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Busted. Mister Burnley Sean Dyche with his chosen kit for hotel gym session. This is the thanks I get for getting him involved in a game with Zlatan!!

I think less of people who say they like Steely Dan. Unless you're a lesbian using the term in its original context. In which case, godspeed and good luck

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social mini series out now. Tracing the life and rise of Andy Burnham. Here is a taster podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

HT @petepaphides.bsky.social but this is a delightful find. Colin Blunstone as 'Neil McArthur' performing a cover of The Zombies' She's Not There for some sort of Pierre Cardin space-age fashion show. If you don't know this version it's gorgeous. www.patreon.com/NeedleMythol...

Reports suggested a Lukoil-operated oil refinery was targeted in a drone barrage on the Ural Mountains region of Russia.

If you hate this too, then do subscribe to creators’ Patreons etc. Advertising funded podcasting is a terrible idea and mainly doesn’t work, for lots of reasons. Sponsorship is ugly and hard to negotiate. Just pay for stuff and let people make it for you. Old skool. Hurrah.

That fucking Instagram post is still doing numbers, you can guarantee 90 of those 100 comments are people going “erm, a semicolon/period would be better” I’m done with the US grammar police.

Okay all y’all, I’m in Cardiff this weekend at The Glee Club, so if you’re in the greater Cardiff area come on down!

rorycellanjones.substack.com/p/joy-on-a-w... I know it’s a bit off topic for my healthtech Substack but I’ve written about our adventures getting #sophiefromromania onto the beach

Without checking, and serious punts only, how many pages of the Daily Mail do you think are dedicated to Harry & Meghan moving house before they turn their attention to *anything else*?

A pedestrian in her 80s is in a critical condition in hospital after she was hit by a car in Co Mayo yesterday afternoon

Behind the Great Australian Paywall, but something something Inbetweeners Bottle Bank something.

This is well worth a read It has given me hope that work is underway to help transform the way we farm and grow food Huge global companies are involved - Nestle, McDonald's - plus banks and insurers are providing funding and initiatives (like lower premiums) to sustainable farmers

Can’t believe 7 Zark 7 was in the Epstein Files.

Amazon lets you check if vouchers you've bought have been redeemed and if they havent, you can redeem them yourself. Turns out my neices and nephews didnt need amazon vouchers - bought myself a new laptop

Get therapy. I had one of the best therapy sessions I ever had yesterday, it was awful. I feel so much better for it. The last time I had a session that made me feel as shite as that I was finally able to listen to my voice on recordings and be able to start making video clips

Who on earth was Marcus Agrippa? You'll soon discover Robert Harris's view (his new novel on Agrippa is out 27 Aug). On Instant Classics next week we talk to Harris. This week we explore the historical background to the man behind the Roman throne. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwNf...

Today in Oh Mate, I think he’s got these mixed up with the Sunday Sport’s sex arses. Oh mate. www.bishopsstortfordindependent.co.uk/news/hertfor...

Great thread. Theory of mind and AI. We use this imagery a lot in Broken Veil, cos it fascinates me. Corporate human-hostile space which has been hand-annotated for use by humans. It’s basically the cake-is-a-lie graffiti behind the shiny wall panels in a Portal game. It speaks to us all.

💷 Reform’s new policy to billionaires! Only joking… they’re coming for our most vulnerable instead ✈️ Karoline Leavitt quits after being dumped on the decoy plane while Trump took the catering flight…with Natalie 💗 🎧 New episode ready for you now, Trawlers podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

A satirical robot reenacting the history of mankind.

A headline regarding mass awareness of a certain avian variety. #NiceThings

What would be more humiliating than trying to hit someone, failing and hurting yourself? Well what if that guy was a TikToker who does freestyle raps and you injured yourself so bad you had to just sit there and take it whilst waiting for paramedics

Russia is open to listening to new proposals on how to reach a settlement on the Ukraine conflict, a senior Russian diplomat said, but any proposals should reflect ⁠the "realities on the ground"

The crypto surge comes after President Trump called for the passage of the long-stalled CLARITY Act and the Treasury intervened in the bond market—boosting appetite for risky bets.

Today’s Big 45 @greatesthitsuk.bsky.social

Catch the Weekend Hopper before it hops away in two weeks 🐸 One fare. All-day bus and tram travel on weekends throughout August. Soak up a little more of what London has to offer.

Follow live updates on this year's Leaving Cert results, with guidance and advice throughout the day

Women in street sex work described pain, stigma and barriers to dental care.

Running for office requires time away from work, financial risk and months of uncertainty — costs many working people simply can’t afford. theconversation.com/why-working-...

