anyone giving that absolute atrocity of a song any points should rethink the frequency of their checkups at the otolaryngologist

This horribly drippy song has me hoping for a Burnley victory

And the science is still only the second least realistic thing in either film, after Gerard Butler's accent.

whisper it but I think @philipjcowley.bsky.social might have called Al Carns's chances correctly

Absolutely massive flex if he starts with “Great idea! I can draft this text for you if you like. Just let me consult my encyclical skill file and then I’ll spin up a draft. Any particular angle you’d like me to cover?”

Omg the auto captions for my lecture #medievalsky

I'm not sure what kind of economic model you get to where a wealth tax is existential for the future of economic growth but zero net immigration is just vibes and social cohesion. When I did economics they taught us that you needed inputs if you wanted outputs but I guess the literature has moved on

I've no particular interest in diving, and particularly not of the sort that might put my life at risk, but if I had, I would actively want some sort of agreement that nobody should have to risk their own life trying to recover my body.

Greece and Georgia just getting on with enjoying dinner without all the peacocking or scalded-cat offence-taking because someone used the wrong knife to slice an aubergine

Just add “Discuss.” and you have the perfect exam question

VAR! *huh* VAT IS IT GOOD FOR?

"Figuring out abstract learning changed my life" should be on T-shirts

This. To my own surprise, I wrote one on ‘universal elements of adverbs’. When I started uni I did it because my parents wanted me to do it (as the first in the family) even picking ‘easy’ linguistics because I already spoke the languages involved. Figuring out abstract learning changed my life.

How do these people presume to know in advance whether university would be suitable for someone or not? I only understood what university could give me when I got there. If someone hadn't pushed me, I'd never have imagined it was for me.

And until legislation catches up, society must itself enforce the use of the term "noncewear" to refer to such devices.

Reckon @leesavage.bsky.social still isn’t absolutely sure of this one

You’d think these people would be rich enough not to be so self-pitying. But they even whinge about competitors stealing their intellectual property when their product is algorithm-tweaked plagiarism. Small wonder they lack the self-awareness to know where and when they’ll get booed, and why.

It needs to be repeated time after time after time that Powell, on his own terms, was wrong, and the only way to make it sound like he was right is to pretend he meant something else and hope nobody noticed the switch.

The West Ham fans already leaving the stadium do know you can lose games in the Championship too?

South Ham

This is the thing about Powell that his cheerleaders fail to recognise: he was *wrong*.

Simon Heffer has spent his whole career denying that Enoch Powell was racist and that the only difference between him and someone like Robinson is tone

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... imagine making this much of an embarrassment of yourself for a toy watch

I spent a fraught couple of hours digging through boxes of books at my in-laws' house because I was convinced I had misattributed a quote to a Polish politician in a book that was about to go to print. Yes, authors are expected to check every citation.

Absolute training-ground energy from Zirkzee

Gratifyingly, I also categorised myself as a liberal progressive at the beginning. I'm not sure what the person who set up this site intends to do with the data, but it would be very interesting to see to what extent people with particular profiles "correctly" classify themselves.

I don't know what I did wrong in answering all the governance questions in quintessential FT reader fashion, but I fell woefully short of those I'd simply assume I was aligned with

all the britpol people know who's heading this list

The rationale behind the system trust question is really problematic. When the questions are about specific polities, it is reasonable for a liberal like me to say that parts of the system are rigged if they have indeed been politically captured. There's nothing "populist" about noting reality.

No major surprises here. Probably a little more economically left than I'd have placed myself, but then these things come with error anyway. The social trust questions are rather ambiguous.

Not a pundit or anything so maybe I’m way off the mark, but a part of me wonders whether it’s also because we have a political culture that seems to discourage humility or being wrong. So you end up with people who either fuck up and have to double down, or concede the moment they’re defeated

If this is political science then we need to control for age squared

Europeans vs the rest of social media on any given #Eurovision night BANGARANGA 💃🏻🕺❤️🇪🇺

If the dynamics of the Polish vote are anything to go on, perhaps we really should pay less heed to experts

better chemistry at a primary school science fair

Bangaranga is Bulgarian for “shit, that was close”

Maybe Ireland will send Kneecap

All I can remember of the Romanian entry is that Florence Foster Jenkins bit in the chorus anyway

De gustibus est czasami bardzo disputandum

I think @anthonyzach.be is actually doing this

You know what, Judith? I think they might just have been extremists.

They’re singing the Nemanja Vidic song

Send them the Unthanks and scare the shit out of them

Are they going to get ABBA out to cover Lordi?

“Even if we’re living in a mouthwash / Even if your mother’s got brain fog”. Lithuania, enunciate.

Will: Australia Should: Albania Dark horses: Bulgaria, Croatia

Greece very much the My Lovely Horse entry

These presenters are where chemistry goes to die