Matt R

Francesca Albanese
One of most amazing women we are fortunate enough to have around in these insane times

Today's reading is from the Book of Nigel.

Before the gods that made the gods were born
Yes before the gods that made the gods were born
Yes before the gods that made the gods
Woke up and made the gods
That’s when you got into
That’s when you got into
Yeah that’s when you first got into the Manics"

Irk the purists.

Love this Bristol bus bot. Factual bus updates delivered with waspish comments about the operator.

The clear morning sky over Gloucester Road watches the inbound 75 arrive at Hatherley Road nine minutes ahead of schedule. A battery-electric motor makes for a quiet pursuit of Hengrove while the rest of North Bristol is still asleep.

A stencil of Jesus with a football with text saying "When all hope is lost, remember some people still support Bristol Rovers". Signed by John D'Oh.

When all hope is lost...

#johndoh #bristol #streetart #bristolrovers

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Great result for Everton in the stately homes derby.

Lewis Hall vs Dewsbury Hall

#efc #UTFT

'Equity for punks' was so cringe. That alone should have had potential investors running a mile.

Of the sentiment, rather than Bristol City Women or your mum. Though I reckon he'd be fine with them too.

Kurt Vonnegut would approve.

BREAKING: Pam Bondi appears to have just committed a federal crime by lying under oath.

Ted lieu just caught her in a lie and called for her resignation live on TV.

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said. Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, they said. This would lock the world into a new and hellish “hothouse Earth” climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach. The climate would also be very different to the benign conditions of the past 11,000 years, during which the whole of human civilisation developed. Continue reading...

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

A man wearing a dinner suit and holding an empty pint glass smiles as he sings 'Never felt more like singing the Blues'. Behind him the people who have just thrown him through the, now smashed, pub window laugh.

Well, I never felt more like singing the Blues... #UTFT

One or two cars at the Muller Rd / Filton Ave light go through on red almost every time.

I know they do because I'm looking at the same lights they are as I wait to cross. I start crossing when the light goes red and glare at them as they whizz past.

It always amuses me how car drivers complain about cyclists going through red lights when it's routine behaviour for motorists.

Immigration officers claim sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on a more narrow administrative warrant

This is what fascism looks like. Use the word. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/immigration-officers-claim-sweeping-power-to-enter-homes-without-a-judges-warrant-memo-says

This Land Was Your Land by President Epstein

This land was your land, but now it's my land
From Venezuela to Green or Iceland
From bits of Scotland to Palestine
This land was yours, but now it's mine

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it

Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

Is My Pub Fucked? Pubs are under pressure from rising costs, taxes, and business rates. Find out how your local is affected and show up for them.

Interesting website that rates the effect of a potential increase in rateable value on individual pubs in England and Wales.

Strange that The Hillgrove in Bristol gets a Somehow Fine rating while its neighbour The Hare on The Hill gets an Absolutely Fucked rating.

A cyclist was killed by a hit-and-run driver in my city this week, and it has left a cycling community scared – something needs to change Safer roads are not a ridiculous request, but a need

Someone was killed in Bristol at the weekend. On a busy street at lunchtime on Sunday.

It was a 'cyclist' killed by a 'motorist'. So we do that thing where we accept that we're prepared to sacrifice the lives of a few 'cyclists' every year so long as we can keep driving our cars wherever we want.

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.

Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”

Really listen to it.

🎯

A can of Arbor AAA Pass American Amber Ale. The white text on a yellow background is hard to read.

Is this the first ever WCAG based joke on a beer can?

The colour contrast on this can of Arbor AAA Pass looks like a surefire fail under WCAG color contrast rules.

Expressions like this are a great way for the simple to out themselves. Mimicking the big boys.

A Montage of sports people, featuring Carlos Alacaraz of Everton.

Everton's Charlie Alcaraz makes it into The Ringer's Favourite 52 sporting moments of 2025. Well, into the graphic anyway. 😁 #Everton #UTFT

www.theringer.com/2025/12/23/s...

If we get the TGV we have to change at Chambery.

Thanks. We were hoping to take the Frecciarossa from Turin to Lyon because it's direct and an hour and a half quicker. But I think we'll have to take the TGV instead.

Thanks. Travelling in May so we'll probably just book on the other one.