Paying my respects on a visit home. Let's hope we can still be proud of Derby County going forward

Now I'm cooking for a small child with minimal salt and chilli, hot sauce (to add to my portion) is coming into its own. Got to get me some of this

Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2d ago

Tabasco Diamond Reserve (2018-2018): A special edition, incredibly small-batch hot sauce, released to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Tabasco brand. It came in a champagne-style bottle with gold foil and a fancy gold box, retailing for $35 for a 6oz bottle. What made this sauce so unique? A 🧵

*Trojan historian watching as the Achaeans break down the gates* Wow, my civilization is undergoing a complex transformation from a heavily centralized and stratified administrative society to a more socially-fragmented modality of living in which material culture is dispersed amidst smaller sites.

Less than a month until the Premier League season begins again, and I have renewed my fantasy league for philosophers. If you're a philosopher who want to test your football wisdom against your colleagues, ask me for the code and join the league!

When Sobers Invented CricViz On Sir Garfield Sobers' 1967 novel about computers, spies and cricket analytics

When Sobers Invented CricViz

On Sir Garfield Sobers’ 1967 novel about computers, spies and cricket analytics

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I'd missed this terrible news. Luke taught me formal epistemology when I was a masters student, then I taught it with him when I was doing my PhD. A lovely man, great philosopher - and excellent @ucu.org.uk comrade. dailynous.com/2026/07/08/l...

Luke Fenton-Glynn (1982-2026) - Daily Nous

Luke Fenton-Glynn, a philosopher at Monash University, and before that, University College London, has died. Dr. Fenton-Glynn worked in philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology, with a foc...

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Two days into Andy Burnham's socialist experiment and we're already queuing for essential goods (Bob Dylan tickets)

Overheard in Sainsbury's: "Isn't the Odyssey by James Joyce?" "Not the original - I think he did the translation."

Interesting tgat there is only now a UK prime minister account on BlueSky

UK Prime Minister Updates@downingstreet.bsky.social · 2w ago

A very warm welcome to Downing Street, Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

There's now more Everton FC fans than there are women amongst G7 heads of government

Hydration break.

England are 5-3. Bloody Bazball.

tfw smoke starts rising from the biryani

Jan@janhopis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Rice is STILL ON are you FUCKING MAD

The handbrake is off!

Something beautifully intoxicating about being on the field for a cricket match that goes down to the wire. Preferably as a fielder who doesn't have to be directly involved, though

I support England in the football and the Labour left - because it's always the hope that kills you

Blue Painting by Vasily Kandinsky, 1924 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137152

Lots of wisdom here. One of the things that has shocked me about becoming a parent is how many people slip into traditional gender roles, and how much social institutions assume and incentivise it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

The perks of parenting by spreadsheet

One simple trick to share it equally

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Big Euro 2004 flashbacks. Scored too early, sat back

Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's like some of you didn't live through the Sven era

Really funny to see words that are normal and neutral where you are get "coded" as something somewhere else

NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3w ago

ICE has killed three people this week. But a liberal at my World Cup watch party used the words “football,” “pitch,” and “kit,” plus “sport” as a plural noun. I have never felt more politically homeless.

So far only one football superpower that Spain could not defeat at this world cup- Cabo Verde

Sovereign Wealth Fund - your boys took one hell of a beating

Kieran Healy@kjhealy.co · 4w ago

Well, at least you managed your North Sea Oil endowment in a vastly more intelligent and socially beneficial manner than the Brits.

This will be the year of massive by elections then. Got to be a popular front candidate www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage quits as MP amid scrutiny over finances

Reform UK leader reveals he faces second inquiry over financial gifts but says he will fight byelection in Clacton

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and now for the hard graft of changing my WhatsApp username to “Mexico 2-3 England” and messaging everyone I know who went to bed

So far, this game has been well worth staying up for

Should have just renamed it to Freedom Oval Bite

Fourfoot@fourfoot.bsky.social · last mo.

England is insane.

"She's beautiful! Is she yours?" - woman in the park, re: my baby

Pains me to say it as a member of the left-arm seamers union and a Derbyshire fan, but I prefer Rehan Ahmed + frontline seamer to Curran + Bashir as a replacement for Stokes www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Altman: "The most important decisions about how this technology is used should be made through democratic processes, not by a small number of companies in San Francisco." How does this square with OpenAI being one of that small number of companies in SF? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Sam Altman: This is how we can make AI safe for everyone

The labs develop the technology, but citizens and their elected representatives must make the rules

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