#Dogs are smarter than you think.

The story of Modou Keba Cisse: How #AVFC beat the City Group to sign him, winning the Austrian league last season, his upbringing, training with Emery between Dec 16-22 last year and his very "focused, serious" personality: Free to read @theathleticfc.bsky.social

FIFA using their opaque 'code' to make things up as they go along is pure FIFA. As an organisation, it needs binning.

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How many have you read? #BookSky

A Midsummer Night’s Dream After several attempts, I finally managed to photograph fireflies in the Czech woods.

🎧📜 The Internet Archive is home to millions of free audiobooks and audio recordings, including this #LibriVox reading of the Declaration of Independence. Learn how we're highlighting documents, recordings, and artifacts that tell the story of America's founding👇 blog.archive.org/2026/06/29/t...

#AVFC Transfer Media Watch - Week 5 This growing file is presented as a png file, so you can open it in a new tab, then open image in a new tab. It is simply too large for mobile now 😂 I like the last two names to be linked too 😍

Canale and Gill the heroes as Paraguay hand Germany first World Cup shootout defeat

Wow, that was truly amazing, the Strawberry Full Moon rising over Ely Cathedral this evening. Seen from Little Downham outside of Ely, Cambridgeshire 😍🌝 I didn’t think it was going to shine through the clouds, but it certainly did 🙏🏻🥰 #Fullmoon #strawberrymoon #ElyCathedral #amazing #Wonderful

‘Morning ☕️👋💕

In Spain today: installation of solar panels above major irrigation channels. Channels of more than 100 kms transport water from dams to farmland. - Reduces evaporation -Provides large agricultural areas with power & supports irrigation -Decreases use of water in food production, doubling the crop.

Lowe must be still thinking of what angle his outrage should take here. Farage's cold fury is stone cold mute. Tommeh will be thinking up another GoFundMe appeal. Protect are wimmin and gurls is a figleaf for misogynists who care only about promoting their racism. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

-From Quarks to Quasars 1/ Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.The site is called Climate.us & it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by many for trusted climate information."

Week 4 of Paper Talk. I expect this file to reach criticality in the first week of July and grow exponentially from that point. Open image in new window/tab only way to view 😂

On the fourth anniversary of the overturning of Roe v Wade remember that they lied to get their seats on the Supreme Court

Undiscovered Hemingway classic. #WritingCommunity #SkyBooks

Don't care about sports but I can't help but feel some pride at my countrymen's knack for completely out of order, unnecessarily vitriolic football chants

While about a third of the US population is afire with talk of lesbian 🌈 leftists in scuba gear 🤿and long, long knives ⚔️. The humble ex-contractor in me sees this and nods silently to himself with a sigh 👷‍♂️ edition.cnn.com/2026/06/25/p...

☹️ #Pareidolia #Iseefaces #FacesInThings #FacesInPlaces #ThingsWithFaces ©️ (Photographer unknown, source: Facebook)

The hidden cost isn’t just money. It’s time. If comparing three apps takes forever, you're doing work before you even order dinner.⁣ ⁣ https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/convenience-has-a-price-but-they

This is a beautiful thing. These shelter dogs get to pick their own toys.

Just moments ago the President was supposed to sign a bipartisan housing bill here in the capital. Except, in a bizarre chapter, he didn’t and is a no show—because he says he’s mad at the Senate. Here’s what’s happening ⬇️👀

Very true. #BookSky

3 for 3.

The US continues its bizarre politically motivated purge of highly competent senior military officers it 'does not like'. Mr Hegseth is doing Putin's and Xi's work for them. I can't help but wonder why this is? Cui bono? www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

This is something I have built to track transfer links published by our scrupulous sporting media during close season regarding incoming players to #AVFC This is week 3. You may have to open image in a new tab to see it though 😂

In this time of myopic populism, where expertise is derided, and science itself is under attack from morons, this news is remarkable. Only science and research can change the world like this 😀 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It has been 15 years since 40 points were 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑 to survive in the Premier League, back when Birmingham City were relegated in 2010-11 with 39 points.

Villa playing in a Dean Smith Villa way. Sit in, be compact, look to counter. I guess this is what happens when a side has no other way, and right now, Villa have no other way. I'll take it ...

I usually like to summarise my analysis of games but I have said everything about this display a hundred times before. Probably more. So, Villa need to stop giving the ball away with stupid decisions when attacking is my only point today. I'm sick to death of it.

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

#AVFC Ollie Watkins can deeply frustrate me, and it is clear he frustrates a lot of Villa folk. His first touch and close control can have me retiring to the bar instead of watching the game, however, having said that ....

#AVFC We can all look up at the stars and dream, but rockets are always fighting gravity, and in pro football money = gravity. Chelsea have full backs that are more expensive than our record signings. They have top talent in depth, and that talent if coached well, tells ... >

Kick off 18.45 for those with the foresight to sub to Villa TV 👍

Let's be honest. The loss of key players has exposed many of those we have been hailing as unable to perform or impact games without those key players. There is no point in making a list, we all have eyes. Our first half today was inept and anaemic >

NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...

2026 basically

Read and share all over..he nails it

When Kristi Noem claims she’ll make sure “the right people” vote and elect “the right leaders,” that’s not election security, it’s authoritarianism. Free societies collapse when leaders stop competing for voters and start curating them.

This is Bogie. This rope is his very favorite toy because it makes his tiny human smile too. 13/10 (TT: _chelsea_brown_4)

I'm speaking on the state of the AI market at Section's AI:ROI Conference on March 5. RSVP for free: www.sectionai.com/ai/the-ai-ro...

Villa stuff. We got lucky. BHA worked so hard and pushed us all over the pitch. Without the likes of Youri, Bouba, and SJM we struggle to hold the ball. Sloppy passing is a feature of this struggle. Get rid passes instead of passing with intent. It is like the start of the season again >

For those keeping score at home:

Immigrants are carrying this country on their backs while the right screams into the void. Here’s the Cato Institute report: www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.