We are seeing a lot of England flags around and I have a question. Why do some of them have ENGLAND written on them. Isn't the whole point of flags that you can recognise the nation without needing to write it down.

"It's too much liquid"

"President Trump pledged to address America’s skyrocketing rates of autism, and his team is deploying Gold Standard Science to deliver on this pledge." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... There are not enough🤔emojis in the world

Does Starmer need to work a little bit on his body language

It's nice to get feedback from supportive readers.

What odds now for the Tory Party to fully merge with Reform? via @skynewsrss.bsky.social

I wrote this in 2022 and nothing has changed. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u...

No red flags were raised — except the fact that deadly weapons are readily available in every city in the country? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This is not how tariffs work.

Great reporting from BBC News on the sad state of #SWFC. This whole debacle has shown how much we need specialist, local reporters like @robstaton.bsky.social and @yeswecrann.bsky.social. Social media rumours will not get us through this. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

On hols this week and a longstanding tradition has been to catch up on football transfer news while on the beach etc For #swfc fans this has been replaced by doomscrolling quite possibly the death of the entire club. Cannot remember a darker time in 20+ years of dark times for owls fans.

The Daily Mail’s front page there, celebrating a England footballer of Ghanaian descent while also telling migrants to get out of England. Truly, you couldn’t make their shit up.

Very seldom felt as out of touch with the zeitgeist as watching the superman film. I just do not get it.

Deputy AG wants to meet with Maxwell, to discuss.... what? They talk about victims but Maxwell was convicted in a criminal trial and sentenced to 20 years. It's hard to see any of this as divorced from daily domestic politics and the very real pressure POTUS faces on this.

There are so many amazing aspects to this story, but among other things it proves that Britain needs a tax authority, and that London could really have benefitted from having a local newspaper over the last decade. And maybe a police force.

@jim.londoncentric.media is absolutely killing it with these investigations and no one is doing anything remotely similar with the same frequency and vigour

Two of last season’s top scorers just released from their contracts. Catastrophic collapse in real time.

#SWFC latest - The manager may / may not be staying, no one knows - We've paid at least some players; 1 of the 3 transfer embargoes is lifted (I think?!) - Just sold 2 of our best players for less than market price - Other key players out of contract - No new signings Season starts in 23 days.

Comes to something when this -- acting like a normal business -- is classed as good news

White House: "70% of those arrested under President Trump’s ICE had criminal convictions or pending charges. We’re talking murderers, rapists, and child predators." Reality: This is not true www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Me the day after the cricket finishes

Baffling that the Conservative party chose a period of heatwaves and regional drought to argue against climate action

"In less than a week, there were at least four 1-in-1,000-year rainfall events across the United States — intense deluges that are thought to have roughly a 0.1% chance of happening in any given year." www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

A great news picture (Michael Owen Baker / AP) www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

It would be nice to, among other things, get an answer from the UK government about why they still feel comfortable using this as one of their primary communication channels

hey uh this isn't going well?

today in Grokology, the chatbot is doing antisemitism

I have to log on to twitter to fully doomscroll and as well as p0rn and far-right material there is now adverts for weed

Big fan of Prince William, who is the same age as me, being described as a "young royal."

Good pictures of a devastating story (Brandon Bell / Getty Images) www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... #texasfloods @nbcnews.com

Conservative personalities spend years saying Epstein's death was linked to an unproven "blackmail" and client list conspiracy theory. The same people get into government and don't confirm this. Result? They are now part of said conspiracy, it is claimed. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

I went rollerskating recently to impress my children and "did" my back and I could not agree more.

Hey Pat, are you free tonight? No, I'm doomscrolling #swfc news 24/7.

A true living legend. Great pics from Sabbath's last stand, with report from Alex.

I don't live in Sheffield and occasionally people ask me how Wednesday are doing. People generally don't pay any attention whatsoever to anything below EPL so I could say anything. Right now I don't even know what to say. #swfc

One of those headlines that feels made-up but is actually real

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has now been speaking for more than TWO HOURS against the GOP's "big ugly bill." He shows no indication of stopping. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The death of Diogo Jota does put other footballing matters into perspective. A hugely talented player www.nbcnews.com/sports/socce...

#SWFC played Alfreton Town on July 6 last year as the first pre-season friendly. Currently just one fixture listed on swfc.co.uk, the opening league match vs Leicester. I cannot remember a time when this club, or any other, have not had any pre-season friendlies.

I don't think some fans understand how serious this is. It cannot continue like this - the club literally cannot function, it is failing and it is at risk of failing entirely.

It goes from bad to worse, to even worse for #swfc www.thestar.co.uk/sport/footba... Can't remember a lower point than this, including two relegations to L1

Keeping up with Trump's Truth Social has been quite a rollercoaster ride. At 4:02 p.m. Monday he said it was "time for peace"

(1/7) Brexit's impacts haven't vanished. Prices are higher. NHS waiting lists are longer. Some businesses struggle to hire staff. These aren't just "post-Covid" or "global issues". Brexit changed how Britain trades & works. That still shapes daily life.

I was on a bus listening to the radio, on the way to the office. Will Straw was on Five Live and said something like "it's not looking good, I think we've lost it." This was when every journalist had to very quickly become an expert in UK/EU constitutional law.

Office discussion on foxes reminds me that the Met police once used 2,250 police hours investigating a non-existent human "cat killer" www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith...

"It’s 24 June, 2025, and Britain is marking its annual Independence Day celebration."

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

We refer to this as AI but there doesn't seem to be that much intelligence involved

If you're wondering how the bird site is getting on www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Can you make safe into a verb?