Matt Knott

The pain scale

Using this extensively to measure discomfort watching the Turks- heading for an 8

That’s how it’s done Leinster 😂

cosplaying as special forces while having the speed and turning circle of a semitrailer, incredible stuff

Mon mothma’s speech on the death of truth

Rewatching Andor yesterday and I was again shaken by the Mon Mothma speech at the end of episode 9.

The Canada game felt like we were watching 7’s at time. So entertaining

If Marcus Smith and Jamie Roberts had a baby

1 Uptake of renewable energy globally is insane

2 Price of batteries decreasing year on year

3 CAR-T therapies - reprogramming immune cells to go after blood cancers - for certain lymphomas it can even be thought curative

4 mRNA vaccines

5 Violent crime is historically low 4.6 to 1.6% 95-2020

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

YouTube video by Squidge Rugby So you're sleeping on the most innovative team in rugby right now.

Rugby is a game of new ideas. Yet right now, one team stands head and shoulders above all others in those stakes, and is being ignored. One team playing the game as it will be in fifteen years' time. We dig into who it is, and why they're so ahead of the game...
youtu.be/Foq1rCWiYuA

Gloria Gaynor donated $22K to Republican campaigns, FEC filings show - LGBTQ Nation Gaynor is going to be honored by the president for her music career.

This like finding out the owners of Manhunt were major donors to the GOP

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/glor...

“Oh Tay Tay, buy the Ospreys”

The ONLY reason people hate on cargo shorts is they are jealous of the unprecedented storage efficiency. Shorts you can store a whole meal in. Impossible to argue against in good faith

I found huge success with a cranial osteopath. I highly recommend trying it if you haven’t.

You want bit rate, you buy physical. Also incredible film and an even better way to banish any high end oled buyer’s remorse that may be kicking around

Among many depressing elements of the WRU's likely "optimal solution" is that they will still spend less per club than the Scottish Rugby Union.

And yet they still believe that their extremely centralised new system will allow Welsh rugby to outperform its better-resourced competitors.

That’s actually really good news and sorry, I’m sure it’s been a hard day dealing with all of this change.

I really can’t justify an ST this season given the travel headache and will try to make occasional games but feel this is a massive misstep. I don’t know what point I’m trying to make I’m just really disappointed.

I wanted to support the Ospreys as much as possible last season and went for a Gold ST for me and my daughter and am now facing shelling out over £500 to have a decent seated view in the Brewery field which is okay as an occasional venue but the facilities are poor.

This probably isn’t the place for it but I’m really disappointed by this announcement. We had a group of 10 planning to buy or renew STs and looking forward to a partial season at SH but are now looking at a pretty significant cost hike to travel an extra hour each way. All are gutted.

Oh wow, the trauma of trying to pass that goat

Stained glass window

I remember these guys from Broken Sword

I thought the reaction was a bit overblown tbh. It’s not like the game has AI slop everywhere - it was one placeholder image and some translations. You could argue the translations could have just been added via patch at a later date

I got side tracked after unlocking the first alter by Death Stranding (third attempt to get into it) but was having a ball. Ignored my way through AI-gate 👀

Guillermo del Toro - Studio Ghibli Masterclass (2013, TIFF festival) ❤️
Now online (80 minutes) >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Uo...

This is how I remember him. Coolest guy to walk the planet

I absolutely adored Michael Madsen as a kid. Incredible and underutilised actor IMO. RIP Mr. Blonde

Rugby results

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be