Always loved Paris-Nice, the white jersey of race leader back then. But reminded today why we invariably skipped the first few stages when reporting on the race - bleak weather and scenery on the early sprint stages. And a lot of loooong transfers between stages. Race to sun, indeed. Ha! Happy days.

Does anyone know what type of monitor this is?

Pogacar wins Strade Bianche, again. Another solo attack (79km!) leaving some of the world's best one-day riders floundering, helplessly, in his wake. And he won by over a minute in those awful white shorts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv0f...

A pioneer of autism research is asking us to rethink the diagnosis, only viewing as autistic those diagnosed in early childhood (usually before 3 or 5) with severe intellectual/language impairments. Everyone else with the label may be suffering from something else... www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Bob Hoskins on Super Mario Brothers: ‘I didn’t even know it was a game, my kids told me. ‘What are you doing next, dad?’ ‘Super Mario Brothers.’ ‘Oh, that’s a game.’ ‘What?’ And they showed me this thing jumping up & down. ‘This is you.’ And I thought: ‘I used to play King Lear.’

Worth a read. What a shit-sheet the Sun is. (OK, we knew this already, but still...)

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them. I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

What do you think, @wsj.com? Y'all dutifully falling in behind your commander-in-chief? Hail to the Chimp!

For anyone outside of the UK, unfamiliar with UK satirical/news magazine Private Eye, this is how most (?) Europeans see the Trump administration.

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others. It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

Is this clip not an outtake from 'Starship Troopers'? I want to know -- really -- who the audience for this speech is. Who listens to this and thinks 'Yeah, great, that's what we are all about'? Depressing doesn't come close.

Timeline clense

‘That’s the way it is’ Like a homicidal Bruce Hornsby

The best goal of the weekend was scored by Rangers striker Youssef Chermiti against Celtic. It was outrageously good (says this Celtic fan). But since its not on MOTD, all you'll see are pundits moaning about set-pieces in 'the Prem.' Some mad Teddy Bears fan will have uploaded it, if you fancy.

2/4 so far. Cool. Cool cool cool.

Reacting to Labour's devastating loss to the Green Party in Gorton and Denton, Keir Starmer claims that only Labour can unite communities. I agree. He convinced Muslims to vote for a white working class woman representing a party led by a gay Jewish man.

BBC Radio 4 'Today' programme Nick Robinson interviewing Green Party leader Zack Polanski, whose party just won the Gorton and Denton Westminster by-election with a majority of over 4,000. More than a whiff of disdain and incredulity from Robinson, shocked that voters supported a Green agenda. Ha.

He's like Chernenko or Yeltsin, an inept leader indulged by a corrupt court of followers. A befuddled old man wandering about -- with nuclear missile codes.

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I’m sure AI could have done this a lot slicker but I’ll make my own slop thank you very much

it's bleakly hilarious to have people complaining that using the word "nazi" to describe people calling for racial cleansing and forced breeding is "rendering the word meaningless," while supporters of the US government use the word "communist" to describe having a functioning healthcare system

Can you imagine what government leaders really think of Trump and his administration? Having to deal with someone so serially incompetent, never knowing what he'll do next, what illegal lunacy he's going to propose but having to play along? What a clown show.

Just got a 'new-to-me' car and am amazed that the default assumptions are that *obviously* I'll connect a phone to it, use Google voice commands, use a music streamer and am happy with a driver-facing camera in my dashboard. Seems like nobody gives a shit about privacy or data scraping anymore.

Prince Andrew is soooo fucked. (And, yes, still Prince Andrew. Born a prince, raised a prince, educated a prince, lived like a prince, as privileged and protected as a prince. Forever Prince Andrew)

NEW: JD Vance flew to Rome to formally invite Pope Leo XIV to join America’s 250th anniversary celebration. The first American pope has declined — days after rejecting President Trump’s “Board of Peace” invitation. On July 4, he’ll be in Lampedusa, standing with migrants.

So many things I will never buy.

Pizza is a sandwich

As of today, Dublin hasn’t had a day without rain since 1643

For the first 15 minutes it looked like Arsenal were going to run up a cricket score against Wolves. Then, as the game went on, they just looked knackered and bereft of ideas. A draw against the worst team in the Premiership is not what champions are made of. The job's fucked, again.

Got kicked out of the liberry again cuz a couple people complained about my therapy goose Insane Willie.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

We're always banging on about how 'the internet' has had a huge impact on us, economically and culturally. How about these stats though? Porn site 'OnlyFans' had 378 million users in 2025, more than the population of the US. And those millions spent US$7.2 Billion. Just one (big) porn site!

'Invasion of the giant Burrowing owls' Rated: PG. Eco-horror

A screengrab from a Reddit post isn't something I can verify - or even want to - but I want it to be true. So I am gleefully re-posting.

The Cardinal knows you know...

This is blackout poetry to me

Hard to imagine that Trump and his 'advisors' didn't anticipate these kinds of economic impacts. Can he really be that dim? Every day, some new idiocy. Aside: no way I'm going for a night out in any town when the National Guard, US Marines and ICE 'agents' are wandering about.

And that's fine if you have an investment portfolio but, since most Americans don't, it means nothing. Worse, in fact, those non-discretionary expenses like rent, food, fuel, are all going up, so you're experiencing a 'cost of living crisis' as Trump tells everyone the US economy is doing great.

Regret to report that those pencil-necked desk jockeys at the council have not been at it at all.

Apparently the combined investment in A.I. of Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon is projected to be $650 Billion this year alone. Moody's projects that $3 trillion will be spent on A.I. infrastructure in the next five years. What credible business plan could see a return on that spend? None.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I really shouldn’t have to say this, but… don’t put archaeological artifacts in your rectum. 🏺🧪

In another era, Altman would be selling quack medicines, sideshow bearded ladies and offering to sell you London bridge. I mean 'we basically built Artificial General Intelligence' is just...bullshit.

It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵

Bankrolling the propaganda film Melania while at the same time slashing international reporting pretty much sums up why we are where we are.

I'm starting to suspect Peter Mandelson is not such a great guy.

A little bit of solidarity among colleagues would go a long way to exposing a bully, a liar and a fraud. If only...

I enjoyed reading this column, which somehow blames Keir Starmer for the result of an employment tribunal following laws passed under the Tory government regarding an incident and suspension that took place before the last election.

Report: More Americans Forced To Make Ends Meet By Turning To Alchemy https://theonion.com/report-more-americans-forced-to-make-ends-meet-by-turning-to-alchemy/

Just 77 hours? No stops?