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We pass through this day but once
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This evening the management recommends:
December 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This evening the management recommends:
2025 was more rubbish than not-rubbish. But I saw a kingfisher🩵 earlier today and so I have since done some optimistic things. Hope over existential crisis, AGAIN. On we go
December 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
2025 was more rubbish than not-rubbish. But I saw a kingfisher🩵 earlier today and so I have since done some optimistic things. Hope over existential crisis, AGAIN. On we go
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🎆🎇🎆2025 HEADLINE OF THE YEAR🎆🎇🎆
🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆GRAND FINAL🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆
After a seeding round and three rounds of voting, we have our finalists: Top seed Pretty Obvious will be facing off against 3rd seed Police Are Scrambling.
A reminder of how we got here:
🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆GRAND FINAL🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆
After a seeding round and three rounds of voting, we have our finalists: Top seed Pretty Obvious will be facing off against 3rd seed Police Are Scrambling.
A reminder of how we got here:
December 31, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🎆🎇🎆2025 HEADLINE OF THE YEAR🎆🎇🎆
🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆GRAND FINAL🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆
After a seeding round and three rounds of voting, we have our finalists: Top seed Pretty Obvious will be facing off against 3rd seed Police Are Scrambling.
A reminder of how we got here:
🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆GRAND FINAL🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆
After a seeding round and three rounds of voting, we have our finalists: Top seed Pretty Obvious will be facing off against 3rd seed Police Are Scrambling.
A reminder of how we got here:
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🎆🎆Welcome to the edge-of-your-seat Semifinals for the 2025 Headline of the Year contest! 🎆🎆
The top 4 seeds have survived to the semis, with the #2 seed surviving two tough battles so far. Will Pretty Obvious hold off Leaked Memo? Will Resolved and Unresolved send the Police Scrambling?
The draw:
The top 4 seeds have survived to the semis, with the #2 seed surviving two tough battles so far. Will Pretty Obvious hold off Leaked Memo? Will Resolved and Unresolved send the Police Scrambling?
The draw:
December 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
🎆🎆Welcome to the edge-of-your-seat Semifinals for the 2025 Headline of the Year contest! 🎆🎆
The top 4 seeds have survived to the semis, with the #2 seed surviving two tough battles so far. Will Pretty Obvious hold off Leaked Memo? Will Resolved and Unresolved send the Police Scrambling?
The draw:
The top 4 seeds have survived to the semis, with the #2 seed surviving two tough battles so far. Will Pretty Obvious hold off Leaked Memo? Will Resolved and Unresolved send the Police Scrambling?
The draw:
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Welcome to the thrilling Quarterfinal round of the 2025 Headline of the Year contest! (🎆🎆)
Mostly proceeded according to seeds, but second seed Resolved and Unresolved had a close scare with the Drunk Raccoon.
Let's review the results so far:
Mostly proceeded according to seeds, but second seed Resolved and Unresolved had a close scare with the Drunk Raccoon.
Let's review the results so far:
December 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Welcome to the thrilling Quarterfinal round of the 2025 Headline of the Year contest! (🎆🎆)
Mostly proceeded according to seeds, but second seed Resolved and Unresolved had a close scare with the Drunk Raccoon.
Let's review the results so far:
Mostly proceeded according to seeds, but second seed Resolved and Unresolved had a close scare with the Drunk Raccoon.
Let's review the results so far:
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🎆Welcome to the Round of 16 of the 2025 Headline of the Year Contest!🎆
Voting will be open in 4 locations for each round for about a day.
16 headlines.
Only 1 winner.
A reminder of the nominees:
bsky.app/profile/paul...
Voting will be open in 4 locations for each round for about a day.
16 headlines.
Only 1 winner.
A reminder of the nominees:
bsky.app/profile/paul...
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
🎆Welcome to the Round of 16 of the 2025 Headline of the Year Contest!🎆
Voting will be open in 4 locations for each round for about a day.
16 headlines.
Only 1 winner.
A reminder of the nominees:
bsky.app/profile/paul...
Voting will be open in 4 locations for each round for about a day.
16 headlines.
Only 1 winner.
A reminder of the nominees:
bsky.app/profile/paul...
And here is the very best “of the year” competition you’re going to get, so do join in.
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
And here is the very best “of the year” competition you’re going to get, so do join in.
The FT has listed the stories its journalists wish they had published this year. And their article of 2025? This extraordinary @londoncentric.media piece. It is worth reading. (So is a subscription)
www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman
Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.
www.londoncentric.media
December 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The FT has listed the stories its journalists wish they had published this year. And their article of 2025? This extraordinary @londoncentric.media piece. It is worth reading. (So is a subscription)
www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
If you are shopping for loved ones this week, please consider adding a present for mothers and children who will spend Christmas in a refuge. @refugecharity.bsky.social Thank you.
refuge.org.uk/christmas2025/
refuge.org.uk/christmas2025/
Give a child and their mum their first Christmas of freedom - Refuge
Give a child and their mum their first Christmas of freedom - Refuge
refuge.org.uk
December 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
If you are shopping for loved ones this week, please consider adding a present for mothers and children who will spend Christmas in a refuge. @refugecharity.bsky.social Thank you.
refuge.org.uk/christmas2025/
refuge.org.uk/christmas2025/
I don’t have much time for podcasts and so I’m late to this, but @alexpodyssey.bsky.social is marvellous. Each ep is a Greek myth told well, historical roots / cultural refs clearly explained, and a link to life now. About to start ep3 (Midas) and expect a certain NY property developer will feature.
