I’d simply parry the RPG

Either the animated sequence in the Olympics opening ceremony is a weird tribute to AI slop, or it's an insult to Italian artists and animators. In any case, it's in poor taste.

FRIDAY!

I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny

I think this was a sensible approach for United to take this window. The first 11-13 players make a pretty competitive, settled side - the problem has been an incredibly thin bench. Unlike last year that's down to injury rather than talent, so padding out our short-term depth looks good to me.

First of three deadline day signings for United Women, who've been desperately short of bodies outside of the first XI for the last few months. Phew!

Been so close to buying this on PC for ages, instabuy on Switch 🤩

Out of nowhere! Yes please

🗞️ New edition of WOMEN OF STEEL just dropped, reviewing an excellent draw with leaders Charlton 🙌 It's also transfer deadline day for WSL and WSL2, so I'll have my eyes open for any late moves by the Blades: womenofsteel.substack.com/p/md14-blade...

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

While United's men's and women's teams are both probably finishing midtable, it is enjoyable that maybe 3 of our 4 most fun players are academy products (Andre Brooks, Femi Seriki and Tilly Bristow)

Long have I waited for this day

Christ that was heavy 😩

recorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.

Lots of thoughts on the Blades hiring a new head coach in this week's newsletter, plus a fantastic result for the U21s: open.substack.com/pub/womenofs...

THREE HOUR Zodiac episode of Rewatchables 😵‍💫🫡

The Patriots and Drake Maye are headed to the Super Bowl.

Young lad with the stiff arm!

DRAAAAAKE MAYYYYYE

Denver have to kick from wherever surely. Patriots aren't going 40+ yards the other way

This is, once again, very tense

Stidham might have actually thrown the ball better than Maye tonight, well apart from that meltdown moment in the first half

Not enough evidence to overturn

Patriots getting to the end of the half tied 7-7 did not feel likely for the majority of it

6yo with a PB in her 50th junior park run this morning 💪 (finished just behind Jess Ennis' daughter, we'll get her next time)

@harveyhinkler.bsky.social unironically, that Sunderland goal today is one of my favourite goals of the season so far. Magnificent sport

My scorching hot take is that the Patriots should win tonight but Denver also probably have enough necessary tools to make it not happen. And if they don't, then losing to Nick Foles in the super bowl was far, far worse than losing to Jarrett Stidham in the championship game

No, you don't forget a thing like this

Just bumped into Sheffield United defender Molly Graham in the shop #starstruck

Good read on @thecutback.com.web.brid.gy. I really don't know how I feel about this! Investment = very good, multi-club ownership = potentially very bad www.thecutback.com/p/michelle-k...

Just finished reading No Country For Old Men and that is a hell of a book ain't it. I've read a fair bit of Cormac McCarthy so no idea why it took me so long to get to this (and no, I've not seen the film 🫣)

Dem next generation Blades ⚔️

New WOMEN OF STEEL just published: United into the 5th Round of the FA Cup where they'll face Man City, a Tammi George update, and the second part of my midseason player grades (midfielders and attackers). Thanks for reading! open.substack.com/pub/womenofs...

That is really shit about FBRef getting shut down (especially if, as appears, it's for crappy corporate reasons). Used it so much for football data over the years and it's the only place I've found that has proper in-depth #woso stats. Football fandom just got a bit dumber.

interesting timing. (h/t @afhstewart.bsky.social) inside.fifa.com/tournament-o...

Utterly disastrous news for public access to soccer data and statistics. www.sports-reference.com/blog/2026/01...

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

Today is the 80th birthday of DAVID LYNCH. A day to celebrate the birth of an artist who forever changed the world of art and culture. And our lives. Thank you for everything. Long live The Greatest.

This shot from NFL Films is unbelievable

Eight times ffs

24 hours later, still no highlights of this game (or most of the other 4th round ties) available...

The AFC East exploding around the Patriots is not what I anticipated this season

Using a combination of glitches in Super Mario World, Yoshi can be taken into the final battle, where he can eat Peach upon Bowser's defeat. With Peach gone, the ending will not play, and Mario and Yoshi will simply stare at each other forever.

eyes emoji at this one, would be (another) ridiculous signing for LCL

Texans D has been exactly as advertised tonight, woof. But we're on to Denver 😀

Burn allll the clock on this drive please

GOOD GOD KAYSHON BOUTTE

Holy shit what a catch by Boutte

Think today might be an L, but all the same, go Pats