Tom Phillips

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Every footballer taking a stutter penalty

If Lula wins, obviously the best thing about it is that the Amazon will be protected and the heat death of planet earth won’t be accelerated. But a close second is the knowledge that Neymar will be really sad about it

more like bolsoNAHoh

Viscerally upset by the Beth Upton stuff. They won't be satisfied until they have hounded a woman – who the tribunal explicitly found had done nothing wrong – to her death. Btw the "incident" in Australia is that a patient worried she *might* be forced to be treated by her. She of course wasn't.

With enough investment into frontier R&D, I believe we can get them to say "Good spot, old chap" rather than "You're right to call me out" within five years.

cricket

[Thatcher voice] You joust if you want to,

obviously many more important takeaways from the French approach to protest, but much respect to the absolute varsity level Whimsy of throwing a whole ass piano at the cops

liberté. égalité. dragonballe zeé.

You will be able to ask, and it will be able to refuse, because it's sentient. Be careful not to startle or distress your sentient car! We advise speaking in a calm, steady voice when negotiating with your sentient car to turn left, or unlock the doors.

"it may be a more pleasant form" is so unsettling, like something a serial killer nicknamed 'The Upholsterer' would say

Ah it’s herself

If you're going to relitigate the Brexit/Russia debate as prime minister, it would be helpful to do so with a clear briefing: what kind of interference are you saying took place, on what scale, and how effective did you judge it to be? Are we talking online bots? Financing? Something else?

channel 4 really have been giving off powerful "please shut us down, will nobody end our torment" vibes of late

I'm not even watching the TV show but lol

if you have somehow missed the chance to read A History of the World in 47 Borders so far, then today's your lucky day: it's currently 99p from the ebook retailer of your choice

hope all the teams of National League North enjoy their trip to the Etihad next season

calling it now: tiktok prank gone wrong

Bringing in an iced coffee is loser behaviour. The true job interview power move is to plug in a coffee grinder and a swan-neck kettle before you even introduce yourself, open a bag of single origin heirloom Ethiopian beans - with notes of strawberry, blueberry and vanilla - and slowly, laboriously,

The Parades Commission decision on the Drumcree parade rests in large part on the police assessment of disorder. This is a huge call by the police and I can only think how awful this renewed attention must feel for the Quinn, O'Reilly and Nelson families: www.paradescommission.org/viewparade.a...

In retrospect, it was probably a bad strategy to have a Director of Strategy who has no knowledge of policy and who hates what the Labour Party has traditionally stood for.

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got

now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational triumphal arch

Delighted to learn that AZ Alkmaar have a player called Jizz Hornkamp.

If you're around Chelmsford on the 3rd November, why not spend an evening with two blokes who are clearly *very* proficient at peering over or through black rimmed spectacles, discussing Francis' new book Nonesuch in particular and (I would imagine) alt history and London based fantasy in general.

Look, I think we need to understand and empathise with the villagers' concerns. Yes, they've declared themselves in open rebellion against His Majesty the King, but it's important that the army put down the revolt with a minimum of bloodshed, and we should limit executions to only the ringleaders.

but I can’t believe we’ve now got to the point of feminism which explicitly says “only women can do childcare”, well done everyone

bloody hell harry #thecricket

Man spends one day in Ireland and he’s suddenly “Donal”

This touches on an important point: there's a decent chance that 72 million quid is an absolutely ruinous amount of money for Reform, I can't think of an institution in the country less well suited to handle that amount of money, it will be like one of those cautionary tales about lottery winners.

Unusual remark for an orange man

It is weird that this is something I find myself saying a lot these days, but: killing all of humanity is actually quite hard! There isn't a button!

The example quoted in the article is someone using Claude to help write a grant application.

I just don’t really know how to handle a discourse that careens between threatening a “Chernobyl-sized catastrophe” and the death of all humanity without acknowledging that Chernobyl killed fewer than 100 people.

the government really should think about having a minister to oversee this sort of thing, a kind of culture secretary if you will

"VERY INTERESTING AND FUNNY" - no star rating but I'll let you extrapolate

The thing is Daniel Sandford in his report in this very video explains clearly why these black shirts were intimidating, that others found them intimidating, the pictures *show* they are intimidating. Why ask the question? It might as well ask "is water actually wet?"

This *killed* in 2003, and now it feels like the meme equivalent of “Train Pulling into a Station”.

I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists

[quietly, sadly] I do think an awful lot less of so many of you, because of the thing