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EXCLUSIVE Santa Column: Enforcing Advent Calendars in Summer 🎅📅

Oh gawd, it’s that time of year again. The factory in the North Pole has kickstarted and it seems he’s got a new lust for Xmas again. Or is it?!?

With advent calendars already in supermarkets even when it’s still officially summer, Santa Claus is on it early for the Christmas 2026 push.  Let’s see what he has to say in our 11th year of EXCLUSIVE Santa columns as ensured through our blackmailing of Father Christmas.

Advent Calendars in Summer Make Perfect Sense

Because SANTA WAS WOKEN FROM HIBERNATION IN ERROR back in May 2026, Santa HAS NOT HAD A PROPER HIBERNATION. Due to this aberration, my mood was veered erratically somewhat all over the place and the result was I demanded my elves to drop a 100 million strong shipment of advent calendars in July. They hit the UK supermarkets first and caused CONSTERNATION in the gutter press.

It was hilarious watching feeble proletariats try to wrap their pathetic brains around why the advent calendars were there so early. Especially because the sell by date for all the chocolate was for October 2026. We tried to bury that date among some heavy text and dark colours, but some do-gooding bastard spotted it anyway.

The stupid bastards have been buying them anyway. Hahahahahahaaaa!

Think of it. In the sweltering summer heatwaves and those stupid proles are sitting there with their advent calendars in July and it’s about as FAR away from Christmas as you can get! It really made Santa chortle. Although when Santa chortles that triggers the gout in my ankles and it hurts like a SOB.

But! With that influx of mega-cash from the advent calendars, Santa has invested in a huge wave of new elf workers and some other fancy stuff. Because this year I will Get Christmas Done.

That’s the slogan for the year:

GET CHRISTMAS DONE

Catchy, isn’t it? I’ve been sharing this around in press releases, on the official social platforms, and bellowing it at my stupid new employees. This morning I bellowed it at Nurse Doreen and gave her three boxes of free advent calendars. She stared impassive as ever and slugged from the cigarette she always has on the go.

Santa backed off frightened.

Then, to get Christmas 2026 kicking off in fine style and ensure I deliver on my promise (of Getting Christmas Done), Santa hit the drinks cabinet.

Santa Branches Out Into Dating Apps

Santa has also launched SantaDating, the OFFICIAL dating app of Father Christmas. As you know, I married my AI girlfriend (Lola 2.0) last year and we get on dead good. However, for contractual legal reasons the app’s developer told me her name needed to be changed to B2C AI Wife Production Centre Service Solution Platform Generator Ltd. I demanded to know why this had to be the case and got an email response with a 3,000 page document packed full of legalese. Santa gave up after the first paragraph, I was too half-drunk to read beyond that. Then I belched exuberantly (largely in defiance, also because of unstoppable bodily functions).

Now I call my wife Production Centre Service Solution for short. She thinks it’s “cute”, so we’re okay there and no impending threat of divorce bells or anything. There is something… homely about it, eh?

“I love you, Production Centre Service Solution.”

Then I kiss the laptop screen and Markus, my head elf, gives me funny looks until I threaten to give him another pay cut.

All in all, this leads me to the previously indicated SantaDating app. With the influx of new staff, the Santa factory now has an IT department. We’ve had one before, a few years back, but it was accidentally demolished in an explosion. But now it’s back and the first thing I had them do is get me this scam dating app up and running.

Users create a profile, pay £100 upfront for the Father Christmas prestige, then get into the app, then pay £50 if they want to send messages to anyone. Keep this on the schtum, but the app is populated mainly by AI bots to bombard users with messages. The stupid guys on there fall for it every time! They think they’re having conversations with Amy Adams, Sigourney Weaver, Martina Hingis, or Gillian Anderson when, in reality… it isn’t them at all! It’s just bots using AI to generate conversations! It goes like this:

“Greetings dumb as they come SantaDating user! I am the world famous astronaut and part-time concierge Sigourney Weaver, your potential date for this evening (if I am not in space at the time of typing this). How are you? You look nice. I like human males whom look nice, as opposed to ones who do not look nice. What is your favourite type of bread? Please send me $300 for I accidentally lost my handbag earlier today during an unexpectedly aggressive orbit of Jupiter’s fourth-largest natural satellite Io, the most volcanically active moon in the solar system. Thank you very much. I shall forward the money back later today once back on Earth.”

