Begging your pardon my prince, it seems Vhagar has been sighted leaving King’s Landing flying in the direction of the the Riverlands… PARKLIFE

I think the refereeing at this tournament has been both philosophically and technically quite good.

oh my god just realised England - Mexico's the Bean Derby

Aww, it’s work experience week so I’ve had the opportunity to watch my son file his first IT support ticket and do his first Teams call.

This is also the message of Top Gun.

The problem with soul searching is all the stuff you find in there.

Just absolute magic. My deepest hope is that we end up with a huge pile of new Epicurean texts from this work. It’s been terrible for humanity that so much Stoic bullshit has survived unchallenged. scrollprize.org/firstscroll

I like that we’re following the OSR philosophy of rulings not rules in this World Cup.

The current state of our Woody doll.

Usual objections to fandom slop, but the Marvel set seems fun. Very long, slow games, means you get to do fun things in pretty much any colour combination. Beat two teamworked Atlantis Attacks in one game with a Vision Quest for M.O.D.O.K.

Bought a print sub and some back issues of this recently and it's packed with interviews with top creators, great art, and lots of interesting cultural and historical context. Every issue is high production quality and more than 100 pages. You're crazy if you're not at least picking the PDFs up.

With our seventh Prime Minister in a decade, perhaps it’s worth revisiting the one demand of the original People’s Charter that was never made law: annual parliaments.

Belgium nearly scoring with a Platt-vs-Belgium there, nice.

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

People have this intuitive belief that below a certain threshold, xG sums to zero. I guess it's the flipside of the belief that above a certain threshold, all chances should be scored.

Solaris. Human psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives alone on a space station to study Solaris' alien sea. The aliens are all Muppets at the beach, talking perfectly understandable English but Kelvin finds them completely inexplicable. He starts to hallucinate his dead ex-lover, Miss Piggy.

Only 4 more days to put your game into the game industry hardship fund! Please add your games (and TTRPGs are okay too) so we can make some money for out of work game devs! Do it over the weekend! itch.io/jam/game-ind...

Hydration break.

Hydration break.

Fascinating geographical look at Latin epistolography from Roy Gibson at the Roman Society. #AncientBlueSky

Had to miss the first ten minutes of the World Cup because my wife claimed not to know who Talking Heads were.

Today was my last day at Hudl/Statsbomb. I never really intended to spend a decade in football - it seemed like a fun hobby at the time and things got out of hand - but even now I feel like I've only achieved a fraction of what I set out to do.

Do you sometimes worry that you only have about a dozen TTRPGs sitting in your shelf that you won’t ever play? Have 54 more (some popular stuff in here so maybe slightly fewer): www.humblebundle.com/books/roll-b...

Fucking hell, final season of Hacks is comedy screenwriting of the first order.

Very grateful to have heard about them from their little brother who I worked with in my first job out of uni. Although while they pretended to be three siblings for some reason, 2/3rds of them were actually married.

Came home from holiday after the record sunshine to a veritable Otyugh of rhubarb, which I defeated with the youngest and turned into jelly.

Practiced set pieces all season, eh.

In football, the goals are big and the balls are bouncy. No other sport capitalises on this alchemical formula, and no tactics will quench its fire.

Football trouble or Early Modern intrigue?

Got sick of smiling and nodding at the meme.

‘NO, I AM SPAR TACOS!’

Stop naming Northern startup schemes after moribund local industry. Also stop calling “£6000” worth of advice and paperwork a startup scheme.

Richard Wakefield in Rama Revealed. Found it such a shockingly mechanical scene of state violence and it was one of the first memories to resurface when Jamal Khashoggi was murdered. Don’t want to trivialise the latter obviously but it’s really stayed with me.

The footnotes... 5-stars.

Was getting ready to boo Australia this year before I realised I had Delta Goodrem and Holly Valance mixed up.

Exit music to a lost John Hughes film is one of my favourite genres. youtu.be/SsBuAmvFuiw?...

Stereowetlab

Disappointing after all these weeks, seeing all the banter fade away in one long weekend, like having watched with slow, ecstatic longing the snow falling deep and crisp on the ground, only to receive a text at 7:45am that school will nevertheless be open.

Here’s how good a video this is I think the part where he talks about his failed business selling MMA gear for babies is the second-funniest part of the video

What if Sophie's Choice were about four children? Or three children and a really cool guitar?

Just avoided making an Oxford comma joke.

Blowout - Radiohead Cornflake Girl - Tori Amos Civilian - Wye Oak Dark Therapy - Echobelly Thinking - Bivouac Die Young - Sylvan Esso Uncle Pat - Ash Get Ahead - Solar Race Roads - Portishead Headache - Frank Black Already hate this, only monsters make lists.

“Deborah, we talked about you not using McKinsey” is basically a peak Simpsons gag, I love Hacks.

This is the sweetest and nerdiest train race of all time, going from Magna to Sheffield, trying out the new tram link. It’s a brilliant bit of genuinely thrilling editing with a nail biting finish! youtu.be/KX8YtPmb--Q

You should put more context in the ticker, guys.

Went to see Romeo & Juliet at the Harold Pinter theatre yesterday and I would like to give credit to this astounding bit of merch:

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