People have been trashing the players all season to cope with the fact that they bought into the idea of magical pragmatism and it didn’t pan out.

Perhaps time has run out, but I was more encouraged by the way they played last night. Maybe it’s not too late, though depending more and more on other results.

Bergvall steal Xavi goal.

Some volley from Mitoma.

Gawd I hope they don’t regret that miss

Pedro!

Umpteeth reason to boycott the Men’s World Cup this summer. If FIFA is going to continue finding ways to betray the world’s game, we don’t have to go along with it.

Australia isn't transitioning away from fossil fuels.

The Albanese Government is just hiding rising emissions under a mountain of 'offsets'.

Read more about our research: https://theaus.in/4sEx2pP

F-ing depraved. The IDF edited a photo of the journalist they assassinated and made it look like he was wearing a Hezbollah uniform. They explicitly state that it is legal in Israel to murder journalists. The entire Israeli state is a criminal enterprise.

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon
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Richie has really been busting a gut since k/o.

Spurs still don’t look very comfortable trying to progress the ball upfield.

Astounding that no card was given.

What De Zerbi’s comments about Mason Greenwood tell us about male violence | Chris Paouros Spurs head coach’s apology for past comments about his former player was important but insufficient. If we want things to change in football, we need some accountability

Good piece on the new Spurs boss Roberto De Zerbi, and why his defence of Mason Greenwood — and later meek apology for it — was harmful to the safety of women

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The photo says it all really.

Anyway, congratulations to Sir Keir Starmer on authorising this campaign to prevent dastardly terrorists -- cunningly disguised as old people holding up signs -- from undermining public safety.

BREAKING: War Secretary Pete Hegseth is removing two additional Army generals tonight: Gen. David Hodne, head of Army Transformation and Training Command, and Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., chief of the Army chaplain corps, The Washington Post reports P ? Insider Paper * @TheInsiderPaper- 5h BREAKING: Secretary War Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement — CBS News

Firing your generals is famously an action taken when you’re winning, your enemy is “totally defeated” and you’re going to wrap up your incredible victory in 2-3 weeks

We could've phased out fossil fuels the gradual, smart and painless way starting in the 1990s

The fossil fuel industry decided we have to do it the painful, unfair and cruel way instead. because that gave them an extra few decades of super-profits

The team sheets don’t lie.

The Trump administration is simultaneously trying to

1: Exempt offshore oil from protecting the whales.
2: Stop offshore wind in order to protect the whales.

3) Spurs are facing the prospect of relegation because of the decision to sack Ange. That's the main reason we're this bad (and not, like, moderately bad due to squad issues, etc.). We're only this bad because the club dragged the players + Ange through a horrific experience last season...

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A couple of pk worthy fouls in there.

5mins in and the ref is already ‘havin a larf’. Some ridiculous calls/non-calls.

"wankpanzer"

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2026 MEIJI YASUDA J2/J3 100 YEAR VISION LEAGUE

ROUND 7

DEUS EN COMANDO

Graves being prepared for the victims of an airstrike on a school in Minab in southern Iran, 2 March 2026. Photograph: Iranian Foreign Media Department/Reuters

Ask Gemini, the AI service powered by Google, and the answer you receive is no – in fact, Gemini claims the photograph is from two years earlier and more than 2,000km (1,240 miles) away. Rather than graves for small girls killed by a missile, the image “depicts a mass burial site in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey” after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck in 2023. “This specific aerial perspective became one of the most widely shared images of the disaster,” Gemini says, “illustrating the sheer scale of the loss.” Seeing the same burial image on social media, others turned to X’s AI assistant Grok to check its veracity. Like Gemini, Grok will breezily assure you the photo is not from Iran at all – although it lands on a different date, disaster and location. The image is “from Rorotan Cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia – a July 2021 stock photo of Covid mass burials. Not Minab,” it says. In both cases, the AI answers sound sure: they don’t equivocate, and even provide “sources” for the original image, should you choose to check them. Follow the thread to examine those, however, and you’ll begin to hit dead ends: either the image doesn’t appear at all, or the link provided is to a news report that doesn’t exist. For all their impression of clarity and precision, the AIs are simply wrong. The cemetery image, it turns out, is authentic. Researchers have cross referenced the photo of the site with satellite images that confirm its location, and it can be cross-referenced again with dozens more images taken of the same site from slightly different angles, and again with video footage – none of which experts say show signs of tampering or digital manipulation. The “factchecks” by Gemini and Grok are just one example of a tidal wave of AI-generated slop – hallucinated facts, nonsense analysis and faked images – that are engulfing coverage of the Iran war. Experts say it is wasting investigative time and risks atrocities being denied – as well as heralding alarming weaknesses as…

This is a real image of a graveyard being prepared for the victims of a mass murder of schoolchildren enacted by the racist governments of Israel and America.

Ask a text generation program, and it'll output sentences that say the photo is fake

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I was glad to hear you both decidedly more chipper this week!

That people don't want low effort slop is apparently too complicated for the slop vendors to comprehend. Guess they'll have to just keep stuffing this unwanted garbage into everything

For the first, even one of the Atletico Madrid players slipped over in the box.

Albo and Penny sat down in front a white board and challenged each other to come up with a line stupider than "non-lethal components".