The surgeon who operated on Joel Embiid’s knees should get an All-NBA spot.

The hospital where Lucy Letby worked was infected with the same waterborne bug linked to deaths at a scandal-hit hospital in Glasgow, it has emerged. archive.ph/2026.01.27-1...

❤️‍🩹 devastating. Hope he makes a full recovery. A singular player with one of the more unique stories to make it to the French national team.

Scottish court approves legal challenge to UK's Palestine Action ban Campaigners say the move could see the ban's reversal in Scotland, triggering a 'constitutional crisis' www.middleeasteye.net/news/court-a...

Wait, how am I just finding out that 66% of Israelis have an allergy to olive tree pollen? Even the land is even rejecting you.

"As evidence, the lawsuit cites unnamed "courageous whistleblowers" who allege that WhatsApp and Meta employees can request to view a user's messages through a simple process, thus bypassing the app's end-to-end encryption."

Outstanding article from my friend Lucyl Harrison in @theconversation.com today. 'Human character changed in December 2019, when SARS-CoV-2 was discovered and the COVID pandemic began in earnest'. theconversation.com/on-being-ill...

Missed a trick when we didn't call a built building a buildone.

"UK loses WHO status as measles-free after rise in deaths and fall in jab uptake." "UN health body says Britain is 1 of 6 countries in Europe and central Asia where disease has become re-established" www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Volume Loss in the Mammillary Bodies, Fornix, and Other Papez Circuit Structures in Fighters with Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome. #cte #tbi #concussion journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Twelfth seed just murdered Sixers.

I do not say this lightly when I tell you, as a proud Scot, that this is the funniest thing Keir Starmer has ever done.

Iran football great Ali Karimi leads call for Infantino to speak up on protest deaths

If you like Aperol Spritzes, you're a liar.

Historians! Putting a plea out for suggestions of digital projects that foreground Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic histories?

"Wales". 😭😭😭

Yes, Alex Pretti and Renee Good is horrific but ICE has killed 9 people in 2026. ICE has killed a Black man named Keith Porter, a Cambodian, Parady La, and five Latinos named Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.

CONFIRMED: ITV secures exclusive Nations Championship TV rights for the UK. The broadcaster has also secured the rights to the Summer Nations Series in 2027 and the July Internationals and Autumn Nations Series in 2029. In total ITV will show at least 124 games as part of the deal.

This is a great guide on how you can help support protestors even if you live outside of Minnesota. Note, especially, the bit about Ring cameras. "Ring partners with Flock, which gives information to law enforcement (without a warrant), including ICE."👇 naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

This is your reminder Savannah needs our help to stop the NHS starving her to death. Please email the hospital she is in. Details in post below www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/... #mecfs #pwME #GreatestMEdicalScandal

Even if Alex Pretti wasn’t a kind, harmless ICU nurse with no criminal record and a penchant for helping people and animals, he still didn’t deserve to be murdered by government agents. No one does.

tinyurl.com/yvy86yta Team doctors cleared Allen of a #concussion earlier in the game, and he was also seen grimacing in pain after bringing his throwing hand down on a teammate's helmet.

No, your dad left a review for a small plates place with "not much food, you don't expect to leave a place only having had just bites of things".

"I got COVID in hospital — my kidneys started to back up, you know, everything that started that could, all seemed to converge at the same time.” Music legend Phil Collins on getting Covid, opens up in new interview consequence.net/2026/01/phil...

"The silent epidemic within the pandemic: pathophysiology and prediction of post-COVID-19 diabetes" A review of diabetes in #LongCovid link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The top Australian Open has been marred by illness, cramping, injuries and withdrawals so far. Some players have been reported to be struggling with a gastrointestinal disease or virus, which played a role in the early defeat of tennis stars like Cobolli e Paolini

"I can't make things worse" Tennis star Naomi Osaka has now withdrawn from the Australian Open, citing worsening abdominal pain from an ongoing injury. She has also been struggling with persistent symptoms after an infection weeks ago sports.yahoo.com/articles/nao...

Please share. 💔

That pitch, mind. Incredible. 😂

Meanwhile, while Welsh rugby is being destroyed, Welsh football is absolutely thriving and going from strength to strength. Unbelievable what can be done when the people in charge put time, money and expertise into something they care about.

Harry Wilson on World cup hopes www.bbc.co.uk/sport/videos...

The nurses are pissed

“He wanted to help people”

Tell me you have sports autism without telling me. (And yes, football scores on my phone, obviously.) 😂

Games not gone yet 😂

Seasons worth of dire treatment of Salech accumulates to him leaving a game on a stretcher. Hope we get some investigation into this week in week out incompetence.

League One refs are Israel.

Palestine Action activist could die ‘within days’ after starting new thirst strike A Palestine Action activist is facing imminent death after escalating his protest to a thirst strike, 13 days after resuming a hunger strike. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

OCD is stupid cos what do you mean you're afraid of contamination and won't touch orange juice cos it's been in the shop where people have touched it but still won't wear a respirator to prevent yourself from breathing in airborne illnesses?

The Art of the Label. 1990. Full book here archive.org/details/arto...

Dan Edwards.

Right to feel aggrieved about that one. Absolute shame that Hollie's been so inconsistent today, should be more consequences for shit like this. Genuinely lost this game through her incompetence and the power of bench. Losing bonus point one we wouldn't have in previous years though.

Didn't have opinion one way or other about Holly Davidson but Christ, don't have to be as bad as the cunt men make out she is.

So Munster ain't just destroyed their season, but destroyed ours and all. Cheers and everything, fucking Cork cunts.

If we lose this now it ain't cos we ain't been the better team, Munster are as shit as they been for a long time now.

FUCK OFF TRY OF THE FUCKING SEASON LIKE.

Totally not unexpected this domination Dragons having over Munster if you pay attention.

Grief, guts, God fearing, guns. What a range. #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky

For #NationalHandwritingDay here's proof that doctors don't have terrible handwriting! This beautifully handwritten letter (c.1735) diagnoses a patient with breast cancer, a “disorder rarely hitherto known to yield to any milder remedy than the knife”.

The Voice of Hind Rajab rings a bell. #filmsky