egyptology PhD student to translate the Time Warp phonetically. Enjoy :)
October 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
From the Larchives: The Rocky Horus Picture Scroll. One of my favorite works. I had the assistance of an Egyptology PhD student to translate the Time Warp phonetically. Enjoy :)
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An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
Chicago
October 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
Chicago
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There is an argument to be made that the war started in 2008 and was lost in 2016.
There’s a further argument that goes: catch the fuck up.
There’s a further argument that goes: catch the fuck up.
“…Baroness Manningham-Buller told House of Lords podcast host Lord McFall of Alcluith.”
the uk is not real (sorry to my brit homies)
the uk is not real (sorry to my brit homies)
September 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
There is an argument to be made that the war started in 2008 and was lost in 2016.
There’s a further argument that goes: catch the fuck up.
There’s a further argument that goes: catch the fuck up.
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So as part of my day job I regularly have to check people's right to be in the UK, via a UK passport, or an eVisa/share code.
These are legal requirements.
Anyone saying we need online ID so we can verify who has a right to be in the UK is lying to you. We already do that. They are lying.
These are legal requirements.
Anyone saying we need online ID so we can verify who has a right to be in the UK is lying to you. We already do that. They are lying.
September 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
So as part of my day job I regularly have to check people's right to be in the UK, via a UK passport, or an eVisa/share code.
These are legal requirements.
Anyone saying we need online ID so we can verify who has a right to be in the UK is lying to you. We already do that. They are lying.
These are legal requirements.
Anyone saying we need online ID so we can verify who has a right to be in the UK is lying to you. We already do that. They are lying.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
This is nearly at 2 million. It seems I'm not the only one with strong views about how unnecessary and invasive digital IDs are. Feel free to sign and share.
This is nearly at 2 million. It seems I'm not the only one with strong views about how unnecessary and invasive digital IDs are. Feel free to sign and share.
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
petition.parliament.uk
September 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
This is nearly at 2 million. It seems I'm not the only one with strong views about how unnecessary and invasive digital IDs are. Feel free to sign and share.
This is nearly at 2 million. It seems I'm not the only one with strong views about how unnecessary and invasive digital IDs are. Feel free to sign and share.