Kris (he/him)
@portlandkris.bsky.social
By the sea w/ palm tree. Dons (https://www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/membership), queer, loving trans siblings & friends, welcoming migrants, LGBTIQA+ Greens (https://join.greenparty.org.uk/join-us/) Banner:Marsha P, PFP:Dons pride crest
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Tonight Hurðaskellir (Door Slammer), the 7th of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. As the name suggests, he likes to slam doors.
Children leave a shoe out in the window for him to put a small gift or a treat in – if they've been good that is. The bad children get a potato.
Children leave a shoe out in the window for him to put a small gift or a treat in – if they've been good that is. The bad children get a potato.
December 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Tonight Hurðaskellir (Door Slammer), the 7th of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. As the name suggests, he likes to slam doors.
Children leave a shoe out in the window for him to put a small gift or a treat in – if they've been good that is. The bad children get a potato.
Children leave a shoe out in the window for him to put a small gift or a treat in – if they've been good that is. The bad children get a potato.
Thankfully.
BREAKING: Quesser Zuhrah is taken to hospital after crowds gathered at HMP Bronzefield following her rapid health deterioration after 46days of hunger strike.
There are seven more hunger strikers currently facing critical health deterioration. Support them by visiting PrisonersForPalestine.org
There are seven more hunger strikers currently facing critical health deterioration. Support them by visiting PrisonersForPalestine.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Thankfully.
Leeds people, have you seen this?
A group of trans-inclusive politicians discuss and answer questions about the state of the country for trans people.
In-person & online tickets available for this ACT! Politics event at Leeds Uni.
📌 This Friday, 19th December, 7-8pm
🎟️ FREE TICKETS: tinyurl.com/ActTransLib
In-person & online tickets available for this ACT! Politics event at Leeds Uni.
📌 This Friday, 19th December, 7-8pm
🎟️ FREE TICKETS: tinyurl.com/ActTransLib
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Leeds people, have you seen this?
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As regular readers will know, I'm a huge fan of considering cable cars as part of the urban transit solution. And here's Paris, which has just opened a new cable car. DAZZLING. ✨🚠
metro.co.uk/2025/12/16/e...
metro.co.uk/2025/12/16/e...
Europe's longest urban cable car is unveiled over dazzling capital city
The new line, the first of its kind in the French capital, has been designed to connect the city's isolated outskirts, poorly served by trains and buses, to the Métro network.
metro.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
As regular readers will know, I'm a huge fan of considering cable cars as part of the urban transit solution. And here's Paris, which has just opened a new cable car. DAZZLING. ✨🚠
metro.co.uk/2025/12/16/e...
metro.co.uk/2025/12/16/e...
Email this morning from @zackpolanski.bsky.social :
"Most of our members have joined in the last three months" - that is astonishing, isn't it?
"Most of our members have joined in the last three months" - that is astonishing, isn't it?
December 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Email this morning from @zackpolanski.bsky.social :
"Most of our members have joined in the last three months" - that is astonishing, isn't it?
"Most of our members have joined in the last three months" - that is astonishing, isn't it?
My recollection, from the mid-1970s, would be along the lines of:
"Jingle bells, [classmate's name] smells, half a mile away
Did a fart, behind a car
And blew up the USA"
No mention of Batman at all.
"Jingle bells, [classmate's name] smells, half a mile away
Did a fart, behind a car
And blew up the USA"
No mention of Batman at all.
For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
loreandordure.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
My recollection, from the mid-1970s, would be along the lines of:
"Jingle bells, [classmate's name] smells, half a mile away
Did a fart, behind a car
And blew up the USA"
No mention of Batman at all.
"Jingle bells, [classmate's name] smells, half a mile away
Did a fart, behind a car
And blew up the USA"
No mention of Batman at all.
I did not expect Egan to smash it in Unison, winning by 60-40. That's a good thing.
December 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I did not expect Egan to smash it in Unison, winning by 60-40. That's a good thing.
