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Happy New Year, everyone! 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of our landmark Welsh Cup Final win over Cardiff City in Cardiff. It also marks the 25th anniversary of our milestone Premier Cup Final win over Wrexham in Wrexham. More to follow on both in 2024... #EmbraceYourHistory

The next time you're worried about what other people might think about you, just remember that the Eiffel Tower has over 10,000 one-star reviews. You'll be fine.

BBM. 😂

There is something life affirmingly wonderful about discovering a well established cultural phenomenon years after the fact, on your own terms. That moment where you go, "actually, fucking hell, this is really bloody good, I want more". And there is more. I love it.

What a stat!

Paul Smyth (⚽️⚽️) 🤝 Rayan Kolli (⚽️⚽️) 🤝 Richard Kone (⚽️⚽️) QPR recorded 3 players with 2+ goals in the same match for the first time since November 1961 vs Barry Town, when Bernard Evans (2), John Collins (2) and Brian Bedford (3) achieved the feat. 🔵#QPR⚪️

Robert Mueller is dead. And the President of the United States has announced that he is, quote, glad. Now. I want you to sit with something for a moment. Jeffrey Epstein, the man who ran an international child sex trafficking operation for the entertainment of the ultra-wealthy, looked at Donald Trump and wrote the following words to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in 2017: “I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body.” The man who ran the pervert express to crime island looked at Trump and thought: that bloke is worse than me. And today, that same Donald Trump looked at the death of a decorated Vietnam veteran and former FBI director and typed “Good, I’m glad he’s dead.” Then signed his name to it. Then posted it. Publicly. At 1:26 in the afternoon. There are war criminals who’ve managed more dignity at a press conference. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

“We don’t like nazis” #Germany - FC St. Pauli has unveiled a new kit to raise awareness against the rise of the far right; it will be worn in tomorrow’s match against Freiburg.

Nobody wants to read AI-generated posts. Nobody wants to read AI-generated emails. Nobody wants to read AI-generated newsletters. Nobody wants to read AI-generated reports. Nobody wants to read AI-generated articles. Nobody wants to read AI-generated anything.

We want to thank @Coventry_City fans for stopping off at the club earlier today ahead of their game against Swansea. Apart from a few stickers…😉 We hope to welcome you back again!🩵 Safe travels❤️ #pusb #coventrycityfc

I don't know how this is possible

Just found an interesting piece on a little-reported topic. But it said the writing was "AI assisted." I appreciated the transparency but I immediately closed it. Couldn't bring myself to read. Would vastly prefer a messy piece from a human hand to a "proficient" piece from AI.

That’s actually a crazy stat.

Don't let that March sunshine mislead you, you still need a coat. By all means enjoy it but enjoy it by being fucking disciplined

Had the pleasure of drawing the greatest football team of all time for the World Cup issue of @NutmegMagazine

Britain is 6% Muslim. Germany 5%. France 10%. Sweden 9%. Belgium 7%. At this rate of Islamic conquest, Europe will be majority Muslim sometime around the year 2847. I’d pencil in some mild concern for around 2600 and see how things look then. Now. The refugees. Since someone asked who’s paying for all this. Let’s follow the money back a bit further. America invaded Afghanistan, spent 20 years there achieving absolutely nothing, then left in such breathtaking chaos that people were literally hanging off aircraft. It then invaded Iraq over weapons that turned out not to exist, killed somewhere between 150,000 and a million people, and converted a functioning country into a sectarian hellscape. This is before we even get to the drones over Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. The people washing up on European shores are, in very large part, the direct human wreckage of American foreign policy. America created the disaster. Europe is housing the survivors. And America is on the internet asking why Europe keeps letting people in. Remarkable cheek, really. As for eliminating indigenous culture: the United States actually eliminated its indigenous people. Deliberately. With rifles and government paperwork. Europe took in Syrian doctors. These are not comparable situations, and pretending they are requires a truly heroic indifference to history. The culture is fine. France still has the cheese. The Louvre is still there. Bach is still there. Nothing has been eliminated except, apparently, the ability to read a percentage.

The best way you can ever repay your parents is by giving them nothing to worry about when it comes to you. You’re not on drugs, you’re doing the right things, you’re living a healthy lifestyle, you’re taking care of your responsibilities. That’s the best thing you can do ever do for your parents.

“Independence is normal” Caernarfon. North Wales. YesCymru campaign for Welsh independence.

I don’t really care, I’m rejecting AI & fast civilisation. I don’t want a real time microbiome test or a snapshot of my metabolic profile upon waking. I don’t want 20 ecommerce brands or investment portfolios. I want dirt on my boots, wind in my hair, a child on my hip and dough on my finger tips. I want the luxury of illness and the sweet kiss of recovery. I want the appreciation of death and the pleasure of heartbreak following the luxury to have loved well. And above all else I want real, I want real human experience and not this humanoid nonsense. It’s a privilege to be human, so easily broken and so fragile. The experience that we are having is only made beautiful because it is filled with so much that is not.

Is this the greatest trading card collection of all time? Relive the magic of Merlin, with an exclusive interview with two of the company’s founders. RAMPAGE – available from Amazon.

When I moved to the UK in 2019, I paid £45 a month for electricity. I now pay £185. Every 2-3 months I get an email from my supplier raising my direct debit by a few pounds