@iykyhfrankherbert.bsky.social I'll bump up my Everton score for the season to a 6 if we can send Spurs down on Sunday.

I can *deep breath* Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, The King and I, and ...no, actually I can't.

My prediction: the UK government puts in a bid for the Olympics in the north of England, but then at the last moment changes it to taking place between Birmingham and Old Oak Common.

Enjoy the Sunday caption contest, give away lots of ❤️s, repost to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC

Pick a Bond from photos you already have in your phone.

Same energy

Worrying about anyone ‘wrecking Brexit’ is a bit like worrying someone’s going to come and make a mess of your septic tank.

probably just filming some content for eurovision

What would make my day is the sight of a panting over-excited media scrum of reporters asking Chris Mason if he can possibly hold on to his position as BBC Political Editor given his dire performance and total loss of public confidence.

As a casual observer of our neighbours politics this is very surprising. From all the breathless coverage you'd swear they had swept all before them

Keir Starmer doesn't need a speech with a new "vision". He needs to re-read the speech he gave the day after the general election, and this time act like he believes it.

Angela Rayner issues a strong call for a change in approach. She does this exclusively on Elon Musk-owned X, where people who don’t wish to provide content for a fascist are unable to read it. Not the best indication of a change, to be honest… @stephenkb.bsky.social

The Onion ass headline

Greater Manchester's results are even more striking when you see them on a map. If Andy Burnham did run as an MP Reform would probably win the mayoralty.

How Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday is bad news for Keir Starmer - Chris Mason

Jenrick on Sky there, "we are a national party" *Shouts at telly "yeah, British National Party you twat!"

“Across the sports landscape, we see that Fanatics are driving massive innovation in collectibles that provides fans with a new, meaningful way to engage with their favourite teams and with their favourite players,” said the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino. Fanatics is a betting website.

In the city I live in, 14,000 people are on the waiting list for social housing as one in three children grow up in poverty But sure, it’s the landlords who need some hope

So there are crazy headlines, and then there are "I'm sorry WTAF now?" headlines...😳 Yes, the Telegraph have deduced that Ed Miliband hates mothers because of some new legislation making tumble dryers more efficient and cheaper to run! 🧵 1/24

Reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportation machine -Donated $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania movie And now wants to reboot The Apprentice — with Don Jr as host. Still shopping on Amazon?

The Sweet pointed out in 1973 that ballrooms are inherently unsafe spaces

MAD STAT..... If Spurs, Burnley and Wolves go down it will be the league champions of 1959, 1960 and 1961 AND the FA Cup winners of 1960, 1961 and 1962 !! #LUFC

I like using the Merlin app to identify birdsong when walking in Gledhow Valley woods, which are ancient woodland, as this reading clearly shows.

Says the Butcher of Gaza "My wife and I were shocked to hear about the repeated attempt to assassinate Trump and his wife - There is no place for violence against anyone." - Netanyahu

Chelsea and Man City in the FA Cup final. No other English clubs have systematically ignored, bent or broken the rules like both have done. In terms of trophies won, no other English clubs have been as successful over the past decade and a half either. The moral of the story - is that there is none.

KING CHARLES: Remember that time in 1984 when you called the proposed National Gallery extension a “hideous carbuncle”? Double dog dare you to say that to Donald Trump when he shows you his plans for the White House ballroom and/or his triumphal arch. Double. Dog. Dare. No returns.

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"

Nothing says respect for the Georgia Women's Tennis team than relegating them to the being the background of the picture.

PSA: if, like me, you didn’t/don’t have HBO/Sky, this is now on Virgin (you’ll need to search for it). Just a staggeringly good bit of tv

Turns out I was giving Polanski too much credit on Ukraine. What the fuck is he talking about here? Putin has an ICC warrant for the industrial kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids & rewarded the soldiers who massacred civillians Bucha with medals for their ‘bravery’

Setting aside the 'I'm SHOCKED to find nefarious stuff in dodgy vape shops' thing I bet a lot of this could be fixed with a functioning Companies House. (Also adds to what I find with London gift shops that there is a lot of economic activity going on, rather than empty shops for money laundering.)

Pope Leo XIV: Jesus told us, blessed are the peacemakers. But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.

🧵 #ContraryMusicTakes: - I challenge the assertion that the only way is up. - I don't think he heard it through the grapevine; I think he stalked her and found out directly, but was too embarrassed to admit it.

Oh look, cool photo that obviously shows some 1980s pop punk music group. Oh wait, no, it's Marcel Breuer, Marta Erps-Breuer, Katt Both and Ruth Hollos-Consemüller in 1927. Crazy modern German kids of the 1920s, leading the world in design, art, etc. part of the Bauhaus school.

The BBC leads with a story suggesting widespread asylum seeker fraud At the same time Reform UK is using the issue as a campaign wedge in the May elections And that combination shapes how the story lands

Wow!

Another Fifa miracle: train tickets to the MetLife stadium which normally are $12.90 will cost $100 on World Cup match days. What Jesus did with loaves of bread and fishes, Gianni does with dollars.

Tailor Bird sews leaves together with plant fibre to form its nest!

Finally she tells the truth

FACTCHECK UPDATE: No, the UK can't "be more like Norway" in the North Sea 🇬🇧 extracted most of its oil & gas after privatisation 🇳🇴 has much more left due to state stewardship 🤔Lawson spent UK windfall on tax cuts; Norway got a sovereign wealth fund www.carbonbrief.org/...

Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees https://theonion.com/swollen-rfk-jr-warns-americans-not-eating-enough-bees/

Isn't Jonathan just wonderful? And still putting out great music!

Meanwhile, the international press is using Israel’s fake language & euphemisms. These are all headlines from the international media. It’s not a ground operation’ or a ‘security buffer zone’. It’s an INVASION. These are war crimes. 2/

so the strait - which was open six weeks ago - will reopen and that will be presented as some kind of victory?

Never forgive or forget. They saw the evidence & made their choice. President Trump will be our greatest ally after Brexit - Jacob Rees Mogg, May 1, 2018. The world was safer and more stable under President Trump - Boris Johnson, Feb 22, 2024. Britain needs its own Trump - Liz Truss, Nov 18, 2024.

The far side of the mo(r)on.