Jonathan Crossfield
@kimota.bsky.social
Storyteller, writer, editor, content marketer, consultant & presenter. In short: professional pedant, prattler & procrastinator. AVAILABLE FOR WORK.
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I love me a Christmas comic! Every year, UK comics would add snow and/or holly to the logo and fill a special issue with merry japes full of cannon ball puddings and snowball fights.
And then someone asked Kevin O’Neil to do a wraparound cover for the #2000AD Christmas issue!
Pure nightmare fuel!
And then someone asked Kevin O’Neil to do a wraparound cover for the #2000AD Christmas issue!
Pure nightmare fuel!
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December 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Well, that’s my annual rewatch of Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Carbuncle done, followed by a classic Ghost Story for Christmas: A View from a Hill.
Now I feel Christmassy!
Now I feel Christmassy!
a man in a suit and tie sitting in a chair
ALT: a man in a suit and tie sitting in a chair
media.tenor.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Well, that’s my annual rewatch of Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Carbuncle done, followed by a classic Ghost Story for Christmas: A View from a Hill.
Now I feel Christmassy!
Now I feel Christmassy!
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So, the Trump Class battleship.
- Capable of wildly changing direction mid manoeuvre
- Stays afloat even when holed below the waterline by multiple charges
- The orange colour scheme doesn't make the ships as undetectable as hoped
- Can't actually go into battle because of a problem with the spurs.
- Capable of wildly changing direction mid manoeuvre
- Stays afloat even when holed below the waterline by multiple charges
- The orange colour scheme doesn't make the ships as undetectable as hoped
- Can't actually go into battle because of a problem with the spurs.
December 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
So, the Trump Class battleship.
- Capable of wildly changing direction mid manoeuvre
- Stays afloat even when holed below the waterline by multiple charges
- The orange colour scheme doesn't make the ships as undetectable as hoped
- Can't actually go into battle because of a problem with the spurs.
- Capable of wildly changing direction mid manoeuvre
- Stays afloat even when holed below the waterline by multiple charges
- The orange colour scheme doesn't make the ships as undetectable as hoped
- Can't actually go into battle because of a problem with the spurs.
On the outside, I'm the model of adult appreciative decorum. Bravo. I await the release announcements with respectful restraint.
On the inside, I'm a screaming ten-year-old right now.
On the inside, I'm a screaming ten-year-old right now.
December 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
On the outside, I'm the model of adult appreciative decorum. Bravo. I await the release announcements with respectful restraint.
On the inside, I'm a screaming ten-year-old right now.
On the inside, I'm a screaming ten-year-old right now.
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“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”
August 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”
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Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
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Not now, enormous 68-million-
year-old egg nicknamed 'The Thing'.
year-old egg nicknamed 'The Thing'.
December 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Not now, enormous 68-million-
year-old egg nicknamed 'The Thing'.
year-old egg nicknamed 'The Thing'.
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“I’ve finished that new carol”
“Give us the highlights”
“It starts off wishing you a Merry Christmas”
“Classic. Then?”
“Bringing good tidings to you and your kin”
“Kin or king?”
“Kin”
“Got it. How do we end this masterpiece?”
“We workshopped it and decided on 15 minutes shouting about figgy pudding”
“Give us the highlights”
“It starts off wishing you a Merry Christmas”
“Classic. Then?”
“Bringing good tidings to you and your kin”
“Kin or king?”
“Kin”
“Got it. How do we end this masterpiece?”
“We workshopped it and decided on 15 minutes shouting about figgy pudding”
December 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
“I’ve finished that new carol”
“Give us the highlights”
“It starts off wishing you a Merry Christmas”
“Classic. Then?”
“Bringing good tidings to you and your kin”
“Kin or king?”
“Kin”
“Got it. How do we end this masterpiece?”
“We workshopped it and decided on 15 minutes shouting about figgy pudding”
“Give us the highlights”
“It starts off wishing you a Merry Christmas”
“Classic. Then?”
“Bringing good tidings to you and your kin”
“Kin or king?”
“Kin”
“Got it. How do we end this masterpiece?”
“We workshopped it and decided on 15 minutes shouting about figgy pudding”
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Bought this book for my two mates’ babies for Christmas and I’m dying.
December 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Bought this book for my two mates’ babies for Christmas and I’m dying.
I can’t imagine how much work went into this. (Well, actually I can which is why Hannah is an absolute hero.)
Shelley and Ms 11 will be very happy when I stick on the Basil Brush’ Christmas show this evening!
Shelley and Ms 11 will be very happy when I stick on the Basil Brush’ Christmas show this evening!
Yuletide felicitations! The 1975 Christmas 'Radio TV Times' magazine is now available! 🎁
Explore 10 days of December 1975’s TV listings across both BBC and ITV.
Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms. 🤶
visualmutterings.com/1975-christm...
Explore 10 days of December 1975’s TV listings across both BBC and ITV.
Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms. 🤶
visualmutterings.com/1975-christm...
1975 Christmas Radio TV Times Magazine
Travel back 50 years into Christmas TV's past. The Christmas Radio TV Times gathers links to TV programmes from Christmas week 1975.
visualmutterings.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I can’t imagine how much work went into this. (Well, actually I can which is why Hannah is an absolute hero.)
Shelley and Ms 11 will be very happy when I stick on the Basil Brush’ Christmas show this evening!
Shelley and Ms 11 will be very happy when I stick on the Basil Brush’ Christmas show this evening!
Spoken like a true peace prize recipient.
Or does he think ending a bunch of wars (allegedly) gives him credit he can cash in to start one or two of his own?
Or does he think ending a bunch of wars (allegedly) gives him credit he can cash in to start one or two of his own?
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Spoken like a true peace prize recipient.
Or does he think ending a bunch of wars (allegedly) gives him credit he can cash in to start one or two of his own?
Or does he think ending a bunch of wars (allegedly) gives him credit he can cash in to start one or two of his own?
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead
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397 mass shootings in the US in 2025 up to Nov 30.
1 mass shooting in Australia since 1996.
1 mass shooting in Australia since 1996.
December 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
397 mass shootings in the US in 2025 up to Nov 30.
1 mass shooting in Australia since 1996.
1 mass shooting in Australia since 1996.
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I've just had an idea!
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I've just had an idea!
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Richie Rich, Robot Fighter:
December 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Richie Rich, Robot Fighter:
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Watching the Grand Designs House of the Year finalists. The most admired contemporary style of family home for the moneyed architect classes can only be described as “English Heritage throws a corrugated shed over a Saxon ship burial complete with visitor centre and toilet block”.
December 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Watching the Grand Designs House of the Year finalists. The most admired contemporary style of family home for the moneyed architect classes can only be described as “English Heritage throws a corrugated shed over a Saxon ship burial complete with visitor centre and toilet block”.
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Demands of the Mondelez shareholders, I assume, more than anything
December 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Demands of the Mondelez shareholders, I assume, more than anything
Ironically, this is how I learn that Stanley Baxter was actually still alive all these years.
Stanley Baxter’s LWT shows were the most stunningly staged — and hilarious — programmes the company ever made. Sleep well, Stanley.
Comedian Stanley Baxter dies aged 99
Baxter, who was born in Glasgow, was one of the biggest stars on British television for several decades.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Ironically, this is how I learn that Stanley Baxter was actually still alive all these years.
If someone is already “qualified and vetted”, why would paying a cool mil for this provide a more “direct path”?
I can only think it’s either a) to
jump the queue or b) maybe don’t vet me TOO hard.
I can only think it’s either a) to
jump the queue or b) maybe don’t vet me TOO hard.
If I didn’t see this myself on Truth Social I’d assume it was some phishing site
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
If someone is already “qualified and vetted”, why would paying a cool mil for this provide a more “direct path”?
I can only think it’s either a) to
jump the queue or b) maybe don’t vet me TOO hard.
I can only think it’s either a) to
jump the queue or b) maybe don’t vet me TOO hard.
Nothing screams “innocent” like threatening the ICC because you think they’ll come after you.
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Nothing screams “innocent” like threatening the ICC because you think they’ll come after you.
Was just thinking I should have this on display over Christmas and perhaps even read some of the other stories and articles to get some of that Victorian Xmas atmos, instead of just The Signal-man.
But of course most of my books and stuff are still boxed up, so yet again I have no idea where it is.
But of course most of my books and stuff are still boxed up, so yet again I have no idea where it is.
There's only 1 good thing about moving house: finding things I've been looking for for years!
An original 1866 Xmas issue of All The Year Round, with end papers (not from a bound volume), feat. the 1st printing of the best ghost story ever – Charles Dickens's The Signal-man!
An original 1866 Xmas issue of All The Year Round, with end papers (not from a bound volume), feat. the 1st printing of the best ghost story ever – Charles Dickens's The Signal-man!
December 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Was just thinking I should have this on display over Christmas and perhaps even read some of the other stories and articles to get some of that Victorian Xmas atmos, instead of just The Signal-man.
But of course most of my books and stuff are still boxed up, so yet again I have no idea where it is.
But of course most of my books and stuff are still boxed up, so yet again I have no idea where it is.
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Missed this 25th anniversary of this headline from a UK tabloid.
December 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Missed this 25th anniversary of this headline from a UK tabloid.