Feels like some of the wittier aspects were flattened/removed from Nolan's #Odyssey, how the cyclops was tricked for example. And no appearances from actual Gods, Athena aside. Stephen Fry should've been drafted in to help! 'Twas epic though - the scenes in Troy and Ithaca were stunning! ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5
RobJFH
@robjfh.bsky.social
This week I'ave been mostly skeeting: #COYS, Bromley FC #WeAreBromley, classical music, F1 #LH44, Olympics #TeamGB, Discworld, space, science, photos, puns, occasionally sweary left-leaning liberal secularist views, 🇬🇧🏴🇪🇺 / 🇺🇦
The Conservative Party in 2026: Nazis, fine; Net Zero, get outta here! @iandunt.bsky.social points out the obvious, but this is still a good read...
Kemi Badenoch's clown car antics are anything but funny
Ian Dunt: She either doesn't understand what she says or will say anything to defend her position
inews.co.uk
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
David Squires on … Gianni Infantino clinging to power as his Fifa empire crumbles
Our resident cartoon imagines some of the crisis talks at Fifa as its president scrambles for support after a botched World Cup plan
theguardian.com
Excellent long-read analysis from @swissramble.bsky.social on FIFA's grubby little plans... 🤑 swissramble.substack.com/p/fifas-plan... #fifa #worldcup
FIFA's Plan To Sell Football
Power Corruption and Lies
swissramble.substack.com
Excellent long-read analysis from @swissramble.bsky.social on FIFA's grubby little plans... 🤑 swissramble.substack.com/p/fifas-plan... #fifa #worldcup
FIFA's Plan To Sell Football
Power Corruption and Lies
swissramble.substack.com
Very casual/occasional cricket watcher, and I enjoyed that. Insofar as I support anyone in #TheHundred, I suppose it's MI London, even though they have a bloody stupid name now. 🤪🏏
Exactly this. Enjoyed the team formally known as the Oval Invincibles, then see the batters in the Manchester Elephants 😱
Absolute nonsense. 😠
The number of terror-related arrests in Britain has risen 1,200% a year following the ban of Palestine Action The number of people arrested for holding signs - under a law originally designed for IRA uniforms - is higher than total terror arrests over the previous decade inews.co.uk/news/retired...
Disgusting, pro-fascist language from a Labour MP. 🤮 Time to kick Diane Abbott out for good, @andyburnham.bsky.social, she can go and join her buddy Jeremy in his little party instead. #slavaukraini 🇺🇦 #russiaisaterroriststate
Diane Abbott here speaking at a Stop Some Wars rally, calling Putin's continuing brutal war against Ukraine "the NATO campaign against Russia". FFS. youtu.be/SMBjoiMskxA?...
Football chiefs are now rightly pushing for Infantino’s exit But it doesn’t stop there and the reform that didn’t come in 2016 is now badly needed Football also has to live with his decisions, like Saudi 2034, because the same critics let too much go www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
Gianni Infantino’s demise isn’t enough – Fifa must fundamentally change
Infantino’s fall after his scandalous World Cup sell-off plan is being compared to that of Margaret Thatcher, writes Miguel Delaney, but football needs to think much bigger than just getting rid of on...
independent.co.uk
Hubble - Webb - Roman A neat video summary of NASA's next big space telescope project and what it's going to be looking for... www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMQH... #space #nasa
Why Roman Could Change Everything We Know About The Universe
YouTube video by NASA Goddard
youtube.com
Like the long nineteenth century, this has been the long 2026 world cup. It's lasted from the "peace" prize all the way through to today, with a bit of football breaking out in the middle. #fifa #worldcup
Fifa scraps proposal to sell off stakes in World Cup after widespread backlash
Everyone who loves football surely owes @martynziegler.bsky.social a beer. 🍻 #fifa
Martyn Ziegler getting his flowers for uncovering the FIFA sell-off but he also previously rumbled the failed European Super League plot. He will deservedly go down as one of the most important investigative sports reporters alongside the late great Andrew Jennings
The man who provides us with the second easiest trolley problem in the world has probably just had a phone call from the man who provides us with the easiest trolley problem in the world. #slavaukraini #russiaisaterroriststate
Trump ‘not sure’ he will let Ukraine build Patriot missiles ft.trib.al/r9z7bVp
If you cannot accept that what Trump has done over the last year and a half is starve Ukraine of air defense, and put off any new aid for as long as possible, so Putin can terrorize Ukraine from the air for as long as possible--you cannot accept reality.
My entire life I’ve never called it the FIFA World Cup. I’ve always called it the World Cup. Fans don’t give a shit about FIFA. If national teams showed up for a World Cup tournament not held by FIFA we would all watch it. World Cup is the brand. FIFA is nothing.
The man who provides us with the second easiest trolley problem in the world has probably just had a phone call from the man who provides us with the easiest trolley problem in the world. #slavaukraini #russiaisaterroriststate
Trump ‘not sure’ he will let Ukraine build Patriot missiles ft.trib.al/r9z7bVp
UEFA go nuclear over Gianni’s big World Cup sell-off. Good. www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associations
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.
uefa.com
Watching from afar (the UK), this Fauci hearing is turning into as shameful an episode as the Trump/Vance ambush of Zelensky. 🤮🇺🇸
I know we had something similar in 2020, but races in Europe in December could get *interesting* ☃️❄️ #f1
F1 season to finish in Europe if war continues, says Stefano Domenicali - BBC Sport www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formul...
'The charitable purpose of "the advancement of religion" has too often meant the advancement of homophobia & other forms of extremism. A charitable purpose which allows hateful ideologies to flourish...should not be a charitable purpose at all.' - @meganmanson.bsky.social @natsecsoc.bsky.social 💯
In the wake of the Islamist attack on Berlin Pride, Megan Manson says we must ensure the state is in no way complicit in promoting homophobic ideologies under the guise of religion - including via religious privilege in charity law. Read the full op-ed👇 www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2026...
Little known fact, JC Bach once had to rewrite the entire dictionary in a single night. 📜
BBC Radio 3 Breakfast Now Playing Johann Christian Bach, Nemanja Radulović & Double Sens Viola Concerto in C Minor (3rd mvt)
'The charitable purpose of "the advancement of religion" has too often meant the advancement of homophobia & other forms of extremism. A charitable purpose which allows hateful ideologies to flourish...should not be a charitable purpose at all.' - @meganmanson.bsky.social @natsecsoc.bsky.social 💯
In the wake of the Islamist attack on Berlin Pride, Megan Manson says we must ensure the state is in no way complicit in promoting homophobic ideologies under the guise of religion - including via religious privilege in charity law. Read the full op-ed👇 www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2026...
Terrible news. Aside from learning more about the universe, we're not going to get much economic growth by cutting science funding. (If only we had a Prime Minister who was interested in supporting the north, and Manchester in particular, who could stop this.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
bbc.co.uk
Little known fact, JC Bach once had to rewrite the entire dictionary in a single night. 📜
BBC Radio 3 Breakfast Now Playing Johann Christian Bach, Nemanja Radulović & Double Sens Viola Concerto in C Minor (3rd mvt)
Well that was pretty spectacular! ✨ John Wilson / Sinfonia Of London - Respighi’s 'Roman Trilogy' #bbcproms #proms @royalalberthall.bsky.social