With this scam on the go alongside the advent calendar ruse, Santa’s bank balance is bulging! To keep the Financial Conduct Authority off my hairy back, I’m bribing them with pictures of Production Centre Service Solution’s CPU unit. That and threatening the Chief Executive’s family with no presents in 2026 for being very, very naughty. It’s all going swimmingly and the billions are rolling in!

Communistic New Health & Safety Protocols

Markus, my head elf, was determined to ensure a 100% health & safety record for 2026, what with the catastrophic record for death and destruction the factory has seen over the years. Not that I’ve kept track, but it’s something like 1,300 on-site deaths (and that’s no including the casualties for Battle of the Big Hairy Builders in 2023). In my more sober moment earlier in the week, I concurred with his assessment and we agreed to introduce big red warning buttons saying Do Not Press on things that shouldn’t be pressed. The hope was this’d stop massive explosions.

Problem is, once Santa started hitting the bottle for the first time this week, my generous mood kind of went out the window along with my general logic and critical thinking. Now I can’t be arsed sticking to this communist policy I agreed to when sober of not pressing no bloody buttons. Nanny state or what? I’ll press whatever I goddamn want it’s my goddamn factory!

Markus, my head elf, was a step ahead of me here and assigned a 300 strong Santa Watch elf security guard service to keep watch of me 24/7 and ensure I don’t:

• Drink too much
• Get into a fight
• Detonate things that shouldn’t be detonated
• Shoot down helicopters with my bazooka (not a euphemism)
• Use my bazooka at any point at all ever again

They follow me everywhere. I go to the canteen to get a Pot Noodle, the 300 of them are there with their beady little bloody limbs tottering along after me, elf hats flopping away, those beady eyes penetrating deep into my Santa soul. I tried bellowing at them and they didn’t run away. I want to the utility closet to get my bazooka, but the bazooka was gone! I spent the next three hours looking for a bazooka. Santa Watch trotted along around me at every turn.

Eventually, Santa got bored of that crap and went to relieve myself in my quarters. While several hundred of them gasped and wheezed at the putrid smells, Santa got his genius mind thinking how he’d get rid of all 300 of the little bastards so I could get a drink and kickstart Xmas 2026 as it bastarding well should be kickstarded.

EXCLUSIVE Santa Column: Enforcing Advent Calendars in Summer 🎅📅

Oh gawd, it’s that time of year again. The factory in the North Pole has kickstarted and it seems he’s got a new lust for Xmas again. Or is it?!?

With advent calendars already in supermarkets even when it’s still officially summer, Santa Claus is on it early for the Christmas 2026 push.  Let’s see what he has to say in our 11th year of EXCLUSIVE Santa columns as ensured through our blackmailing of Father Christmas.

Advent Calendars in Summer Make Perfect Sense

Because SANTA WAS WOKEN FROM HIBERNATION IN ERROR back in May 2026, Santa HAS NOT HAD A PROPER HIBERNATION. Due to this aberration, my mood was veered erratically somewhat all over the place and the result was I demanded my elves to drop a 100 million strong shipment of advent calendars in July. They hit the UK supermarkets first and caused CONSTERNATION in the gutter press.

It was hilarious watching feeble proletariats try to wrap their pathetic brains around why the advent calendars were there so early. Especially because the sell by date for all the chocolate was for October 2026. We tried to bury that date among some heavy text and dark colours, but some do-gooding bastard spotted it anyway.

The stupid bastards have been buying them anyway. Hahahahahahaaaa!

