There's a couple of horrific mullets in the New Zealand cricket team.

Er.. maybe we're not shit at the cricket anymore!

Backrooms is really good, a meditation on memory and self, while maintaining the unsettling nature of the webseries. Didn't go overboard, didn't get trashy, maintained a good tone. It's insane that straight up Lynchian surrealism is making a shedload of money at the box office!

It would appear that we're shit at the cricket again.

I wonder if this is how it felt in the 1930s. A hysterical environment where emotional responses override factual information, driven by economic deprivation.

Putin can't keep this up forever. How much more of the budget can they cut. The fact that this was leaked speaks volumes.

It takes a bastard like Mandelson to lay out the problems with Starmer's operation. The fundamental problem is Starmer himself, it seems.

That new Mortal Kombat film has a very odd tone. Its like watching a Saturday morning cartoon but people are getting sawed in half and everyone's swearing all the time.

I'm left wondering if Tony Blair was always this right wing, and only Gordon Brown was holding him back.

Alas, the dream of Spurs being relegated is no more. But West Ham is a pretty good consolation prize.

It's a very soviet situation in Russia right now - Everyone understands that the current state of affairs isn't sustainable, but they're too scared/invested to speak out. So everyone just keeps up the farce until it completely falls apart. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

All very good questions. Andy Burhman is a much better communicator than Starmer and he's the obvious choice to replace him, but he needs to realise he's got to do something radical (ie properly taxing the rich) in order to break the current state of managed decline. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

So what happens when Reform take over your local council? This. #KentCountyCouncil

The Reform candidate had two Twitter/X accounts suspended. One of them in late 2024. (It really did take quite a lot to get suspended from X after 2022 takeover). Reform appear to be defending their candidate hopenothate.org.uk/2026/05/21/r...

Daaaamn, gwan Villa!

Russia launched ~900 drones and 56 ballistic missiles at Ukraine, in one night earlier this week. Ukraine intercepted 94% of the drones, and 75% of the missiles, which are insanely good numbers. So good that Russia might conclude it's not cost effective anymore.

Probably just standard variation, but certainly not what I was expecting to see!

If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?

Absolutely loving that Punisher movie, apart from when it suddenly ended.

Zack from December must be annoyed with Zack from now. And vice versa. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

What's happening in Labour right now isn't pretty, but is absolutely necessary if Starmer is not willing to stand down. Somewhat ironic that he's going down the Corbyn route.

I would say that the new series of The Boys is far too on the nose, were it not for reality.

*flinches from PTSD*

Also I am incredibly uninterested (as I suspect most people are) on Starmer's opinion of Nigel Farage. We know he's a chancer. We want to hear what YOU are going to do.

Starmer doesn't seem to understand that promising living standards will improve at some unspecified point in the future is not good enough. I appreciate global forces are at play, but the government (both Conservative and Labour) are out of time to answer this question.

Bloody hell.

Star Trek got there first.

Its explainable for Labour to lose councillors, being the governing party and all the cockups we've witnessed. But for the Conservatives to lose 172 in opposition, when they should be cashing in on government unpopularity, is an absolute disaster. They've become a sideshow.

I can't stop thinking about this video since I saw it last night

I went to Hastings at the weekend, saw a dangerous amount of Morris dancing and visited many, many pubs.

Holy shit this is cool

Very few people realize the true scale of the war in Ukraine. In the first 100 days alone, more people potentially died in the siege of Mariupol than during the entire war in Gaza. Understanding this grim reality is crucial to grasping what is actually at stake

Jack Lowden on very good, yet very sinister form. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMFy...

when you realize this is the average median voter, all the online debates about "why kamala lost" go out the window

not sure if gets more Empire In Decline than a disastrously unpopular mentally decayed president — who different people of notably different political stripes keep trying to murder — as he is badly losing a horrifying foreign war he started on a pack of lies, won’t stop obsessing over a “ballroom”

To be fair, I'd need a lot of drugs to get through Eurovision. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

An afternoon in the pub in the sun, truly one of the joys of Britain.

Dutch film-maker Jan van IJken condensed 4 weeks of development in a salamander embryo (Mesotriton alpestris) into a 6 minute video, presented here sped up to 1 minute. You can see gastrulation at ~the 10s mark, forming the gut, then limbs & in a moment, the heart just *begins* beating.

A decade after winning the Premier League, Leicester City are relegated to League 1. The turnaround is surreal.

I'm gonna bang on Streetfighter II on the SNES and put this on in the background www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzz5...

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

I have every sympathy with Americans having to put up with Trump, but ffs - Do the rest of us have to be held hostage by him as well? How much longer are these negotiations going to be delayed by his ridiculous pronouncements? Someone take his phone off him.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

The Strait of Hormuz was open for less than three Scaramuccis

Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions A 🧵 with the evidence:

Ffs Trump, this is not difficult - Your political future depends on opening the Strait of Hormuz, for all your bluster you are at the mercy of Iran. Get it done.

No one could ever accuse The Boys of being subtle, but the latest series is extremely on the nose. Maybe current times demand it.

Breaking: Japan decisively resolves the Strait of Hormuz situation

hahaha, holy shit