He’d get my vote, just for this
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday [ in 2023] signed a bill into law that renames a stretch of highway to honor the late Minnesota icon Prince.
It’s not Barca and Bayern on the way to winning the Champions League, but it’s a start
⚽ #MastodonFC #ChelseaFC #CFC
These are fun
photographer Hector Vivas has created a series of astonishing images called Layers of the Games, which aim to show in one image the multiple moments that happen in a game or a day of competition in Paris
I read that there’s an iceberg slowly spinning around and around the same spot in the South Atlantic
It would be a good place to deport far-right rioters to
This would almost make it worth doing jury service
“I swear by the River Roding, from her source in Molehill Green to her confluence with the Thames, that I will faithfully try the defendant and give a true verdict according to the evidence.”
SPOILER ALERT re: ‘Gaslight’…. although, given the play came out in 1938, maybe I shouldn’t worry too much
This is an interesting article about the meaning of the term ‘gaslighting’
I’ve seen Gaslight as a play twice, but I’d forgotten that the actual thing about the gaslight was accidental
Chelsea’s new signing Kieran Dewsbury-Hall has followed the new manager from Leicester
The other players are therefore calling him “the teacher’s pet”
I’m delighted to learn that they are just as childish as the rest of us ⚽
Good quote: “Churchill was a racist and an imperialist, and also the most important anti-fascist who ever lived”
Origin Story - Churchill, part 1 - Rebel Without a Cause open.spotify.com/episode/4…
Chelsea 1 Celtic 4
…and I thought we might still have some of the momentum from the end of last season ⚽ ☹️☹️☹️
Thoughts on this evening
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Paris looked lovely, despite the rain
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the catwalk-y bit was ‘different’…as was the blue fellow
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I enjoyed SuperNature - was it really written by Lene Lovich?
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I thought we might have heard Gainsbourg, or Brassens, or the Negresses or Manu Choa
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the combined wash of all those boats made the Seine quite choppy
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Imagine was nice
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I didnt know many of the torch-bearers…. but neither did the BBC 😃
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wouldnt it be great if they changed it so that each country had the same number of athletes?
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the fire balloon was properly spectacular
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the floating horse was marvellous
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…but it went on too long
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Celine est magnifique!
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I really enjoyed it
Words I like - Missing You
Who did you murder, are you a spy? I’m just fond of a drink, helps me laugh, helps me cry So I just drink red biddy for a permanent high I laugh a lot less and I’ll cry till I die
Christy Moore - Missing You
Podcast episode about a 19th Century outfit called the British Israelites who went digging on Tara Hill to find the Ark of the Covenant
More sensible than QAnon, but less sensible than Flat Earth imho 🎙️
An odd coincidence of my social circle
My two best friends at university didn’t know each other - it was a modular course, and the American chap was only there for a year.
Anyway, the English guy went to work for Joe Biden, back in the late 1980s, I think….and the American is 90% sure he got legal advice from Barack Obama.
Magic Johnson used to shoot 200-300 three-pointers a day in the summer 🏀
I’m not sure I could physically do that
Finished reading: Fake Heroes by Otto English 📚
Great book.
Some of the targets are maybe a bit soft. For example, it’s no great shock to learn that John Wayne was a bit right wing, and not as rough-ty tough-ty in real life as he was on film.
Much of the book is debunking the film or Ladybird version of the heroes' lives. Those who prefer the Ladybird versions perhaps wont much like it.
Well played, Joe Biden.
The Crowdstrike thing reminds me of the time I brought down about 80% of of a mobile phone network for around half an hour
I will type that up one day.
Giving good epithet
This is good, particularly the bit ive put in bold.
It’s from Otto English’s “Fake Heroes - Ten False Icons and How They Altered the Course of History”
My serving suggestion would be to substitute in the name of someone more fashionable than Mother Teresa
Teresa gave good epithet and many of her quotations about love , empathy and humility dot Pinterest , Facebook and the pages of glossy magazines to this day .
Her most famous quotations include
" A life not lived for others is not a life " ,
" I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world" and "
I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering ” .
Something peculiar happens to words when they are attached to the names of celebrated prophets. On their own and of themselves, many, like those above, might seem a little banal – trite even. But put a famous name like Mother Teresa’s beneath them and they are transformed into something of value
Currently reading: Fake Heroes by Otto English 📚
Annual-ish tweet / toot / post to say thay the blackberries seem early this year
Im not sure if this counts as a metaphor but i like it ⚽
“Southgate has seemed a little more drained than usual at this tournament, adopting during most of his public interactions the expression of a disappointed antelope being asked to explain calculus to a remedial group of angry toddlers.”