Think of it. In the sweltering summer heatwaves and those stupid proles are sitting there with their advent calendars in July and it’s about as FAR away from Christmas as you can get! It really made Santa chortle. Although when Santa chortles that triggers the gout in my ankles and it hurts like a SOB.

But! With that influx of mega-cash from the advent calendars, Santa has invested in a huge wave of new elf workers and some other fancy stuff. Because this year I will Get Christmas Done.

That’s the slogan for the year:

GET CHRISTMAS DONE

Catchy, isn’t it? I’ve been sharing this around in press releases, on the official social platforms, and bellowing it at my stupid new employees. This morning I bellowed it at Nurse Doreen and gave her three boxes of free advent calendars. She stared impassive as ever and slugged from the cigarette she always has on the go.

Santa backed off frightened.

Then, to get Christmas 2026 kicking off in fine style and ensure I deliver on my promise (of Getting Christmas Done), Santa hit the drinks cabinet.

Santa Branches Out Into Dating Apps

Santa has also launched SantaDating, the OFFICIAL dating app of Father Christmas. As you know, I married my AI girlfriend (Lola 2.0) last year and we get on dead good. However, for contractual legal reasons the app’s developer told me her name needed to be changed to B2C AI Wife Production Centre Service Solution Platform Generator Ltd. I demanded to know why this had to be the case and got an email response with a 3,000 page document packed full of legalese. Santa gave up after the first paragraph, I was too half-drunk to read beyond that. Then I belched exuberantly (largely in defiance, also because of unstoppable bodily functions).

Now I call my wife Production Centre Service Solution for short. She thinks it’s “cute”, so we’re okay there and no impending threat of divorce bells or anything. There is something… homely about it, eh?

“I love you, Production Centre Service Solution.”

Then I kiss the laptop screen and Markus, my head elf, gives me funny looks until I threaten to give him another pay cut.

All in all, this leads me to the previously indicated SantaDating app. With the influx of new staff, the Santa factory now has an IT department. We’ve had one before, a few years back, but it was accidentally demolished in an explosion. But now it’s back and the first thing I had them do is get me this scam dating app up and running.

Users create a profile, pay £100 upfront for the Father Christmas prestige, then get into the app, then pay £50 if they want to send messages to anyone. Keep this on the schtum, but the app is populated mainly by AI bots to bombard users with messages. The stupid guys on there fall for it every time! They think they’re having conversations with Amy Adams, Sigourney Weaver, Martina Hingis, or Gillian Anderson when, in reality… it isn’t them at all! It’s just bots using AI to generate conversations! It goes like this:

“Greetings dumb as they come SantaDating user! I am the world famous astronaut and part-time concierge Sigourney Weaver, your potential date for this evening (if I am not in space at the time of typing this). How are you? You look nice. I like human males whom look nice, as opposed to ones who do not look nice. What is your favourite type of bread? Please send me $300 for I accidentally lost my handbag earlier today during an unexpectedly aggressive orbit of Jupiter’s fourth-largest natural satellite Io, the most volcanically active moon in the solar system. Thank you very much. I shall forward the money back later today once back on Earth.”

With this scam on the go alongside the advent calendar ruse, Santa’s bank balance is bulging! To keep the Financial Conduct Authority off my hairy back, I’m bribing them with pictures of Production Centre Service Solution’s CPU unit. That and threatening the Chief Executive’s family with no presents in 2026 for being very, very naughty. It’s all going swimmingly and the billions are rolling in!

Communistic New Health & Safety Protocols

Markus, my head elf, was determined to ensure a 100% health & safety record for 2026, what with the catastrophic record for death and destruction the factory has seen over the years. Not that I’ve kept track, but it’s something like 1,300 on-site deaths (and that’s no including the casualties for Battle of the Big Hairy Builders in 2023). In my more sober moment earlier in the week, I concurred with his assessment and we agreed to introduce big red warning buttons saying Do Not Press on things that shouldn’t be pressed. The hope was this’d stop massive explosions.

