Anna H
@athenepallas.bsky.social
'Give her a helmet and a sword, she'd look like a brave little Hobbit'
Arriving to Terms • Patrick Oates • night Venticelli •
December 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Arriving to Terms • Patrick Oates • night Venticelli •
Not for the first time, I wonder where a massive blood clot is when you really need one.
December 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Not for the first time, I wonder where a massive blood clot is when you really need one.
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Also, while stocks last, standard batteries are half price here: shop.rnib.org.uk/collections/...
Your purchases support blind and partially sighted people. Not a penny goes to shareholders!
Your purchases support blind and partially sighted people. Not a penny goes to shareholders!
December 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Also, while stocks last, standard batteries are half price here: shop.rnib.org.uk/collections/...
Your purchases support blind and partially sighted people. Not a penny goes to shareholders!
Your purchases support blind and partially sighted people. Not a penny goes to shareholders!
The nearest I can get to this is Black Widow saying "This idiot is giving me everything" mid- her ostensibly being the one under interrogation before freeing herself from the idiot goons in question. But it's implied, not stated and Marvel films aren't noted for their subtlety....
I am a TV journalist so by definition, I watch A LOT OF TV.
I cannot think of a single drama in which this - or anything like this - has happened.
This geezer is just making shit up. And the increasingly laughably self-styled Newspaper of Record is publishing it.
I cannot think of a single drama in which this - or anything like this - has happened.
This geezer is just making shit up. And the increasingly laughably self-styled Newspaper of Record is publishing it.
December 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The nearest I can get to this is Black Widow saying "This idiot is giving me everything" mid- her ostensibly being the one under interrogation before freeing herself from the idiot goons in question. But it's implied, not stated and Marvel films aren't noted for their subtlety....
Reproducing one of the best pieces of parenting advice I have ever received: if you are giving any kind of electronica as a gift, set it up and do any necessary software downloads *before* you wrap it. And as below, make sure you have batteries.
Time to complete the holiest rite in the Dad Calendar: the Ordering of the Christmas Batteries.
December 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Reproducing one of the best pieces of parenting advice I have ever received: if you are giving any kind of electronica as a gift, set it up and do any necessary software downloads *before* you wrap it. And as below, make sure you have batteries.
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This column by @stephenkb.bsky.social on the antisemitic mass murder in Australia, reflecting on the justifications for acting on ancient hatreds, is very good indeed. Depressingly comments have not been enabled. Because they couldn’t be.
www.ft.com/content/4209...
www.ft.com/content/4209...
Bondi attacks show old hatreds are flourishing again
A permissive environment has been created in which Israel is conflated with all Jews, everywhere
www.ft.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This column by @stephenkb.bsky.social on the antisemitic mass murder in Australia, reflecting on the justifications for acting on ancient hatreds, is very good indeed. Depressingly comments have not been enabled. Because they couldn’t be.
www.ft.com/content/4209...
www.ft.com/content/4209...
I like a fancy gin as much as the next 3 people but both the price and the ABV of this one (61.8) mean I can only respond "How much?!"
December 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I like a fancy gin as much as the next 3 people but both the price and the ABV of this one (61.8) mean I can only respond "How much?!"
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“He said, ‘I’m going to die – please see my family [and tell them] that I went down to save people’s lives’,” Alkanj recounted, before Ahmed tackled the shooter, taking his rifle.
this guy, honestly. amazing.
this guy, honestly. amazing.
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“He said, ‘I’m going to die – please see my family [and tell them] that I went down to save people’s lives’,” Alkanj recounted, before Ahmed tackled the shooter, taking his rifle.
this guy, honestly. amazing.
this guy, honestly. amazing.
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The full Mossbourne Report is here. It turns out that the SLT were quite fond of shouting at teachers too. Loss of pupils between Year 7 and Year 11 is 22%, national average is 7% chscp.org.uk/wp-content/u...
chscp.org.uk
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The full Mossbourne Report is here. It turns out that the SLT were quite fond of shouting at teachers too. Loss of pupils between Year 7 and Year 11 is 22%, national average is 7% chscp.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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And this is why Communism has never worked but social democracy has - and still does.
December 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
And this is why Communism has never worked but social democracy has - and still does.
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And here's Kamala Harris's response. This is the president you could have had, America.
December 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
And here's Kamala Harris's response. This is the president you could have had, America.
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If you read one U.S. president's remembrance of Rob Reiner today...
December 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If you read one U.S. president's remembrance of Rob Reiner today...
Trump going after Rob Reiner is ofc utterly foul and inhumane, but it is (equally ofc) also stupid: people love Reiner's films and the kindness, decency, integrity, craft and *humanity* that run through them. Attacking his memory is attacking those values.
