Good morning

Absolutely incredible Thomas Frank inflatable in the Arsenal end at Spurs

I’ve found it, I’ve found the worst take

Happy 'Former Freemason, 51, found drunk and naked inside a huge pipe organ with a toy gun and remote-controlled police car says he got lost while trying to hand out cheeseburgers to the homeless' Day to those who celebrate. And, before you ask, I'm 49.

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Happy birthday to this young man, and really to us all

So weird this being my whole feed and nothing else.

Make the food discourse stop, I beg you

Really regretting teaching my daughter the Barry from Eastenders ‘Gonna do it anyway’ song

"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too! The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression. 🧵 1/19

Tell us you said something stupid, got clowned on but refused to take the L without saying anything

Guys being Dudes

*sigh*

Between takes on set Peter Cushing painted wargaming figures. He'd invite female costars to join him if they were new, looked lonely or being perved on by others on set. "Scream Queen" Ingrid Pitt proudly showed me the little figures they painted together once. Kept them all her life #nerdlings

ok had to draw this too

‘Fool’s Gold’ as a nickname for pyrite is possibly older than the existence of the USA, but sure let’s pretend it was invented to insult your boomer aunt being scammed on Facebook marketplace

CURLING!

even by the 23rd Century they still hadn’t solved iPad multitasking

Vinícius, Mourinho and treating racism as reputational risk rather than a lived reality | Jonathan Liew

Burnout 3 is underrated as one of the very, very best games of all time because you can show Burnout 3 footage to people two decades later and their reaction will still be "hell yeah, this rules. I wanna play this right now."

BBC news piece about how from over 100,000 we’re down to a few thousand telephone boxes. “But enthusiasts are still finding new uses for them.” 👀

Remembering the legend Sir Bobby Robson on his birthday. Pictured here with Tony Dorigo at Italia 90.

This is worthy of a further points deduction.

Across many years as a parenting columnist, I've written about vaccine heistancy multiple times. Each time, I've tried to be sensitive and empathetic to these people but, if I'm honest, nothing has ever gotten closer to my true feelings about them than this meme from a decade ago.

Pulling out of a nosedive to knock over the form team in the EFL is what you need to do if you’re gonna win the league. Cmon city, let’s close the deal! #PUSB

IN AD 2026 WAR WAS BEGINNING

If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

Never heard this before and it doesn’t really align with my experience in the early days either. Where has it come from?

the Black Panthers were right

One of the big reasons why this is such a shot of nostalgia is Football Italia came at a time when there was no free, live football in the UK. A whole generation hungry for live games and this was your feast. Imagine if the Beeb actually secured full rights? Did a Gazzetta magazine show?

This is how BBC Alba introduced Serie A 🥹

1906. Yep. Wise. Not pissed.

Amazingly, the referee got even worse after this.

rest in peace

Villa fans chanting ”you’re not fit to referee” when they should be down to 9-men and their goal shouldn’t have stood is hilarious levels of delusional

No further questions your honour.

Is Quentin Tarantino the guest editor of the Northern Echo now

“My life hack is crippling ennui which I have decided to frame as a virtue!”

More bad news for Yannick Bertrand

Peter Gabriel is 76 today! Then I realised my dad would be 76 this year too if he was still with us. The inexorable march of time.