Mad fact about Menzies Campbell: In his first 10.2-second 100m race as a sprinter, he beat an aspiring young athlete named...O. J. Simpson.

Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.

Only two installments away from completing every canon Like A Dragon game, and Yakuza 3 was my least favourite of the bunch. Yet, I can't help being intrigued by the remake, especially the extra content. Plus, I'll get to solve racism all over again!

To be clear - this plan can’t succeed without mass violence against immigrants. One reason we know that is because it’s the carbon copy of a plan pushed by the German far-right, whose main thinker (Götz Kubitschek) recently expressed the hope that a few thousand German men would do it one day.

Starmer has made me agree with Dan Hodges, and that is something I can never forgive.

I was too young to really notice Milli Vanilli or the scandal associated with them, but that recent documentary was pretty sad. The producer and labels really threw those young men under the bus!

Man who told his first wife he wanted a divorce while she was in the bath so she couldn't chase after him as he ran away would like a word about courage.

I was not ready to be hit with this triple whammy of "that's still a thing?"

Has someone actually bought me a ticket for Katie Price & Kerry Katona: In Conversation, or has some poor soul at Watford Palace Theatre mail-merged their entire database by mistake?

The Spectator really does have a penchant for rapists, racists and wife-beaters....

Queen

@jellybeanzzz.bsky.social At Hidden Cameras tonight?

Is there any chance I can persuade you to write an FT piece about how weird it is that Grok stands up to Musk more often than our government?

Korea's leading press agency publishes accounts from the Hyundai/LG employees and execs who were brutalized, put in chains and subjected to hours of racist taunts by Trump's secret police... much of which was comically ignorant (ICE agents called them "Rocket Men"). Needs US translation.

Fox News is now platforming the advocacy Nazi-style euthanasia policies. The far right is totally out of control and large parts of the mainstream are culpable for normalising this stuff and allowing it to get to this stage.

This is a really good explainer about the violent nihilism of the terminally online: www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

Never became as popular as "ET Phone Home" did it

The West Coast of Ireland is one of the best places in the world.

Anyway, off on a 4-day road trip around Ireland. Shannon to Dublin via the Ring of Kerry, Cork and Wexford. Any recommendations, as ever, greatly appreciated

It's Getting-to-Stansted-on-a-Tube-Strike Day!

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Admittedly I've only been twice, during the winter, but I've never clicked with Norway and Oslo in particular. Only place where border police have given me proper hassle, breathtakingly expensive, and Oslo's no Stockholm. Liked the baby-kicking statues, tbf.

I predicted the reactionary edgelord would go down this route back in 2018...

This guy once edited a photograph of me to draw specific attention to particular scarring I have had on my body since I was a young teenager. He then wrote a blog post speculating on my mental health, and his followers in the comments described my body as looking like "carnage" & "horrible".

As someone of Algerian descent, and whose surname is literally a result of French colonial antics- LOL

A "quiet" September for me: St Vincent, Jehnny Beth, Floodlights, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Michael Rother, Mei Semones, Balimaya Project x Discos Pacificos All-Stars

The place where Taking Back Sunday will finally be brought to justice.

I hate being a miserable git on here, but when you having sitting MPs proudly and smugly racially abusing journalists and other MPs, I can't help but think we're in a very dangerous place

If you've never had your car stolen in France, you don't know voiture missing.

People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.

she said that “black” with a hard r

Everyone stop, this is important

The shooter literally had the minimalist “Loss” meme on their rifle. You cannot take anything this person said or did at face value. It’s all so deep soaked in irony and toxic fandom culture that if you aren’t actually researching this stuff for a living you really shouldn’t be engaging with it.

The Breeders

Members of my family were tortured and killed in the Holocaust because countries like Britain said it wasn't their problem. Everyone said never again. And here we are. It's sickening beyond belief.

I see Lembit Opik has shifted from the whimsical, mostly harmless sort of crank to the "uh-oh" type.

Tommy Robinson is a terrorist

Whoever authorised this at Meta needs their hard-drive checking...

Upchuck playing a free London show Friday due to EU passport issues. Recommended for people who like incendiary punk!

The Walkman

Lucille is a hero bsky.app/profile/doug...

Happy 80th birthday to Ron Mael!

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

This has been said in lots of ways but it is worth repeating; this is extremely impressive. If you asked a dog “who is the best basketball player ever” and it said “Jichsel Mordon” you would be unbelievably impressed. But you wouldn’t hire the dog as your junior analyst, because the answer is LeBron

@demontomatodave.bsky.social Belated comment on STCTP #63 (1h45m)- 9 year old me authored that terrible poem in Speedlines- it was significantly edited to my disgruntlement, but I did get some stationery that sadly failed to enhance my popularity on the playground.

So, I just discovered The Seatbelts are playing their first ever show outside of Japan in Barcelona in December, and now it seems I will be going to Barcelona in December. Probably my no.1 remaining music-related dream come true!

The Naked Gun was good, daft fun.

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole". (It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)