This Irish scrum is being obliterated. Absolutely fucked.

Something horrifying about getting absolutely twatted in the face and also getting rightly sin-binned.

Harry Kane breaks into Bayern's top ten all time goal scorers with his next goal. (If the sources I'm looking at are right.)

Doing an advert for an AI company is only the second worst thing Matthew Broderick has done.

Bud Light advert appropriating West Country culture.

Today is the day when the "sports ball" people flourish. It is their Christmas.

Today is the day when the "sports ball" people flourish. It is their Christmas.

Rate bit of good news here for Labour.

Johnny Weir as this Traitors season's eminence gris

Anyone know where I can get some hyaluronic acid?

Shaun White keeps telling us about his visits to different countries, rather than telling us anything about these countries or their Olympic contributions.

Again they took away your incredibly meager healthcare and gave your money to the child-snatching squad

This seems pretty conclusive evidence against blanket bans. (I think this still leaves open whether there are differences in elite sport, where small percentages matter, and whether there are any particular factors that matter more in strength or collision sports.)

In case anyone hasn’t seen one of the greatest videos of all time m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue1U...

Our local German market/restaurant was open yesterday, but made a post about how they were donating to an organization that supports immigrants. Many people support this, some gammon are very upset. I most enjoyed the elderly man, who seems to have lived here all of his life, who said they have...

oh they are going to rip each other to shreds as it becomes clear that the country has decisively turned against them

Today we did a movie marathon where we each had to pick a film we hadn't seen. The ones we ended up watching were: Mulholland Drive, An American Tail, Excalibur

I think the perfect bloody Mary should be almost undrinkably hot. Like, one step down from actively unpleasant. (I have just achieved this)

The Westfall Act makes federal officials personally absolutely immune from any civil suits that are determined to be within the person's official duties. In those cases, the person is replaced by the United States as a defendant. So "Citizen v Noem" would be "Citizen v US, but then

Genuine non-rhetorical question: the Trump regime, including individual politicians, is saying clearly false things about (not publicly famous) people (protestors, immigrants they try to deport). Why aren't they being sued for defamation? Does their political role protect them?

James on Suddenly Amish is a vicious little prick. Really gets a kick out of his power.

Can anyone suggest a place that might be open to a long-read on sportswashing (what it is, why it matters, how the forthcoming World Cup compared to other events)? Intelligent magazine style, would need to be in time for the WC.

Can anyone suggest a place that might be open to a long-read on sportswashing (what it is, why it matters, how the forthcoming World Cup compared to other events)? Intelligent magazine style, would need to be in time for the WC.

I wasn't sure what to expect from a group of Democratic state AGs, but I definitely was not expecting a long monologue about Ruby Ridge and the Boston Massacre www.theverge.com/policy/86588...

Whenever I look at this candle I slightly misread it and think of these two

In the future your fridge will not only be able to tell you that you're out of milk, but also that you are the chosen one upon whose sacred fate all history shall rest, let the mind emanations quiet as it works its quantum crystal magic. It'll also tell you that you can add glue to pizza sauce.

I am not at the most extreme end of depressing sports fandom (e.g. a bad loss will ruin weeks) but I do wonder what it would be like to just be more zen about it all.

The NFL's postseason overtime rules are bad for sport. It's not competitively fair to give the win to the team who scores on their second set of possession if the other team also isn't allowed a second set. Makes the coin toss too important.

First (inadvertent, it was on my 2024 Spotify playlist) listen of "Football's Coming Home" of 2026

Thinking about the time the dysfunctional DEI department I worked for didn't contact potential MLK Day speakers until late December. Great direction!

I sent a pitch and was asked to send a draft. Long-read style. I sent the draft in November, how long should I wait before following up?

Our year in open access - April: Chandra Sripada on The valuationist model of human agent architecture doi.org/10.1080/0951... Michael Schmitz on Attending, acting, and feeling together doi.org/10.1080/0951... 1/3

Joseph Gough with Mental fictionalism and the dangers of Cartesian apologia doi.org/10.1080/0951... Jake Wojtowicz, Alfred Archer & Kyle Fruh on Fans and fanaticism: the vulnerability of devotion and sportswashing as exploitation doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy 3/3

I enjoyed speaking with Ethan Sandweiss earlier this week about how the concept of sportswashing might shed some light on Pamella Whitten's efforts to use IU football's success to bolster her own reputation. Down on Whitten, thrilled with football: www.ipm.org/news/2026-01...

I've been watching Morse, really did not expect Morse to regularly have some sort of romantic entanglement with someone involved in the case!

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Can anyone recommend something good to read on corruption. Not political corruption, rather the idea that something is corrupted from its true nature.

Which translation of the Odyssey should I read?

So far in 1066: • Edward the Confessor has died. • Harold Godwineson has been named king instead of Edgar Ætheling. • Edward has been buried. • Harold has been crowned. It's still only 6 January.

Seeing a lot of these posts on LinkedIn: "Here is one thing nobody ever says about academia/the job market: [insert banality everyone says all the time]" Always many emojis and hashtags.

What if that other gas station was founded by business partners Thomas Kum and Joseph Go

A pleasant surprise: opening teaching evaluations that I thought might be brutal (online asynchronous, first time I've taught this topic), and they were surprisingly good!

Very long shot: anywhere to buy haggis in Rochester?

What is with beer bottles that have a cork and a cap?

Sometimes I drink a pumpkin or Christmas beer and think that it could be good if it had more body. The spices or sweetness just aren't supported enough by the base. I felt a little similarly about the Hamnet film.

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

Not entirely sure why EA FC (FIFA) removes players from the game if they die. Strikes me that fans might want to play tribute to them precisely by playing as these players.

Flight from Chicago to Rochester was cancelled, so we stayed in South Bend overnight and are driving the rest today. Made it to Erie and the promised land.