Cairo!

Martin Rowson’s The Guardian cartoon is a fitting emblem of what's happening to Birmingham & how people who live & work in the City feel about it. Birmingham will rise again but today it seems important to acknowledge its suffering. ⁦⁦

My favourite Irish phrase, used to describe someone who’s always engaging in one-upmanship, is “if you’ve been to Tenerife, he’s been to Elevenerife.” My second favourite Irish phrase, and one of the most crushing burns you'll ever hear, is “he looks like his mammy knitted him.”

You couldn’t make this up. Congratulations Specsavers, this is absolutely magnificent. #WorldBollardAssociation 😂😂

An open letter to BrewDog & @BrewDogJames signed by Brewdog Waterloo staff

Never change, Brum

A needle felted squirrel - do you think he is putting these out for the birds or taking them away!!

ten years as an antiquarian, hearing nothing but "my relative kept these untouched in a box their whole life but they died, and I don't want this stuff" has radicalized me. annotate the books. use the china. wear the clothes until they wear out. your life should not be a museum

The incoming tide leading the eye to the tiniest hint of light & mood across the Harris hills.

If you are remotely sensitive about animals and the training thereof, (and honestly more generally just life) you may want to consider blocking posts containing the name Noem. Let's just say that American politics has turned up another psychopath, and leave it there.

Good work Brighton Sausage Company

The thing I like the best about Frank Franzetta's EOWYN VS THE NAZGUL LORD is that Eowyn was disguised as Dernhelm, just another one of the boys. Which means that this is how all the Rohirrim were dressed.

Lads, lads I’ve had a great idea. Let’s get young people to train as Doctors, Nurses, Scientists, Engineers. We could do this through a ‘voluntary national education’ system, perhaps call it ‘university’. Imagine what that would give back to society.

This rings a little too true …

A fine thread

haters will say it’s autotuned

Tiny cow ₘₒₒ

Dear #WhiskySanta, please may you put Bruichladdich Distillery (Account Inactive) Octomore 15.2 from @MasterofMalt under my tree? I've been really good this year! masterofmalt.com/asksanta/whisk…