Our local shopping centre has a nativity scene on display every year, but for security purposes it’s always behind a barricade so I always call it “war-zone Jesus”

Also shout out to "There's a huge proliferation of AI-generated content and most of it are not books that we should be selling” which…yeah, that’s a load-bearing statement 👀

Interesting caveats in the article though:

• Clearly labelled - so people can avoid them
• “If customers want them” - i.e. only if they will sell
• and he clearly doesn’t think they will sell!

Oh shit, the Vogons have finally branched out into prose 😱

This is like the doll version of those mummified mermaids 😱

Very true, but the Guides do. The organisation has literally tens of millions of pounds, and I have no doubt there would be plenty of people willing to back them further if push came to shove.

Noooooo!

This has such @weirdmedieval.bsky.social vibes

I would go out and buy a letter opener just to not give them the satisfaction

“Some people in the UK” here means Greggs. The only place I ever hear “red sauce” is when Greggs ask me if I want brown or red sauce on my breakfast roll. Doesn’t matter where I am in the UK, they all do it!

Sort of. September is a possible date for Jesus' actual birth based on details in the Gospel accounts; but the argument for pagan origins is mostly Reformation anti-catholic rhetoric expanded on by C19th thinkers.
historyforatheists.com/2024/12/paga...

I feel like Tiny Tim having found the secret to immortality opens the door nicely to a muppets Da Vinci Code

Ooh, thank you for reminding me I need to mute that term!