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Trump going after Rob Reiner is ofc utterly foul and inhumane, but it is (equally ofc) also stupid: people love Reiner's films and the kindness, decency, integrity, craft and *humanity* that run through them. Attacking his memory is attacking those values.
Holly • Seamus Heaney •
December 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Holly • Seamus Heaney •
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boy, a grim echo of Budapest's memorial to pogrom victims here.
December 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
boy, a grim echo of Budapest's memorial to pogrom victims here.
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There's a lot I miss by not being on Twitter but "Michael Gove and Katherine Birbalsingh debating if Jews are fifth columnists with an Internet Nazi, for the Spectator" is definitely a new one...
Tomlinson makes clear that "ban Jews from the civil service and parliament" is his position.
It is a position that Harry Cole of the Sun & TalkTV will now promote as a legitimate contribution (albeit when emphasise banning Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, blacks and Asians + incidentally the Jews too)
It is a position that Harry Cole of the Sun & TalkTV will now promote as a legitimate contribution (albeit when emphasise banning Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, blacks and Asians + incidentally the Jews too)
December 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
There's a lot I miss by not being on Twitter but "Michael Gove and Katherine Birbalsingh debating if Jews are fifth columnists with an Internet Nazi, for the Spectator" is definitely a new one...
How, /how/ is KB still a HT? Her pupils aren't a debating point, they're *people* and she shouldn't be giving her time and attention to anyone whose clearly stated view is that they and their families are lesser because of their faith:
Tomlinson makes clear that "ban Jews from the civil service and parliament" is his position.
It is a position that Harry Cole of the Sun & TalkTV will now promote as a legitimate contribution (albeit when emphasise banning Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, blacks and Asians + incidentally the Jews too)
It is a position that Harry Cole of the Sun & TalkTV will now promote as a legitimate contribution (albeit when emphasise banning Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, blacks and Asians + incidentally the Jews too)
December 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
How, /how/ is KB still a HT? Her pupils aren't a debating point, they're *people* and she shouldn't be giving her time and attention to anyone whose clearly stated view is that they and their families are lesser because of their faith:
Danny 'Call me Ishmael' Kruger
you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology.
December 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Danny 'Call me Ishmael' Kruger
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Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers.
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
December 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers.
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
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Quite a position to argues that the wokes are destroying a civilisation built on Christian faith but gang bangs are fine actually.
Reform MP Danny Kruger on pornstar/provocateur Bonnie Blue announcing her support for the party: "We’ll take votes from wherever we can get them, we want all the support we can get. Quite like Bonnie Blue."
Says party isn't "going to be fussy, we're not going to be judgemental" about Reform voters
Says party isn't "going to be fussy, we're not going to be judgemental" about Reform voters
December 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Quite a position to argues that the wokes are destroying a civilisation built on Christian faith but gang bangs are fine actually.
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Racism isn’t a social class thing. That’s why it’s wrong to equate it with poverty & ignorance. One can be rich & highly educated and racist at the same time. One may not display overt racism but actively use their resources to strengthen structurally racist systems. We don’t talk about this enough.
December 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Racism isn’t a social class thing. That’s why it’s wrong to equate it with poverty & ignorance. One can be rich & highly educated and racist at the same time. One may not display overt racism but actively use their resources to strengthen structurally racist systems. We don’t talk about this enough.
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"If there is a Jewish Nobel for saving Jews, Ahmed al-Ahmed just won it
Ahmed al-Ahmed belongs in that moral family tree of the "Righteous Among the Nations.""
Ahmed al-Ahmed belongs in that moral family tree of the "Righteous Among the Nations.""
The Jewish world should honor, praise Ahmed al-Ahmed | The Jerusalem Post
Ahmed al-Ahmed belongs in that moral family tree of the "Righteous Among the Nations."
www.jpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"If there is a Jewish Nobel for saving Jews, Ahmed al-Ahmed just won it
Ahmed al-Ahmed belongs in that moral family tree of the "Righteous Among the Nations.""
Ahmed al-Ahmed belongs in that moral family tree of the "Righteous Among the Nations.""
Georgia O'Keefe • Barn with Snow •
December 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Georgia O'Keefe • Barn with Snow •
Sulho Sipilä • The Skating Rink •
December 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Sulho Sipilä • The Skating Rink •
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Can we take a moment to admire Will Sharpe's costume here? It's fabulous.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘It’s fun to go to war with God’: Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany on their sweaty, sacrilegious take on Amadeus
Last time the fierce enmity between Mozart and Salieri was adapted for the screen, it won a best picture Oscar. Now a new TV version turns up the temperature several notches – but will its stars devel...
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Can we take a moment to admire Will Sharpe's costume here? It's fabulous.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...