These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.

Why yes. Yes I am ridiculously juvenile.

Cracking photo

My calendar, sending me back to work on Monday

Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!

Andrew Porter’s backside feeling a bench for the first time:

Did not expect this when I googled Scarlets Bordeaux I gotta say

Now imagine if the Champs cup was a straight knockout after last night.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

There we go. Everybody into double figures. Nobody sullying it with triple figures. Proper innings. #Ashes 🏏

in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company

Mitchell Starc has now faced more deliveries in this match than every England batter except Joe Root.

has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane

Ok I have no idea how cards work anymore The referees agree he deliberately stamps on a player twice but because its low force its only a 20 minute red So deliberate violent conduct isnt a red?

There are a lot of really horrific examples of “it can always get worse” in world history but I find Sepp Blatter to Gianni Infantino hits just the right note of bleak whimsy.

No, the discrepancy is between morality and reality. Of the 4 people in in the eg, only JHW took force, or was at risk of bodily harm. Here in NH, the form of an act is of greater, or at least equal value to the reality of an act. Threat to kill someone is the same as trying to kill someone. 2/

SA Rugby has been relatively easy to criticize in the past for many a reason but the extension of Rassie’s contract shows stability and good forward thinking. Excellent news and well done to the leadership at SA Rugby #Springboks #Rassie #Rugby

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“Eben liefie, he likes rugby just like you do” “Hi, why do the Boks kick so much??” Eben:

We may as well not play the game 😭😭😭 these dudes don’t back themselves at all.

Highly unlikely that there will be only one SH team in the semi-finals of a SH-hosted tournament. Mind you the fact that one of the QFs will almost certainly be between two SH teams does increase that possibility.

The 2027 Rugby World Cup is changing everything. Huw Griffin breaks down the new 24 team format and why this draw matters more than fans realise. Watch his full explanation now on Megafoon Rugby! @haribaldijones.bsky.social @huwgriffinrugby.bsky.social youtu.be/Ojw46fJEWt4

Porter is like most props — he has some guys he matches up really well against, and then some guys who are a stylistic nightmare for him. Essentially, the super heavyweights who can slip inside the gap between him and Sheehan really easily.

Something @rugbykino.bsky.social pointed out earlier: the team that wins Group E or F will avoid playing any other group winners until AT LEAST the semi-final. In related news I am very much hoping Ireland end up in Group E or F.

Took a closer look at how the Boks became Test rugby's most potent team: – Scoring progression from 2018 to 2025 – The Tonyball shift – The kick-chase double down Not just the world's leading attacking side in 2025, but the most complete all-court team 🧵

Tired of rugby analysts being happy with a lack of knowledge of the scrums So I called up a scrum expert to get the verdict on Ireland's Springbok capitulation TLDR: Ireland shouldn't be worried, but the 'Boks are ludicrously powerful. What makes them so good? www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...

So chosen because of the way it will prompt those online to say "actually, that is two words". qed.

The final @89combo.bsky.social Weekend Post-Mortem is done, with @haribaldijones.bsky.social & I running through the Boks record win over Wales in Cardiff Live now, everywhere: open.spotify.com/episode/0u5l...

Honestly, there is no better rugby writer out there than @bloodandmud.bsky.social. This preamble is a work of art. #WALvRSA www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2...

The Welsh Scrum. #WALvRSA

"ons gaan hawe too" #walvsa

Met one of my heroes tonight was amazing.. thank you @lekkerrugbypod.bsky.social thank you and thanks to Paul. 🤗

That’s their weakened side?! 😭

Don’t let Duane walk behind any players on stairs this week.

I just backed Crocodile Dance - An Africanfuturist Animated Film on @kickstarter.com - because we need more diverse voices in animation! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cok...

this is how I imagine most people look at the scarlets in training

Megafoon Rugby is giving away 2 tickets to a meet-and-greet with Siya Kolisi & Eben Etzebeth in Cardiff on 27 Nov! Comment “I’m available in Cardiff on 27 Nov!” to win! @haribaldijones.bsky.social @huwgriffinrugby.bsky.social

Thought they could trick us into batting last by giving us a 300 run lead but we weren't born yesterday.

Only possible solution is India, Australia, and England restrict their income even further and not play them at tests at all

And, yes, I am rather vexed. That scrum regularly gets tuned like a wonky piano, and yet you go up against, of *all* teams on God’s good green earth, the Bokke without a replacement lock? That’s not even hubris, that’s just straight-up stupidity. It got what it was asking for.

I had forgotten about the horrendous elbow-drop/croc-roll Doris/Ryan combination on Malcolm Marx last year that broke his leg. Ryan has been on borrowed time for quite a while before the flying shoulder to the face got caught yesterday.

Malcolm Marx got the Leonard di Caprio The Revenant Oscar WPOTH for a lifetime achievement, even if this wasn’t anywhere near his best season. He’s definitely been the best hooker in the world for close to a decade and is massively important to the Springboks. But Ox Nche was ROBBED!

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social What a top scrum looks like. Note how *fast* it is, and that once it starts moving, it just all cascades back and momentum keeps it going. This is not a fifteen-second contest, let alone a fifteen minute one. Othismos was not a scrum analogue.

I love scrums. Adore scrums. Hated all this running about bit, but loved even scrums that didn’t go well. So, to watch a righteous punishment of gimmickry and treating the scrum as something to be gamed around is, for me, the sort of OT divine chastisement sent to lead a people to repentance.

Deserved recognition for Marx – and he had some stiff competition from Du Toit and Nché, who've also had massive seasons.