I'd have melted into a sad, repentant puddle at 'You imagine that?'. 😶

Blatant elbow there! Why no booking this time? #avfc

oh no #avfc

Remains accurate. #avfc

Now don't make me regret all this first-half optimism, Villa. #avfc

Wish I could say it comes as a massive surprise that there's an overlap between the flag people and suspected fraudsters, but this is great work by the @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social. 'It's 100% legitimate' www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/red-flags-th...

Each night, one person takes their turn to spin a globe around, close their eyes, plonk their finger down, and that's the country whose flag we all head out to surreptitiously add to lamp posts before the morning.

Well, that was certainly enjoyable in the end. #avfc

Malen, what a player! #avfc

Emi Buendiiiia! #avfc

Bizot's quite something. #avfc

If the world was not confusing and disconcerting enough, Aston Villa have now managed to win their first premier league match of the season.

What... What is this feeling? #avfc

WHAT IS GOING ON ASTON VILLA??? #avfc

*BANGS ON THE SIGN* #avfc

A Villa win! A Villa win! #avfc

Has someone drugged Rogers? #avfc

Classic McGinn! #avfc

'Instead of pursuing an ill-conceived search to link vaccines & autism, we need wide-ranging research on how the genes associated with autism work, how autism intersects with [...] A.D.H.D., depression & anxiety, and how sex & gender play roles in the onset of symptoms & a person’s life experience.'

Holy hell, Cash! An actual bloody goal! Maybe those boos are helping... #avfc

This rain has me hoping our athletes aren't from the drier parts of South Africa. #WorldAthleticsChamps #Tokyo25

South African men's 4x100m team impeded at the first handover! #Athletics #WorldAthleticsChamps #SouthAfrica #Tokyo25

South African men just ran an insane race to win their 4x400m heat! 🇿🇦 #WorldAthleticsChamps #Tokyo25 #Athletics #SouthAfrica

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

Not that anyone in politics listens to research, but there is a bucket of research (including some excellent recent studies) which show exactly this. Voters listen to leaders and respond to what they say.

Delighted to see two South Africans go through to the 100m finals, but would love to know how this commentator arrived at "L'hotel" as a viable pronunciation of Leotlela. You're missing whole syllables there, fella. #athletics #SouthAfrica

As many keep saying, LLMs are a joke. A pointless, planet-killing joke. #avfc

“My application for the job of being a law and policy commentator is based on being a supporter of the only football team in the top seven divisions that has not yet scored a goal this season. This gives me insight into the gap between expectations and reality.” #AVFC

luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

The markings that supposedly expressed “transgender ideology” were………..a series of arrows.

The evil that men do lives after them

Khayelitsha to CBD, monthly cost of transport for 1 person: R9 000 - R12000 by cheap car (repayment, fuel, insurance, maintenance, registration, depreciation) R1700 by car (petrol only) R1100 by Taxi R1000 by My Citi Bus R300 by Train

I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Even by current standards, the US seems to be having a truly bizarre time right now.

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Love this! "The ruling comes after two Free State women and their husbands challenged the constitutionality of the act and won in the lower court. They then decided to take the matter to the apex court, saying the act is, among other things, archaic and patriarchal." #SouthAfrica

Astonishingly, I've discovered, the Tufton Street junktanks that shaped Liz Truss's agenda are still operating at the heart of government. Remind me what we voted for again ... This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

EXCLUSIVE | A man convicted of the attempted murder of a 14-year-old child is now part of a group of vigilantes, who have been ‘patrolling’ Belfast's streets and claim to be protecting women and children from migrants

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

What a terrible day to have access to the internet.

Just a reminder that in the midst of waves of anti-migrant, anti-refugee and anti-asylum-seeker rhetoric and activism, there are also many charities working quietly, stoically and hard to fuel a better conversation and a better future. Actively supporting them makes a difference.

Heard some beautiful stuff from the uHlanga poets today at @openbookfestival.bsky.social. #CapeTown #poetry

Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?

🎶 Struck off in the morning... You'll get struck off in the mo-o-orning... 🎶

Wait, are you saying Labour's enthusiastic embrace of the populist playbook was a *bad* strategy?

Oh look, Labour has spent months targeting the wrong voters.

starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:

“A suspected Russian interference attack targeting Ursula von der Leyen disabled GPS navigation services at a Bulgarian airport and forced the European Commission president’s plane to land using paper maps.”