feels a bit weird that we keep having these stories about individual cyber attacks but without anyone really joining the dots and going "okay, shall we maybe talk about this as a major global story"

As they should.

Commissioned a hotshot new columnist to write about bins.

2025 will be be remembered for the triumphant return of the best British band of the 90s. Really can't get enough of the new Suede album.

The new Suede album is properly good.

Anyone else manage to mow the lawn today?

This month's cover story is getting some press today. We bought convincing high-end fakes on online marketplaces and tested some, took others apart. Some just didn't work, others were dangerous. Read the investigation here: www.which.co.uk/news/article...

6.3 inches. Smaller, but definitely not small.

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

Great pic choice and headline.

Bravo @jacobfuredi.bsky.social and @pressgazette.co.uk @charlottetobitt.bsky.social for rumbling this. Doesn't reflect brilliantly on the magazine industry, sadly. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Train guard just referred to ‘refreshment opportunities’ available from the snack trolley.

Annual moan that the 5th biggest football league in Europe started in England yesterday and the Sunday Times sent one reporter to one game.

Bloody hell, that was good.

I mean, if you're going to do a poll on swearing, don't be prissy twats and use asterisks, FFS.

Test cricket

The cricket.

Guardian Brain is a really stupid thing: this is the conclusion to a piece about the best fans. Fans are great! But AC is also great, and really isn't burning the planet as so much of the grid - especially in summer - is solar/renewables.

Bizarre discussion on the radio likening air condition to passive smoking because it accounts for 3% of CO2 emissions. But: we don’t moralise turning heating on in winter, and heating accounts for 15% of emissions. If aircon is intrinsically immoral, so are radiators.

People patiently explaining about Salt Path that “all autobiography is fiction” seem to be ignoring the element that a bloke with a rare condition that destroys your ability to walk and balance and function, “cured it” in public by going for a patently impossible walk. Such a toxic message.

We’ve done it. First 3-weekly bin collection, with one in nappies, and we’ve got a closed lid. Available for consultancy. #bins

Next time someone asks me what it's like doing my job I might just show them this calendar invite.

This piece is 100% correct, but this paragraph made me want to scream with rage:

Never seen this pic of Bonehead with hair before. Magnificent.

Will nobody think of the digital nomads?

Gloucestershire Cricket is devastated to learn of the passing of former player and Club President, David 'Syd' Lawrence MBE, aged 61. Everyone at Gloucestershire Cricket would like to send their best wishes to David's family during this terribly sad time.

The Western Terrace at Headingley, in the minds of cricket commentators.

We did a story on how mobile phone manufacturers have abandoned people who want smaller phones. cc @jim.londoncentric.media www.which.co.uk/news/article...

Anyone know why the list of people who can join Costco in the UK is so arbitrary? Work in insurance? You're in. Teacher? Say no more. Charity worker? Nope. www.costco.co.uk/membership-g...

Wimbledon got promoted yesterday, a team I’ve watched from the Premier League to the Combined Counties League with my dad, a Dons fan despite having a Bristol City season ticket for 30 years because of me. Watched with him and my son, now also a City season ticket holder. Football can be complicated

Getting a lot of ads for the Cancer Research 100 push-ups a day for a month thing. And...how are people doing 100 push-ups a day for a month? Surely this is quite a niche thing to be able to do? I could probably do day 1 in small blocks, but on day 2 I would be destroyed and unable to use my arms.

This is the length of a small book but it's an engrossing piece of reporting, as much about the evolution of Jeff Bezos as the Washington Post. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Tomorrow's essay: SCAMMING SUBSTACK? How to get money for nothing and likes for free on the world's favourite newsletter platform! Why I suspect popular Substackers are using AI to entirely or substantially write viral essays shorturl.at/DTO6E

I did not imagine Will Still to look like Josh Homme.

Well, this is appalling. Thankfully, with the privatized water industry, I will simply take my business to another company in protest. Oh, what's that? Oh.

School sports day runs to 12.30 and school says kids can go home after. Schools really give no shits about working parents, do they?

Alice: *searches for ‘free from desire’ on spotify* Me: ‘Alice, it’s freed from desire, it’s not about gluten-free desire’ Joke didn’t get the respect it deserved.

I want to read one profile piece on the new pope and ignore all other coverage. Anyone read a good one?

Imagining the conclave as a kind of corporate away day. Little progress so far because they haven't yet wrapped up 'voice in the room'.

Imagining my mum's face if I gave her a ham and cheese toastie with a dusting of sugar and a side of jam.

Wow, what a horrific typo. Right on the cover.

Reels are destroying our brains and I hate them takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/i-hate-reels

I go years without buying any clothes from M&S and now they've got some actually quite nice shorts and there's a heat wave but also they're being cyber attacked and can't sell them to me.

When you see your 2.8 friends

New recycling bag system here. Was on a work call and saw the bin man look in our bag, get his phone, take a picture and then leave the bag. All others on the street emptied. I know I've done something wrong, but no idea what.

Went down a Bing rabbit hole because I have questions and now I don't really have answers but I do know that the weird Flop character is voiced by Mark Rylance.

Adnan, the star player from Flintoff's TV show, has taken a wicket on debut for Lancashire 2nds live.nvplay.com/ecb/?tab=m_s...

NYT Editor: "Hey, have you got that tweet promoting our new soup recipe?" Alien Who's Never Eaten Food, Desperately Trying to Pass for Human: "Uh, almost done!"