A hearty fuckedy-bye to cursed lego minifig Wes Streeting.

In this week's Techsoc movie, I ask if it's possible to make a profit on overall sales by offering a desirable product at less than our cost. We hope this offer, called a loss leader, will bring enough customers into our store to make a net profit. youtu.be/Q5hKLjYg6X8

Hearing there's going to be a big push under Burnham on British soft power in Southeast Asia. HUGE Foreign office push. State visits etc. First up is Laos with Ed Miliband.

I like to think he's done this to make political journalists look stupid, and honestly I admire it.

Peter Kirsch is one of the most prolific (and unknown) game authors to write adventures. This is his 16th game for my blog. bluerenga.blog/2026/07/20/d...

UMA! UMA! UMA! Join me on stream, live from the anime horse girl paddock, as we train some horse girls and chat random history stuff. What better way to spend a Monday afternoon? #umamusume twitch.tv/gariusthebrit

What's a slot pair worth at LaGuardia? About $11 million. That's what JetBlue agreed to pay to Spirit's debtors to snag 11 r/t operations at the New York City airport ($58.5mm for 22 slots; 2 slots needed for each flight). Frontier offered $1mm less. #AvGeek #$JBLU #$ULCC

RIP Keggy. Football has lost a genuine legend who always wore his heart on his sleeve.

Both the UK and Canada are now led by Everton Fans. London is led by a Liverpool fan. New York is led by an Arsenal fan.

okay, i think everyone on here needs a nap..you're all getting cranky. bedrooms please, and leave your phones downstairs. if you can't sleep, then lay down and read a book quietly. i'll give you all a wake-up shout in about 45 minutes. NO ARGUING. Just do it. This isn't a democracy.

Dragonite

Just gone live at OnLondon, Tim Donovan's interview with Mark Blake, Green Party leader of Haringey Council: www.onlondon.co.uk/tim-donovan-... #london @haringeycp.bsky.social @haringeygreens.bsky.social #haringey #greenparty

Off to do a talk about Tales of the Suburbs in Aylsham in Norfolk tomorrow, with the Book Hive. Do come along if you're about x www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-grind...

Also the moon has never won the Ashes. CHECKMATE, MOON

worth noting the reason restaurants and food chains in the UK are serious about allergies is because when someone died from this we sent the company CEO to jail. Amazing how quickly that focused c-suite minds.

We joke around a lot about our British friends on this app but you really have to admire their commitment to changing their leader when everybody fucking hates them

Clive Myrie just reassured BBC viewers that this is a "peaceful transfer of power", which I'm sure will come as a relief to everyone.

NO LECTERN. NO LECTERN ALERT. CHAOS. CHAOS OF THE KIND ED COULD ONLY DREAM OF.

I have had four reasonably hefty old metal-framed dining chairs out the front of my house now for 3 days. They have yet to disappear into a scrapper's van. Very disappointing. Hopefully Burnham will sort this.

The best episodes of Time Team are the ones where Tony Robinson keeps joyously shouting "slaaaaaaaag"

Twenty four years ago, the regional jet Fairchild Dornier 728 was launched as a base model for what was hoped would become an innovative airliner family. The dream never became reality www.dw.com/en/rememberi...

Back at work today and am very pleased to see my discussion about the Firearm Revolution out on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast:

senior male academics giving a conference paper, after being shown the "one more minute" sign

As the #Revolution broke out and turned to Terror, British citizens living in France found themselves transformed from friends of liberty to an enemy within. ⌛️ Last chance to read this article for free buff.ly/nqDmLHq

I wrote a short biography of Jessie Montgomery for this Prom, she's so cool. Should be a great night

Every new PM is a tabula rasa, on to which people who could probably do with getting a bit more fresh air project their own version of What The New PM Should Be. The gap between taking office and disappointing the people they can't possibly make happy gets shorter and shorter.

This Saturday!

This was the plot of a terrible one-season 90s BBC sitcom, which was a quasi-remake of Passport to Pimlico. You know what else was meant to be a Passport to Pimlico remake? Waynes World 2. But Mike Myers discovered at the last minute the studio had lied to him, and hadn't secured the rights.

Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.

Argentina.

Right. Glad that's over. Going to stick on some Time Team to purge my brain of a World Cup that somehow felt more grim than the Russia and Qatar ones.

I can understand why that Argentina side were pissed off after full time. You would be too if Infantino had promised you the win.

Argentina about as laboured and effective in that game as a Vulcan bomber attacking Port Stanley.

Where's your Malvinas banner now, ya little slugs.

Absolutely thrilled to win our first Aerospace Media Award — in our very first year — for one of our #accessibility features. Like all our accessibility work, we make it available free to read for everyone, and thank our subscribers enormously for their support. theupfront.media/disabled-pas...

To bring home the award in our core category, against stiff competition, in our first year, on a topic both @garius.bsky.social and I think is so important to cover… this one means a whole lot.

When you didn't die at the Viking Battle Festival

Magic the Gathering, obviously.

The movie "The Odyssey" is great. But if this was 1992, we would all be listening to the Bryan Adams power ballad hit "Making My Way to You (love theme from "The Odyssey")

STREAM TIME! It was late when they woke her. "Your majesty..." "That's my mother" The 13 year old princess of Poland interrupted, sleepily. "Not anymore." Her lady said, sadly. "It is you, Queen Noroava." Join me for CK3! twitch.tv/gariusthebrit

So Skeggeh is Nottingham's little slut, is what I'm hearing.

Just finished listening, it was very interesting hearing those two talk about Robin Hood and the origins/cultural background! Highly recommend! (Glad I found the Untitled History Podcast, there is so much to do in my flat, & I need interesting audio to motivate me!)

Your Sunday will be brightened by watching just the first 30 seconds of this, I swear.

biiiiiig snooze

I didn't expect this video to do amazing, but its bombing harder than I thought it would. If you can; please give it a share, it would mean a lot to me <3 I think it's some of my best writing, especially my sections on episodes 4 and 5.

Extradition to the UK. Should be interesting.

We can all cackle but this is important and should be celebrated: The final day of the Far Right CPAC conference with Liz Truss and Aus’ Pauline Hanson speaking had just 100 people in the audience.

IT IS TIME The man looked up from his beach chair. "Really?" He said. "I've only just retired." Death held up a timer. A single grain was about to fall. And then... It didn't. CURIOUS Vetinari shrugged. "I've only just discovered drinks with little umbrellas. I'll let it fall in a bit" 1/17