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I like my sugar with coffee and cream dementia research, international politics, music

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The irony of my broadband provider only letting me cancel via phonecall is 100% guaranteeing I am not staying with them

12.03.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

'You can compete but we might kill you' is not a great message from the next host of the World Cup and the Olympics. Thank for your attention etc

12.03.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looking to rent an apartment for a bit while I sort a house purchase and my god the state of 'luxury' apartments in the Midlands in 2026 is seriously depressing

12.03.2026 13:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you enjoyed me getting too obsessed with a picture, you’ll also enjoy me getting too obsessed with a shitload of pictures.

The Cheers titles, stared at too much.

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12.03.2026 10:23 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I like that people have not considered that if there was a better way of transporting the oil than 'very slow, very vulnerable ships making long journeys along politically difficult routes' it would probably be in place by 2026

12.03.2026 09:33 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Looking beyond the irony of taking Teaching staff off the Teachers pension scheme, this is an utterly gross move to find a loophole that shows how little the institution respects its staff

11.03.2026 10:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

With Gorillaz now in Fortnite looking forward to the Bobby Womack and Mark E Smith skins

08.03.2026 13:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Me and the eldest did the my9games.com thing, not favourites, but about time and place. Annoyingly his list is better than mine

08.03.2026 10:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did Robert Jenrick do some sort of monkey paw thing where he loses a kilo everytime he says something awful?

08.03.2026 09:51 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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This is really really weird

06.03.2026 12:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Having one of those days where you wonder how a service as insanely bad as Evri is somehow legal

05.03.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I could deal with the format if he went somewhere I know little about. Mongolia? Uzbekistan? Haiti? Go for it. Send him to Barrow for a week. Just not another 'the trains are really busy, ooh an elephant' thing.

05.03.2026 11:41 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Look, the last time the US armed separatists to calm things down it didn't work, nor the time before that, and not quite the time before that. And we don't talk about the other time. Which means this time it's gotta work

05.03.2026 11:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
WAG THE DOG

WAG THE DOG

All this feels very much like Wag the Dog

28.02.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 257 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 1
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Iran selects Tucson for 2026 World Cup training Iran’s men’s national soccer team will train at Tucson’s Kino Sports Complex ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, beginning preparations in early June.

Iran has two FIFA World Cup matches in LA and one in Seattle. The first is 107 days from now.

28.02.2026 12:26 πŸ‘ 107 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 18

I'm saved from this one as have decided it is time to throw out and restart the glass and tableware collection. 3000 records with the temptation to listen to each one as it goes in a box on the other hand...

28.02.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is there a task in the world that takes longer than packing books and records for a house move?

28.02.2026 13:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Aren't you meant to wait till after you host the World Cup before you go to war with another team?

28.02.2026 09:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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There is always a tweet.

28.02.2026 08:22 πŸ‘ 2530 πŸ” 933 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 40

The BBCs live coverage of nothing happening in Jerusalem is really odd

28.02.2026 09:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I know this helps no one, but I grew up in the Tory shires, live in London and work in a university. I’m married with children and a mortgage and am mildly left wing. I would have thought that, these days, either the Tories or Labour might be attempting to get my vote. They are not and it’s weird.

27.02.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 238 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 3

Really liking this new Gorillaz album, even if its just making me wish the Avalanches would hurry up and do the same thing better again

27.02.2026 12:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This week's cover @thelancet.com

26.02.2026 23:48 πŸ‘ 3117 πŸ” 1457 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 80

Watching Newsnight and thinking 'I really hope none of these people win' isn't a great feeling

26.02.2026 22:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

While I know the correct answer is probably Cannonball I'm finding it hard to argue against your position here

24.02.2026 09:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Surround yourself with the kind of people who consider The Princess Bride to be one of the greatest films of all-time.

23.02.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 665 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 11

'An AI that has loose baccy scattered everywhere and the corners torn off of anything made of cardboard...'

23.02.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just feel like shit without loads of curling on the telly.

23.02.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Could Journalists covering the Gorton and Denton By-Election stop acting like they are doing some hardcore anthropology of a tribe previously untouched by western civilisation please?

22.02.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the same as when students say 'well I paid for this' and I think, yes, but I did get kettled, charged by horses and watched colleagues get arrested to try and stop you having to pay them, sorry it didn't work but we did really try

21.02.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0