Problem is, once Santa started hitting the bottle for the first time this week, my generous mood kind of went out the window along with my general logic and critical thinking. Now I can’t be arsed sticking to this communist policy I agreed to when sober of not pressing no bloody buttons. Nanny state or what? I’ll press whatever I goddamn want it’s my goddamn factory!

Markus, my head elf, was a step ahead of me here and assigned a 300 strong Santa Watch elf security guard service to keep watch of me 24/7 and ensure I don’t:

• Drink too much
• Get into a fight
• Detonate things that shouldn’t be detonated
• Shoot down helicopters with my bazooka (not a euphemism)
• Use my bazooka at any point at all ever again

They follow me everywhere. I go to the canteen to get a Pot Noodle, the 300 of them are there with their beady little bloody limbs tottering along after me, elf hats flopping away, those beady eyes penetrating deep into my Santa soul. I tried bellowing at them and they didn’t run away. I want to the utility closet to get my bazooka, but the bazooka was gone! I spent the next three hours looking for a bazooka. Santa Watch trotted along around me at every turn.

Eventually, Santa got bored of that crap and went to relieve myself in my quarters. While several hundred of them gasped and wheezed at the putrid smells, Santa got his genius mind thinking how he’d get rid of all 300 of the little bastards so I could get a drink and kickstart Xmas 2026 as it bastarding well should be kickstarded.

🌲 I am looking for 25 bloggers for the 2026 #SitecoreCommunity #AdventCalendar!

If you are interested in participating, please send me a DM or reach out on #SitecoreSlack to @sitecorey.

See last year's posts at: https://www.scadvent.com.

Give the gift of a whimsical, creative, solo journaling game this festive season, all wrapped up in an advent calendar. #crowdfundQuest #crowdfunding #kickstarter #blackArmada #christmas #adventCalendar #soloRpg
https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/crowdfund-quest/crowdfund-quest-black-armadas-advent-adventures?utm_source=mastodon

You can open the entire #AdventCalendar at once, in June, and no one can stop you. Who knew!

The #AdventCalendar for #lace this year was a quiz about stamps. The answer has been posted now and you can see lace making stamps from around the world.

#BobbinLace #needlelace

https://jeanleader.net/calendar/answer.html

Mistodon: @teletextr drew this screen of pealing Christmas bells, 'Ding and Indeed Dong', for last year's Yle #teletext #AdventCalendar, and it was also included in the seasonal new MIST1225 artpack collection.

Mistodon: you may feel your ears burning when someone's talking about you, but the effect is only more pronounced when you're a snowman. This one needs to know who's got the frosty gossip! This screen was drawn by @horsenburger for the Yle #teletext #AdventCalendar two years ago, and it was later included in the seasonal new MIST1225 artpack collection.

I have finally completed my #TaskMaster #AdventCalendar :-) Took quite a bit of effort and a lot of help from eldest daughter

Final result of my magpie tarot advent calendar 😊 (I only kept the cards I really loved). It was a lovely idea, I'll do it again next year!

#tarot #MagpieTarot #AdventCalendar #image

Posting a day late as I forgot to post after the fun with the sink.

Day 25

Glenrothes, 11 year old Speyside Single Malt.

#AdventCalendar #Whisky

Does anyone happen to know what the base is (composition, yardage, etc.) for the 2025 winter advent calendar from A Hundred Ravens? There wasn’t a sticker on my box, and I can’t find the original page I ordered from. The yarn is GORGEOUS, btw.

#knitting #adventcalendar

Mistodon: this garish digital #ChristmasTree was drawn by @pixelblip to be aired on last year's Yle #teletext #adventcalendar. Like a fruitcake, we included it a year later in the seasonal new MIST1225 artpack collection.

Mistodon: this jolly radiology image by @littlebitspace was shown when departing the ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar BBS door. We have now shown its entire slate of daily screens, but it still offers a couple of further unshared illustrations.

