Get lost, The New Yorker - TREACLES is a word. "Not acceptable" - hmpf! #Shuffalo

#til The 1896 $5 bill was banned in Boston. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educati...

One of the best films I've seen in recent months.

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

The title of the parents WhatsApp group has already been changed from "3rd Class" to "4th Class" - we don't yet know who the teacher will be. They broke up on Friday! It's like resetting the football league tables for next season before the fixture list has been published.

28.6.2026 ➡️ 2 × 8 × (6 - 2 + 0) = 2 ^ 6 #CalendarMaths

Posted this before but I love it. Mel Brooks’s story about ghosting Cary Grant must have been told by Mel on every other talk show appearance he made, it was one of his standard “bits” but I especially like this version with Clive James. youtu.be/9QbATFlTaZs?...

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Croatia v Portugal The old men v The very old man #TheFootball

The Big Sexy Pirate and the lure of the sea(side) Avast, me hearty. #lufc

Late night 15 to somewhere quite close to home (Artane Roundabout) - yes please! #HotDublinBusChat

Two women on Richmond Street, both looking like Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is their fashion muse.

Boorish berk on this bus. The irritating voice coming out of him. (14, heading towards Rathmines.) #HotDublinBusChat

I imagine every renewable energy or carbon capture technology pitch starting with "ok, forget about the second law of thermodynamics for a minute"

One of my favourite moments back in Cork was seeing a young kid, maybe 8, clearly of African heritage looking at a City jersey. I asked him "Are you a Cork City fan?" and he looked at me in utter confusion and said in the thickest Norrie accent "'Course I am, you think I'd follow COBH like??!!"

So much to love about Pico waving the Irish flag, not least that he, a proud Irishman of African heritage and as Dublin as can be, embodies the kind of Irishness that the far right can't abide but is a thriving feature in communities across the island.

Wrong footed by a clue in the Guardian Mini, about a small Irish period film that I've seen. (Also: either remove the number of letters from the clues, or do them properly. I FEAR is not (5)!)

Oh. #TheCricket

LOCAL ANGLE. Pico Lopes's club gaffer calls him for an interview after the match last night. #TheFootball www.instagram.com/reel/DaEtaG7...

27.6.2026 ➡️ 2 × 7 = (6 × (2 ^ 0)) + 2 + 6 #CalendarMaths

Parseword #150 ⏱️ 1m45s ⭐️ No Assists ⚽ Secret Found That took a while to click - barrage of steps

Football pundits/journalists: Players have too many games! The pace is too much! And the heat the World Cup is being played in! Also football pundits/journalists: How DARE already qualified teams, facing a short turnaround to their next game, rest players? (clutches handbag) #TheFootball

ancient mesopotamian farmer i'm making watch the sheep detective: this flock is so healthy. so large. it's so beautiful. this future is wondrous me: yeah and it's a movie. that square on the wall is showing another world farmer: you already explained films. do not make me watch ghost of mars again

If the players don't buy into a coach's system, it's neither going to work nor the outcome be pretty. #TheFootball

For more on Brainwashing Executives, read @mrnikli.bsky.social ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/brainwa...

Gone to the cinema, to watch Supergirl at the IMAX. The air conditioning is a huge plus.

Well my Euromillions win was bigger than usual. €7

My version of this for how fast airplane technology developed? Orville Wright flew both the Wright Flyer and a Lockheed Constellation

basically every time you hear a mournful letter in a Ken Burns documentary as Ashokan Farewell gently plays, remember that AT THE SAME TIME back in London people were getting the Tube to work already.

The way I've gotten this across in talks to US audiences is to explain that by the time the Battle of Gettysburg was fought... ...the London Underground had already been open for six months.

Just (unfortunately) heard Richard Tice dismissing some thing on climate change that he hadn't read nor wouldn't understand. The interviewer should have immediately asked why anyone should vote for such an ignoramus.

'Mon Ireland! #TheCricket

It's all right. England will still be batting at the close. Which innings is anyone's guess. #TheCricket

9/9! quizquizquiz.com/friday/

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Parseword #149 ⚡️ 37s ⭐️ No Assists

26.6.2026 ➡️ 26 + 6 = 20 + (2 × 6) #CalendarMaths

Oh crikey. The air conditioning discourse has moved onto the not-at-all-not-even-half-underground London Underground.

Yes, I'm doing HMHB revision. The gig (all being well) is seven weeks today.

Topical? open.spotify.com/track/38FD5H...

Horror clowns ARE dickheads.

Rain! #OneWordWeather

Scotch egged. #TheFootball

My gran has cocktail sausages for when my dog visits. That’s sane.

Al Carns is a Tory. That’s not just ad hominem, it’s a fact. He voted Tory. He says Tory things. He excites the Daily Telegraph where he was a well received guest on their podcast recently. He’s a Tory. He stood for Labour as an opportunist… Tory.

Ouroboros 20XX

SWIM REPORT 64 lengths / 1.6km / 0.99 miles Doing (fairly) vigorous exercise somehow makes me feel the coolest I have all day Hot and bothered before and after Some minor lane shenanigans Flagging after 40 lengths So warm I bought a bottle of pop at the station Squeaky escalator at Tara Street

Just think how many New Zealand could have if England could be arsed to bowl at the required rate. #TheCricket

The New Zealand batsmen have run more than a mile and a quarter! #TheCricket