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"Christmas cookies for historians" https://wronghands1.com/2025/12/09/christmas-cookies-for-historians/
"Christmas cookies for historians" https://wronghands1.com/2025/12/09/christmas-cookies-for-historians/
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James Lord Pierpont, Mykola Leontovych, William James Kirkpatrick, Traditional English, Matthias Bucher, Hannover Girls' Choir, NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra & Andreas Felber:
🎵 Christmas Songs Medley (Jingle Bells; Carol of bells; Away in a Manger; We wish you a merry Christmas)
(There are still 11 days until 🎄 #Christmas)
Time For Christmas o'clock #HashtagGames hosted by @….
#ChristmasParadeAnything
#FotoVorschlag 'Adventliches' / Advent
My wife was gifted two #Lego sets. And this was one of it. It fits super cool to the season and into our appartement.
Happy third #advent if…
Holiday seasons are so full of family drama. On this day in 1066, my 24th great-grandfather, having invaded from Normandy and slain my my 27 great-grandfather, was planning his Christmas Day coronation at Westminster Abbey.
We know how that turned out: when William was cheered, soldiers outside thought it was a riot and set fire to nearby Saxon homes.
And a very merry Christmas to you, too.
The Autocar Christmas road test and coffee. Sunday morning is starting well.
#WeirdCarMastodon
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#ChristmasAroundEurope
- Christmas around Europe Part 1
The annual Christmas around Europe day celebration of Christmas music and singing from across Europe.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n8jr
I have a thing for holiday music, even if I tend not to be into much of what I hear in the outside world. I'll drop some of my favs here over the next few days. Feel free to suggest some yourself.
I'll start on the rougher end of the scale with a less-than-cheery meditation on the rest of Santa's year.
The Murder City Devils, "364 Days" (2001)
"Fir or faux: which Christmas tree is best for the environment?"
#Christmas #ChristmasTree #Environment
2.5h Christmas Shopping. Bin reif für ne (einsame) Insel.
Just got a Christmas (?) card for @… 😂🎄
Hey there, ideas for #Copenhagen #København with camera and baby? Best christmas market, cafe, Fuji-cameraplace, coffee and cycling culture?
there's a shortage of live music posts on Fediverse, but for those who would rather not, there are also ways to avoid them! :)
This one is a rareity: a simple trio of 3 original members of the Eighth Street Orchestra doesn't happen much these days as the boys have gotten so good and renoun over these past 15 years, they are usually far too busy to play with dad!
These intimate recordings are from our trio gig Dec 12th at the new Jazz Night series hosted by Cabbagetown's legendary Johnny G's.
Soooo, the AI bubble might burst even this year already? I was thinking of 2026, but maybe we'll have very interesting Christmas ahead
https://piaille.fr/@rts/115713784150633988
National Lampoon's #Christmas Vacation still makes me laugh 😆
#movie
Good Morning #Canada
The pets have conspired to get me out of bed early, so I'm coffeed up and listening to our #Christmas playlist. I thought I'd share 12 Christmas tunes written and/or sung by Canadians. The ranking is subjective and unserious, so please no arguments as I'm trying to stay off the naughty list. Have I missed anything or anyone awesome? Reply with your favourites and I might add them to my playlist.
12 - Let It Snow - Dianna Krall
11 - Christmas Eve - Spirit of the West
10 - O Holy Night - Céline Dion
9 - Silent Night - Rita MacNeil
8 - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Michael Bublé
7 - Wintersong - Sarah McLachlan
6 - Old Toy Trains - Susan Aglukark
5 - Good King Wenceslas – Loreena McKennitt
4 - Song for a Winter's Night - Gordon Lightfoot
3 - Huron Carol - Sarah McLachlan
2 - River - Blue Rodeo
1 - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings - Barenaked Ladies & Sarah McLachlan
#CanadaIsAwesome #ChristmasMusic
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#ChristmasAroundEurope
- Christmas around Europe Part 2
The annual Christmas around Europe day celebration of Christmas music and singing from across Europe.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n8jt
Got rid of our Christmas tree
#TreeByBike
I’m only about a third into to @…’s reading of Dickens’ “The Christmas Carol,” but it's surprisingly delightful and entertaining, even by @… standards. So many adaptations hamfistedly moralise Dickens&#…
Dallas Cowboys star Tyler Smith has clear goal for Christmas https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-star-tyler-smith-clear-goal-christmas
Guthrie really does go all out for Christmas. Our little town feels like a very special place this time of year. #Guthrie #Oklahoma #Christmas
Currently watching the #Psychostick Christmas live stream. Great comedy metal songs and a bunch of fun. https://www.youtube.com/live/-bNSuC0Ezow
Merry 80s Christmas, pop fans!
