I cannot believe the NEC has chosen Civil War. #LetHimStand www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Imagine being in Tim Lovejoy's brain. Just the worst type of indie lad-rock and memories of Chelsea games from 1982 over and over and over and over.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

I’m really quite surprised at the BBC website today. ‘Here is a video, some people say it does not show what it very obviously shows’ is not how you report this.

This World Cup and Olympics have to be boycotted.

Can't hold a World Cup in a country where the dictator's secret police are executing peaceful protesters in the streets.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

And there we are

#Boro #UTB Head "Never fall in love with loan players" Heart:-

Interesting team that. Back 3, Castledine starts, McGree and Brittain (!) on the bench. #Boro #UTB

🎵❤️ Great to hear Steel River is here to stay on a #Boro matchday 🧣 Red Faction: 'From Saturday and moving forward, we'd like all four stands with scarves aloft, belting out this anthem made by one of our own' www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/257933...

Here ya go. Enjoy Cats vs Bears😂😂😂

Funny how all the lamppost flag shaggers and the year-round Poppy patrol have gone very quiet while Trump is literally slandering Britain's war dead...

The AI GPUs are not something that can be repurposed for gaming, for many reasons starting with "no video out" and ending with "the amount of power and cooling they need". They're giant-sized and even the 8-GPU pods are $400k+ bsky.app/profile/mcda...

I love Stephen. The face of a doomed WW1 officer and the wardrobe of John Travolta. #thetraitors

This is so upsetting

Thirsty, needy, whiner Robbie Williams naming his album "Britpop" has tied the 2026 irony awards with The "Board of Peace" containing wanted war criminals and it's still January.

Essential thread

When television was bombarding you with stuff like this on a daily basis, being a parent in the 1970s and 80s must have been anxiety inducing.

Specky get Josh Widdicombe currently on Five Live outlining his plans for a podcast pillaging eighties cultural content from @tftimemachine.bsky.social - surprised the limp laugh-free plagiarist hasn’t turned up with an Argos catalogue.

I stand by Kate's Rule: if a law is named after a specific individual, especially if it's a dead child, it's a bad law.

Why hasn't uncloaked showed us the Roxy Reveal? That's the only reason any of us watch this smug, self satisfied crap. #TheTraitors

When he finally dies, the detrumpification process will need to be extremely far-reaching and aggressive. It can't be just asset confiscations and mass firings, they will have to build new prisons to hold all the guilty.

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Hellberg knows what he's doing. Let Him Cook. #Boro #UTB

What a super player Alan Browne is #Boro #UTB

An asteroid impact on Davos could solve an awful lot of the world's problems right about now x

They’re going to Weekend-at-Bernie’s Trump, aren’t they. Hegseth ruffling his hair from behind; Vance smushing his cheeks to make it look like he’s saying “sausages”.

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

Thanks to @wychstreet.bsky.social sending me down a rabbit hole this morning - I'm going in S1 E1. #Cheers!

I can’t excited about Brooklyn Beckham & that whole saga. It’s sad & funny in equal measure but it shows all the money in the world doesn’t buy you happiness, love or family unity. My friend has 4 months to live & wants to hold on to see her daughter turn 18. So the Beckhams can go to hell.

"America has adopted Putinism as its modus operandi for foreign affairs. So tell me: Why would America not also adopt Putinism in its domestic affairs?" Read @jvl.bsky.social's latest Triad, only @thebulwark.com. Warning: it's dark. www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-th...

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I... Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

I was less interested in the joint warning from Cupich, McElroy, and Tobin because they could be called, in the sense of the church, liberals. Broglio, Archbishop of the Military Services, is conservative. Telling troops it is morally acceptable to disobey going to Greenland is something.

i would like every commissioning editor to call the people who praised trump before/after the last election and ask them to write, "i was wrong about trump, this is why. also, i will be shutting up forever and getting a real job" the second part of this is non-negotiable.

"If we are to be crushed - then we'll be crushed gloriously!" King Albert of Belgium, 1914.

NOT TODAY

From an actual Nobel Prize Winner - @pkrugman.bsky.social - and a good explanation of "Sundowning"; a phrase many of us will soon be familiar with.

The time for sane-washing is surely over.

"He said he wanted to see the UK give up its nuclear weapons, saying he would try to persuade other nuclear-armed countries – including Russia – to do the same." What an optimistic fellow.

An excellent documentary just dropped youtu.be/utyn2R6q0VE?... #Boro

A thousand times this. If we want to take defence spending from circa 2.5% of GDP to circa 3.5-4% of GDP the question isn’t “how do we pay for it?”. That’s the easy bit - a combination of taxes and borrowing. The real question is about real resources and what do we want to do less of?

Simply put: I am in control of the world's largest and most powerful military. And because I didn't get a prize for making peace, I feel entitled to consider going to war with a longtime ally. This man is mentally ill. That is not hyperbole. He's sick. He must be removed from power immediately.

Absolutely in favour of this.

Today's statement is the fruit of the dynamic I wrote about a fortnight ago - too many people in government are in denial about how big a part of this premiership foreign policy is going to be and therefore they send unhelpful signals to public, Parliament, and the press.

He simply does not need to mention Trump *at all*, because literally everyone alive knows that is A Big Change in the world. But they do not know that we are in a hybrid war, and they do not know how much more we are gonna have to spend.

How can there still be 11 days left of this month?

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.