Every day trying to take positive steps towards health, productivity and creativity. I am trying very hard to go into my 40s as the best version of myself that I have ever been and I don't know that I have ever felt more confident.

Please not De Zerbi. Please not De Zerbi. Please not De Zerbi 🤞

Also it is so fucking weird to read takes about how Frank being shit and a poor choice means it was also wrong to sack Ange. Those things are not linked. Ange deserved the boot, his replacement being shit doesn’t invalidate that.

I spent so much of the early parts of this season telling folks that Frank was a sensible if unexciting appointment and that given time performances would improve after tightening things up. This is worse than I could have imagined. I’ve only watched one match fully since early December.

Tottenham will forever be the funniest team to support. We are ridiculous.

The Boss always delivers.

'Blue Monday' is apparently the most depressing day of the year. I was lucky enough to find out today that a job application process I've been through for around three months has today progressed to the stage of a conditional offer. Very excited for this year!

It’s been clear for a while now that Thomas Frank wasn’t going to work but I did think there was little point in changing things until the summer. This is no longer tenable. There are issues with the squad, sure, but this style of play with nobody pass forward is unbearable and unforgivable. Cheerio

To quote Jamie Lenman “Christmas is awesome”

love is a verb a patient, accepting, outward-facing, inclusive verb

Three player Slay the Spire today with Shane and Jose. We defeated Act 2 and paused there to continue another day #boardgames

Daughter and I played Hot Streak and Magical Athlete back to back last night. Her review was "I like Hot Streak more as it's fun and the racers are cool looking. Magical Athlete was frustrating and some of the powers made my head hurt. Also dad is dumb" #boardgames

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

A comic book won't harass you for 10 minutes to buy access to DLC, or flood you with ads that prevent you from enjoying the thing you actually bought. Neither will an older gaming system. This is bigger than a retro trend, it's at least in part a rejection of enshitification. Good.

The mismanagement and missed opportunities at Tottenham over the last seven years are shocking. We were one push away from being a top team back in 2016-2018.

Gross

It's a fundamental rule of Sunday League that if your goalkeeper is MOTM, the rest of the team has had a terrible game.

Hahahahahaha www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

Spend the evening playing the 1961 championship season solo in Heat. I finished 2nd, 5th and 2nd to take place 2nd overall in the championship. #boardgames

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

Let’s do it for Jane.

It’s my birthday this weekend so we cracked open a game we haven’t played in nearly seven years. Five player Battlestar Galactica. A stupidly expensive game these days but so much fun.

I know a lot of people won’t click through to read about “med beds” so here’s the crucial quote to explain how fucking crazy this is. Trump just posted an AI video of himself promising every American access to this.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

This playlist being classed dad rock is really making me feel my age.

Look, I absolutely detest Charlie Kirk and his appalling opinions, but I extend to him and his family all the courtesy that he has denied others and hope he recovers. Shooting people in cold blood is bad. Always. Evil and bad. And none of us want to live in a world where that's celebrated.

I don’t really understand the FlashScore app’s commitment to being the last bastion of brilliantly terrible tabloid-style pun headlines… but why not.

The only difference with North Korea is that the ghoulish sycophants are multi billionaires.

Today’s gaming was a two player day with Jose. Sky Team, Renegade, and 7th Continent

I try not to be too alarmist or share too much bummer stuff on here, but this is where we’re at now.

The narrative that rightly pointed out how sparsely attended the 'day of rage' was at the weekend missed the point IMHO. It's not about the numbers on the streets (though the images themselves will frighten those whom the actions are aimed at) but what they symbolise and represent: that conman>>>

A good day of board games with friends. Karuba, Bomb Busters, Heat, and Arcs.

The NHS is a wonderful thing. I had a relatively minor surgery today under general anaesthetic. The most amazing, friendly, helpful collection of multicultural staff. I hope we never lose this amazing service.

Mo Salah you had my respect, now, you have my love. What a great quote repost

Today we played Flip 7, Arcs, Bomb Busters, Rebirth, Rolling Realms, and King of 12.

Got some friends coming over from Bournemouth today for a day of board games. Wearing my Sonny shirt.

“Let’s say I am a legend”

exactly one player in the xG era attempted over 1000 shots and had a better scoring record against xG than Messi Son Heung-Min the greatest to ever kick the ball real hard at the goal

He stayed when others walked away. Players are temporary but this guy clearly loves our club just as much as we do. Could have won so much more in his career but instead he gave his prime to us, eventually getting his reward in Bilbao. The exit is perfectly handled and he will go down as a legend.

Getting a car that has its MOT due at the start of the summer holidays every year was a terrible idea 😭

An evening of two player games with Shane last night. We landed the plane in Sky Team, saved a giant tortoise in Leviathan Wilds, and then Shane ran rings around me in Arcs.

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

After getting home from the cinema here’s #letterboxdfriday

Anyone got any secret tips for how to not feel constantly sick when taking penicillin?

Arsenal’s leadership, Arteta and a portion of Arsenal fans have acted appallingly and cowardly with regards to Partey but I don’t think that it does any service to the victims to claim that it’s a unique facet of them as a club.