Got so caught up in the football that I missed all the BBC drama. 😳

Are you Jesse Marsch in disguise?

Not sure that’s the right VAR decision. Robertson wasn’t in the keeper’s line of sight, if you look at the reverse replays.

"The UAE (and thereby the owner of Man City) is providing resources and support for ethnically targeted mass killings in Sudan so vicious they can be seen from space...This is not just another distant connection... It is literally the same people." www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Head vs heart typa day.

Sunderland look so good.

Just watched the final #CelebrityTraitors

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

This bit here.

Germany still has an official travel warning discouraging travel to Syria www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

More of my thoughts here, looking at media coverage of religious violence in Nigeria open.substack.com/pub/tomiolad...

The US looks like it will be more open to the AES states than under the Biden administration www.reuters.com/world/africa...

This can't be real.

Well we know the colour of his skin and country of his birth because that was the information police deemed it most important to share yesterday, immediately upon announcing his arrest. Which is a terrifying indictment of how far the British state has capitulated to far-right political movements.

Videos filtering through despite the Internet shutdown, showing lots of gunshot victims. It’s difficult to tell the scale but it appears protests are continuing. #Tanzania

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The practical question is who are they expecting to target when they arrive “guns-a-blazing”? I’d actually love to hear what the plan is? What do these people look like?

Finally caught up with #celebritytraitors and I’m finding it all too nicey-nicey. I prefer the seasons with regular people who only care about the money.

The truth is there has been violence against Christian communities in the north and middle belt for as long as I can remember. Yes, other communities face violence too, but Christian lobby groups have been tallying these events for many many years, and campaigning for them. #Nigeria

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

Evidence of mass killings by RSF in El-Fasher, Sudan, are chilling. They must be a wake up call for the rest of the planet too. Countries must be pressured to stop sending weapons into their proxy war in Sudan. It starts with acknowledging the horror.

Trump now threatening to invade Nigeria.

Missed the game. Wondering if I should watch it back 😬 #lufc

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

A reported 97.66% win for President Hassan in #Tanzania election.

Didn’t buy enough sweets. I feel like a failure 😔

Today In Focus with our Caribbean Correspondent Natricia Duncan is a must listen. Her bravery to keep reporting on Hurricane Melissa and the destruction it wrought on Jamaica, when she was also trying to keep her daughter & niece safe from the storm, is incredibly moving.

Sudan's RSF has arrested Abu Lulu, who appeared in numerous videos killing unarmed civilians in El Fasher. “However, many Sudanese did not buy into this and launched a hashtag: ‘You are all Abu Lulu’ – meaning the entire militia acts like him," said Mohamed Suliman, a Sudanese researcher

"Despite repeated assurances to Washington that it would not arm Sudan’s belligerents, the UAE has continued these transfers, as confirmed by the Biden administration in one of its last acts as well as by members of Congress.” www.commondreams.org/news/sudan-a...

JNIM claims its first ever attack in Nigeria, in Kwara State, near the border with Benin Republic.

Two Senegalese journalists -Maimouna Ndour Faye (7TV) and Babacar Fall ( RFM radio) released after arrest on Oct, 28, 2025, for interviewing wanted media mogul. President Bassirou Faye rode anti-corruption fury, youth energy & a promise of freedom to win Senegal's 2024 election. #SenegalBackslide

Much of the footage I've seen has come from areas near #Tanzania's borders. My guess is that's how people can get past the Internet blackout.

Looks like protests are going on well into the night. #Tanzania

Donald Trump Jr. in 2021: “Those Hunter no-show no-experience board seats didn’t come without an expected return!” Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it. New: me, for @forbes.com 1/

Tanzanian police have announced a curfew in the biggest city Dar es Salaam.

The WHO says more than 460 people have been killed at a hospital in El Fasher, Sudan.

Several countries told their citizens to leave Mali immediately because of the growing terror threat. JNIM jihadist fighters have been targeting fuel tankers, disrupting supplies nationwide. The US embassy cites the situation in Bamako as 'unpredictable'. www.france24.com/en/africa/20...

Soyinka's response is almost worthy of a second Nobel all by itself. (below)

Protests kicking off in #Tanzania after elections there. Internet has been switched off nationwide mastodon.social/@netblocks/1...

Amnesty says US strike on a #Yemen prison that killed dozens of African migrants may be a war crime apnews.com/article/yeme...

“Following the jewel heist at The Louvre, [Bari] Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown…Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code…”

In most of the world, his dad’s cousin IS his aunt.

APNewsAlert: JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders immediate 'powerful' strikes in Gaza.

Former MP Siham Hassan was the youngest person to be elected to Sudan's parliament. RSF forces killed her on Sunday in El Fasher www.newarab.com/news/sudans-... #Sudan

Today's quick update [Oct 26]: - Major RSF offensive on Elfashir (red), culminating in RSF takeover of SAF 6th infantry division base; conflicting reports regarding whether SAF or RSF have control of city. - At least 2500 civilians displaced from city today. #KeepEyesOnSudan

Wolves, West Ham and Forest keep losing. #lufc

Does anyone in the prem have a better throw than Kayode? He’s on the Rory Delap level.

Are they overrepresented or has Britain been taken over? Which one is it? But if they’re saying this out loud, logic doesn’t matter.