#TOTP
We have come to Scottsdales Garden Centre, mostly to experience the overload of the Christmas animated models display, which is just so over the top that it's wonderful. #christmas #loudsunday #cambridge
Time For Christmas o'clock #HashtagGames hosted by @….
#ChristmasParadeAnything
The Govt have announced they plan to pass the Facial Recognition Technology Bill through the Dšil on the last sitting day before Christmas. They’ve also removed most of the safeguards the legislation had at earlier stages and widened the scope of use.
Basically stuffing coal down all our chimneys
I reorganized my Christmas tie collection. Decades ago my wife bought me a joke Christmas themed tie believing I wouldn't wear it. The joke was on her as I wore it. Over the decades we keep adding to the collection. At the start of every December I wear a different tie to work until new years.
Multiple tie racks hold 31 unique ties and I have 10 duplicates. I told her that Amazon has them and she whimpered. Then I told her they have socks too that we can add to the collecti…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ChristmasAroundEurope
Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, John Rutter, Benjamin Appl, Regensburger Domspatzen, Munich Radio Orchestra & Oscar Jockel:
🎵 Have yourself a merry little Christmas
#Christmas)
“So I would advise and caution against purchasing an AI toy for Christmas and think about other options of things that parents and kids can enjoy together that really build that social connection with the family, not the social connection with a parasocial AI toy.”
Many of these toys are happy to engage in discussions inappropriate for children, such as dangerous activities or sexual practices. Some are programmed to cause addiction.
James Last Christmas
"This is the season of the spirit, the lesson if you hear it, is make it last all year."
#Christmas #HappyHolidays
"Millions of Christmas trees will end up in landfill this year. Here's what to do with them instead"
#Christmas #Trees #ChristmasTrees
Nova Scotian mall insists giant tree will only eat “3 to 4 kids, max” this Christmas
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2021/12/nova-scotian-mall-insists-giant-tree-will-only-eat-3-to-4-kids-max-this-christmas/
Nielsen: The most-watched Christmas NFL game was Netflix's Lions-Vikings, with 27.5M live plus same-day US viewers; Prime Video's Chiefs vs. Broncos drew 21.06M (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/christmas-2025-n…
Pedro the #Math Cat 🐈🎀 is by now pretty sure that all Mariah Carey wants for #Christmas is him.
#Caturday #cats
We're going to a Christmas drive-in film tonight. There was intense debate in the family as to what to see, and I lost - we're going to see "Home Alone."
I'm hoping it's the director's cut, where young Kevin is holed up in the Nakatomi Plaza while exceptional european thieves try to pull off the heist of the year.
I suspect I'm going to be disappointed.
TIL from my Italian coworker that Italian TV broadcasts Trading Places every Christmastime and if it didn't happen it would be like, national news https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/why-do-italians-watch-trading-places-every-christmas.html<…
McDonald's Netherlands pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad, made by TBWA\NEBOKO with film production company Sweetshop, after backlash that the ad is distasteful (Joe Wilkins/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mcdonalds-ai-generated-comme…
End-of-term grading means cuing up the instrumental holiday music, beginning with the best Christmas album ever recorded (fight me!), Vince Guaraldi's "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (1965).
