Matt El

A mate on WhatsApp shared this meme and it’s utterly sublime.
I’m a Wednesdayite and what’s happening at Hillsborough is an utter shitshow.

The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNAS Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some c...

'the total number of papers produced is doubling every 15 years, submissions suspected to have been written by “paper mills” are doubling every 18 months....Lead author, Luís...Amaral...said these networks were “essentially criminal organisations, acting together to fake the process of science”. 2/2

‘Sophisticated global networks’ undermining science, finds study Systems in place to deal with fraud struggling to keep up, increasing risk of research becoming ‘completely poisoned’

'The publication of fraudulent papers is “far outpacing” that of legitimate research, warned the researchers, who have published their findings in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.' 1/2

Seriously, if you have access to ProQuest, you can read how the "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" dude helped cure AIDS www.proquest.com/docview/2071...

Gabriele Ambrosetti, “the Italian Giggs”

Could have been ALOT worse

This is why I support La Viola 💜

The US satire cartoon show South Park secured a five-year deal worth $1.5 billion with Paramount Global. They began their season with this clip, challenging Trump to sue them.

YouTube video by Black Sabbath - Topic War Pigs (2009 Remaster)

Written in 1970. Still scarily accurate this very day. Rest in Power Ozzy 🤘

“Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah”

youtu.be/6csiUGMC1fk

God bless DuckDuckGo

You might be interested…..er also angry about this @markhumphries.bsky.social

Isn’t that the new D Rex?

People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.

PSG seem a bit pissed off about missing out on what was probably a lucrative win bonus 💰

Great to see Doja Cat kitted up and showing support for Crystal Palace during the #CWC half time show. Would love to hear her think piece on the multi club ownership issues that have led to their Europa League demotion….

Nice setup poorly executed. Too much talky talky. Get to the island already so we can get on with the munching and crunching. 6 out of 10

Nice setup poorly executed. Too much talky talky. Get to the island already so we can get on with the munching and crunching. 6 out of 10

I thought it was part Beluga actually

So Ghislaine Maxwell is serving 20 years for trafficking girls to nobody?!?!

I don't understand why it is called "Skeeting" instead of "BSing"

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

Deerhoof Are 'Quitting Spotify' Over CEO Investing in 'AI Battle Tech' Company Deerhoof are leaving Spotify after its CEO invested nearly $700 million in Helsing, which makes military drones and AI defense software.

How Spotify funds war. CEO Daniel Ek invested nearly $700 million into Helsing, which makes military drones and AI defence software. He's also the chairman of Helsing which requires ongoing conflict for profit. au.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Trying to think of the best way to describe Chelsea’s unceasing desire to do transfer business with Brighton. Weird? Lazy? Misguided? Blinkered? Amateurish?

David Squires on … making Transylvania great again Our cartoonist visits Poenari Castle on Mount Cetatea to see what nonsense Vlad Dracula III has spouted this time

Here’s this week’s cartoon for @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

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I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

"10 years Baur au Lac - world football is more poorly governed than before! Smash FIFA!"

Bayern Munich supporters from "Munich‘s Red Pride" (MRP) at the Club World Cup today.

FIFA has reported a lack of demand for World Cup Tickets.

Anyone know why?

Football fans in US being caught up in immigration raids around FIFA’s Club World Cup take evasive action, some decide to stay away.

A far cry from: “Everyone’s welcome” ⚽️ 👮

Soccer Fans Fear Being Targets of U.S. Immigration Raids www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/w...