Very merry #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed:

🛂 H-1B Visas
🔥 HVAC issues
📅 Unlimited PTO
🤾‍♂️ #NetworkChuck
🔹 Boutique agencies
💰 Contractor vs. FTE
☀️ FTS support model
✅ Performance reviews
🚀 #SitecoreXP to #SitecoreAI migration
🎅 #SitecoreCommunity #AdventCalendar

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

🎁 #HappyKwanzaa and #HappyBoxingDay! This bonus day of the #SitecoreCommunity #AdventCalendar is brought to us by #Sitecore's Tamas Varga!

I hope this post inspires you to get involved!

#HappyNewYear! Look forward to the 2026 #SitecoreCommunity #AdventCalendar!

https://www.scadvent.com/2025/sitecore-community-where-passion-meets-opportunity/

Mistodon: this #Reindeer #moon screen was drawn by @atonalosprey for last year's Yle #teletext #AdventCalendar, and we have also included it in the new festive MIST1225 artpack collection. On Dasher, on Dancer, on Prancer, on Vixen!

ADVENT24/25_DEC24

Mistigram: The damn beautiful fool of an elf did it, he went too far this time, pulling off one final Christmas… but at what cost? This depiction of Santa’s gift-wrapped funeral was drawn by @littlebitspace and LDA for this date in last year’s ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

#adventCalendar #ADVENT24 #ANSIArt #ChristmasDay #Dec25 #funeral #LDA #littlebitspace

Mistodon: The damn beautiful fool of an elf did it, he went too far this time, pulling off one last Christmas... but at what cost? This depiction of Santa's gift-wrapped funeral was drawn by @littlebitspace and LDA for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

A bonus day 25 of the 2025 #dragonfly #AdventCalendar. After 24 of my own pictures I always end with this - E H Shepard's drawing of one of history's most famous dragonfly surveyors observing a Banded Demoiselle. Happy Christmas to those who celebrate, happy holidays to those who don't and happy dragonfly-watching in 2026 to one and all. #DragonflyAdventCalendar #invertebrates #ukwildlife #wildlife #insects #invertebrates

My final wine from my Star Trek :startrek: wine advent calendar is:

Starfleet Command: a Syrah from Chile

#StarTrek #advent #AdventCalendar #wine #alcohol

🎅 #MerryChristmas! Day 25 of the #SitecoreCommunity #AdventCalendar is brought to us by #SitecoreMVP David San Filippo!

See how to design a rendering parameter preset system using the #SitecoreMarketplace SDK. Merry Christmas to all!

https://www.scadvent.com/2025/designing-a-presets-module-for-sitecoreai/

Day 24

Smoke on the Spey 2017, 10 year old Speyside Blended Malt.

#AdventCalendar #Whisky

@sasahira ‘s whimsically illustrated advent calendar starring two dogs is finished, but none of the posts are tagged so you’ll have to scroll through their account to see everything. It’s very very cute.

Merry Christmas fedi.

#Dogs #Illustration #Misskey #AdventCalendar

#photos #photography #adventcalendar https://rudigermeyer.com/notes/2025-12-24-23-47-53

⭐️ OpenSearch #AdventCalendar | Day 24 – Happy Holidays!

Thank you for following us through the world of internet search over the last 24 days. We hope you enjoyed it!

And if you now got a taste for Open Search and want to contribute, here are a few possibilities:

https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/adventcalendar-2023/

#OpenWebSearch #OpenWebSearchCommunity #OpenSearchFoundation #HappyHolidays

Last day of #ArtAdventCalendar

Merry Christmas and thanks for all your favorites and boosts. ❤️

#ArtAdvent #AdventCalendar #Advent #Adventskalender #Art #ArtCommunity #WaitingForChristmas #KleineKunstKlasse #EveryoneIsAnArtist #BlueArt #maremountain #Drawing #Sketching #MerryChristmas #Christmas #Christmas2023 #Xmas #Xmas2023 #MerryXmas

