Having let the result yesterday settle a bit, caught up on the podcasts, allowed the red mist to clear and some rational, clear-headed thinking come to the fore, I think I've reached the conclusion that if we don't win the league, Mikel Arteta should turn the gun on himself

didn't really know what jetlag was because I'm stupid, assumed it was just the equivalent of doing an all-nighter and if you reset your sleep schedule you're grand. learning all this nonsense about circadian rhythms now. apparently my liver knows what time it is? fuck off.

none of my business whether this is "sincere." album coming out soon, sure. that said — mania makes people say and do awful life-ruining shit. there's no easy, neat answer to what extent someone is "responsible," esp not w/in the socially sanitized definition of what mental illness "looks like."

City vs Villa on the final day of the season by the way, don't even know what to think about that

checking in out on the Godspeed You! Black Emperor subreddit

had been working my way towards an opening sentence in the area of "Mexico City smells of corn", a history of corn, things of that nature. but I've realised that actually my open window is directly above somewhere mass producing tacos. so that's why it smells of corn. it's all the corn.

You not enthusiastically hailing my belated, sour, minimal, crabbed, peevish, grudging admission that you were right about where things were going is the real fascism.

[clinical psychiatrist gravely addressing family members] I'm afraid he has been experiencing serious delulus

i've been dumping trash around the park every day for 20 years. many times people told me "hey stop dumping trash in the park" but i scoffed because trash dumper was a very prestigious job. now that we know dumping trash is bad, some have asked why i should be chairperson for the recycling committee

funny that all of the replies to that Kanye statement from the "Be kind to someone today ❤️" bluesky types are just being absolute pricks about it

oh brother

Ye, fka Kanye West, takes out a full-page in the Wall Street Journal to apologize to the Black community, and for antisemitism: “I lost touch with reality”

In a way this or at least something a lot like it is literally true. AP standards, for example, state: “Anything in the AP news report that could reasonably be disputed should be attributed.” “Reasonably” is ofc doing a lot of work (and in particular asking the reporter to do a lot of work)

fuckin howling

What's the outcome that terrifies Labour most in the Gorton by-election? Reform winning? Nope. It's the Greens they're most worried about. They'd prefer Reform to win, rather than the Greens.

we were so crap yesterday that complaining about refereeing would have been pointless but Lisandro Martinez does actually punch Gabriel Jesus. he swings his fist. twice really. there is no natural reason for him to be moving his arms like that.

I sometimes wonder whether he could even keep track of all his lies. Could you read his own statements out to him and trick him into disagreeing with them before revealing it was him? I think someone should try it.

Which do you think is more likely: - Starmer just happened to be sitting in a room in front of a huge photo of the aluminium smelting facility at Fort William - One of his aides created the entire image in AI and typoed "picture on the wall of bigpipes" instead of "bagpipes"

It seems almost trite to point out just how much of a liar starmer was back in 2020, but this one is especially funny today

not exactly what you'd describe as "good" is it

Mexico City - worra place!

Madueke still at 0/0, Eze looking unbelievably bad for a £70m signing and one hat-trick away from the most pathetic team in the league from basically contributing nothing either. Gyokeres obviously beyond a joke. Thanks for the "depth" but frankly we could have played Reiss Nelson and done as well.

should probably save the real post-mortem for May but it does seem abundantly clear that Mikel Arteta builds teams for consistent, steady performances in low pressure situations (which practically speaking is 80% of the season). whatever he's doing for the team when the pressure is on isn't working.

Turning on frozen hose best part of my day

can they just decline to award the premier league trophy if this arsenal side finishes top, like how some literary prizes will decide not to award it in certain years if the quality isn’t high enough

when's the last match that was this bad? they want to bottle it. horrible performances all over the pitch, horrible substitutions. worst possible opponent to do it against. second worst maybe. every single summer signing useless today too. funny to have your season low point 4 points clear tbf.

that's weird, instead of slowly building pressure and territory by keeping the ball, we've completely lost midfield control and it has become a baggy, 50-50 game?

those changes say "abandon composure and spend 30 minutes bombing it forward". suppose we'll see if it works but it seems a bit desperate honestly.

this spineless lot are going to fall into a league title like this, thank god City are crap

they all got rattled by that first mistake and have looked very mentally weak since. this group just isn't great under pressure. they're definitely feeling the title race. fuck SAKE Jesus

no idea how we've been simultaneously so dominant and also have attempted on three or four occasions to let them score, finally succeeded in the end!

what a recovery tackle from Saliba (admittedly he was recovering from himself)

sure why not

Trossard looking like he's on one today. He usually scores in this kind of mood.

have always basically liked Aston Villa and I don't even have any problem with Unai Emery (as long as we don't pretend that him being good at Villa retroactively means he would have been at Arsenal). and their whining, chippy fanbase won't take that away from me. someone has to be the bigger man.

unless it's a reference to something I've missed, the "protests against demagogues on campus" seems the odd one out. student protesters have been completely vindicated! deplatforming was right!

I accept we're favourites and if I had to bet I think we'll probably win, but a spawny 1-0 win of some description seems most likely, we hate playing against these and they love playing well about 4 times a year against teams who should be better than them and being pathetic the rest of the time.

Odysseus, confiding in Eurylochus

spotted earlier: Keir Starmer is Sir Alex Ferguson and Labour removing him now would be like sacking Fergie because he didn't win the league in his first season. Might be the least convincing analogy I've ever seen.

From the way these freaks have gone about circling the wagons you'd think it was Leon Trotsky himself back from the grave proposing to stand, not... a centrist former minister in the Blair Government

I think Labour are probably right to be worried about losing the Manchester mayoralty fwiw. They might manage to squeak over the line in Gorton and Denton by a bollock hair and call it a win to keep both. But the underlying issue is that they're so reviled that they're in danger wherever Burnham is.

the main reason Thomas Frank is cooked is that they were meant to be boring but bad at attacking, but even their defending is hilarious now. so what's he doing?

Ethan instantly starting and scoring for Marseille with one of his trademark goals 🥹

ended up chatting to the person next to me about it who had exactly the same reaction of bafflement. good fun, enjoyable film, nobody would have a bad thing to say about it if it had been allowed to float by as a bit of a laff. but to be this acclaimed, what planet are people on honestly.

survived my 12 hour flight by watching all of the Apple TV drama I've never seen (they all had 3 episodes available) and also Sinners. I will rate them thus:

I get lots of horrendous travel content on Instagram these days, I do think if you see someone talking into a camera on a stick you are actually duty bound to scam them or run them over.