Happy new year! I am delighted that you have joined us as we start 2021 and hope it is a significant improvement on last year. While you’re here, sign up to our email mailing list (at the bottom of the page), follow us on social media (find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest) and settle in to enjoy our favourite social media picks from this week:
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With gratitude, I celebrate 45 years of sobriety. pic.twitter.com/fxzMRGlI4m
— Anthony Hopkins (@AnthonyHopkins) December 29, 2020
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My uncle picked up bookbinding during the pandemic and his basement is my wonderland pic.twitter.com/a1fw6XBkGz
— Mina Hamedi 🇮🇷🇹🇷 (@mina_hamedi) January 1, 2021
In French, CHANTER EN YAOURT (‘to sing in yoghurt’) refers to the noises you make singing a song when you’ve forgotten the lyrics.
— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) January 2, 2021
Your racist relatives are *not* “from a different time”
Happy New Year ✨ pic.twitter.com/uZu1s7XYaI
— Kelechi (@kelechnekoff) January 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/ArrivedInGenX/status/1339331572743467008
"They actually create a kind of soup of antibodies."
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van-Tam explains why we can be positive about #COVID19 vaccines protecting us against the new coronavirus variants.
Watch 👇 pic.twitter.com/jrUdLr7Ef0
— Department of Health and Social Care (@DHSCgovuk) December 31, 2020
One for the anti-vaxxers…. pic.twitter.com/RkcRgJYtiR
— Gayle Hann (@hann_gayle) January 1, 2021
Turning random internet drama into songs, part 1 pic.twitter.com/jO0apLKEiq
— Lubalin (@lubalin_vibe_co) December 30, 2020
In Edinburgh the traditional Hogmanay street party was cancelled because of Covid – but people were able to watch this beautiful video online of a drone display, forming images across Scotland's skies to welcome in 2021
See more: https://t.co/gkwLMps3Eh pic.twitter.com/wVXmYspL0w
— BBC World Service (@bbcworldservice) January 1, 2021
Looks elaborate, but all it took was a little bit of tin foil, a length of ribbon, and 10 months’ worth of resentment pic.twitter.com/vz9d7upJTK
— Hattie Crisell (@hattiehattie) December 30, 2020
My brother and I made a gingerbread mosque. From scratch!
Required more math than expected pic.twitter.com/24k0mgnbvf
— Manal and Aiman (@MyFoundationLyf) December 27, 2020
here's @BBCSimonMcCoy looking back at the best bits of 2020 #happynewyear pic.twitter.com/eS3rnpZH91
— Chris Fox (@thisisFoxx) January 1, 2021
🗣️ “Anyone listening to this who doesn’t wear their mask – they have blood on their hands”.
Strong words from intensive care professor @hugh_montgomery, who tells @RachelBurden what’s happening in his unit right now.
🎧 Listen @BBCSounds pic.twitter.com/CsWOf7cdjF
— BBC Radio 5 Live (@bbc5live) December 31, 2020
GREAT NEW: Ground have beocme soft/delicious pic.twitter.com/Cm5W3DYpsk
— Dog Solution (@DogSolutions) December 30, 2020
As often found on London’s housing estates, these fences are made from WW2 Air Raid Protection stretchers. 600,000+ stretchers were made for civilian use in the Blitz; but surplus after the war. Estates’ railings had gone for War Effort: stretchers were recycled to replace them. pic.twitter.com/iOzTHO5Dxe
— Tim Dunn (@MrTimDunn) December 30, 2020
Boston Dynamics has released yet another video of its robots dancing that is equal parts impressive, creepy, and cringe https://t.co/RF5mQQhC0m pic.twitter.com/h9hDiEJK8X
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) December 29, 2020
2020: the year in rascality pic.twitter.com/E4zJ32Pp8I
— Oregon Zoo (@OregonZoo) December 28, 2020
One of the saddest cartoons ever published. Stay safe, take care everyone. Happy New Year. x pic.twitter.com/3r5yrqGFTE
— BremainInSpain (@BremainInSpain) December 31, 2020
Image credit: David Mark