Pissing down with rain. Time for a Hydration break! #PAN-ENG #ENGLAND

This is always highly readable and insightful. Worth a few minutes of anyone's time.

If gravitational lensing can cause light from an object to appear to come from different directions and appear to be different objects, what's to stop light from some objects being completely unobservable? Aren't these unobservable objects 'dark matter'? #Astronomy arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Bit of pre-weekend doom-mongering for the Spurs doomsters. Guys - you're right. Spurs are probably going to lose at the weekend. But so will West Ham! \o/

Most awful, cynical Arsenal team to become champions: George Graham's Mikel Arteta's 🤔

Once, we had El Tel. Now we have f*cking 'ell, Tel. 🫣

Damn. The 'losing to Citeh = good' debate was divisive; what about this one? A miserable 0-0 would be great, but that seems unlikely. If WHU beating ARS ensured a) a vintage bottling year for Arsenal, but also b) Spurs go down, would you prefer that or WHU losing & Spurs stay up? #THFC #COYS

I agree with this and wonder why it's so rarely mentioned, given that the gap behind Porro is a long-standing Spurs bug, along with the empty 18-yd line. Danso got stick today, but Porro deserves it too. How Porro let Tottenham down in defensive areas against Brighton: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

There you have it: football is no longer the primary purpose of the FA or many top clubs, being secondary to just about anything with bigger £margins. Why don't they start calling themselves 'Recreational Clubs'? #THRC #AudereEstBeyonce www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Last year, Zelenskyy warned Trump that war would reach US soil and that drone warfare would spread. He was told to shut up. Now, Shaheed drones are crashing into US air bases & crippling global oil. Everything Ukraine warned the world would happen came true

Bad guy loses fight for Irankkis

Listening to the audiobooks of the Slough House novels prompted me to rewatch Tinker, Tailor ('80s series) for the first time in quite a while. It was the 'records lady' connection that did it. Connie Sachs in TTSS, Molly Doran in Dead Lions-> 1/2

Slightly baffled about the "winnable games" discourse around Spurs. The VftL pod has been referring to 3 winnable games, when realistically there's only one - Wolves. Even that's doubtful and over a month away - and we need that "winners bounce" badly. 1/2

Congratulations @jonsopel1.bsky.social on your reverse ferret recognition :) (Also worth recognising your good work on that weaseliest of weasels on #bbcQT last night)

Frankenstein out Igor in #COYS

"ICE is "dedicated to ensuring everyone that visits the facilites will have a safe and secure event." Remember that line. It'll will be used at polling stations across the US, as the Trump regime commits to intimidation and violence in order to retain power.

...and since everyone likes to quote Thucydides about the strong and the weak, let me give another one of his quotes: "Those who won the praises did not pursue the interest of their own safety in the face of the invasion, but were prepared to choose the best course and brave the dangers."

MY GOD The ANCIENT mysteries, recorded on the ANCIENT texts by the arcane ANCIENTS, whose secret, ANCIENT teachings have been revealed to me in the ANCIENT audiobook of the ANCIENT tome 'The Lost Symbol' by the ANCIENT scholar Dan Brown, have revealed their ANCIENT secret to me:

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Marcus Trescothick: Blah blah Guys left in the shed blah blah go about winning the game blah blah 🤪🤪🤪🏏 #Ashes

So Spotify has my #1 played song as American Prometheus from the Oppenheimer soundtrack and my top 5 all being from film soundtracks, yet thinks my listening age is 31! 🙂 I accept!

This is an amazing statement. I did not know that Trump is expecting *above ground* nuclear detonations, rather than highly-contained underground testing. It'd surely be a lot worse than Chernobyl's radiation pollution.

#SoMuchShit 😂 Love it.

One other book to read and then.. ...deep, deep joy. #BookOfDust

www.reuters.com/business/med... When the war ends, does anyone think Russia will just close these factories and pay everyone off? Is it not more likely that the factories will carry on making drones, and these drones will be deployed to European borders in order to terrify the likely targets?

"You absolutely have the right to a second innings." 👍 Asma Khan on changing career. #TMS #TestCricket

fnar

@jonsopel1.bsky.social @maitlis.bsky.social Re: Chelsea's Club WC win. Just in case you login to BS again.. Did you know that Trump liked the CWC trophy so much that he decided to keep it? He claimed that Infantino gave it to him, not Chelsea! Chelsea were given a replica instead. 🤣 #COYS!

Unbelievable ending. Heroic effort ends in a tiddler of a dismissal. Pixies track of a test match quiet quiet LOUD LOUD BANG Plenty of screaming, of course. #ENGIND #TestCricket

OMG Cricket! 🤩 What an end to the day. Don't miss tomorrow! #ENG-IND

This is incredible. Can't be long before we see police taser drones, ICE robots intimidating LA - god knows what else. Lego versions? There's got to be a Lego ED-209.

interesting to see how much more coverage here we're getting of a chant at a music festival than the IDF being ordered to shoot and murder people in Gaza who are seeking aid!

SCotUS fulfills the MAGA dream and effectively crowns Trump as the King of the USA. The steep descent of the US into ignominy continues. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

SCotUS fulfills the MAGA dream and effectively crowns Trump as the King of the USA. The steep descent of the US into ignominy continues. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Given how much personal enrichment is a stake, with his sons touring the ME to 'do deals' recently, I just can't see him doing anything other than wobbling furiously like the orange jelly he is. Can Bibi or the Israel lobby offer greater riches for weighing in? Doubt it.

Just occurred to me that Elon Musk may be at the 'World Leader Pretend' part of his life. youtu.be/aGMejPNlcIo

MADE IN CHINA (Shame they got the skin and hair colour mixed up)

Longest shot in the world here, but one of our #cats went missing last Saturday and still hasn't shown up. Never missed a meal in her almost 6 years. She's microchipped, neutered, and wearing a grey collar. Droylsden area of Greater Manchester, specifically M43 7 postcode. Please repost.

Excellent interview with Thedor Meron in @spiegel.de The brevity of the answers are a joy for a reader. The quality another level again. I'll be wanting to read more about him. Takeaway quote: "We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.” Think on what cohorts that could apply to.

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

Oh yes.

I think pundits ought to stop framing the news as Trump's Ukraine 'peace deal' and frame it as it really is: a marriage proposal from Trump's US to Putin's Russia, with Ukraine as a proposed dowry.

Very much this. If a phrase has too much political baggage hanging on it, don't use it. Instead, ask people if they want a nice environment to live in. The answer will be yes. Then cross out the options that prevent such an outcome.

The United States just became the first country to surrender in a war it didn't even fight.

If I'd been buying this 10 or 20 years ago, I'd be buying a history book. Now, I've bought a book of our times. #TheNaziMind #LaurenceRees

Mercye mercye mercye A touching end to one of the most surprisingly poignant characters I've seen on TV. What a cast. #WOLFHALL

Sick. #Strictly

Ian Hislop, take a bow. 👏 👏 👏 #COE #WELBY