Won the pub quiz! It was entirely about trains for some absurd reason, so I think I owe drinks to @jagohazzard.bsky.social for his excellent and informative youtube videos!

Sigh. "The one certainty at the end of an abject 3-1 defeat is that nothing will shift here. Ruben-ball will be back next week, somehow". They said much the same on #MOTD. The board have screwed up too much too quickly to admit another mistake. It's going to be a long, miserable season. Again.

Loren Rosko (www.instagram.com/lorenrosko) has created a fun little song that the girl from Sk8er Boi might have sung! 😅

I pay no attention to golf (all golf courses should be turned into housing estates), but the commentator on #VillarealAthletic has just said the football fans are better behaved than the golf spectators??!

I know this is about Arsenal women obvs but the United men's game was a 12.30pm KO so it's also applicable. What makes it worse is watching the game in the pub and being 3-4 pints down by 2pm or so. Unless you're meeting people later for more drinks, you're screwed. The day is over.

"I'm playing all the right passes, just not necessarily, to the right players. I'll give you that sunshine"

The commentators were joking about Henderson and the last time he played us we ended up losing 7-0, but this could actually end up being that again ffs 😭 #MUFC

Why do German football teams have the name of the team on the back of their shirts at the top, and the players' names underneath the number? This seems blatantly the wrong way around?!

“Facebook will always be free”

I'm sure Camberwell is perfectly pleasant, but 4th coolest neighbourhood in the whole actual world??! Judging from these pics it could be basically any part of London! wtf!

Right now it’s a wild west, with the population left to fend for themselves, usually handing vast amounts of data over to unknowable massive Silicon Valley companies. At least the UK govt and what they do with our data is accountable to us, as citizens.

Today’s digital ID announcement yet another example of how X being the main platform for political discourse will inevitably throw the MSM’s coverage off course, because online right opinion is fevered/way off the beat with the public. Guess who need digital/reliable ID most? Those in poverty.

I don’t know what you’re laughing at. Glory Hole Park commemorates the founders of the city of Aspen discovering surprise sausage on that very site.

I am sure there are pros and cons to digital ID cards, in terms of whether they'll be effective or bring the benefits people claim. But I'm less fussed about opposition that's based on principle. I'm sure I read ages ago that millennials onward simply expect data to get used/shared for everything.

If I were a spy I would just ask people to tell me their secrets. The worst they could say is no

AI could never achieve this.

This is a brilliant piece about how we’re operating through so many layers of irony and satire now that both everything and nothing is real and everything and nothing is serious.

The French president having to walk through NY has got to be some kind of @aiannucci.bsky.social sketch, right?

#alphaguess 🧩 Puzzle #791 🤔 15 guesses ⏱️ 4m 41s 🔗 alphaguess.com

The four flavours of the UK’s remaining news organisations! Only one of them has to scrape a toddler’s breakfast off their office desk every morning.

Honestly, the big trick Jim’s managed with London Centric (which sounds and is obvious and yet is missed *all the time*) is this: it’s fun to read. It’s interesting, or a bit outrageous, or scintillating. Not worthy or a chore. “Make the product good” shouldn’t be groundbreaking, AND YET…

I have cracked.

Is it acceptable to put the heating on?

fyi guys My Chemical Romance have announced more tour dates if you missed out on Wembley tickets!

Wow (yes this sort of thing does impress/excite me) - I never knew this before! I have always thought of Em dashes as bad and very old-fashioned. But I do like to use En dashes.

Same night as bins.

Ha sucks to be you Scorpio guys! No I am not happy either but you take what you can get.

"The voices on the internet made me do it, Your Honour."

I said at the time that the Clinton-Park swap deal (I know it wasn't technically a swap) felt jarring, but the early signs are that Park does seem like a better fit alongside Toone than Clinton did. #MUWomen

Last year's Merseyside derby at Goodison Park was postponed last year due to Storm Darragh, and now this weekend's big game in Ligue 1 is called off. The climate change argument should already be won, but if you get football fans onside then the denialists will defo lose. bsky.app/profile/jaso...

I didn't get a picture alas, but the pub I was in yesterday had a sign at the bar that said: "Unaccompanied children will be given a Red Bull and taught how to swear."

Since the 70s growth has hidden lots of difficult choices. There is not enough growth. Politics hasn’t had to work hard for decades.

Isn't it 'towing the party line' rather than 'toeing the party line'? (this is from a BBC News article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...)

The DG of MI5, Ken McCallum, said in 2021 that nearly one-third of 29 foiled planned attacks plots were "extreme right wing", and that "racism is not the sole and only fuel of that threat, but it is strongly there".

Le Gorafi (a French iteration of The Onion) reports that: "An American university has launched an investigation of a professor of archeology suspected of being a member of 'antifa' "

Two more chances to see the International Space Station tonight, with clear skies over London: straight overhead at 7.46pm and fairly high up at 9.22pm

Lol @itvpeston.bsky.social made it on to the @thedailyshow.com

All the comments on YT on the Newcastle v Barca highlights are pretty much "I'm a Newcastle/United fan but it's good to see Rashford doing well again". Also, this extract from #bbcfootball made me laugh. Well done Amorim and Berrada etc for pushing Rashford out! Genius move.

Meanwhile, polling about the likelihood of an actual US civil war in the next 10 years is getting no engagement because UK people are outraged about polling about people queuing in bars!

DISGUSTING

Anyone who answered “single-file queue” should be deported immediately.

Fuck. Off.

Oh man, I didn’t realize how far adrift the U.K. actually is

Country's gone.

Needs stamping out. Tough but fair remedial action is required.

DOWN with this sort of thing

Lots of people dunking on this but if people are happy to queue then let them? All I know is that if there is space at the bar and more than one person serving, then I'm going straight there. A queuing system only works if the bar staff go along with it, or if the people queuing ignore free-riders.

If you had a block of around 150g of parmesan cheese to use up, what would you use it for? (please do not suggest I make a carbonara, this is what it is left over from)

I would caution against trusting genAI chatbots on any legal matters, or anything of any consequence, or anything even of inconsequence.

Wait what?