The Panama Canal will reduce shipping volumes from next month because of a drought fueled by the El Niño phenomenon, the operator of the strategic waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans said

A low of 4.2c this morning but some early sunny spells and only odd shower.

This is very special. I feel honoured.

Irish consumers pay the second highest excise duty on alcohol in Europe, according to new research

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has written to Taoiseach Micheál Martin asking him to recall the Dáil next week so it can vote to delay the first stage of the planned fuel excise duty cuts reversal due on 1 September

Over 70,000 Leaving Certificate students will receive their exam results later today, with the overall trend showing fewer top marks awarded, as the impacts of grade deflation continue

These five books take readers through time and across Ukraine.

More nightmares. In this one the person I was hanging out with got taken over by an entity that was going to try to absorb my consciousness and take over my body and as the fear ramped up to full she stared me in the face and said “I’m going to follow you out of this dream”

Woken up to a 13C temperature, which after almost 3 months of heatwaves feels like a cold, winter morning

To those of you in the states with a 3D printer, if you don’t know already here’s a link to a flock sock that beautifully fits over flock cameras makerworld.com/en/models/31...

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𝒞𝓊𝓇𝓈𝒾𝓋ℯ 𝒾𝓈 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝒾𝓃ℊ 𝒶 𝒸ℴ𝓂ℯ𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝒾𝓃 𝒜𝓂ℯ𝓇𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒸𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓈𝓇ℴℴ𝓂𝓈. More than 25 states now require schools to teach it. Research suggests handwriting can benefit learning and memory (but the evidence that cursive is better than print is less clear.) theconversation.com/cursive-is-m...

I’ve been on a real XMen buzz recently and I watched XMen Apocalypse and I love that they gave Professor X’s baldness a backstory. His hair got burned off by apocalypse. They didn’t need to do that. He can just be bald in the normal way.

Cars should have brakes like bicycles. The option to use just front, back or all brakes at the same time

Trump wants a ballroom in Ireland. One man is having a ball fighting it. The tiny village of Doonbeg was all in favor of the plan, but concerns about an endangered snail — and “serial objector” Liam Madden — could derail the project. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Learning a lot about men in their mid-30s on dating apps, for example this year they would like to travel more. They go crazy for travel. On the weekend you can find them planning to travel. They want someone who likes to travel. Also their love language is physical touch.

When I check which bin collection it is on the councils website, I always put my neighbours address in. I don't want the council knowing I can't remember a simple schedule

Racers will drive down Pennsylvania Avenue and zip past landmarks and museums along the National Mall.

Beginning to think this man could save America now.

There is no greater driver of economic growth than good public transport links. Look at the boom of the Elizabeth Line. People who whinge about the costs of it are just short-sighted morons. Ignore them and build everything. HS2. HS3. Crossrail 2. Trams in every city. Just do it.

Do Fruit Flies count as one of your 5-a-day? Asking for a friend.

Gardaí attached to the Limerick Division from the Roads Policing Unit and Community Policing, supported by uniform members, conducted two days of action that led to the seizures of 40 e-scooters www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

As a keen cineaste, I always misremember the guy who tests the grade of the heroin from the car’s rocker panels at the end of the French Connection as the guy with the octagonal glasses from For Your Eyes Only. #cinema #SightAndSound #CahiersDuCinema

As a keen cineaste, I always misremember the guy who tests the grade of the heroin from the car’s rocker panels at the end of the French Connection as the guy with the octagonal glasses from A View To A Kill. #cinema #SightAndSound #CahiersDuCinema

This is all very Liz Truss Downing Street. Callow Tufton Streeters with Hayek cliff notes who’ve spent way too much time online. Reform not only looks in real trouble, but doesn’t seem to have any ideas about how to get out of it www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

As a keen cineaste, I always misremember the guy who tests the gradw of the heroin from the car’s rocker panels at the end of the French Connection as the guy with the octagonal glasses from A View To A Kill. #cinema #SightAndSound #CahiersDuCinema

Don't agree that we need to burn down the Zucker-castle in Waterford, destroying what precious heritage we have left. We should instead approach this the traditional way (flinging the disease-ridden corpses of animals via trebuchet into the keep)

"Autoglass repair...?"

I told my Son that due to the hosepipe ban, he has to sit down to go to the toilet. Which means I don't have to clean up after him.

Another great poem from @phillipcrymble.bsky.social, and I love the presentation on the punch card.

It's too late for Tom. But not for Tom. If they want any help, contact Andrew Scott. He's an expert on this.

What the fuck is up with wax seals on corks? Either wrap the things in foil like God intended, or use a fucking screw cap. But fuck off with the wax.

18 years old I was working in the Spar during my first summer back from uni. Sold booze to anyone who came in and was under age but knew me and years later I'm still a bit of a local hero for it. No regrets.

