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Take Raheem off, Jorginho on, move Rice up front centre with Trossard out wide

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What made Twitter grow was Retweeting, but interaction changed when a Like button was introduced. So hard to find good follows when people don't crop up in your timeline. People who followed you over there don't know you're here either. I'd encourage people to repost good stuff as a civic duty! #FF

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

submitted 21 days ago • 1214 comments

We’ve lost a lot (personnel wise) this season but MLS and Nwaneri have made this squad bigger and better.

submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

A single Wind Turbine produces 32x the energy it takes to build. Infinite energy and infinite money too. All the Government has to do is build them.

submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

John Prescott’s coffin has arrived at Hull Minster for his funeral. Appropriately, the hearse was a Jag, as is the family’s car. A knowing wink you suspect. Two Jags to the end.

submitted 28 days ago • 44 comments

Word of the day is ‘matutolypea’: extreme grumpiness in the morning. From the Latin ‘Matuta’, Roman goddess of the dawn, and the Greek ‘lype’, ‘grief’. Put them together and you get ‘morning grief’.

submitted 32 days ago • 129 comments

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

submitted 33 days ago • 1268 comments

When the concept of VAR was first mooted I liked the idea of experts with technology to advise on terrible decisions. It seemed unfair to refs that they had a split second and maybe a bad angle, while millions at home saw instant replays. But how can VAR, and assistant VARS, be this bad/mad? 🧵

submitted 33 days ago • 53 comments

This goes quite strong. www.skysports.com/football/new...

submitted 33 days ago • 23 comments

Not a conspiracy theorist generally but if Michael Oliver can make a red card decision that poor and VAR not ask him to review, then I can only assume there is something fundamentally rotten in the state of PGMOL.

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"Tia, are you allowed to lie there?"

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England might think it's in the eye of the storm. But here's the radar picture from 8.30am from Met Eireann. 715,000 without power. winds of 113mph recorded in Galway.

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

Wow

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Yeah, it's gonna take a lot to beat this for best advert of 2025. Sol Campbell - what a legend! 😂😂😂

submitted 44 days ago • 34 comments

This was a joy; do have a listen on iPlayer. I could chat with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social for days.

submitted 48 days ago • 21 comments

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

submitted 48 days ago • 443 comments

deadder.substack.com

submitted 53 days ago • 242 comments

So this around 2 weeks supply of my heart failure and chronic pain medication. Free to me via the UK taxation system. Never take the NHS and state funded healthcare for granted. Without it I'd probably be dead.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Meanwhile in the Netherlands 🇳🇱: Cat comes home each day with unexplained smoked sausage.

submitted 53 days ago • 7 comments

Today's blog on yesterday's 1-1 draw with Brighton, the penalty decision, the second half performance, and how reinforcement this month is so important. Have a read. 👇

submitted 53 days ago • 4 comments

Bizarre incident for the pen. Not sure I’ve ever seen a penalty awarded quite like that. But also a poor second half from Arsenal. They looked tired - short of energy and ideas.

submitted 54 days ago • 47 comments

I think that's a very generous penalty for Brighton, but that was a very tired second half performance in which we really didn't create anything. I understand why, Brighton had more time etc, but we had so little on the bench and it again hammers home the need for January business/reinforcement

submitted 54 days ago • 52 comments

OMG, it is fitting.

submitted 54 days ago • 686 comments

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

submitted 54 days ago • 1093 comments

Canadian metaphors for living next to the US Pierre Trudeau, 1969: “sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered…one is affected by every twitch and grunt” Charles Angus, 2024: “living in an apartment above a meth lab”

submitted 60 days ago • 305 comments

Word of the day is ‘bellycheer’ (16th century): feasting, gluttony, and ‘the gratification of the belly’.

submitted 68 days ago • 55 comments

It’s the time of year for mentioning one of my favourite ‘untranslatables’. ‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.

submitted 71 days ago • 377 comments

"Brightest London Is Best Reached By Underground", by Horace Taylor, c.1924.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Jeremy Corbyn is suing Nigel Farage. RP if you can’t wait to see Nigel Farage bankrupt

submitted 75 days ago • 120 comments

Gladbach ultra group Sottocultura protested against the German FA (DFB) for voting in favor of handing the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia by using Germany’s players‘ own trick: “Human rights” shirts On the banners: “SA follows Qatar: empty words, not actions!” “F*** you and your World Cup!”

submitted 78 days ago • 26 comments

NIGHTWORKS: Katie McCabe & Nico Jover hit The Tunnel. I’m looking forwards to watching our boys back under the lights at The Emirates tomorrow night. Pls check out these new editions, if you’re lucky enough to be near Arsenal. ♥️🤍 #Arsenal #Streetart Also northbanksy.art has a print sale this week!

submitted 79 days ago • 7 comments