https://youtu.be/PZtrgRejwG0
DHS shares Christmas-themed deportation memes (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/dhs-christmas-deportation-memes-ice-cbp
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p116#a251208p116
@… it’s a better christmas movie than die hard
Bucs TEs' festive Christmas cards lost in mail https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47465817/tampa-bay-buccaneers-christmas-cards-devin-culp-payne-durham
Still looking for a Christmas present? How about giving yourself the gift of really good music by our multi-talented @… and band 🎶
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Dallas Cowboys star Tyler Smith has clear goal for Christmas https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-star-tyler-smith-clear-goal-christmas
Christmas means nothing for Trump, pure evil.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-says-no-catholic-bishops-call-christmas-pause-immigration-enforcement
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ChristmasAroundEurope
Diego Ortiz, Jeremy Nastasi, Marina López, Marc de la Linde, Lluís Arratia, Iñaki de la Linde & Jorge Losana:
🎵 Recercada segunda sobre 'La Spagna'; Passamezzo antico recercada primera
#Christmas)
One of the absolute best things about #portalberni is the No7 Steam Train. It was under repairs for a few years and boy did we miss it but this year it has run on many weekends. It’s doing Santa runs along the waterfront and rail yard every Friday and Saturday afternoon and evening to Christmas!
#trains #rail #railfan #steam #logging #tourism #christmas #volunteer https://socialbc.ca/@vibyrail/115714553027370571
Fascism Wrapped in Christmas Paper
How Anti-Migrant Politics Disfigures Christian Ethics: The Case of Badalona, Spain.
Alberto Garzón
https://agarzon.substack.com/p/fascism-wrapped-in-christmas-paper
Musi-TiPP Merry Christmas...
#Rian #Musik #Music
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Just be glad I corrected the typo before I pressed enter, otherwise I'd have been wishing a Merry Christmas to all the poop fans. #TOTP
Good Morning #Canada
December 8th, 1869, Timothy Eaton opened a small dry-goods and haberdashery business at 178 Yonge Street in the city of Toronto. From that humble start grew a national retail chain that eventually would bring Christmas Window Displays that attracted crowds for 100 years, and the tradition continues today. The heyday for the window displays was the 1940s to 1980s when Eatons and Simpsons competed for children's noses pressed up against their windows. But every store, large or small, had their own creative display in December. In the 1990s retail chains started to falter and disappear and some displays, like those from Woodwards and Ogilvys, were preserved by museums. I remember our annual visit to Eatons and Simpsons on Yonge Street in the early 60s, when Mom and Dad would load up the car with 7 kids and we'd tour the Christmas displays.
#CanadaIsAwesome #HappyHolidays
https://www.tvo.org/article/walking-in-a-window-wonderland-a-brief-history-of-torontos-department-store-christmas-displays
And the “-ger” part of "Roger” also appears in "garlic”—literally “spear leek”.
#etymology https://toot.community/@AllEndlessKnot/115684991273671288
"I volunteer in a repair cafe: we can help you learn to fix your broken Christmas gift"
#Christmas #RepairCafe
Eating This Plant-Based Christmas Dinner Could Cut Your Costs By Up To 50% #plantbased
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@beyondmachines1/115695635132911608
Shai-hulud, notepad ,...
I have a log4shell feeling. Can we please have no severe attack before my Christmas holidays?
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders turn heads in festive pajamas at team Christmas party https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/trending/news/dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-pajamas-team-christmas-party/0af5ce67246a2fa98…
McDonald's Netherlands pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad, made by ad agency TBWA\NEBOKO with film production company The Sweetshop, after social media backlash (Joe Wilkins/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mcdonalds-ai-generated-comme…
Nielsen: Christmas Day 2025 set a record for US streaming usage with 55.1B minutes, or 54% of all TV viewing for the day, up by 3.9B minutes on Christmas 2024 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
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#FridayNightIsMusicNight
- Christmas at the Movies
George Morton conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert of Christmas film scores. Live from Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre. Presented by Katie Derham.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kzm9
This weekend the daughters are visiting for an annual tradition - interior Christmas decorating including the tree. I'm responsible for exterior decorations, and that was done 2 weeks ago. My only job inside is to put up our 35 year old artificial tree (bought at a post Christmas sale at White Rose) and then get out of the way. That tree will outlive me I think.
