"We want our Chelsea back"
You have, dears - under Kenneth William Bates, circa 1988

the list of things venture capitalists have ruined now extends to chelsea, but i'm going to let them have this one #thefootball

Shabana Mahmood is a Priti Patel regen in Political Football Manager. #ThePolitics

21.4.2026 ➡️ 21 + 4 + (2 ^ 0) = 26
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1900: Labour
1994: New Labour
2020: Hard Labour
#ThePolitics

Illustration of a cute anthropomorphic synthesizer jogging on a treadmill. Caption reads “synthercise” (like exercise)

Synthercise improves your moog
#art

Not watching Danny Dyer watches football (if it's anything like the recent time West Ham were on the telly) #TheFootball

Live by the process, adhere too strictly to the process, die by the process. #ThePolitics

Incredible, not credible, both. #ThePolitics

Max Wöber

Another cheery release from Ireland's Dept Of Housing on all the lovely new build homes coming onstream.

Leaves out the bit about how many new build homes in Cork City were sold on the open market in 2024.

2%. It was 2%.

So they might as well be telling ppl about new Faberge Eggs

Ali Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine #SnookerRock

(which would be far better a nickname than "The Captain")

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

"I'M A TIGER"

20.4.2026 ➡️ 20 + 4 + 2 + 0 = 26
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Sometimes the answer to “how do stupid things keep happening?” Is “people can find intelligent-sounding ways to rationalize anything”

Right. So let's sum up. Private credit is full of cruddy loans issued by companies that couldn't get financed anywhere else, and assembled haphazardly into rattlebags, rather than carefully constructed portfolios, by dealmakers (cosplaying as managers) who get paid to shovel client money out as fast as they can. Consequently, they have concentrated client funds in sectors prone to Al disruption to a stupid degree - loans that were anyway turning sour even before anyone was talking about SaaSpocaplyse (although the industry has swept this under the carpet by restructuring problem loans into PIK loans) - and the juggernaut of insurance capital into the sector has even stopped valuations adjusting to the point where it might become sensible.

🚨 Took a look at Sona Asset Mgmt’s ‘Honest Assessment’ of Private Credit. www.ft.com/content/e57d...

De Zerbi reckoning that Spurs can win five in a row - he should not cut his hair until they've done it. #TheFootball

Forced to perform a U-turn on the main road that runs around Iceland, in the dark, narrowly avoiding being smashed by snowploughs coming in both directions. (I was the helpless passenger in the car.)

Wrestling from St Albans? Fancy!

A Ben Wheatley film, too.

Cat. Pigeons. #TheFootball

A blue sky with clouds. In the foreground is a green Primary Route exit sign for the A140. The destinations given are Ipswich Diss Norwich. It’s a image I took from google Maps as I wasn’t quick enough on the draw with my camera.

In East Anglia they even put their civic/ football beefs on road signs

A ★★★★½ review of Akira (1988) Another one of those films that have gained a reputation since release as something special, and somehow passed me by - other than a soon-abandoned attempt to watch one showing on TV. Fortunately, and...

Finally watched Akira last night - superb stuff.

I can see *why* they've attempted to produce a live action version - but like all such endeavours, there's no reason *to*.

Banging soundtrack, too.

boxd.it/e1TxMX

#FilmSky

I'm old enough to remember when "prestige drama" meant a play where the hero was killed by an exploding pressure cooker.

Yet again the purple group can get in the bin. #Connections

Half points in the ratings? The sign of a wrong 'un.

Similar vibes

19.4.2026 ➡️ ((1 × 9) + 4) × (2 + 0) = 26
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"There's very little erotic detail in the knit of a scarf" - @michaeltsb.bsky.social on the @thesquareball.net member's show, with the nuggets of wisdom that I subscribe for

#lufc