Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!

"Ivor the Engine. Look, there he is now."

Yeesh. Amazing quote in this story by Kathy Gilsinan: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I think the shift from long phone conversations to instant messaging and DMs may well have been the worst thing to happen to relationships.

For Football Italia generation fans you imagine Baresi's name announced by Peter Brackley. You see the glossy azzurri blue of the Italian 90 italy, you see the smokey San Siro and there calmly, socks rolled down, in red and black Baresi 6 looking up ready to unleash that forward line again. RIP

If accurate its good to see Reform still seem stuck at that awkward 20ish% again

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️@leftiestats.bsky.social · 6d ago

🚨 BREAKING | Manchester Mayor 'exit poll' 🔴 Lab: 41% ( -22 ) ➡️ Ref: 22% ( +15 ) 🟢 Grn: 15% ( +8 ) 🔵 Con: 9% ( -1 ) ⚫️ RB: 8% ( +8 ) 🟠 Lib: 5% ( +1 ) -- Runoff -- 🔴 Lab: 64% ➡️ Ref: 36% Via @FindoutnowUK, 30 July (+/- vs 2024 election) x.com/LeftieStats/...

Can we repeat this for every billionaire who happened to just have a reasonable grasp of coding in the early 00s?

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7d ago

This morning, the market is questioning the long assumed entrepreneurial genius of Mark Zuckerberg. What if he's just an idiot? www.ft.com/content/06d9...

If you need to take away the one perk given to the most precariously employed and poorly paid staff in an institution the problem is almost definitely with management

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6d ago

Another one bites the dust. All new Sunderland casual tutors employed from 1 August will be ineligible for TPS, and employed by the University's wholly-owned subsidiary. UCU estimates this will save SU £36,000 this year while it will see savings going forward due to lower TPS costs of £3M p.a.

The signs Infantino was not the strategic genius he thinks he is were there when FIFA lost the money from the only video game in town. Losing the only meaningful competition they have sway over will be quite the victory lap

Incredible

This Summer... Sydney Sweeney... and Glenn Powell... are... On The Ning Nang Nong

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!

Had a fun game this week testing a control (my 70 year old Dad) against AI for the Times cryptic crossword. Claude and Chat GPT were all kinds of awful. Gemini on a kids android phone did surprisingly well. Old grumpy Geordie won by a mile

The wild eyed radical communist continues to destroy capitalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘I’m over the moon’: New York’s small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tape

Initiatives including cutting permits just to serve ice-cream amount to a sweeping program of deregulation

theguardian.com

I know porn and sex have always been a driver for domestic technology, but did not come across 'sex dolls as teaching assistants' in any of the fully automated luxury whatever books from a few years ago www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high school

Robot from company that acquired sex doll maker to be introduced in school with large Native American population

theguardian.com

A betting account in the name of George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who bankrolled Nigel Farage, received almost $9mn in cryptocurrency from unidentified sources while he was providing gifts to the Reform UK leader great work from @annasophiegross.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b74c...

Betting account in George Cottrell’s name received $9mn in crypto from unidentified sources

Deposits in Polymarket wallet came as convicted fraudster was providing gifts to Farage

ft.com

Peter Thiel, the Antichrist, and Apocalyptic Poltics by @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social bit.ly/4wM2Jjp

Axis Daily Brief | Peter Thiel, the Antichrist, and Apocalyptic Politics

Why a Silicon Valley Billionaire’s Apocalyptic Theology Deserves our Attention.

open.substack.com

Dr. Bradley Onishi@bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 3w ago

Tomorrow’s Axis Daily Brief is @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social on Peter Thiel, the Pope, and the Antichrist. axismundinetwork.substack.com

I want someone cleverer to me to do an analysis of Burnham's obsession with Bus fares. Already basically free in London, manageable in Manchester and barely functional as a commuting option any where else

Pippa Crerar@pippacrerar.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING: Andy Burnham tells reporters he's looking at cutting energy bills and bus fares as part of cost-of-living package which could eventually include more radical plans such as freezing private sector rents.

This is such a stark cabinet clear out that I'm starting to worry Mandelson is getting back in

Hearing that Burnham's message to the Trident submarine captains is to "put yourselves under the control of Manchester City Council"

Glad Burnham has decided to end rough sleeping. Presumed as Mayor of Manchester that he must have at least had a nice city centre apartment. Good to know he will have a roof over his head now he is in No. 10

Andy Burnham pledges to end rough sleeping in first speech as prime minister – UK politics live

The new PM said he wants to put ‘the right values and the right standards at the heart of government’

theguardian.com

Just make it Golden Goal. Trump and Gianni like Gold

The extra time half time show is Stevie Nicks, a speech from Rick and Morty then Texas ft the Wu Tang Clan

If it goes to extra time do they start singing again?

The half time show that makes you sort of miss Hooliganism

I would literally rather watch the first half again than this.

It's like a whole evening of Comic Relief compressed into 15 minutes.

So its just no yellow cards in the first quarter now?

Sorry Tom Cruise but football has words. It's how VAR works