Randomly floating around online. Believable.

It's curious to see on Bonfire Night. Most estates - people trecking to the free town centre display and home by 8. The council estate - one epic display per 6 houses. There's a study in this. So counter intuitive

I hope now the New York election is over that isn't the end of the Zohran font.

Interesting on a national scale, but I really do have to question how the census draws borders. My street falls into the 4000/34,000 most deprived in the country.... When....Its pretty alright I reckon. But its in a census area shaped like a 3, the next street over... 20,000/34,000. Gerrymander ho!

Crazy #safc. First 10 minutes looked in a different league to Everton. Next 15...they still did. Differently.

Why does nobody say "lucka" anymore. I used to use it all the time. But now I struggle to think of where it would be useful. The decline of language saddens me.

Man does LNERs announcerbot sound threatening when she says "We will call at London King's Cross..... OnLy" OOoooOooooo

Pleased to see things starting to come together for Brobbey. Not least because he already has a tailor-made song in Mr Blobby. #safc

So what's the point in VAR if they won't flag obvious things like Ballard being pushed over? #safc

The best thing about finishing a project is closing 50 tabs.

I see #Netflix are really going all out on viral marketing for the next series of #Lupin www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...

Agree with the #safc analysis of a decent first half but the second... Against good opposition we would have been crushed. We were just desperate to lose.

Had no idea this was happening. Fascinating. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

Wouldn't want to raise his kids in the UK.... ... So moves to Dubai which filters out the good stuff about the UK and turns the bad up to 11....

"Prosecutor Jo Morris said that Mr Lennon had used an expletive at officers and had told them that his phone contained information about "vulnerable girls". " .... You know. I think Steve was telling the truth.

Sad chat amongst Newcastle Francophone mams the other day on whether they should still speak French with their kids in public. One of them got verbally assaulted by a random guy outside their school for it. :(

I'm afraid I'm turning a bit Farage in my old age. Can't help but find issue with this letter about getting the bairn vaccinated. Translated into a 6 pages of random languages (no French?). So much paper.... And I bet it does more to enrage idiots than help non English speakers.

I've just learned of the existence of Neuf-Brisach. A French city near the German border that to do this day constrains itself within a star fort. This. I like. Its on my travel list.

All my comics have happy endings!

It's probably just me, but the new Tyne and wear metro trains feel really weird with this metro style seating but such wide spacious carriages. In my mind this style of seating takes me back to smaller gauge trains in Tokyo.

This shop has real identity issues.

This story I don't expect to be that interesting to many. But one snippet.... "Dubai-based Desmond – the former proprietor of titles including the Daily Express, Asian Babes and Readers’ Wives –" Ohhh the Guardian has its claws out for other papers.

So #safc seem to have been a disaster today for some reason. #safc #mutd

So, what do you say, let's call the Premier League now. Season over with everyone in these positions. That sounds fair. #EPL #safc

How can this be a thing? British Wagyu? Ie British Japanese Cow. Surely that's a oxymoron

A bit negative maybe considering we played really well with 10 men. But... With the quality of #Villa I can't help but feel that's 2 points lost for #safc

So... If theres a fowl in the box they gets a yellow card.... That's not a penalty? #safc

Dirty cheating Villa. #safc are in trouble now.

My local Nazis are really a different class to your local Nazis

Stop spending on climate change boondongles! Let's put the money into care instead! ... So that's £77k less for care?

Never let a 4 year old get hold of the remote. They'll be on YouTube and watching Woden knows what before you know it.

This is a really minor story on the surface of it but it really epitomises in my mind so much of what is wrong in the UK. This is why we can't have nice things. We should take a leaf out of Holland and Japan's book. Let places be open till whenever.

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

If posted on twitter this would get me in the paper right? Look! The little blue bag! It's white!

During the Plague it was common practice to paint a red cross in the homes of the infected. This marked the home as a place of disease to be isolated from the community until the plague had passed. .... Just seeing some modern parallels in this.

Went to #Wallsend today. Not many flags about but an ungodly amount of vulgar crosses painted on random spots of the road. I wonder if this is a sign of the relative poverty of the area vs. Flag filled areas down south? Flags ain't cheap.

International breaks in football suck. Though this season especially I can't help but wonder why they don't plonk them at Africa Cup of Nations time.

AI? Tribalist Mackem troll? Who knows. But that there was no quality checks at all.... Beggars belief.

Oh dear. I don't look at Reddit much these days, but something interesting uncovered here. www.reddit.com/r/NewcastleU...

Great song. Criminally underrated band. I introduced this track to my kids yesterday. Tonight the toddler is singing yeah yeah yeah instead of sleeping

This just strikes me as common sense if you want to get people out of cars and onto trains.

Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.

Remember us all LGBT Durhamites past

#safc come through in the end today. Isidor scores the day after his daughter is born. Have to wonder there....how to pro footballers manage it? When I've got a baby at home my career sort of goes into doggy paddle mode. It's all I can do.

My 積ん読 is bad. Such a huge unread stack. Or more accurately read one chapter and stalled. I really need to try and get myself into a mode of reading more again. Set a good example for the kids. But its so hard to concentrate when they're about. Le sigh.

This one struck me as quite amazing. When when the local villagers are in favour of it the council still says no....

And how quick a season turns. From the height of confidence and optimism to a backwards step from last year. #safc

#Burnley are a bit dirty aren't they? Sunderland really spurning good chances.... That this is the easiest game of the season has me worried with #safc being safc.

#inflation unfolds right before your eyes.

"The watchdog also refused to investigate a complaint about a presenter’s use of an anti-trans slur, saying the comments were “in line with audience expectations for this channel” ....is that....how this works? Shouldn't that be more evidence for the need to do something?