The binfire of the vanities.

fide must mandate

So the Clacton by-election is going to be a run-off between a clown solely interested in media attention via cheap stunts who plays a cartoon villain for social media idiots without the slightest interest in representing Clacton or doing the work of a parliamentarian... and Count Binface?

Elle Woods (Witherspoon) has it all. She wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But there is one thing stopping him (Davis) from proposing: she is the great wolf-headed battering ram Grond, forged in the dark smithies of Mordor, ensorcelled with wicked spells LEGALLY GROND

Jimmy Anderson holds the joint record for playing Tests under most different Prime Ministers - 8, alongside Sachin Tendulkar and Sarfaraz Ahmed. Now the UK will shortly have a new PM, we call on the selectors to bring Jimmy out of retirement for one match to enable him to take the record outright.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of-B... if you prefer it with the sound on

nodirbek vs alireza for all the marbles in zagreb, starting in 15ish minutes. whoever did the pairing needs a raise. before today it seemed like alireza will coast to first, when in fact he was nearly out of it, had to win a lost position vs gukesh to even be in this tie lichess.org/broadcast/gc...

sorcery

risk/reward on that run up seems suboptimal

a sense of enormous well-being

Romero has stopped wishing Sandy well...

i am losing all control at ‘springtime for frankenstein’ (from mel brooks’ memoir)

Oh don’t mind me, just thinking wistfully about the song Tom Lehrer might have written about the excommunication thing

They say Pulisic is match fit but do you really want to start a guy on this kind of form

A post about the English Cricket Omni shambles.

written by someone who cares, about those who didn't, certainly by the end

– gentlemen, we appear to have a sizm – umm, it’s pronounced skizm – no, sizm – I agree with him. It’s skizm – no no no, definitely sizm – gentlemen, we appear to have two sizms

I have carved out the Nationals-Red Sox recap and have made it available free to everyone. In it I talk about Cade Cavalli hurling a racial epithet at a player of color and put it in context with other such incidents. The ball is in Rob Manfred's court.

that was a goal and a half

you'd think he would learn at some point. you'd be wrong

this is very good

rt ≠ endorsement

were they trying to win it tonight to free up a day for golf? (with the honorable exception of bethell, who shouldered arms to a straight one because that was the funnier option at the time). so. farewell then bazball (2022-2026). you were never boring.

stokes trying to get a fastest Test fifty is all good and well, but there's also Ireland on the verge of going 2-0 vs India. dog walk in extreme danger

my thoughts exactly as i was watching that

child D has just shown me a very pretty double mate he found in a bullet game. the combo worked on the previous move too, i told him. can't let them get too cocky

very sad to see stokes retire. he brings balance and depth to the line-up, but more importantly, it's very obvious how much this squad rates and likes him, and are willing to follow him. not going to be easy to replace, that's for sure. and now for one final miracle?

could this still be a match? jofra has been magnificent btw, wish they would figure out a way to keep him on the park

The arm on NBA star Kelsey Plum, who throws a rolled-up jersey to her dad sitting in the upper bleachers. www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUn...

obviously he got out in the time it took me to write and proof-read this. ffs

i'm being #RootMaths -ed in the group chats re: duckett and i don't like it. make it stop

dunno what i was on about, expecting him to go gentle into etc. whatever else we think about the man, that is not who he is

jokes aside, this doesn't seem as unlikely anymore. he seems very done with the non-playing *and especially ecb* side of it, and if this is how the games are going to go, well...

well, fuck

First look at Genndy Tartakovsky’s upcoming animated ‘Conan the Barbarian’ series

was mildly alarmed by this at first, ngl

Way too much draw on that, horrible. elbow at a painful angle. should do this more often too.

collected myself after a horrible day of brain fog to beat Wei Yi 1.5-0.5 in the round of 16, but even that ended up being the wrong way round - not winning with black in a drawn 1st match was much more relevant than winning a pretty decent 2nd game when it ended up impacting nothing at all.

on this evidence, santner is going to be unplayable on day 4.. .. but they didn't pick him. i did see him fielding as a sub though, right? i haven't gone completely potty yet?

joyce disapproves of this fielding effort

young master rew not having the greatest one so far, is he

the many faces of someone who just lost a 2 v 3 after solving much harder problems earlier photog: Michal Walyusza

very tight passage of play, game in the balance, so obviously brook lifts a length ball over backward point for six because of course he does

detective: you're a sick son of a bitch, you know it? that bird was your friend of 10, 12 years and you drop a big fuckin boulder on him. wile e. coyote: i swear to god man i didn't think it was gonna work. it never works. oh god. detective: nevada's a death penalty state.

Cowboy Bebop is better than Cowboy Bebop.

I’m at the bread and circuses. I’m at the damnatio memoriae. I’m at the combination bread and circuses damnatio memoriae

Had to rewind. This is so funny

a website thats like google maps navigation but with increasingly esoteric modes of transportation

very comfy