109 years after the Sykes-Picot betrayal www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Idiots think Big Virg is the 28th best player in the world www.theguardian.com/football/liv...

"Don’t worry about me: I’ve just been looping Jimmy Carter speeches and majestic whale sounds on my Golden Record while thanking my lucky stars I’m over fifteen billion miles away from you bozos."

Further, "There is nothing defamatory about a man sending a bawdy letter to his friend. ... To the extent Plaintiff believes that this conversation or the drawing make it appear as though he “lacks good taste,” this "would not be defamatory.” www.courtlistener.com/docket/70843...

Bunnymen, Liverpool's finest youtu.be/LWz0JC7afNQ?...

This seems bad...

First they came for Jimmy Kimmel, because I wasn’t paying attention to any of the people they came for before that

"With light in my head, with you in my arms" happy spring equinox Down Under youtu.be/a4UQJwd3awQ?...

It's been 25 years since Bush v Gore

Spinning in the rain like 150kg ballerinas, wait til you see Samoa's first ever medal & the absolute box office Viking in a wet t-shirt performing a miracle in the last round, dancing in the Tokyo deluge youtu.be/wCl8exeyPWw?...

Might take an @itvx.com Mr Bates-style drama to force the issue, though. Presume they're working on it....

Jack Posobiec is one of the earliest boosters of the pizzagate conspiracy theory – that morphed into the QAnon movement – which has led to violent acts and deaths across the world. He’s now addressing a memorial service the president is attending.

Today is World Alzheimers Day. For those who have any form of dementia it is a challenge. For those who are carers it can be very tough. It takes a huge amount of patience & love to be a carer, & it is taxing, both emotionally and logistically. This is John's story.

The River Cam should flow with pure chalk spring water. Instead, it runs on sewage outflows laced with phosphorus, and it's killing life in the river. Read the full story for this week's #BigRiverWatch ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

"$50k figure represents the damages Wynn-Williams has to pay for material breaches of the separation agreement she signed when she left Meta in 2017. Meta emphasised she entered into the non-disparagement agreement voluntarily as part of her departure" #ZuckOff www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

So, y'know... I literally told you so Moreover, pretty much every time they say 'this larger model hallucinates less' that's turned out to be unfounded optimism as less biased research came out

In America, we defend free speech in terrible times. We defend free speech even when it’s offensive. We defend free speech. www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/p...

Imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tapes. That’s what this is.

The balance of a ballet dancer in a swimming pool, when he's 2 metres tall (6feet7) and 155 kilos, and the extraordinary championship mindset too

Absolutely. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

READ MORE: www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland...

The inevitable failure to prosecute or even remove from the Lords any of the profiteers from mass manslaughter is all you need to know about British regulation

March 1864, Grace & Hayward played for an England XI at the MCG. EM Grace (older brother to WG) took 9-69 in the match and opened the batting, as the English won in 3 days. It was Tom Hayward Snr, uncle to the 2nd immortal centurion of centuries (after Grace) static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1...

I live so close I get a freebie but for the other 400,000 people "Ticket prices for next year's motorsport event in Melbourne have been increased across the board, with a weekend adult ticket that cost $309 this year increasing to $385" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

This is without the ongoing $multibillion crypto grift...funded by insanely rich oligarchs including his Russian and Chinese backers

"Ernst Rohm was a hero not a traitor"

Just a smal towne girle Livinge yn a lonelye worlde She took the midnighte cart Goinge anywhere

Confusion in Russia, where "Intervision" - fighting back against immorality and homosexuality - crowned a famously androgynous Vietnamese singer the winner. His name - Duc Phuc - will no doubt also be humorous to English speakers.

Went looking for the loophole, and it kind of feels like this is going to end up applying to all big tech under an AI exception, leaving smaller companies to bribe Trump directly to get their needs declared critical for national security too.

I reviewed two... Only 5288 for others

There is another country. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog discussing the thuggery, sanctimony and hypocrisy of the last fortnight, and how Starmer should lead in articulating an alternative version of patriotism to that of the far-right: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/ther...

The Irish, out of pure greed for foreign investment, have been selling the data of 450 million European citizens to the Trumpist regime. Ireland undermines the EU in service to the US in a shameful equivalent of the work Hungary does for Russia. It has to stop. noyb.eu/en/former-me...

Nuclear's comeback was never going to happen 'naturally'. People like Michael Shellenberger require fascism, dictators and safety-worsening deregulation to see their dreams realised. This new thing involves Palantir btw. How cool

"Terror (1991) arguing that “the idea of global terrorism is a contrivance designed to legitimise state violence against political opponents”. Initially sceptical about a human rights act – fearing conservative judges – he approved of how the legislation operated" www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

Conor Gearty obituary - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

Listen to this and weep for who we have lost. Just before he died the great Conor Gearty spoke with learning & passion about what his friend K Starmer must do to defend democracy. Try from about 35’ in if you’re pressed for time - but the whole episode is worth it open.spotify.com/episode/27xX...

Partiellement privée de son kiné, Nafi Thiam peut compter sur celui des Borlée durant son heptathlon

Future Fund fiasco: UK taxpayers have lost £400 million as a result of an investment fund launched by Rishi Sunak.

Right. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.

Every 4 years Ireland's data protection "regulator" writes to the Irish Council for Civil Liberties to say their investigation into shady Real Time Bidding ad networks' surveillance of <everyone> is at a "mature" stage and its release is imminent And surveillance + sale of data to ANYONE goes on

French President Emmanuel Macron warned Israel’s military offensive in Gaza is destroying the country’s credibility.

"We have fans telling us all the time how frustrated they are with Ticketek and Ticketmaster, depending on which ones they use, depending on which ground they're going to," Mr Issko said. It's a monopoly mafia www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

A stormy dawn as we approach spring equinox. Hour change and later sunrise in a fortnight

WEIRD, HUH.

Difficult to assess his first global championships, didn't go under 20 seconds or reach the final, but he's only 17. A legal 19.8 was too much to hope for yet

Guys, Trump said this in November of *2015*. If you read my Salon piece about The 'F' Word" from that month you will see that many *Republicans* were calling Trump out as a fascist. It's been obvious from the beginning. (And I don't want to hear about guardrails. They were made of jello.)

Trump says he specifically requested that Sadiq Khan be excluded from the UK state banquet: "On immigration, he's a disaster." As mayor of London, Khan has no powers over immigration.

Massive Attack remove music from Spotify to protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI military www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

I wrote about how Democrats and the press aided Trump's obvious five year quest to transfer ownership of TikTok to his technofascist buddies under the pretense of security and privacy concerns: