Stoned cats enjoying new catnip toys

It's New Catnip Toys Day. Shortly after this was taken they wobbled off to the nearby late night convenience store for chocolate, crisps and all the ingredients for a mega double-decker fried egg sandwich

They forgot to AI the arched doorframe in photo 38 - it's absolutely minging

The teeny-tiny phone box perhaps a tribute to those glorious days when British soldiers were shorter than those of other nations, due to poor nutrition?

ALL OF THE POPCORN

Oh yes, good point! I was forgetting that we're still in the depths of winter :)

A Nightjar, maybe?

Milvus milvus by Wayne Davies. Taken at Llanddeusant Kite feeding station.

This on my daily cycle commute. Obvs hoping a bit more of him will have made it through each day.

Red Dwarf always ahead of the curve.

Thanks for this important announcement. Perhaps you could let the internet know the names of other acclaimed actors you've honestly never heard of who've starred in internationally famous productions?

The gloved arms of an archaeologist cleaning the green copper alloy head of an Iron Age war trumpet

Good to wake up to a news headline that has the words #IronAge #WarTrumpet and #Boudicca in it

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

PreConstruct Archaeology reveals a complete carnyx plus other martial objects from #Norfolk

Wow 😲

We need a lie down

@theguardian.com @theduncanmackay.bsky.social

Well this is *quite* the departure from Mozart as portrayed in the Ladybird book 'Lives of the Great Composers' #amadeus

Marcus Aurelius equestrian statue pours out a red Starbucks cup. Text reads “When your Starbucks cup says Happy Holidays instead of Io Saturnalia”

Io Saturnalia! Today is the first day in the ancient Roman week-long celebration dedicated to the god Saturn. It involved feasting 🍷, gift-giving 🎁, gambling 🎲, and role-reversal. 🏺

Here are some of my favorite Saturnalia memes…

A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.

BBC 'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed Emily Atkinson Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST 2 min read A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed. Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat. Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

I've literally just been there - I made a detour on my cycle home, to buy something specific from a shop which turned out to be closed at 4pm. I probably won't try again, I can get it elsewhere.

‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recovery

‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement

The Real Subtypes of the 2025 Flu Season Have you ever been to a party where you sensed the messiness before it happened?

I've got a bad feeling about the upcoming flu season, given the fact that there are a bunch of subtypes at this party with the potential to wreak varying amounts of havoc. So I broke it all down here.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

Am listening to my daughter's plans for indie clubbing tonight and feeling mildly envious/nostalgic as I google details of cataract surgery, having just cleaned the bathroom. Oh to be young and free of clouded lenses and bespotted ceramic

go home everyone we have a winner

Mmmm, matcha or pistachio flavour?

Ludicrous granola product flavoured for no good reason with tiramisu

Swarm over, Death!

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Has Zuck got really gross ears or are his lobes just being squished down by his pervert bins?

That's a very good call about the citrus - thank you! I forgot that we used to use a citrus spray on furniture etc when they were naughty kittens - worked really well, they hated it! Might not investigate the tiger poo for indoor use though - probably a bit of a powerful perfume 😄

Might let the cats stay if they promise to stop digging and pissing in various pots.

I've got secret plans to colonise every flat surface with more terrariums [terraria?] cacti, succulents, aeoniums, avocados, ZZ plants, and my exponentially-increasing African Milk Bush community. Sorry, I don't make the rules! Actually I do.

Now that I've finally got my allotment and outdoor growing spaces at home in a satisfactory and low-maintenance state, I've turned my beady eye on indoor plant options and some of these superfluous humans and cats are just going to have to move out and take their clutter with them.

Elon, speaking at the Tommy Robinson march today: “This is a government against the people and not for the people, this is why everyone is gathered here today…we don’t have another four years…there’s got to be a dissolution of parliament”

And the government just…continues to use X.

Toxic nepo gammon.