7 Haitian players banned, Iran forced to pull out, Dan boy it’s galore - if Infantino wasn’t so much Trump’s good little boy, FIFA would take the World Cup from America now.

Apart from the moral repugnance, this is so revealing of how ignorant conservatives are about poverty. Poor people have to think about money ALL THE TIME. They worry constantly about what everything costs, how to substitute one purchase for another, what bill can be put off until payday, etc.

If the Boat Race had not been televised for the last 88 years, no-one would think it particularly important to put it on TV now.

Noticing a worrying trend this morning for people to claim Twitter is somehow improving recently and we should all give it another chance. It hasn't improved, it's still a cesspit of misogynists, grifters, racists, transphobes, MAGA morons and kiddie porn, and we should not give it another chance.

Spurs should be sacking Igor Tudor tonight for taking Kinsky off after 17 minutes. Absolute tosser behaviour.

Just had to do some online research on 19th century ammunition for a book - bloody hell, you do not want to end up on fora full of guys talking about old guns. More right-wing stupidity and bigotry in there than in the White House when Nigel Farage was visiting.

"Barton did not attend the hearing... he was arrested on Monday and is currently being held in custody." Because he's been charged with assaulting a man near a golf club on Sunday night. What an absolute twat. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

leland palmer in the black lodge

Be just our luck if Trump and his pals manage to destroy the world just before Hearts win the title.

I'm surprised opera people have been so offended and taken back by all this. It would be like if I got arsy because someone suggested County Championship cricket isn't as popular as the Premier League. Opera is good and I go sometimes and I'm pro subsidising it up the wazoo, but come on lads

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

Excellent - now it'd be good to see government limiting the profits allowable to old folks' homes. Our elderly former neighbour is paying £9000 a month to stay in one and watching his life savings and the house he lived in for 60 years all disappear into the rapacious care home owner's pockets

Excoriating.

“If any member of Congress had declared that ‘Jews do not belong in America,’ that politician would rightfully face condemnation, censure and even possibly expulsion,” says a spokesperson for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy org.

On Saturday, March 7th Jello Biafra suffered a hemorrhagic stroke caused by high blood pressure. 

As per Jello:

The only book in history likely to sell fewer copies than Liz Truss's memoir.

Fans fighting on the pitch in the Old Firm game is a disgrace, and both clubs and fans should be getting serious punishment - but where the hell did the commentators see a 'superb game of football'? Were they watching a different match to the rest of us?

There are almost as many reasons to sake 'fuck off' as there are words in this sentence.

You average normie Democrat in 2026 loves AOC, wants to abolish ICE, and thinks Israel shouldn’t get another penny from us. It’s laughable how out of touch centrist consultants and politicians are.

I'm beginning to think that FIFA are a bunch of cunts. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Princesses Eugenie & Beatrice weren't caught in the flack of their parents' links to Epstein, they were adults lunching & partying with a convicted paedophile. This is more evidence of the royal family trying to limit the damage with dishonesty. Strip their titles too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The reason the middle-class media has not reported Hannah Spencer being attacked by right-wing transphobes is that it needs to preserve the nice, coffeee-round-the-kitchen-table, middle-class view of transphobia, not the thuggish fascist reality.

The BBC’s job is to “inform, educate, and entertain”? Let’s talk about the middle word. What follows is the story of what we found in an FOI request (per the Observer) about the Corporation killing off plans to launch an online catalogue and failing to deliver ‘learning for people of all ages’. 🧵

Homophobia is taught, it's not innate.

League Cup: St Mirren Scottish Cup: Falkirk Premiership Title: Hearts FA Cup: Port Vale The dream is still alive!

Defending women and girls by harassing a woman. It's always about the power - over the trans community, over cis women, over anyone who disagrees with them. It's just an excuse.

Salute to the headbanger kid in my 8th grade art class who one day quietly said that the best guitarist in the world wasn’t Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, or Jimmy Page. It was, in fact, he insisted, George Benson. We didn’t know what to do with this information but he was resolute.

Finally admitting I need to put all the Doctor Who fiction books away so I can make way for the records (and Obverse stock) that threaten to crush me to death one of these days. Complete sets of the NAs, EDAs, Targets etc. Boxes 5 and 6 of what’s likely to be 10-12 boxes…

Where has this amazing album been all my life? (ah, it was only released in 2021, so where has this amazing album been since 2021 then?) stillplucknett.bandcamp.com/album/bandas...

It took me a minute to register what “it” is… I sure hope the comments pop.

If it wasn't for Publishers Weekly's incessant hyping of AI, I would never have learned how to unsub from their mailing list.

Hard to decide what sounds most laughable in the news about Kristi Noem: that she's now Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, which sounds like some knockoff Avengers baddie, or that she's been replaced by an MMA guy called Markwayne who wears a big hat No wait, it's definitely the 1st one.

It's WORLD BOOK DAY, so here's a 10% off voucher for any book on the Obverse website. WBD2026 obversebooks.co.uk (and now I'm off to send @nickmcampbell.bsky.social a nice, neatly copy-edited version of his BEYOND THE ANNUAL YEARS book!)

Blech. How very, very unpleasant. Stay away from that Network site. Just... keep as far from it as possible.

There is just something deeply disturbing and offensive about watching a Labour govt keep kicking the most vulnerable in our society.

This is quite lovely. @karenvogtmusic.bsky.social karenvogt.bandcamp.com/album/haunte...

Excellent piece by Mr Elledge.

First #towerofdiscs of the post-Facebook era. Likely only to interest @mcgenius.bsky.social [email protected] - I don't think anyone else from FB is on Bluesky! Still don't really understand why Led Zep were huge, but Lianne Hall is amazing and the rest range from good to great.

I get asked to show up to book clubs, online and offline. Here is why from now on the answer is always "no." If you think this might have something to do with "AI" ruining yet another thing for everyone, you're absolutely 100% correct. whatever.scalzi.com/2026/03/03/i...

The tragic/amusing (delete as appropriate) thing is that the Senile Orange Rapist will definitely not understand this post.

Absolutely hideous. Though how Grammerly generally was ever a profit making company continues to baffle me.

This is heartbreaking. Treating people who've planned their lives around our word is wrong and the Home Office statement at the bottom is callous - completely failing to engage with the human stories, probably because they know their position cannot be justified.

Went to see Morse: House of Ghosts last night. Now can't decide if I've been unfair to Colin Dexter (the script to this was rotten), if Morse doesn't lend itself to theatre (far too many awkward set changes) or if the appeal of Morse was wholly down to John Thaw (Tom Chambers as Morse was very poor)

This perfectly illustrates my point that the British tabloids are aiming at a US audience. There like 5 people in the UK who think about this. But it is huge among US evangelicals. British politicians need to ignore UK tabloids, as UK tabloids are talking to an audience in the US for clicks.

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

This is nothing. Just send Mahmood out again to announce some more anti-refugee policies and you can easily find your way to fifth place.

It's fascinating to watch cooler Labour heads like Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham say that comparing the Greens and Reform together is a terrible tactic. Yet Labour ministers are hourly on shows keeping up the same narrative. The Green Party and Reform are completely the opposite!

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

Amrael. It's just a portmanteau of America and Israel. But it doesn't half sound like the name of a fucking demon.