Gooner Lad

@goonerlad99.bsky.social

Arsenal Gold and Red. Block 114. Notton challengers CC playing. Beaumont trophy 2025 Winners. Father to three gooners.Non practicing Solicitors. Arsenal Die hard.

Books were under attack again. In Kharkiv, a russian drone struck a warehouse belonging to the Ukrainian publisher Ranok. The warehouse was also used by KnyhoLand, one of our largest bookstore chains. I buy books and then buy more. To save them, support Ukrainian publishers and read, of course.

It's been six years. Can republicans please decide if COVID was a Chinese bioweapon designed in a lab to kill us all or a more liberal version of the flu that required zero precautions but even if you took any precautions none of them worked?

Unsoicited writing advice, no. 97: You don't need to descibe basic facial expressions. ("He smiled" works just fine: writing "his lips curled upwards in a smile," or "her freckles danced exuberantly over her puckish nose" or similar makes you sound like you've never seen a human face before.)

To be clear, the orange felon lied about vandalism at the Reflecting Pool to pretend he didn’t hire his fellow criminal fraud contractors to deliberately destroy it because he’s a hateful trashy jealous vindictive fuckwad. It wasn’t flawed work, it’s exactly what he wanted.

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

I find the Vini story one of the stranger ones we’ve had. So much smoke, a very clear and believable narrative, good sources, consistent reporting, but also the feeling that something’s not right. Ultimately, we’re not the player’s preference and that rarely works out.

It’s Matchday! The Arsenal are back with their first pre-season friendly against Girona tonight ahead of the 2026/27 season. ⚽️ Girona v Arsenal 🏟️ Estadi Municipal De Montilivi ⏰ 19:00 GMT kick-off 🏆 Friendly match

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I am watching the Mark Twain Awards night for Bill Maher because I hate him and also myself, and this is the face I made when Louis CK came out to talk about Maher “throwing him a rope” after being exposed as a sexual predator

Ella looks perturbed

Watching Possessor (2020) for the first time. I love how Brandon Cronenberg lets you know what's going on in his movies, but makes understanding them feel utterly disorienting and alienating.

i’d like to encourage each and every one of you to visit major league baseball’s official site. there you can find mlb coats and clocks for sale. you can learn about legends of the game such as ted williams and curtis mead. you can download the name of your favorite team. it’s a wonderful resource

I was explaining the pitching process to a friend who isn’t in journalism/writing, because she was curious about what happens before a story is a story. There was a long pause and she goes “I think I need to subscribe to more things.”

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

if someone is cooking something and they seem excited about it and you think it's unhealthy ... the place to stick that opinion is up your own ass, follow it with your head, and shut the fuck up.