The 1986 science fiction thriller features everything from robotic exoskeletons to terraforming.

I never thought there'd be a day when I would be likened to Eric Cantona this many times.

"This is the first time that special schools will actually be having a results day... so it's a big deal for our pupils," said Clare Carr, principal of St Catherine's Special School in Co Wicklow.

Throwing rolled up pieces of paper into office bins, with increasing levels of difficulty, obstacles, line of sight etc, should be an Olympic sport.

This week’s #CookbookCorner stars 'Love and Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food' by Charlotte Wood, and it’s a book I love so much I wrote the foreword to it! Read more about it and get her recipe for Pommes Boulangère here: www.nigella.com/cookbook-cor...

A raffle to win a marble vinyl copy of Live At Tim Peaks - includes my signed setlist from that show £3 a ticket Total of 200 tickets available Jump in raffall.com/427341/enter...

Phil Lynott born August 20, 1949: "When I'm in England, I say, I'm from Ireland. When I'm in Ireland, I say, I'm from Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say, I'm from Crumlin. When I'm in Crumlin, I say, Leighlin Road. When I’m in Leighlin Road, I say I’m a Lynott."

things are cooked, the centre cannot even; the world has entered its anarchy era

Taking a supplement at the right time may improve absorption, although need, dose and possible medicine interactions come first.

In a move that will have me shunned by all the people in the UK who don’t have chronic pain that’s effected by heat, I’ve popped the heating on for 20 minutes

One aspect of my job recently has been trying to find some missing files. I imagine I am a cold case detective searching for vital clues for a 50 year old unsolved murder case. The files are actually old reports about empty units in a few dull suburban shopping centres.

The child and family agency said two of the other five young men who died were also known to it.

If you didn’t get the GCSE results you hoped for today, well done for even taking them at 45 years-old that’s an achievement in itself

“Your one patient who was doing well after surgery gets blown up in his bed. That, I think, probably took the feeling of impotence and rage and helplessness to another level." Dr. Feroze Sidhwa traveled twice to the Gaza Strip to volunteer on the frontline of a collapsing hospital system.

The writers of Strange New Worlds appear to have forgotten how to write an episode of Star Trek without recourse to infuriating gimmicks and twists. Last week clumsy film noir; this week the bloody muppets.

Why does the WRU have the energy of a teenager being told to clean their room

“Why won’t you listen to us?!” “Here are the changes we made after listening to you” “LISTEN TO US!!”

Mix of sunny spells and showers Friday but good sunny spells Friday evening as showers clear South and a decent weekend ahead. Warming back up early next week but risk of heavier rain from late Tuesday.

Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. hospitals now also own health insurance plans. That often means less red tape for patients, but it could also mean higher costs, less competition and more taxpayer money going to that hospital. theconversation.com/what-happens...

FBI stops suspected ISIS plot to blow up New York Capitol building

Banning VPNs would be a bit like banning locks because some people use them to hide wrongdoing. VPNs underpin remote work, banking, security and privacy. You can outlaw providers, but the traffic can be disguised or rerouted. The result: inconvenience and workarounds.

Troops on the carrier deployed in the Middle East were reportedly facing a mental health crisis.

A visit to my friend in a remote Yorkshire village led me into a three-month immersion in one of Britain’s most remarkable forms of social care.

It's a male only camp.

FACT: the risk of flash flooding increases when the ground's been scorched by extreme heat. And we know something about that in London: five heatwaves, record temperatures, wildfires... We can't go on like this. Global leaders must heed these calls.

The wonderful Pat Easterling has sadly died. I remember her here: her collaborative scholarship (coffee or a drink not a tetchy email) & her great bon mot that Classics teaches you "to read difficult things", www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

I am watching a random episode of 21st century Battlestar Galactica and it is so good. See also Firefly, Watchmen, new Who and The Leftovers. That was a good quarter century.

In which Dicky Tice outs himself as a nepo baby

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Thread: Part of how we see the world is about where you come from. For me that’s an awareness of the countryside & the city. The colours of the Irish landscape & the ancient culture of Ireland. You can see that in my one-off hand-drawn drawings, if you scroll down! [1]

The accident took place near Gorau in the Goronyo local government area and rescue efforts are continuing www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

How Natalie Portman Got Caught in Novelist Rachel Cusk’s Autofiction Trap www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/ar...

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Whenever I use a cash point and it says "Take your card and your cash will follow", I involuntarily sing "Be colour blind, don't be so shallow" like I'm in En Vogue.

Your Limmy Pilgrimage To Millport HIGHLIGHTS www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOTf...

This thread is pretty mind boggling. And frightening. Some extremely bad people are going to extreme lengths to put divisive lies in front of your eyes and have you believe them even if you check the source