December 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I don’t have much time for podcasts and so I’m late to this, but @alexpodyssey.bsky.social is marvellous. Each ep is a Greek myth told well, historical roots / cultural refs clearly explained, and a link to life now. About to start ep3 (Midas) and expect a certain NY property developer will feature.
The light didn’t get all the way into the chamber at Newgrange but it was still quite something to watch. Thousands of these have happened now. Try again next year.
December 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The light didn’t get all the way into the chamber at Newgrange but it was still quite something to watch. Thousands of these have happened now. Try again next year.
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A great start to the weekend of the winter solstice!
What a morning at Newgrange today.
The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am.
🔗 gov.ie/solstice 👈save it, share it, join in!
#ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WinterSolstice
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What a morning at Newgrange today.
The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am.
🔗 gov.ie/solstice 👈save it, share it, join in!
#ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WinterSolstice
📸 OPW Guides
December 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A great start to the weekend of the winter solstice!
What a morning at Newgrange today.
The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am.
🔗 gov.ie/solstice 👈save it, share it, join in!
#ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WinterSolstice
📸 OPW Guides
What a morning at Newgrange today.
The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am.
🔗 gov.ie/solstice 👈save it, share it, join in!
#ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WinterSolstice
📸 OPW Guides
PSA 1: Getting up and going for a walk is a Good Thing more often than not. Sometimes it’s really good.
December 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
PSA 1: Getting up and going for a walk is a Good Thing more often than not. Sometimes it’s really good.
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The #WinterSolstice livestream link is now available
Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting.
Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment.
🔗www.gov.ie/solstice
#ShareTheSolstice
Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting.
Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment.
🔗www.gov.ie/solstice
#ShareTheSolstice
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The #WinterSolstice livestream link is now available
Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting.
Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment.
🔗www.gov.ie/solstice
#ShareTheSolstice
Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting.
Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment.
🔗www.gov.ie/solstice
#ShareTheSolstice
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Every now and then I get flashbacks to a very early career interview I did where I agreed (I know, I know but I was young) to let the subject read the piece before I published. He sent it back, having amended it with flourishes like: “…he added, with a wry smile.”
😂😭🤢
😂😭🤢
December 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Every now and then I get flashbacks to a very early career interview I did where I agreed (I know, I know but I was young) to let the subject read the piece before I published. He sent it back, having amended it with flourishes like: “…he added, with a wry smile.”
😂😭🤢
😂😭🤢
This really is Orion taken by my phone camera (and the brightness turned down). Good amount of stars visible tonight.
December 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This really is Orion taken by my phone camera (and the brightness turned down). Good amount of stars visible tonight.
If you are shopping for loved ones this weekend, please consider adding a present for mothers and children who will spend Christmas in a refuge. @refugecharity.bsky.social Thank you.
donate.refuge.org.uk/page/180196/...
donate.refuge.org.uk/page/180196/...
Buy a parcel and help give mums and their children in our refuges their first Christmas of freedom.
When a child arrives at a refuge in the countdown to Christmas, they’re withdrawn and in shock.
donate.refuge.org.uk
December 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
If you are shopping for loved ones this weekend, please consider adding a present for mothers and children who will spend Christmas in a refuge. @refugecharity.bsky.social Thank you.
donate.refuge.org.uk/page/180196/...
donate.refuge.org.uk/page/180196/...
Planted some Paperwhites indoors about a month ago when I was thinking about planting bulbs being a hopeful thing. And here they are
December 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Planted some Paperwhites indoors about a month ago when I was thinking about planting bulbs being a hopeful thing. And here they are
This is a ridonculous bargain, go for it
90% off my full digital discography on Truxalis today, includes Volta, LDOLS, Time is a Sucesssion of Such Shapes. Nine excellent albums for £5.90 ✨
loulayorke.bandcamp.com
loulayorke.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This is a ridonculous bargain, go for it
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That perfect silver cup from Simon Luttichuys. Today is for him & his brother Isaack.
December 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
That perfect silver cup from Simon Luttichuys. Today is for him & his brother Isaack.
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Currently reading My Friends by Hisham Matar. It’s so quietly, beautifully written. The understatement makes it all the more tender and moving. This from the narrator, on whom a life mostly alone in exile was forced:
November 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Currently reading My Friends by Hisham Matar. It’s so quietly, beautifully written. The understatement makes it all the more tender and moving. This from the narrator, on whom a life mostly alone in exile was forced: