Ahoy there Boybob me Sponge! I’ve twisted my ankle playing football and I want to chop it off to end the pain. Arghackackagckarghack!

Have you ever noticed how snow seems to melt faster right around a tree? That's the work of a yokai called Yukinbo, a one-legged child who hops in circles around tree trunks after it snows. #folklorethursday art by @samkalensky.com

Denki Groove is unsurpassed.

Wait. Isn’t this…like…piracy?

Me

i was actually thinking about quitting caffeine again but this is my sign to have another cup of coffee if the new york times thinks i shouldn't

Other areas in Hokkaido and Aomori are registering similar tsunami waves of 0.4 meters (1.3 feet). Tsunami expected to reach as far south as parts of Fukushima in 15 minutes, but likely even smaller. Hopefully this is the extent of it, but best to careful, as tsunami can strike more than once.

A large earthquake, currently measured at magnitude 7.2, has just hit off Aomori Prefecture. A tsunami advisory is in effect for southern Hokkaido and northeastern Tohoku. The earthquake was strong enough to be faintly perceived all the way in Tokyo.

Britain is the best country because nowhere else could a show exist with a presenter who had Jeff Epstein's best pal as his best man, a man who resigned over the BBC's Iraq War coverage, a genocide denier cited by a mass murderer, & the dad of a serving govt minister all yucking it up of a Sunday.

For non-Brits: one of these people has for years been held up as a lion of personal courage, bravely standing up to vicious bullies, and the other was denounced at astonishing intensity as a Stalinist thug imposing their crazy beliefs on others by force. Would you like to guess which is which?

That last minute goal. Amongst all the Salah nonsense, no one seems to have noticed that Ryan Gravenberch sh*t himself again at the back post. Despite his height, the lad isn’t up for tackles and duels, just like Gakpo. That’s two goals he’s cost us now, at Palace and now at Leeds. #LFC

Lowest goals conceded outside the top seven teams. Lowest goals scored in the entire league. That’s an approach that gets you one place above relegation, so probably worth doing something about that, Verdy. And Xebio.

#jleague top tier finished with the lowest average GPG (2.37) of any season on record. Stats point: that GPG is - 1.71 SDEV below average, 16.8% lower than the typical season. A season this low-scoring only occurs by chance in c.1/23 seasons (4.4% probability).

Given it's the 5th consecutive season below the historical average, it's nonetheless likely not a one year anomaly, but instead something may have fundamentally changed in the playing styles in the #jleague. More data needed to be sure, but the high scoring seasons of past don't look like returning.

Just watched Zootopia 2. Can confirm @kermodemovie.bsky.social review was spot on. Really nice way to spend a morning. Hoping they don’t take another 9 years to make the next one!

🎶 Oh, he wears the number 20 He will take us to victory And when he’s running down the left wing He’ll cut inside and score for LFC He’s a lad from Portugal Better than Figo don’t you know Oh, his name is Diogo 🎶 #lfc #redsky #ynwa #forever20

My heart, after several glasses of sake, has decided that Worf saying "she is only here, and here" (pointing to hearts), in TNG's "The Bonding", is enough to weep quietly over.

Talbi's goal was from 29 yards. Liverpool have conceded four goals from 24+ yards in their last 11 games in league and Europe (also Caicedo, González, Doku). A bad run for van Dijk in particular. They last conceded as many in a whole season in 2021/22, more in 2017/18 (six).

Final thought. We don't know how much Leoni's injury has hurt the defensive plan. #LFC clearly wanted Guehi or another CB. And despite him only being 18, Leoni was already playing regularly in Serie A for Parma. I think he'd have played a lot more games if he hadn't gotten that freak injury.

Having said all of that, there are players (Endo in particular), that the manager clearly doesn't want to play. And there are players (Robbo) who are now past it. AND there are players (Mo) who don't fit the system Slot wants to play. So #LFC have work to do. It's still a rebuild.

Barring a complete and total collapse where we are in serious danger of relegation, #LFC are not going to sack the manager after everything that has happened. And to be honest, I think he'd go himself if it came to that. So, just support the team. We'll see where we are in May.

(Stupidly) decided to read some of the #LFC comments on here. Have come to the conclusion that we have an online fanbase that is very spoiled. "He's spent 400 million! We should 1970 Brazil! WHY ARE WE NOT 1970 BRAZIL?! WAAH WAAAH Slot out!" There was a big turnover of players. One of them died.

Just watched the #LFC highlights back. OK, they weren't great, but they created chances, dominated the ball and should've won the game. Both teams got lucky deflected goals. Sunderland had a great chance right at the end when LFC went all out attack, but Chiesa did his job as last man.

Very funny how he tries to present “betting on the next head coach at Penn State” as a righteous force cutting through misinformation

A printing firm refused to produce a Gaza Cola advert at Bury Town FC. All profits from Gaza Cola go towards rebuilding hospitals in Gaza. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/prin...

@flyingrodent.bsky.social I see UK institutions haven’t taken Rule 1 of the anti-tyranny handbook to heart then.

Joanne will never run out of money because people keep buying her stuff, and so this will keep happening. SLAPP after SLAPP until trans people are completely drummed out of public existence and nobody will do a thing about it

There’s no democratic element to any of this: it’s Britain’s astonishingly poisonous media outlets and their tame politicians, who they can destroy whenever they want, hand in hand with billionaire-funded crackpot activists. Gangsters, musing about one carelessly dropped match.

I wouldn’t go expecting anyone to stand up to legal threats or the British press. Everyone knows where power lies and we have all seen over and over what happens to anyone who puts up even token resistance against them. The whole system will fold, with lip service and nothing more.

Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with

Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.

Yesterday Zack got a bit of a kicking from Rory on the Rest is Politics. Apart from the fact that Rory is a total moron there were some points that Zack needed to brush up on. The day one thing you’d do as a Green PM (which let’s face it is unlikely but so what) is to stop the BoE …

we're all thinking it

if i had been able to transition younger i very likely would have been a girl scout. this is heartbreaking and its perpetration is an act of abject evil

For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.

I’d like to blame the holidays but I do it all year tbh

"why did you start a new website?"

Honestly, this is it right here. Do you use AI on the job? Execs: yes, my job is 87% vibes and 0% consequences Managers: yes, I spend half my time managing up and never got proper training to manage down Workers: only the 27% of the time I waste justifying my job to my boss GenAI is TPS reports.

Japanese tv, why

Clean sheet klaxon.

Positive game state!

#lfc players trying to prevent Paqueta getting a second yellow card. And he *still* couldn't stop.

0-0 half time, 2-0 full time feels like exactly what Liverpool needed today. Control throughout, no real drama. A real building block of a performance today. Love it. Up the Reds.

Despite creating two big chances, I can’t say I like Cody Gakpo’s game today. It’s not the worst he’s played, and he even passed to Kerkez once(!) but it’s still very frustrating. If he’s not making the direct run to cut inside, he looks lost.

Tokyo is riddled with athletics tracks. Fuck-all football stadiums though. Joined up old-man Japanese thinking. You just know it’s gone through eight layers of doddery old pricks to end up with something nobody needs.

#LFC should have bought Kamada as soon as Bobby left. Very similar profile and could’ve played the same role. Oh well. He’s also a lesson to give players time to settle. Was awful the first season he was at Palace, now very good.

the idea that Nagano Prefecture is 3-4 valleys that have nothing in common and distrust each other has never been truer.

Lol

Last season: Liverpool replace a beloved manager, squad doesn't change, team stays good This season: Liverpool replace key players while others age into their mid-thirties, manager doesn't change, team gets worse Clearly the manager is the issue here

Greetings from Lawrence's Raven bookstore @blairbraverman.bsky.social and @oliviawhen.com #UglyDogs