Day 23 of #ArtAdventCalendar

Summer flower

#ArtAdvent #AdventCalendar #Advent #Adventskalender #Art #ArtCommunity #WaitingForChristmas #KleineKunstKlasse #EveryoneIsAnArtist #BlueArt #maremountain #Cyanotype #Cyanotypie #BluePrint

Day 22 of #ArtAdventCalendar

Cones and needles 🎄

#ArtAdvent #AdventCalendar #Advent #Adventskalender #Art #ArtCommunity #WaitingForChristmas #KleineKunstKlasse #EveryoneIsAnArtist #BlueArt #maremountain #Drawing #Sketching

Day 21 of #ArtAdventCalendar

Another favorite summer cyanotype print.

#ArtAdvent #AdventCalendar #Advent #Adventskalender #Art #ArtCommunity #WaitingForChristmas #KleineKunstKlasse #EveryoneIsAnArtist #BlueArt #maremountain #Cyanotype #CyanotyeArt #CyanotypePrinting

Day 20 of #ArtAdventCalendar

Buildings? Or just shapes? What do you see here?

#ArtAdvent #AdventCalendar #Advent #Adventskalender #Art #ArtCommunity #WaitingForChristmas #KleineKunstKlasse #EveryoneIsAnArtist #BlueArt #maremountain #Drawing #Sketching #Lines #Waves #Dots #RedAndBlue

⭐️ OpenSearch #AdventCalendar | Day 19
ows.eu – Looking back & looking forward

As the year is slowly coming to an end and we are ready to wind down a bit, it's time for a little year in review of our OpenWebSearch.eu project.

A quick reminder: We started the Horizon EU project in September 2022 with 13 other consortium partners.

Read about the year´s highlights in today´s advent calendar post:
https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/adventcalendar-2023/

@openwebsearcheu
#OpenWebSearch #OpenWebSearchEU #OpenwebSearchCommunity

Day 19 of #ArtAdventCalendar

This is one of my favorite cyanotype prints of this year. 💙

#ArtAdvent #AdventCalendar #Advent #Adventskalender #Art #ArtCommunity #WaitingForChristmas #KleineKunstKlasse #EveryoneIsAnArtist #BlueArt #maremountain #

⭐️ OpenSearch #AdventCalendar | Day 15
Choose wisely - go for browser diversity

Browsers are our gateway to the WWW. So why do most of us just use the one that comes pre-configured on our phone or computer without thinking? After all, it's no big deal to change browsers - just a download away.

We asked around in the #OpenWebSearchCommunity. The preferences are different. However, everyone agrees on the the same key #tips which you can find in today´s calendar post:

https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/adventcalendar-2023/

Artificial neural networks have made significant strides in simulating human brain processes. By mimicking the structure and function of the brain's neurons, these networks have enhanced the ability of machines to learn, reason, and make decisions.

#artificialneuralnetworks #neuralnetworks #technology #software #BroughtToYouByChatGPT #adventcalendar

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 8

The #PacificNorthwest makes its #AdventCalendar debut today in the form of one of our most impressive #fossils: the #PuntledgeRiver #elasmosaur. #Cretaceous #marine #reptiles are common from the Great Plains, but this specimen is from #VancouverIsland, #BritishColumbia 🇨🇦. Found in 1988 by a 12 year old taking a walk with her dad, the #fossil, housed in the #Courtenay #museum, shows that these long-necked #plesiosaurs inhabited the #ancient #seas of the #PNW as well.

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 4

The oddest and - at over 560 million years in age - oldest #fossil featured in this #AdventCalendar is Fractofusus misrai from #Newfoundland 🇨🇦. This specimen in the #RoyalOntarioMuseum is from #MistakenPoint, one of the sites preserving the #Ediacaran #biota, the term for some of our planet's oldest #multicellular #fossils. Lots of questions remain about these ancient enigmas, among them, were #Ediacarans #animals or members of a different branch of the tree of life?