Hi @ngjeannette.bsky.social & @laurenbeukes.com - I spoke to you both briefly in Belfast. I'm the chair of next year's Eastercon and we want to donate a membership to your amazing auction. Who do we talk to about the practicalities?

If you ever had any doubt that he was a fascist in an expensive suit, here's Douglas Murray telling us that we should sympathise with the SS as they committed mass murder.
No, I don't know where to start with this either. Also, this was printed in the Jewish Chronicle?!?!?!

toss up between these two:

seems a bit harsh on Santa:

oh very good:

Yep:

Put like this, they have a point:

words to live by:

and Jesus said unto his disciples, “It is inevitable that stumbling blocks will come, but woe to the one through whom they come! It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to catch the 17:23 to Cheltenham via Swindon"

For all you musicians out there:

As seen on the Other Place. It’s a good question. I’ve been out of the loop so long that I don’t have any suggestions immediately come to mind, but what do y’all think?

Seems legit:

As seen in the Other Place:

Still have a massive grin on my face from seeing the Blue Aeroplanes last night. A joyous reminder both of why we love music in the first place, and just what a magnificent band they are.

(pic by @coughingbear.bsky.social )

starting as we mean to go on. If it fits, she sits: