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.

reform and labour both losing while the conservatives lose their deposit is delicious

saying goodbye to my pal chicken today. she's going someplace where the sunbeams don't move while she's napping and the humans don't cut her off after two treats. sc transit gallina mundi

gustavus adolphus's german campaign wasn't *not* spursy, come to think of it

o.o

top-notch rapid characterisation here

gotta say i'm not a a fan of brain cancer taking my dog away

having keira walsh play for your club after she is washed is a very never meet your heroes feeling

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

can't believe the news out of el paso. handing out anti-drone lasers like candy and nobody's seen fit to give me one? disgusting

The spreadsheet on this clay tablet, which is almost 4,000 years old, is organised into columns for furrowed area, grain produced, land not sown, and the field’s name. The first field is called “Of the soldiers who stood in for their fathers”. It’s ancient Excel, but I find that incredibly moving

i, too, regret the anglo-saxon incursions. vortigern has much to answer for

my skills: * things openai is trying to automate / make obsolete * extremely good archer 🤔

i was given an interesting-looking book of nahautl poetry so i spent a few days reading up on aztec history, mythos, language, etc to situate myself. nothing warned me about the horniness

i love the bulkington chapters of moby-dick because they go: 1) there was a big handsome guy at the bar. he seemed super cool and popular 2) saw the beefy handsome man again. he doesn't actually come up in the rest of the story but i wanted to emphasise that he was real handsome and real large

finally got around to watching the halftime show and that shit ruled so hard. amazing set design and choreography

As a logistics nerd, I just eat this stuff up. Do you have *any* idea how tightly choreographed and practiced all these movements had to be to get the scene set in one commercial break of time? Then to tear it all down and remove it just as quickly after!

i think i'm at least a high second-rounder but curious to see where i end up

my "i am not resigning" t-shirt etc

the turnovers were cool but the single play that summed up that super bowl was rylie mills getting his first career sack by hitting a dude with his own left guard

this patriots team making it all the way to the super bowl is very funny

surely the fact morgan mcsweeney is an immigrant means starmer can cheer himself up by blaming him for everything

bezos handing a random british mediocrity millions to help ruin a venerable institution and doesn't even have the decency to choose me as the mediocrity smh

A squirrel scored twice today at Bristol City. Bristol City 3 Hull City 2 Squirrel 2

i like how the handball rule is now so confusing that announcers have trouble with the 'if his arm wasn't in the way it would have been a goal' penalty calls

"dad, what were the best memes from when you were a kid?" ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

me: why do i need my phone to tell me when it's raining i can just look out a window also me: /buys and fixes cute aneroid barometer to have on my wall

the winter olympics should just be all the summer olympic events but in snow and ice. (sorry swimmers)

problem: too many set piece goals solution: nothing the goalkeeper does in the six-yard box can be called a foul. have fun!!