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British politics is a mess. Food, energy, housing are all too expensive. Major parties are all flogging the dead horse of trickle down. So I’m joining the Green Party. Britain needs an economy that works for workers, for small businesses, and future generations. @greenparty.org.uk
December 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
British politics is a mess. Food, energy, housing are all too expensive. Major parties are all flogging the dead horse of trickle down. So I’m joining the Green Party. Britain needs an economy that works for workers, for small businesses, and future generations. @greenparty.org.uk
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Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.
December 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.
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For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
loreandordure.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
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This day is dedicated to raising awareness about violence committed against sex workers and mourning those we have lost.
If you are an LGBT+ sex worker who has experienced abuse or violence, please know that Galop is here for you.
📞 0800 999 5428
📧 [email protected]
💻 galop.org.uk
If you are an LGBT+ sex worker who has experienced abuse or violence, please know that Galop is here for you.
📞 0800 999 5428
📧 [email protected]
💻 galop.org.uk
December 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This day is dedicated to raising awareness about violence committed against sex workers and mourning those we have lost.
If you are an LGBT+ sex worker who has experienced abuse or violence, please know that Galop is here for you.
📞 0800 999 5428
📧 [email protected]
💻 galop.org.uk
If you are an LGBT+ sex worker who has experienced abuse or violence, please know that Galop is here for you.
📞 0800 999 5428
📧 [email protected]
💻 galop.org.uk
Today I was reminded of John Curry (and of Robin Cousins). So here's John Curry in 1976 youtu.be/ZP9EoSIEBgg?...
John Curry - 1976 Olympics - Free Skate
YouTube video by gem7ini
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Today I was reminded of John Curry (and of Robin Cousins). So here's John Curry in 1976 youtu.be/ZP9EoSIEBgg?...
I like these pretty clouds
December 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I like these pretty clouds
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Bluesky has also become the preferred social media platform for much of the scientific and medical communities.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…
arstechnica.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Bluesky has also become the preferred social media platform for much of the scientific and medical communities.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Today’s gigglesadvent.com is from Nina and she made this joke up completely herself (she says).
Giggles' Advent Calendar
gigglesadvent.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Today’s gigglesadvent.com is from Nina and she made this joke up completely herself (she says).
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We just watched this. It's gorgeous. You should watch it.
A simple, sweet and heartfelt short film created in glorious, hand-drawn, 2D animation!
Aaron Blaise has made something truly wonderful.
Watch "Snow Bear" for free on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXo...
Aaron Blaise has made something truly wonderful.
Watch "Snow Bear" for free on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXo...
SNOW BEAR - A Hand-Drawn Animated Short Film (4K) by Aaron Blaise
YouTube video by The Art of Aaron Blaise
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
We just watched this. It's gorgeous. You should watch it.
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So go on, treat yourself, give it a watch
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
So go on, treat yourself, give it a watch
So I reckon for now, for a while, I'll be reading here a good bit less, and posting a hell of a lot less. And it'll be almost all just sharing nice things.
December 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
So I reckon for now, for a while, I'll be reading here a good bit less, and posting a hell of a lot less. And it'll be almost all just sharing nice things.
So what refurbished Android phone would you buy for around £100 right now?
December 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
So what refurbished Android phone would you buy for around £100 right now?
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i am begging you to stop posting the screenshot of it.
December 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
i am begging you to stop posting the screenshot of it.
Ok, everyone, thanks, I've seen the Trump thing about Rob Reiner now.
December 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Ok, everyone, thanks, I've seen the Trump thing about Rob Reiner now.
Bad news from Scotland
Seatbelts, motorway speed limits & bans on drunk driving were all unpopular when they were introduced but, like reducing speed limits, they save lives
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Government drops plans to reduce speeds on single carriageways
Plans to reduce the national speed limit on single carriageways from 60mph to 50mph were unpopular.
www.bbc.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Bad news from Scotland
What is a cracker barrel? Like, is it a barrel full of crackers - and if so, what kind? Or is it a barrel that belongs to a cracker? Or what?
December 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
What is a cracker barrel? Like, is it a barrel full of crackers - and if so, what kind? Or is it a barrel that belongs to a cracker? Or what?
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GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
December 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!