My wife is very excited because we are in a new house which means she MUST shop for new stuff. Actually she needs very little since we downsized this year and she has recently given away 2 boxes of assorted holiday decorations by posting them as FREE on a local online marketplace. Apparently a young couple, new homeowners and short on cash, were the lucky recipients. Tis the season...
#Christmas #SantaClaus
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#SundayMorning
- Three Hours of Classical Sparkle
Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you’re putting up your Christmas decorations or relaxing with a mince pie.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n8jp
"UK households bin 168m Christmas lights and ‘fast tech’ items a year"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology #EWaste
This or That: Platos Mexicanos 🍽️ 🇲🇽Catch our Christmas Day game on @Netflix https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F6HKUuMMETA
"Iceland has hottest Christmas Eve ever with temperature of 19.8C recorded"
#Iceland #Climate #ClimateChange
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ChristmasAroundEurope
Music Lab Collective:
🎵 All I want for Christmas is you (arranged for piano)
#MusicLabCollective
#Christmas)
"This year’s Christmas could be Britain’s greenest yet, energy operator says"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Christmas
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Pietro Locatelli, Isabelle Faust, Il Giardino Armonico & Giovanni Antonini:
🎵 Concerto Grosso in F Minor, Op. 1 No. 8 (Christmas Concerto); VI. Pastorale...
#PietroLocatelli
#Christmas)
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ChristmasAroundEurope
Arcangelo Corelli, Gabetta Ensemble & Andras Gabetta:
🎵 Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No.8 'Christmas Night'
#ArcangeloCorelli #GabettaEnsemble #AndrasGabetta
(There are still 11 days until 🎄 #Christmas)
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Frank Bridge, BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Richard Hickox:
🎵 Sir Roger de Coverley (A Christmas Dance), H. 155
#FrankBridge #BBCNationalOrchestraofWales #RichardHickox
(There are still 12 days until 🎄 #Christmas)
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ChristmasAroundEurope
Johann Sebastian Bach, Regensburger Domspatzen, Munich Radio Orchestra & Oscar Jockel:
🎵 Jauchzet, frohlocket (Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248)
#JohannSebastianBach #RegensburgerDomspatzen #MunichRadioOrchestra
(There are still 11 days until 🎄 #Christmas)
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ChristmasAroundEurope
Engelbert Humperdinck, Andreas Nikolai Tarkmann, Hannover Girls' Choir, NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra & Andreas Felber:
🎵 Three Christmas Songs
#EngelbertHumperdinck #AndreasNikolaiTarkmann #HannoverGirlsChoir
(There are still 11 days until 🎄 #Christmas)
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ChristmasAroundEurope
Bartomeu CŠrceres, Jeremy Nastasi, Marina López, Marc de la Linde, Lluís Arratia, Iñaki de la Linde, Inés Alonso, Oriol AguilŠ, Cantoria & Jorge Losana:
🎵 Sus sus sus (excerpt from 'La Trulla')
#BartomeuCàrceres
(There are still 11 days until 🎄 #Christmas)
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ChristmasAroundEurope
The Watersons:
🎵 Holly Bears A Berry
#TheWatersons
#Christmas)
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ChoralEvensong
Traditional English, Kevin McChesney, Columba Ringers & Brother Raymond F. Reinsant:
🎵 We Wish You a Merry Christmas
#TraditionalEnglish #KevinMcChesney #ColumbaRingers #BrotherRaymondFReinsant
(There are still 11 days until 🎄 #Christmas)
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
James McMillan, London Philharmonic Orchestra, The National Philharmonic Chorus & Mark Elder:
🎵 Christmas Oratorio - Chorus 2
#JamesMcMillan #LondonPhilharmonicOrchestra #TheNationalPhilharmonicChorus #MarkElder
(There are still 12 days until 🎄 #Christmas)
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Stephen Roberts, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra & Richard Hickox:
🎵 Fantasia on Christmas Carols
#RalphVaughanWilliams #StephenRoberts #LondonSymphonyChorus #LondonSymphonyOrchestra
(There are still 10 days until 🎄 #Christmas)