"Aussie boys are on a bender! Donald Trump is a sex offender!"

I so respect ppl who just ask questions when they don't know a thing. to answer, I can think of no better way to explain Diego Maradona than to quote @rincewind.run "that little cocaine gremlin might be the most talented person to ever touch a ball"

this is a good question, and I don't know the answer. any biz historians out there?

Nigel Farage £5 million 'gift' from a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it was money laundering. The whistleblowers alerted the NCA as they were "not satisfied they could trace the ultimate origin of the funds."

I repeat: British Neo-Nazis in the 1990s turned to the ‘racial separatist homeland’ model because they were disillusioned by electoral politics and viewed the ideal vision of mass deportations and racial purification as a dead end. Thirty years later it is now back on the menu and we should ask why.

Our fantastic pickets this morning and afternoon 💗✊🏻💗 The number of students and parents thanking staff on the pickets for their dedicated hard work as lecturers and support staff AND for fighting against the cuts made us a bit teary. Thank you for all your support #StopTheCuts

"Emergency podcasts, sir. Thousands of 'em"

I am beginning to wonder if the modern UK is something invented by Irish politicians to make them look good.

Have I got this right? Privately educated Farage (Dulwich), recipient of gifts from Cottrell (privately educated, Malvern, descendent of titled aristocracy (Baron Manton, Baron Hesketh)) and from Harborne (privately educated, Westminster) is standing in a “people vs the establishment” by-election?

So Farage got a free 30-minute advert on the BBC. No journalist will do any checking of any of his claims, and it doesn't matter, anyway, because he's already used all broadcast media to get his message out.

People who say they live in places that are like communist countries did not live in communist countries

Your clue that this is a resignation speech for American donors is the line about the fact that people can't wear watches or jewellery in London.

Saying you're the "most physically attacked" MP when two MPs have been killed in the last decade is just horribly self-absorbed.

Farage is going full Brecht (or perhaps better, Amis) now: 'Making money is not a crime.'

Hearing rumours that Nigel Farage has embraced the light of Islam and quoted the Shahada live on air.

Oh, piss off, you odious, money-grubbing toad 🤬

Hmm. I can think of one Labour minister who ‘made’ money the same way as Big Nige, i.e accepting it from richer men. Unfortunately his name is Peter Mandelson.

"I will make a statement on my future in public life at 2pm."

FÓGRA. This is just on the off-chance. Would anyone who follows me have a cheap foreign property to rent over the winter?

Third university in Bath.

'In 2023-24, the average salary for a new graduate placed through the Norland Agency within the UK was just under £58,000, nearly double the average graduate starting salary of £30,030.' That's a Gold in the new TEF then.

Oh also, at a Southampton v Brighton testimonial *both* sets of fans singing "we hate Pompey more than you"

I went to Southampton v Leicester in the 01-02 season when Leicester were relegated while their new stadium was being built Saints fans: "We'll never see your new ground"

Dutch fans v Germany: "Giiiiiive uuuuus our bicycles back, give us our bicycles back, give us our bikes, give us our bicycles back..." (The Nazis confiscated Dutch bikes to melt down for Messerschmidts.)

Irish fans v England, 1990: "we don't pay no poll tax, we don't pay no poll tax, la-lah-la-la, la-lah-la-la."

also i'm p sure the battle actually happened in fairview, which is maybe the first instance of people adjacent to clontarf listing their property as clontarf to up the resale value

for the england match it's time for irish people to grow up a little and get over the performative hatred of an old enemy it's ancient history at this stage, we're kinda related to a bunch of them too so the posturing that so we're different is a bit crass let's put the viking raids behind us 💙🇳🇴❤️

Bluesky this morning:

I always like the "we forgot that you were here" chant when the other side finally get going with some chants. Or the "Is this a library" chant when the away fans are singing but the home fans aren't.

What the hell is this? They should have lost by 30.

Apparently karma puts mayonnaise on its fries…

Australian fans chant at World Cup match with US: “We get to go home, you’re stuck here” (reported by NYTimes) says more than a hundred surveys of public perceptions of life in US

Hang it in the Musée Magritte.

Obviously it’s immensely satisfying to see pictures of Ronaldo crying, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that he’ll still be crying off camera in the dressing room and possibly in his hotel room and maybe even on the flight home

"We've been acting like absolute cunts for the last few years, why's everyone thrilled we got beat?"

One thing that I suspect is now going to happen is that universities will realise how many academics have been self-funding research when less of it starts to appear.

That time Sinead O’Connor went in disguise to join a Sinead O’Connor protest

Sport against fascism.

'Some things are bigger than football': Pico Lopes says Israel-Ireland games shouldn't go ahead jrnl.ie/7093581

Delicious

Níl aon Tintin mar do Thintin féin.

Removing Florida was not necessary, but it was satisfying.

The facade is cracking

Click bait racist bullshit from the Times/Chris Philp. 12 Cameroonians did not sponsor 15 dependants each. 12 new work visas were issued to Cameroonians. 180 visas were issued to dependants of the (many thousands of) Cameroonians *already here*. Etc. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Also, when the NHS completely ceases to function under our next, likely Reform, government I will remind people that it was actually Labour who did this by actively choosing not to fund universities.

Also, if you boo the manager, he can’t just have you legally declared supporters of terrorism and arrested en masse

I don’t ever ever ever ever want to hear one more ignorant person saying “hurp durp more vocational training”. If nursing ain’t that then nothing is. This Labour government do not want our young people educated. Period.

Bribes in the form of "small gifts" you say?