Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

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Well worth a read. Like social media, it starts off as something excellent, gains commercial hold, feeds on generating income and then enshittifies based on cultivated dependency. Facebook. Twitter. Hopefully not here...

We were poor but also a patched together team. Not our defence or midfield of choice. Wigan offered nothing either. Kids' game at half time offered the most entertainment of the afternoon.

Pierless summary.

When Trump calls climate change a "con job," he is representing his fossil fuel billionaire friends, not science.
 
Climate change is REAL. It is an existential threat to the planet and future generations.

We must transform our energy systems away from fossil fuels.

Whew!!! Those Brits have a way with words.

Malady Boateng

Was he to blame for today or our hopeless midfield? Harsh on him, I think

Ludwell valley park. Taken from 50.70821, -3.49441

Just looking up gyrocopter hire now.

Meanwhile here's the whole photo. A spot well worth exploring. Location in the alt text.

Ludwell valley park. I seem to be becoming a collector of different angles.

Both trees?

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

Gary Lineker on winning the National TV Award,

"It's not lost on me why I might have won this award"

"Aside from presenting Match of the Day.."

"Also, I think it demonstrates that perhaps it's ok sometimes to use our platform to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice"

YouTube video by Michael Spicer Real Support from Actual Racists

youtu.be/VmeOXYE_axE?... #pafc

Alan Nicholls, the maverick goalkeeper who should have played for England but died far too young Alan Nicholls was described as a ‘young Peter Shilton’ and represented England’s Under-21s but was killed in a motorcycle accident aged 22. Twenty years on, Stuart James speaks to those who knew the g...

I was in my final year at uni and probably snuck out for more away games than home with that team. My dad used to rave about the team I was missing (as did everyone). Brentford away was the final nail for Shilton. What happened to Nicholls was beyond imagination. www.theguardian.com/football/201...

Alan Nicholls... What could have been. Also, I was there for Brentford 7 Argyle 0, I assume that same season.

Sickening. There's a waiting list for season tickets. Ban them and replace them with real people.

YouTube video by Billy Bragg Billy Bragg - Hundred Year Hunger

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@billybragg.bsky.social #existenceisresistance

YouTube video by Vzhůru do Grünbachu Dinsdale

So long as he keeps the noise down. Nothing worse than a footballer making a racket. youtu.be/sryL1IP8ohQ?...

@mooseallain.bsky.social I believe this is an alternative angle of the original tree for you. Spotted during a break in the rain on a very damp dog walk this morning.

Also really rate Bali but the harder he tries the less he thinks and the wheels come off. He was defensively weak last year too, but our most effective at getting the ball up the pitch. We need better full backs to take the pressure off him.

Yes. Let's blame the kit, bin it, never seen it again and forget today even happened...

Everything about that was horrible. It's the difference when a relegated team keeps the players from a higher level. All of them were better than all of us.

Agree. One of the best players and people we've seen at the club, but he'd had injuries and sometimes could disappear. At the time, if we could only sign two from three, we'd have chosen the two we did. Certainly can't regret either of them either. 100% wish him well. Will be following with interest

This was the McLaren umbrella shot equivalent.

"I painted a St George's Cross on a roundabout. What have YOU done for this country?"

Ibrahim looks a player. Can't believe he's only 20

"Helluva lotta work building a motte and bailey castle"
"Keep on top of it?"
"That's the standard design, yes"

Ugandan 50c stamp depicting a pancake tortoise. It is labelled ‘endangered species’ and the stamp is adorned with a WWF panda symbol

It’s the 47th anniversary today of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin being troubled by rumours of a tortoise plodding its way into a village police station and asking to speak to the provincial governor of Jinja, and the town’s police commissioner

I thought he looked fitter than anybody, in fairness