Said Kepa was a bad deal in the summer. The same people defending it then now never want to see him start.

Selection problems are recruitment problems. If you don't trust Norgaard or Mosquera against a Championship side, then they shouldn't be at the club.

Ah well

Watching Twilight in German

You'll never walk alone, lad Unless you get beat and we all fvck off early x

Gabriel the only player that pulled out of the international break starting

Lineup is exactly as predicted.

I'm not sure Anelka, Overmars, Alexis Sanchez, Gnabry or Xhaka make this team better in 2026.

crazy day on Octopus Agile in the UK tomorrow. They’re paying almost 12p per kWh for people to use electricity thanks to the huge amounts of wind from Storm Dave. Cheers Dave 🍻

4? Good lord

the guy next to me on the train is searching for images of gas canisters and rocket launchers to add to the PowerPoint deck he is preparing. Project manager for a terrorist group, perhaps?

An update: in February 2026, *every single one* of the 1,507 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 3,155 white South Africans, three Afghans, and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing? Shameful.

Elon Musk is making the big banks who want work on SpaceX's IPO subscribe to Grok. Some of those banks will now pay tens of millions in dollars annually for the chatbot. Business! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/b...

the manager of the month curse is a lie

Excellent nominative determinism, BBC News website.

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

It sounds bad to say “I only want to see white people starring in movies” so instead you attack “woke casting” if a movie has too many non-white characters. It’s the filmmakers who are the real racists!

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

Barcelona reach the Champions League semi-finals after two dominant quarter-final performances against rivals Real Madrid. After scoring six goals in the first leg, Barcelona repeat the feat in front of a sold-out crowd at the Camp Nou to record a 12-2 aggregate victory.

Someone sent me this.

A culture obsessed with punishment doesn’t heal anyone or make things right.

Why does this say tomorrow? Game is on Saturday and today is Thursday, right?

Chelsea 1 (2.5)-(1.5) 0 Arsenal

Hahaha

Daphne van Domselaar!

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Away section clearly labelled 👌

Alito is a big fan of The Americans. Yes, Paige and Henry Jennings are citizens.

I'm going to get blocked today. I have a lot of free time.

What is pathetic about second chances? Why shouldn't "coercive control and assault" get a second chance? In what way does permanent exclusion and refusing second chances prioritize the victim in this case?

More than 20% of the people in the world were not alive when Italy last played at the World Cup.

the reason he is tweeting about it is that he can't afford it

"A cautious, ideology-moderated party that makes the right noises and spooks nobody is the wettest dream of the corporate “center.” The donor class would love a Democratic Party that wins and operates like an ineffective Republican Party changes nothing much materially, especially not for the rich."

age verification is identity verification. this is an identity verification bill. do you want to make everyone verify their identity to the state right now? does that seem prudent? that's going to keep people safe? the only safe data is the kind you don't collect

1. Germany already said the war is illegal. 2. US now threatening "complete obliteration" of Iran's energy system and, maybe, of desalination plants – i.e., war crimes. 3. Reminder: The war is conducted from Ramstein, Germany: "the nerve center of America’s operations against Iran". What gives?

i love the small print “because the regulators won’t let us :(“

Is it the liberal position that the US government fuel blockade of Cuba should be absolute and leave 10 million people in darkness?

Professional fraudster blames hard working capital allocators for housing problems

The reference to Oman is interesting, because that's who controls the other side of the Strait, and it suggests a serious effort at creating a durable legal framework here.

There's one trait where economists clearly outperform the other social sciences: Hubris.

Ah yes, a game between Ireland and Czechia, two teams that might not make the world cup, is the best we'll see till July.

Three out of four Premier League fans are wrong

People always assume content moderation is easy. Remove the bad stuff. Keep the good stuff. The reality is that it's all a series of tradeoffs where every decision has problems, and the decisions *you* think are obvious, often turn out to have really negative consequences.

Taking advantage of our marginalized communities to get cheap rent unethically, unlike me, a guy who moved here in 2016 in order to get cheap rent.

Israel interdicts Cardinal Pizzaballa en route to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday. www.custodia.org/it/news/join...