Will Ange Postecoglu beat the 41 day record for the shortest serving premier league manager? Record currently held by Les Reed at Charlton Athletic. Ange has been in charge for 24 days…

Xena is unhappy with the rain but happy to have a bed and a few humans who will issue ear scritches

Not expecting a win, but if Palace hold on this will be quite the thing

Digital IDs - about bloody time. The gov.uk folks have proven they are able to handle things like share codes on driving licenses and immigration status successfully: no reason why the same can’t be extended to digital id cards. As an immigrant, they already have this for me.

Share your favourite black and white film.

I am eating at a 6 table, 20 odd cover restaurant in Jaca, Spain and a single incredibly impressive woman is running the entire place herself. Waiting tables, wine service, chef. Incredibly impressive. Extraordinary.

Such a relief on Hacker News to discover a group of fellow nerds who are compulsive text highlighters. Solidarity, brothers and sisters ✊ news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4536...

Seriously, @economist.com?

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

I'm part of a men's bible study group that meets most Tuesday mornings for breakfast. This morning, I was struck by Pharoh's suspicion of the foreigners in Exodus: "...lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us..." Ex 1:10 (ESV) How familiar.

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/

I think there are a lot of very broken young men out there who are seeking relevance and meaning, and seem unable to find it.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

i really hate this postmodern nihilistic violence

Someone should reach out to Charlie Kirk for his opinion

“No Way to Prevent This,” Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

Oh my goodness Atlassian are going full cloud and are stopping all development on their self-hosted product range. EOL March 2029. Hooley dooley that is going to upset a lot of people. Meanwhile, I'm happy on my fully upgraded starter licenses for my little company for the foreseeable forever.

I mean, does anybody actually believe that Trump *didn't* write a lewd birthday message to Epstein?

A happy 60th birthday to 'Psycho'.

Medical diagnosis

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

Well, since this is very much my wheelhouse, for a bit of Monday morning fun I have dug into this application (I assume it's the LG ThinQ app?) to see why it's so large. Don't have anything LG-related, so my analysis will be a bit limited, by let's see how far we can get. (thread)

Having just dropped youngest at uni in Scotland, a disturbing number of England flags attached to bridges. Except Cumbria which appeared to favour British ones, inexplicably.

The most important news from today's reshuffle:

Tax aside, this is objectively a very sad end to Rayner’s political career: a teenage single mum from a deprived family who went onto be deputy prime minister. The right wing press detested her for not knowing her place. Their glee at her downfall will be palpable in tomorrow’s front pages.

Well, so much for that

As it stands, I don’t think Rayner should resign or be fired. Stamp Duty rules in these circumstances are complicated; she should have sought better advice; but I don’t think she was trying to rip off the taxpayer.

People are weird www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For anyone complaining about Linehan’s tweet, I’d suggest searching for “punch a transphobe”, pretty much anywhere you fancy. Can I suggest as a general rule we all stop suggesting that people punch other people.

Talkback radio in Brisbane opens with: “Be careful, guys, it is magpie season; in addition, it is also snake season.”

People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

We *have* to be near rock bottom now. My local Sainsbury’s had one of those write-only magazines entitled something like “Do stuff with ChatGPT”.

Me, looking at timestamp: This seems like a long time to get to the joke Me, watching for 15sec: I am absolutely watching this whole thing

Xena is having a duvet day #cats

This is the Platonic Ideal of a Bluesky thread

I've been on some stressful conference calls in my life, trying to help customers debug complex problems, but nothing quite like this one: edition.cnn.com/2025/08/27/u...

This one - from Gov Bob Ferguson to Pam Bondi- equally worthy of praise.

a huge part of the problem with AI and delusional spirals at the moment is that the "AI safety" people were busy with their own fantasies of Skynet, AGI, and paperclip maximization being the danger and seem to have done zero due diligence on the *actual* risk factors of the product.

I’m getting definite nerd vs jock vibes on Bsky. I think Swift’s engagement is great news and I’m delighted for them, but there are a few grumpy unromantic souls about…

I'm not one for capital punishment but this is dangerously close for me: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Grinch smiling

No just hold fully fledged conversations with them, which I think is entirely normal.

You just don’t get it. VPNs can be run by anyone, including a motivated teenager. I run my own for my house, my parents house, my work etc. It takes 20 minutes or so to set up. This won’t work. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A very happy #caturday to you all. Xena is enjoying her new Ikea box.

I’m a fan of HKG, personally.