The thing I despise is inhumanity. It’s not really a political position, it’s an existential one. But if your political party manoeuvres itself into a place where it practises and promotes inhumanity, I will despise you.

Florian Wirtz leads all Premier League players in all competitions in 2025-26 for:

Chances created (29)
Open play chances created (26)
Expected assists (3.0)

He is still top for chances created when making it per 90 among all players with 200+ mins (3.1). #LFC

21 - Most chances created for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season:

21 - Florian Wirtz
21 - Jack Grealish
18 - Bryan Mbeumo
17 - Bruno Fernandes
16 - 5 players

Agenda.

Mo Salah is asking the right questions

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Study on London 20 mph limits shows:
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%

etsc.eu/20mph-limits...

Around now in 1838 Louis Daguerre took this shot in Paris capturing a shoe shiner & customer. Believed to the first of billions of photos of human beings.

This is high art

Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one

Coward officials on the pitch, cowards at Stockley Park.

🧵I've posted previously about how institutional capture by disordered discourse works, and I want to highlight this post from DOD Rapid Response to show what it looks like in action, and what it tells us.

It’s a textbook example of Stage 5: Entrenchment & Epistemic Closure.
bsky.app/profile/elio...

The net spend of #PremierLeague clubs since the 2016-17 season. (BBC)

My numbers are only half of what they are at the other place, so allow me to reintroduce myself:

Sports Journalist, co-host of @thelatechallenge.bsky.social regular on @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social columist on @thisisanfield.com and the man asking Arne Slot stats questions twice a week:
#Redsky

Incredible thread on how one obsessive gummed up £billions of vital infrastructure projects at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds.

ADVENTURER: Dragon! We are here for your gold! Prepare to die!
DRAGON: My gold?
ADVENTURER: Yes! We climbed this great mountain, swam it's flooded caverns and-
DRAGON: Fair enough
ADVENTURER: Wait, what?
DRAGON: It's yours
ADVENTURER:
DRAGON: How are you carrying it out of here?
ADVENTURER: Um... /1

Imagine agreeing that it’s necessary to change the rules but waiting a bit so that someone can have a go at smashing up your democracy in the meantime.

4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.

On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day

So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga