Monday night lights! Varsity Cup is a VIBE and Stellenbosch is heaving

In a single chart: What’s Wrong with the World

Imagine not wanting to write your own code 🤯

I will deny I ever said this, but I think it’s time to get rid of TMOs altogether. Ref mistakes still happen. They’re part of the game. You cannot get rid of them, so might as well live with them and at least enjoy the spectacle.

BBC Five Live, I’m coming for you!!!!

Wow #IREvITA

Who is this English commentator who keeps moaning about everything? He should be home on his couch with a beer. #IREvITA

An insightful take on AI and paperclips… and yet no mention of Clippy? www.newcartographies.com/p/is-ai-the-...

What a brilliant assessment on the state of Irish rugby in the context of a sport that has changed fundamentally due to a relatively minor tweak in the laws. Monday morning coffee read for the ages!

Just put me on a flaming raft and push it out to sea.

Alas, poor Wales

Bitcoin the “unproductive belief system”… 🤣🤣🤣

Just seen a.redditor noticed France allowing turnovers rather than concede penalty The reliance on turnover penalties for good exits is probably a major part of why Ireland were out on their feet 30 minutes in Good reffing to allow turnovers rather than blow immediately Finally someone has noticed

It’s a beautiful day, my fellow Springbok fans… we are underdogs once again and will rule the world!

I feel like Ireland started to lose their way when Papa Andy went off to the Lions, and they are struggling to find their way back. Maybe it’s time to look for a new path instead?

Jalibert has created all three tries. Extraordinary player!

The sales pitch never changes, only the product #AI

This will probably result in another 25% tariff on our exports of white Afrikaner refugees

Sacha is the Ferrari Willemse is the keys

It's so cute that New Zealand rugby thinks it's in a crisis right now

Oof, right in the gut

The Stormers are just so... unprofessional

l'état, c'est moi

I really enjoyed this and would love to see any and all further glimpses into the Byzantine caves of rugby administration. It's so important to how the game ends up being played on the field and I dont think its covered nearly enough.

Is there a Greenland Takeover crypto token yet?

With great power comes great corruption

Yes I’m sorry about the child porn but some of my professional network are there and I’ve a Substack to promote and the sports is good and a lot of people laugh at my jokes over there….

Technically I should want Leinster to win to keep the Stormers top of the log, but I tried and I just can’t do it. Leinster can only be supported against a French team and sorry I don’t make the rules

My Boxing Day potjie Breyani was a gosh darned triumph I tell ya, and is in serious danger of being promoted to a tradition.

This may not be news in the US, but if Americans care to see how disgusting and hypocritical their gov. is behaving elswhere in the world, read this. Context: to process whites-only 'refugees' (anything but), they have flown in Kenyans without work permits .../ www.timeslive.co.za/politics/202...

With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue The only thing I ever got from you was sorrow Sorrow You acted funny trying to spend my money You're out there playing your high class games of sorrow Sorrow 🎶

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

Wait, so World Rugby screwed up the World Cup draw AGAIN?

Because what we (brains+body) do and how we do it is not symbol/"data" manipulation, it is matter manipulation, at atom scale. We are nowhere near that in any way shape or form.

🖐️um, please sir, does this include white Afrikaner refugees?

oh you think the jokes in thomas pynchon novels are corny? the names? you don't like the songs? you might like the single greatest stylist of the 20th century and the one novelist who almost grasps the totality if he wasn't so "cringe" for you? should we throw a party? call the papers?

Boks have won 11/13 in 2025, and are on track to finish with an 86% record for the 1st time. Wins v NZ, France, Ireland will be savoured, but worth celebrating how Rassie has juggled resources and kept his development promise with a view to the 2027 RWC www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators

Beauty vt.tiktok.com/ZSffNF7UB/

people claiming AI doesn't have a business model, eat your words, again

Oh please please PLEASE

Consistency lol

American AI is still doing a fabulous job of understanding South African accents. This was poor Desiree from the Wine of the Month club trying hard to sell me some festive plonk

The perfect Scottish response to this would be to sack Toonie and replace him with Sean Everitt

In 2025 rugby matches are won and lost in the bench. Rassie gets it. Borthwick gets it. Contempomi gets it.

Argentina playing like they have 14 men on the field!

Argentina are just letting Scotland win this one so they can beat England next week. I don’t make the rules

I think in retrospect the TMO was a bad idea

The fundamental thing about Rassie, as with many other children of alcoholics, is that he is a control freak. So when it didn’t work to try and influence refs to make calls his way, he decided to prepare a team that expects bad calls. That expects 14 men. It’s pathology transmuted into discipline.