Nemo

BBC appoints Big Sam to shore things up until the end of the season Sam Allardyce has been spotted outside BBC headquarters, as rumours swirl that he’ll be brought in to steady the ship until the end of the season.

NEWS! BBC appoints Big Sam to shore things up until the end of the season newsthump.com/2025/11/09/b...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

‘Lipstick on a pig’: how to fight back against a peer-review bully Scientific societies, journals, editors and researchers are pushing back against mean-spirited peer reviews.

Have definitely come across this reviewer: “This manuscript was not worth my time so I did not read it and recommend rejection.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.

To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

Disused 1970s single-storey brick building on a headland

A custard slice and an espresso

If you are an international supervillain looking for a new clifftop lair which is just a 10 minute walk away from a cafe selling brilliant coffee and custard slices, I can recommend the old coastguard station in Mumbles / Mwmbwls.

Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide

A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says

Extraordinary story from @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social: A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived.

One woman: “It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car...He has just wiped me out.”

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

He started using ChatGPT for help with homework and eventually it ended up helping him to commit suicide...

"thank you for letting me ride with you to the end"
"may your next save file be somewhere warm"
"see you on the other side"

#NihilismAndTechnology

21st Century Phrenology being sold as actual science.

lol

If the sub didn't split, you must aquit

a slightly out of focus black cat sleeping in the foreground. a large painting of a red table with a vase of flowers next to an open window of the focus of the photo. signed grisé

Pep with painting

a pelican flys into the sun

No sunrise this morning, here's one from the 28th 🌞🪶

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

A really sobering story about how vulnerable UK universities are to intimidation to get them to abandon human rights research. Claims by China in this report of inadequate "fact checking" should always be accompanied by mention of their exclusions from Xinjiang:

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www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/con... Yes it was that gloomy!

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

“Local police said it didn’t take long for them to ketchup with the vehicle”

A grey cat’s paw in close up

Foots!

Married her yesterday.

Federal Reserve to Reduce Bank Supervision Staff by 30% The reductions would leave the Fed’s supervision and regulation division with about 350 people.

Feels like the sort of headline that gets a rostrum shot and a voiceover in future documentaries
www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

They mostly involve her excitedly drawing the invigilators’ attention to someone using an unapproved brand of calculator.

an empty ceramic jar (an onggi) next to a stainless steel pot full of foamy rice mash

making some rice wine

Helluva photo!

Autumn evenings by the Mersey ☀️

Hare riding a hound with a trained snail of prey
Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390

Most people are better served in ready-to-wear, not cheap custom. If they do custom tailoring, they would benefit from having someone gently guide them towards better choices, politely saying "no" when necessary. See what Graydon Carter said of his tailor at Anderson & Sheppard.

He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies. “I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor Wednesday evening. “So I just gave him my opinion.”

I’m crying

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

This such a perfect patriotic 🇬🇧 Fleet Street cock-up. It's one thing for a news outlet to be duped by a competent hoaxer. Excruciating, yes, but there's a fairly long history of such fuck ups. But to put out a statement SAYING you'd been hoaxed but you'd actually just emailed the wrong guy?

"No one asked me if I was the mayor."

That is incredible. As bad as you think the state of journalism is in this moment, it's worse. It's much much worse.