Dean Van Nguyen

Come see me at this year’s @granardbooktown.bsky.social

Absolutely bang on by @jonathanliew.bsky.social

The Mail calls out racism on its back page, while promoting unsubstantiated, outright racism on its front page.

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Iran must withdraw from the FIFA World Cup because it’s being bombed by the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize

Unconscionable tournament

Crikey

CHINA: "The US is a war addict. Throughout its over 240-year history, it has been at war for all but 16 years. The US has 800 overseas military bases in over 80 countries and regions. The US is the main cause of international disorder, global turbulence, and regional instability."

Where is the lie?

I see the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize is at it again, doing more peace and stopping more wars.

Oh.

Get Infantino out of FIFA. Football deserves better than this ghoulish, obsequious, evil little toad of a man. He represents everything that's wrong about the game and the world.

Dean: Burglar put their own spin on Generation X mimicry “Their songs are a veritable Lollapalooza of unflashy guitar play, stark aesthetics, gentle melodies, interlocking guy-girl vocal harmonies, and the spirit of Fugazi.”

Good new Irish music alert!

I just clicked onto True Geordie's YouTube page. What's happened there then?

The Labour Party now think I am a far-left extremist because I support policies that were in the 2017 and 2019 Labour Party manifestos.

“Gender-critical feminism”—a movement built around trying to get a children’s author to like your tweets

There’s no serious support for the “gender crit” platform

I'm simply not having a hyphen in the words "crack cocaine"

What a result!

Completely incomprehensible, if you can find a coherent point in this you should be helping the police find missing persons

If Tom Skinner has a million haters, then i am one of them. If he has ten haters, then I am one of them. If he has only one hater, then that is me. If he has no haters, then I am no longer alive. If the world loves Tom Skinner, then I am against the world

It looks as though the grammar suggestions MS Word has provided for years is now falling under its “AI”. Next they’ll be telling us the paper clip was HAL 9000

Spurs should have rehired Ange so he could win them the Championship in his second season

Five wins out of six. The best team in the league right now is Liverpool FC

It's with a grim inevitability the right-wing have turned Ash Wednesday into a new culture war. I'm seeing people saying "Happy Ash Wednesday", a nonsense that no one before ever said. Next year it will be "How comes you're no longer allowed to say 'Happy Ash Wednesday'?".

Fionnán Sheahan: In liberal Ireland, you can now expect to be Catholic-shamed for having ashes on your forehead An Ash Wednesday ritual I honoured in memory of my late father was somehow interpreted as ‘far right’

This is incredible work. Fionnan, I salute you

I see a couple people bookmarked this, waiting for comeback no doubt ha!

How the LA Review of Books destroyed itself “All non-profits run on exploitation, but these guys don’t even try to hide it."

Boy howdy. nobaddaysinla.substack.com/p/how-the-la...

Seeing Andy Farrell celebrate England taking the beating of a lifetime #EngVIre

A problem with the America’s Next Top Model doc is they fail to pin Tyra down on anything. Every answer she gives is “That was the hardest moment of my life” in an exasperated voice. Tyra is v. media savvy and has been batting away criticisms of ANTM for years. Interviewer needed to be more incisive

Shut up you idiot

My return to Passion of the Weiss, more anticipated than a new Frank Ocean album

500 days just seems like a nice round number. Maybe he’ll get to the end the season, but I think some kind of exit is likely