The thing I want to achieve most in my life is to one day find someone’s lost cat or dog from a poster.
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Apart from anything else, these people are gobsmackingly unpatriotic
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · last wk.Nighty night.
If I were in charge of The Hundred, I’d make it four shorter innings rather than two longer ones. Right now it feels like you can basically skip the first innings and just watch the chase
This is real Ba’athist stuff isn’t it?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Hannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."
Enjoy it while you can because this (gestures vaguely around) will die down after the weekend when all the academics have their annual “aagh, it’s August, and I have none of my summer writing done - I need to get off the INTERNET!” freakout.
Cethan Leahy@cethanleahy.com · last wk.Hah, people are now having arguments about the very notion of criticism. This is excellent stuff.
Absolutely delighted for Luke Kennard. And if Gwendoline Riley doesn’t win we just need to shut down books entirely
The Booker Prizes@thebookerprizes.com · last wk.Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's Booker Dozen: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
"We are on the right side of history. We are on our own land and in our own home. This is my family; this is my country. I love this country, and no one can drive me out of here." - Zelenskyy.
Joe Biden (obviously) and Mark Carney (somewhat surprisingly) fastest off the blocks on this
Padraig Reidy@padraigreidy.bsky.social · last wk.If you’re Andy Burnham, Sadiq Khan or any Metro Mayor, a quick #Mayo4Sam post now will stand you in good stead at the next election
The Mayo bus has accidentally driven under a ladder and smashed through the Swinford mirror factory on its way home. This is the one thing we didn’t want to happen.
Still soaking up all the Mayo All Ireland stuff. It's great isn't it? Just really cheering
Burnham to meet Zelenskyy at UK naval base in show of ‘unwavering’ support
Burnham to meet Zelenskyy at UK naval base in show of ‘unwavering’ support
Ukrainian president will be first overseas visitor for new British prime minister Volodymyr Zelenskyy will become Andy Burnham’s first overseas visitor as prime minister, in a visit that Burnham said underlined Britain’s “unwavering” backing for Ukraine. Less than two weeks after Keir Starmer travelled to Kyiv for the final foreign visit of his prime ministership, the Ukrainian president will on Monday join Burnham at a naval base where Ukrainian forces have been receiving training. Continue reading...
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The closest in my mind (and it was never framed as a hypothetical) is Jake and Dinos Chapman’s Hell.
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · last wk.Absolutely none of the “what if the Nazis had won WW2” hypotheticals really got how *nuts* things would have got, I think.
If you’re Andy Burnham, Sadiq Khan or any Metro Mayor, a quick #Mayo4Sam post now will stand you in good stead at the next election
“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa
There won’t be a cow milked on the Holloway Road tonight
This feels like it'll end in tears. Don't ask me why.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w agoGermany hires Jürgen Klopp as men's national soccer team coach.
It's very sweet that Dubliner Finn McRedmond thinks Dublin is a "global city" www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Finn McRedmond: To be anti-Dublin is practically unpatriotic
Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford are fine, but none is a global city. Why, then, all the anti-Dublin bias?
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Muppet Christmas Carol deals with the Scrooge back story in about eight minutes (10 if you add the deleted song) and I see no earthly way that can be improved on
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w agoFirst poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”
If someone could record this headline in a breathy voice over a Bobby O beat, that'd be super
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 2w agoour elites want to abolish hard men
I am absolutely obsessed with this quote about Manchester that Tony Wilson never said but was written by a scouse author in protest at an editor’s note that the 24 Hour Party People script didn’t follow the traditional three act structure and now serves as the ambient ~vibe~ for UK government
Normal Guy@guy-normal.bsky.social · 2w agoconcerningly Mancunian heart surgeon: Let's just say we do things a little differently here 😏
It feels like the complete fetishisation of “balance” as distinct from objectivity, that outlets feel obliged to find people who are personally annoyed by a cap on bus ticket prices
We must remember the Utøya massacre, and remember it for what it was: a far-right attack specifically targeted against democratic socialist activists. Today, the ideologies of its perpetrator are openly espoused by a global network of nationalist oligarchs as they wage war on democratic societies.
Roberta Metsola@president.europarl.europa.eu · 2w agoFifteen years ago today, 77 lives were taken - most of them young - on an island that should have been a place of summer, friendship, and first ideas about the world they wanted to build. On that day, Norway grieved, and Europe grieved with it. Utøya. Oslo. We remember.
With Fahnbulleh back at DESNZ, Rayner returning to DHCLG, Reynolds back at Business, and Alexander staying put at Transport, there's a really strong sense of continuity and ambition around Labour's various green economy plans (which makes sense as it was one area Starmer was making progress)...