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Good morning sports fans 🌅

Our Band of Brothers

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

HOWAY THE LADS! 🙌

Sitting in the central Gallowgate for Benfica? Our display includes single-person two-pole flags that need held-up in specific blocks of the Gallowgate; L, M, N, P, G, H, I, B, C, D. If you can accommodate holding one of the flags, please complete the form below: forms.office.com/e/geAx1W43PR

#NUFC He’s ours 🖤🤍

He looks like he's been caught pissing 🤣 #nufc

Woltemade and Tonali are fashion icons for the toon #NUFC

Beaten on the night but we hold our heads high. We are United. 🖤🤍

After 3 years of chasing the young German centreback, Newcastle United #NUFC are about to sign Malick Thiaw (pronounced Mal-ick Tch-ow) for a reported fee of £35m including add-ons. Why has Eddie Howe’s & the club's interest never waned? Let’s break down what the 24-year-old will bring to SJP 🧵🔽

What To Know About The Epstein Files theonion.com/what-to...

Someone took issue with me saying that American male Protestants are unique in how they've removed themselves from aesthetics. I thought it was obvs that I'm talking about fashion and interior decor, which today are coded as "gay interests," not paintings or architecture. But let me elaborate. 🧵

fantastic foreskins

Maybe he thought he was John Terry

If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...

If your organization is still on Twitter it is enabling explicit naziism. Send these screenshots to whoever is in your organization’s trust, safety, PR, comms team.

Remember in 2014 when the new U2 album was automatically installed in everyone's iTunes and everyone got really annoyed? Imagine if they'd installed it on every other programme you ever used. And it also somehow meant Bono could interrupt what you were doing and take over That's modern AI, that is

Eddie Howe will be back in the Newcastle United dugout for this weekend's clash with Ipswich Town

Best drinking it straight from the can, if you put it in glasses it's unrecognisable.

Mark Stutt with a fantastic summary of how the #NUFC Lasses are getting on - a great update - tf1892.substack.com/p/howay-the-...

I’ll admit, it does taint it slightly for me, but I still cheered and cried and screamed when we won it and when Bruno and the lads hoisted it above their heads because *they’re* who I support

The road to Wembley 😍

just over here photoshopping muppets onto the cover of elle magazine: thread

Elon just did a sieg heil during his speech.

Can't imagine the youth will be too bummed about their high energy video app being banned when they can just log onto blue sky and read sentences written by elder millennials

Feels like another mini migration from X to Bluesky is underway again. The owner of that site really is the best marketing manager this place could have. If you’re a #nufc and you’re new here, this starter pack is a quick way to get up and running ⬇️

The Newcastle weakness that doesn’t get talked about enough…⚫️⚪️ ✍️ @umjammylammer.bsky.social www.nufcblog.co.uk/2024/11/27/t... #NUFC

Excuse my French but that is absolutely fucking obscene

Back to business on Monday night! 😍

40 million bargain 🇧🇷 #NUFC

Football is so dumb man. #NUFC play poorly and pick-up a bunch of points at the start of the season. #NUFC start playing alright again and get 2 points in four games...

GOOD NEWS 🎉: MedellÍn, Colombia has COOLED by 2C by planting 2.5 million plants and 880,000 trees. The "green corridors" programme kicked off in 2016 to help counter increased air pollution and rising heat. More of this please 👏