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@FredTitmus Even outside the top 16 in the Champions' League it's been pretty poor.

No offence to Villa, and I hope they win this trophy, but I've watched a lot of the Europa League this year, and the general standard has been atrocious.

You couldn’t waterboard this information out of me

"Three Lions" was released on 20th May 1996. 30 years ago today! 🦁🦁🦁

hmm

That's probably the simplest answer

Just hope nobody adapts The Odyssey to an Irish setting. And has an Irish guy stand in for Odysseus. And has him walk around the streets of Dublin for a day, instead of island hopping in Greece. And replaces Ithaca by a Martello tower in Sandycove say. That would be sacrilege.

Granta's response is truly breathtakingly insane

BANTER ASIDE, CONGRATULATIONS TO ARSENAL FOOTBALL CLUB!!! THEY KEPT GOING DESPITE BEING DENIED SEVERAL TIMES, AND THE HARD WORK HAS FINALLY PAID!! CONGRATULATIONS, ONCE AGAIN!!! 👏

I received a rejection from Granta today. What I felt was: not hate, not anger. Just the flat finality of a heart too tired to keep trying. The kind of tired that goes through bone and keeps going. As if I’d put down a pan I had no business carrying.

Between 1836 and 1845, before it joined the United States, Texas was an independent country known as the Republic of Texas. The Plaque: Today, an Anglo-Texan Society plaque marks the entrance to the alleyway in Pickering Place where the embassy once stood.

@KeithMillsD7 Expecting some more 'bald football' content from @MiguelDelaney.

Not sure what Maresca has done to earn this job. Apparently he was Guardiola's choice. Anyone remember what happened at @ManUtd when Ferguson got a say in the selection of his successor?

My friend @mishapathy and I will be reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus together over the next couple of weeks. We'll be holding the first of our discussions this evening at 6:00 PM EDT. Come join! x.com/i/spaces/1YxNr…

Well, this is a first: a ChatGPT-generated story won a prestigious literary prize (The Commonwealth Prize). "Not X, not Y, but Z" sentences everywhere, the "hums" trope, and plenty of other obvious markers of AI writing. A major milestone for AI, at any rate... @GrantaMag

Adventurer Tim Severin and a crew of four depart in a leather boat from Tralee in County Kerry, Ireland, as part of an effort to prove that the 6th-century monk Saint Brendan of Clonfert could have traveled to North America 900 years before Christopher Columbus. The 36ft (11m) vessel, named the Brendan, is made from 42 ox hides, and will attempt over the next several weeks to reach North America.

The great Paul Whitehouse is 68 years old today, which means I am obliged to post this (again!) - arguably the most majestically random but brilliant comedy sketch committed to celluloid for at least the last, what, forty, forty five years? Yes, forty, forty five years. Happy birthday Paul 🤘

I am a man just into his forties who always dreamed of having a convertible. Last year that became a reality, but I usually drive it with the roof up as I don't want everyone to hear me listening to my audiobook.

Scottish Rugby is immensely saddened to learn of the death earlier today of former Scotland and British & Irish Lions centre, Scott Hastings. He was 61.

@DanielHussey2 Seems like only yesterday that experts were opining that the new normal would be Dublin winning seven out of every ten Leinsters minimum.

Westmeath win Leinster!!! Incredible performance in extra-time to completely destroy the Dubs. What an achievement and the scenes at Croke Park are off the charts. Gaelic Football 📈

Fortress Old Trafford... again 🏰

MUFC won as many points (42) at home this season as picked up home and away in '24/25.