Cool things that sharks pre-date:
Trees
The rings of Saturn
The North Star
fucking FIRE (sharks existed before Earth had enough oxygen to create fire)
The House of Lords voted today to remove its last hereditary peers after more than 800 years:
IGA NATALIA ŚWIĄTEK, KNOWER OF BALL
it's happening.
iga vs. mookie.
it's really happening.
This is great from @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social on how Alysa Liu reminded Amanda Anisimova of the mindset that helped her achieve all of those great things last season.
forty-deuce.ghost.io/amanda-anisi...
unbelievably, this will be Osaka and Sabalenka's first meeting since their "we all think this probably looks like the future of tennis" (and we were right) face-off at 2018 US Open
I couldn't say because I don't have any of the things I've read about it in front of me, and I deleted my account a while back.
Lebanese health minister in presser says death toll now 394, inc. 83 children & 42 women. Said “numbers talk, these are families,” says 4 hospitals ceased operating. switched to English to add “medical teams & ambulances are under direct attacks. This is unacceptable” #lebanon #beirut
“You just earned yourself a follow” — a guy who’s about three ‘mr bean is fuckable’ posts away from unfollowing
"The light on the hill never promised comfort. It promised obligation. It demanded clarity precisely when clarity carried risk. It assumed conflict and required courage. It asked governments to disturb settled arrangements when those arrangements entrenched injustice." #auspol
I don't think star players generally make good administrators, but I do think experience in grassroots tennis provides invaluable knowledge and insight which is currently missing at TA.
I don't think they ever blocked me, despite me sledging them regularly 🤷🏻♂️
Fingers crossed you get an opportunity in Montreal (and paid for it tbh)
The world is properly topsy turvy: I agree with Pat Cash
www.nine.com.au/sport/tennis...
I was wondering when you shifted away from reporting, I still love reading your thoughts on here.
Yes but on Old Twitter you could turn them off individually and that's what I'm keen on
I also think people should be able to turn off my retweets because I'm very fast and loose with the 🔁
I’m reporting from Indian Wells this week and got a fascinating response from Emma Raducanu on her coaching situation and tennis philosophy. My short round up here 👇
tennisconnected.com/emma-raducan...
The Love Shack
is a literal place where
we can get together
I do miss turning off RTs though
I do not envy any of the decisions tennis journalists have to make in the current climate.
There's so many points of pressure, being forced to work inside Musk's grotty fever dream feels particularly cruel.
Yeah and tbh my call to get off X is aimed at users, not professionals. I'm not here to hassle Ben Rothenberg. (Well sometimes I am but I mean it with love)
This is wildly common in chronic illness because doctors are taught to cure and not treat. So they’re not flexible or imaginative and if it doesn’t work the way they were taught or expect they can’t just mark it in their win column so it’s not worth their time and now you’re making them work
Hmmmm okay. That's really sad, because it's a revolting place for folks to be. Bad for your brain.
I deleted everything and I feel so much better for it
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Is that true though? All the stats and reporting I've seen around the current state of x say that the site is basically worthless because of the sheer volume of bots. It's Dead Internet Theory in practice.
Went to the footy, got this great Rory Lobb head, bought a Buku badge, got really excited about Sellwood, Jacques and Budarick, went back and bought an Arty Jones badge, called Zorko a swine, screamed my lungs out, and watched the Dogs deliver a great win. No complaints, five woofs. #AFLLionsDogs
Beloveds we have gotta block The Tennis Letter that account is garbage and they do awful work
Also get the fk off x what the hell are you doing on there still?
Belgian challenger player Michael Geerts received messages threatening his parents and girlfriend if he didn’t lose his next match. Picture of a gun included. 😳
There is absolutely zero explanation for hitting targets like this unless your objective is to destroy any possibility of normal life and produce mass civilian death. Completely unjustifiable and another war crime. We saw this thirty years ago in Iraq.
