Whenever Newsom is on I just see the 80s guy from Futurama

I quite like this because The Crown was the first TV show I've seen which had absolutely no sympathetic characters and the same would have to be true of any show about Man Utd

If I had any entrepreneurial spirit, I'd setup a company entirely devoted to cleaning up messes that have been made by other companies unthinkingly adopting AI. There's money in that kind of troubleshooting www.ft.com/content/c894...

I still don't understand how a roomful of British people responded to "I've been trained by the FBI" with credulous awe and wonderful rather than "and my dad was taught karate by Bruce Lee." She's been so lucky in her opponents www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The guy who's mired in scandal surrounding the use of public money in his touchstone Redcar steelworks policy. Reform doubling down on recruiting the most questionable Tories they can find

Full on Grandpa Simpson

Victim blaming

The people who said it would give the US access to needed resources should have be asked to name those resources

Norway should just setup something like this for Trump

Serious belt-tightening in a country with UK levels of inequality carries a risk of huge social unrest

It will be quite the turnaround for the UK when it becomes a US colony under Prime Minister Farage

Brooklyn Beckham: it's time to address the shadowy shape that's difficult to photograph in the room

Todd Boehly is already running down the A23 with £80m in a wheelbarrow

Putin might almost be insulted at just how easy it is to play Trump. All that time spent learning to be a master manipulator and then you finally get what you want by just dangling some keys in front today the US president's face

Looking at the Premier League table this morning and found myself wondering if any team is playing well this season. I don't mean getting good results, but playing good football. It's all just a bit crap. I think it's just too many games for quite a lot of clubs that are also in Europe

Leaving 36 year old Trippier on for 96 mins was quite a choice. Especially as he was down to walking pace by the 70th minute, and he wasn't a lot quicker from the first minute #nufc

One is using his power to install more public toilets in a city, the other is using their power to enrich himself to the tune of billions of dollars and enabling a gang of thugs to kill US citizens with impunity. These are equivalent

MPs that defect during a parliamentary term should do the decent thing and face a by-election. If they really do think that voters vote for the individual and not the party, they should have no fear of seeking re-election

It would be nice to have a Batman film that's fun in some way

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The next stage of cringe is when the White House website is updated to call him the Peace Prize winner and all his toadies then have to repeat it in front of TV cameras. This will happen

Reform? Tories?

Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...

I think the most likely and consequential course of action for Europe is the closure of US military bases on the continent. It would significantly diminish the US as a global power

Lol, not even trying to hide the grift

Notice the limitation - this only applies to the @ Grok X account, not the ‘Grok Imagine’ tool which is where the full nudes and hardcore video are being generated. Media - be sure you ask about Grok Imagine specifically.

Wes Streeting has just said on BBC that the guiding principle of the government going forward will be GIRFT (get it right first time) and I think they should have spent a few more minutes workshopping that acronym before announcing it on TV

People got so mad Daenerys torched that city lol

A really good piece and a corrective to the idea that AI work is easy to spot. Maybe a few years ago, not today. I think it's inevitable that journal editing becomes more of a curative role in future, which also has problems (networks, gatekeeping, etc). It may be the least bad solution

That's a ridiculous offside. No wonder fans hate VAR #nufc

A sector being held together by little more than hope

The transfer window is so dead that Romano is having to do a Here We Go for Man Utd appointing a caretaker manager

One for Luke @footballramble.bsky.social

The government is moving from expression of concern to mild rebuke. By the end of the week, they might deploy a senior civil servant to issue a "steady on, old boy"

Since there's been an influx of new users on Bluesky I made a starter pack of accounts I find witty and insightful:

It's fascinating and disturbing to see how the British media are going out of their way to placate the Trump admin on this. I'm not sure if they're feeling cowed or they're serving a primarily US audience now

But what about Indonesia's reach? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Trump: "All you have to do is say to China, how many windmill areas do you have in China? So far they're not able to find any." China:

Love that it's Ric all the way down (near enough)

Alternative headline: Elon Musk's X charges users $8 per month to produce sexually explicit images

This can be stopped almost instantaneously. But X has decided that there needs to be a tool out there that creates CSAM and governments should be asked why they think it's OK to allow it to continue

An interesting place in the Netherlands is Baarle-Nassau/Baarle-Hertog. There's a bunch of Belgian exclaves there that are full of fireworks shops that, I imagine, will become even busier

How is this better? Politicians shouldn't be allowed to use this as a reason to not act

Exactly the same vibe youtu.be/FE_DF2-H_T0?...

The BBC is pissing away its credibility, and for what?

Christ. Imagine being the Cambridge spokesperson and coming up with the bullshit about reverse discrimination against private school pupils. A good day's work there, really earning that salary www.theguardian.com/education/20...

It's a difficult world without allies, even for America