Sometimes your non-academic interest in unsolved mysteries turns into a philosophical interest: why is it bad not to know what happened? blog.apaonline.org/2026/08/03/h... many thanks to the APA blog for inviting me to do this.

“There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.” Emily Wilson 🤝 Alex Rails.

You would never get the "£50 doesn't even buy a meal quote if the topic was the benefit system, then you would have a guy going "sack of potatoes and a carrot, and you can feed a child for a month at just 3.2 pence per meal"

Sky News@news.sky.com · 2w ago

'£50 doesn't even buy a meal': What people think of Burnham's electricity VAT cut

Incredibly disorientating to have worked on welfare since grad school, where (some) people used to snort derisively, or look puzzled, when I told them I worked on it, and now see near-daily articles about AI welfare in mainstream publications.

Abolish VAR

I saw the best teams of my generation destroyed by Martinez

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All this full back chat but that goal looked like a team with no centre backs.

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a game so obviously over at ~50 mins as when France got their second.

Officially out on Thursday but these arrived today. So happy with how it looks. 🎉

have Germany deliberately gone for a kit that blends with the referee‘s kit (at least in peripheral vision)?

I love this. Unmute.

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.

Bought some headphones recently and fascinated by the discovery that so many people are walking around wearing headphones that cost £200-400. When did that become normal?

@liamshields.bsky.social very keen to hear your thoughts on Everton’s performance on Sunday. I expected a *much* harder game.

@nathanaclark.bsky.social will you ever release the X Files (= our championship squad in the other timeline)? Would be intrigued to see it!

Tottenham today

Spurs conjuring up another monumental goal that no one is quite sure who scored 🤝😃

Nearly run over at a pedestrian crossing (for the 3rd or 4th time in recent times) by someone looking at their phone I guess. Police/ Scotland‘s decision tree and wait times forces you to either report such incidents via 999 or via a form…

Just heaping more embarrassment upon themselves www.scottishfa.co.uk/news/scottis...

www.theguardian.com/football/202.... Some of this is good but somehow even this author can't bring themselves to care that the game wasn't allowed to finish. Claiming that "Celtic won the game fairly and squarely where it should happen, on the field". Not if the match didn't finish they didn't.

Grim denouement of stunning Scottish Premiership title race must prompt shift in attitudes

The SPFL and SFA wobble at the knees when it comes to punishing their biggest clubs but scenes at Celtic Park risk setting a dangerous precedent

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what an abysmal week of scottish football, topped off by fans preventing a match being completed.

this VAR possibly deciding the season in the Premier League is the purest expression of 2025-26 Premier League football

""It's not a con. It's an attempt to set up a new distinction in the world of academia - an attempt that failed," he is reported as saying."

Charles West@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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spurs ahead by two goals for the first time since beating Brentford on December 6th?!

no kidding www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Premier League: Brian Brobbey should have been sent off in Sunderland v Tottenham game - KMI panel

Sunderland's Brian Brobbey should have been sent off for two yellow-card offences against Tottenham, a Premier League panel has ruled.

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Edinburgh weather currently making for a simply incredible ranges of outfits. Pretty much everything from full winter to summer

Just an easy, fun one. I hope Mr Beast makes Beast Games for a thousand years. I am maybe never happier than I am when I get to write about it youtu.be/xEvDZn95E3s?...

Mr Beast Horked Up Another One

YouTube video by Big Joel

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”shoving X into Y isn’t dangerous because it wouldn’t be dangerous if Y wasn’t there”.

EUCUP@eucup.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sky Sports Ref Watch segment about the Brobbey incident. Kinsky and Romero’s fault apparently https://www.eucup.com/1604769/ No agenda against Spurs? In actual disbelief by what I’ve seen these two jokers say here. Kinsky’s fault for being there and Romero’s fault for trying to shield the ball …