can i cut a deal with emmanuel clase instead

How can you tell two knots apart? It’s a tougher question than you might think. www.quantamagazine.org/a-powerful-n...

someone in the maltese museum of archeology is trying to kill londo mollari

"if giant cretaceous octopus didn't exist it would be necessary to invent it" — voltaire, probably

i don't think rationally *or* enjoy pretend tea parties. we are not alike at all

i was on vacation for the latest round of 'your specific company is dying and you will be figuratively and probably literally dismembered within weeks', so catching up on that is nice

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

we've had long enough under chelsea's new owners that i think it's fair to judge them * they are extremely good at creative accounting * they don't know how to evaluate players * they don't know how to evaluate managers * accounting tricks aside they're useless on the corporate side of things too

part of being older and having children etc is that you can detach yourself from caring about your teams and enjoy the mad carnage as performance art. which is to say i'll sort of miss liam rosenior, who was very funny

resisted every one of my Video Game Instincts by not ostentatiously pushing this tile

personally i think allbirds should pivot back to birds

i will have no free time because i will have no money and then be dead. so it’s fine

finally

can't believe they ignored the sign

west ham are risen

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

most brands on April 1st: half-arsed 200 word blog post Warhammer: www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

We should all build a culture that allows trans people to be celebrated everyday, and remove the people & systems of power who would get in the way of this dream.

Job Alert! This is an Assistant Director of Football role in women's football, reporting directly to me. The skill set is diverse, including tactical knowledge, player eval, negotiation, and strong people skills. Women especially encouraged to apply. jobsinfootball.com/job/123612/a...

So, I need you to watch Oakland Roots goalkeeper Raphael Spiegel (blue) here. He's up for a late free kick, but when it goes awry he heads behind the goal and get a second ball to punt onto the field. Eventually, after Tommy McCabe's goal line clearance, he gets sent off. #USL-C

my retirement plan is to die immediately

I don’t believe in the supernatural but I am certain that the path of a sporting event can change depending on whether I personally turn the game on or off

are we doing baseball again? i'm not even recovered from the last time we baseballed

great news this, and the coastal walks in the south are a lifeline londoners in particular, I think. BUT they're also made inaccessible to young and lower income people by insane train prices. an hour-long return journey to the coast shouldn't cost £50. bsky.app/profile/mrja...

new perk of parenthood: child saving up their pocket money to buy a video game you wanted to buy for yourself

£1m/journey as a starting point

I'm pleased Guro got a nice send off. Too many people who have given loads to this club have been rushed out the back door under this ownership.

on background is out. on foreground is in

the world might be terrible but at least i coaxed some pretty flowers out of my orchid

we have to start thinking about real, practical solutions

navies famously love escorting big slow ships through minefields while under artillery bombardment from the shore

I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.

"but doctor ... i am tottenham hotspur!"

at least when i was depressed i was pretty sure something could help

my secret to productivity is that every day i wake up at least half-expecting to lose my job, then my home and then my children and the only way i can i distract myself is with little javascript problems

“It’s a thing of enormous beauty. ...It’s marvelous. It’s a wonder. … It’s phenomenal.” Behold the nuclear pore complex in all its messy glory - Fabulous @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social piece: www.quantamagazine.org/disorder-dri...

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends. It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

i'm just glad everyone's group chats have had a nice time doing the strait of hormuz meme

i can't believe mojtaba khamenei is going to be the new ceo of bluesky, wild

starting to get to "how much could i sell my library for" levels of ecomonic anxiety over here

Nothing has hammered home that I’m in my mid-to-late 30s quite like seeing Manager Glasses Albert Pujols.

everyone making jokes about becoming supreme leader better hope chat gpt doesn't slurp in that info for airstrike targetting

this is absurd, but i'm also tickled by the idea of a fake graham-editor that spends hours lecturing writers on why their classical references are wrong and bad

who gives a shit

pig says "hi"

i'll miss watching spurs

lear. but richard iii was my first one so hard to top that on sentimental grounds

one of the things i love about london is how into pop culture it is. for instance there's a train station named after a cartoon bear and one named after an abba song

hahahhahahahahah get fucked Matt Goodwin.