Nute Year, Nute You

I can’t tell if this is satire or

2006-yesterday: No walk-off HRs in WBC history.

Today: 2

Darrel Hernaiz with the walk-off to give Puerto Rico a dramatic win over Panama.

(some other stuff happened and GB is no longer leading 1-0)

watching any Met do literally anything good in the WBC:

at least one US pitcher showed up

@abradacabla.bsky.social have you considered that your FO actually just knew Luis Arraez too has the spirit of Barry Bonds deep inside?

A GB pitcher with zero major league innings has just struck out Aaron Judge, Bryce Harper, and Gunnar Henderson in a scoreless inning

The Great Britain Baseball Team is obviously not actually going to beat Team USA but they are leading after three innings (against Tarik Skubal!) and that is still pretty funny

young left leaning voters did not care about Liz Cheney at all

I mean from Hannan’s perspective: you spend your entire career obsessed with an issue with everyone calling you delusional, out of touch, fringe, a lunatic.

Then it becomes the defining issue of the age and it turns out a majority of the public agree with you.

I get how it went to his head?

I mean probably 90%+ of them sincerely believe the Tories got obliterated at the last election primarily for being too left wing, especially on immigration

Not the whole answer but IMO Brexit convinced an enormous swathe of British political opinion including the entire right that the British public are secretly way more right wing than they appear or admit to pollsters

Lore? This is simply a fact.

Blair ‘let’ GB become PM in the same sense that the Princes in the Tower ‘let’ Richard III be King!

Trying to work out Tony Blair’s view from what “Tony Blair” says in 2026 is like trying to assess the music of Queen by looking at their appearances with Adam Lambert

Jacob for the last time, The People’s Tony ascended into Heaven in 2007 and none of this spinoff’s quotes are canon

Just refilling the car with suddenly more expensive gas at a pump still bearing the tattered remnants of a Biden “I Did That” sticker beside the price gauge 🙂

I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

(A harsh way to describe Mourinho’s management style, you might say, but…)

Hard to imagine where a Chelsea fan would get experience disassociating from horrible crimes committed by depraved regimes

Obama was accused of having a “Communist Czar” once IIRC

The world’s most unreliable encyclopaedia: Elon Musk’s AI Wikipedia alternative is distorting the truth about Northern Ireland, defaming, and perversely altering history From Bloody Sunday to RHI, Gerry Adams, Bobby Sands, and Michael Stone, Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is spreading dangerous lies about Northern Ireland

The world’s most unreliable encyclopaedia: Elon Musk’s AI Wikipedia alternative is dangerously distorting the truth about Northern Ireland, defaming & perversely altering history. It smears Troubles victims, lauds a paramilitary force & libels politicians.

Team DR is actually super stacked when you look at that line-up lol

Junior Caminero was built for these moments. Man, he is so much fun.

If I was 17 and got Aaron Judge to ground into a double play, I think it would at least temporarily make me a completely unlikeable person

So reminder to everyone there is baseball classic right now

(And it’s hard to think it’s a coincidence that 2020 was the one of Trump’s three elections where FP wasn’t cited even in the memes or online etc even though Biden was at least as hawkish as HRC historically)

Hillary was at least legitimately hawkish (although it should be noted, not even especially hawkish and clearly liberal coded in her FP in a way that’s been totally forgotten / rewritten ever since) but the Kamala thing was deranged because there was NO reason to think she was!

I have also heard this yes although I think it’s worth being clear in the difference between as yet unevidenced online rumour and verifiable fact being openly stated by the figure involved

Was it not an Iranian Shah who built the *original* Red Wall?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_W...

The Red Wall won’t stand for not bringing the Shah back