Nick Dodd

I seem to recall from last season that he can be deadly with an attempted cross.

Perhaps there's room for Robbie Savage on the bench.

This is sad news. I used to enjoy teaching 'v'. We could use more of Harrison's unflinching and reflective spirit now.

Looking serious. He was probably the sheriff 🙂

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

“AI is more extractive than artificial. It’s dependent on cheap workers, cheap materials, and stolen information”.

From a discussion of AI, societal collapse, + colonial exploitation in Luke Kemp’s Goliath’s Curse (chapter 16).

Won’t catch on, but EA (Extractive Algorithms) would be truer than AI.

The assertions of bad actors that are leading us into loveless chaos need examining carefully and repeatedly. What do we mean by 'migrant crisis', 'violence', 'radical terrorists', and what are the best - most humane, effective and reasonable - courses of action we can take to make things better?

Signed 🙂

❗️Trump:We stopped the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia. It was just starting and it was a bad one.

"With dismay we witness our university leadership making soulless choices that hollow out our institutions from within and erode the critical and self-reflective fabric of academia".

[from Guest et al., 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of "AI" Technologies in Academia']

A Civil Rights Campaigner worth honouring for all time.

Mark 5: 3-11. Perhaps time to revise the Beatitudes. Turns out Jesus had only good things to say about peacemakers and meekness. #HatefulNationalismIsNotChristian.

It is an arrestable offence to draw people's attention to two men having once stood next to each other.

I went to the shop to buy an ice cream. The man said, "Hundreds and thousands?" I said, "I'll start with one." He said, "Knickerbocker Glory?". I said, " Yes, I do have a certain amount of freedom in these trousers."

Get into them #nufc

Story is not what you have instead of reality. It is how you explain the reality you care about to people who don’t.

Tell it.

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

Go on Grimsby 😂

A performance to be proud of and an underserved defeat. Eddie Howe deserves some luck: always dignified and works miracles. Howay the Lads! #nufc

Dan Burn giving the world a lesson in basic ethics: a thoroughly admirable man.

Centre forward is a glaring problem, but any fan of Newcastle United who thinks we are in a terrible position has such a short memory that I would be tempted to say they have no memory at all.

I think that a defence of Livramento, Thiaw, Botman, and Hall (with Schar, Burn, Trippier, and Kraft as cover), and a midfield of Tonali, Joelinton, and Guimaraes (with Miley to deputise for any of the main three), and Barnes, Gordon, Elanga and Murphy as wingers we are as good as anybody.

NUFC chase a new number 9 like a dog chases a car. And, in May, I was looking forward to this transfer window ...

Perhaps the most significant league table for 2025-26.

Now this is a front page news story done right.

Road sign bollboard with big blue and red letters that reads: UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS PAID MORE TAXES LAST YEAR THAN AMAZON, GM, IBM & NETFLIX COMBINED.

Something to think about…

As you say, none of our business. What happened to respecting people as neighbours and ordinary human beings? He's a great player but let people live without someone staring through the window all the time.

Such a lovely picture