Still smiling from David O'Doherty @phlaimeaux.bsky.social last night. I've seen him four times now and he is still a hero of mine, my spirit animal, a peak seldom revealed amid the wisps, the pinnacle of something all but ungraspable

I bet Farage never even goes to the Manor of Northstead once

My son and I workshopped this alternative US national anthem (tune: My Country Tis Of Thee) 🎵🎵🎵 God save our president Our greatest resident Or so he says Picked democratically Acting erratically Tweets very emphatically God save the pres 🎆🇺🇸🎉🎈🥂🍾🎆

I've got a soft spot for Egypt since I went to see them play Japan in the Olympics. Excellent fans. Come on Egypt tonight!

Chris Sutton on fire here: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Did Mexico refuse to let the England trumpet guy into the country or did the Azteca just drown him out. Either way, maximum respect to the great nation of Mexico. Imagine that occasion with the Great Escape stinking it up

Jordan Henderson yellow card and stretchered off the pitch after falling over a hoarding. Hasn’t played a minute. Heroic.

Watching England lose is the Stilton of football.

Lovely following the BBC and Guardian coverage of Serena. I didn't know such generosity still existed in the world

If the man's offside it's just cruel to let him shoot before putting the flag up. Either he thinks he's scored when he hasn't, or he has the anguish of missing before being told there was no point anyway. Just awful psychologically.

Enjoying Charli XCX's new Wet Leg direction so far

Is it Ivory Coast on BBC but Cote d'Ivoire on ITV?

A point will definitely get Scotland through. Failing that, so long as they don't get thumped, seven out of the eleven other third places could plausibly end up worse than them so they wouldn't need to be all that lucky.

Sorry guys, Cristiano's mum drives the minibus and she says he still has to play. Please try to pass to him occasionally

Weird, I thought this idiom was specific to wrestling fans, parodying Vince Russo. Who are the non-wrestling bro-sayers?

Now yes, some of the teams who didn't get through would feel hard done by. But if you don't finish top 2 you leave it to chance anyway. I'd love to see federations putting tons of effort into the kit, lobbying their govts to change the anthem etc to maximise their chances

Instead of messing about with the 8 best 3rd place teams, there should be 8 wild cards awarded for different things among the 3rd and 4th places 1 Most points, GD etc 2 Best goal 3 Best kit 4 Best anthem 5 Congeniality award 6 Fan vote 7 Worst VAR injustice 8 Shakira's choice #WorldCup

Return to four- and five-episode mini-stories so you can actually get to know a place and characters and have some sort of idea what is happening

I thought this must be someone having some larks with Wikipedia but I went and watched the video and

Update on this crossword - for some reason I've decided to try and make all the clues rhyme with each other. Could be a while here

Thanks for all the reposts!

Keep it quiet but UNCH ISSUE FOUR PRE-SALES ARE OPEN NOW unchcrosswords.com#shop

Made a grid for a crossword with one of those "black out some letters" endgames. Song theme. Barred. Lots of clues to write though

Hey cool, they're finally playing Shoaib Bashir #cricket 🏏

RIP to John Blanche, the best to ever do it. Before Warhammer was even Warhammer he understood what it was: weird, gross, unsettling, maximalist.

Infinite Jest is OK but it would have been so much better if DFW hadn't been such a David Lynch fan. Dial back the Lynchianness about 85% and you have a much breezier experience, with the invention and prescience and ambition and insight intact.

Three generations of fans agree that Shaggy is a one-hit wonder. But... IT'S NOT THE SAME HIT 🫨

Cartoonists frantically trying to get a handle on any distinguishing feature of Wes Streeting

For some reason I was keen on the idea of buying some osmium, until I found out it smells and the smell is really bad and its name means "really bad smelling metal"

Murun Buchstanzangur episode where Murun is watching minute by minute updates on an unfolding political story. Nigel Clark comes round

How about a cryptic crossword themed around a horse? Would ideally suit cryptic crossword fan who also likes horses. greengrocergames.uk/xwrds/notsos... #crossword #horse

Watched Attack of the Clones with the family. Realised that when I originally went to the midnight showing, I must have slept through all but three scenes.

First Past The Post is a terrible name that doesn't describe the system. Much better and more accurate would be One Round, One Vote, One Winner (or "Nazi Vote" for short)

Night Boat To Cairo Rumble In The Jungle 4th Chamber Alley Cats Angel Interceptor Finisterre I Love You Set You Free Danza Kuduro Get Miles

made you a crossword

Here's a new cryptic crossword to have a go at if you have a spare half an hour. There's a quotation to find, a fun theme and a clue about a dog. #crossword greengrocergames.uk/xwrds/mercur...

They should have just sent a duke or earl as an ambassador. Any current duke or earl would have impressed Trump and got on fine with him. Probably run rings round him as well.

Seeing a theory that Trump may have been advised to say the Jesus picture was "doctored". Misunderstood and ended up with "I am a doctor"

Let's take a look at the rankings after AEW Dynasty. MEN'S SINGLES: MJF isn't *that* far behind Moxley now, but they really need to face each other for MJF to be properly established as champ. Darby Allin looks a bit marginal for a contender but will scrape into #2 if he wins on Wednesday.

Been thinking about this for a day and I don't really agree. Yes most people watched it for the jokes, but the jokes don't land unless they're anchored to proper characters. The heart isn't the reason for its success but it created the necessary conditions.

Fears of super intelligent hostile Chat GPT are basically Zack from the Big Bang Theory "How do we know it won't blow up the moon?"

Bitcoin price is currently a battle between newer meme bots who want it to be $67067 and legacy bots that are still trying to make it $69420 #bitcoin #hodl

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The royal visit must now go ahead. Trump and the King are both big pen guys apparently. 👑🖊️ #godsavehispens

New archbishop omitting "and the son" from the creed. I thought that controversy was settled 1000 years ago? For the record it does proceed from both

Agent Z and the Penguin From Mars

Making a banger playlist of all the responses to this. Some real gems in there that I'd forgotten about

o mark zuckerberg tipo e se a gente lançar o negócio mais INSUPORTÁVEL do mundo e mudar o nome da empresa

Meta is going to be like Chandler that time. "I have no name!"

Explored what one of the AIs can do. It makes wrong or pedestrian suggestions, listens to my better ideas and tells me they're really good. Basically what some ppl think the dynamic between Trey Parker and Matt Stone is. Valuable to some I'm sure, but equally achievable with a pet or a teddy bear.