Spinster maintenance, competitive rates.
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Spinster maintenance, competitive rates.
@diggledouble
Miserable git, enjoys faffing about. Wwfc.

Now that Steve Bruce has gone there are only 3 out of 20 teams in the EPL managed by 🏴men (15%) compared to 9 out of 18 clubs managed by Germans in the Bundesliga (50%,) 15 out of 20 clubs managed by Spaniards in La Liga (75%) & 16 out of 20 managed by Italians in Serie A (80%.)
Worth noting, Wolves’ number 14 is arguably one of the worst footballers I’ve ever seen
Growing up in the 80s. I miss them so much🥺 Credit:@British_Brainrot



'Ofcom does have the powers to temporarily take down X and I think that is a power that should be used given the seriousness of the issue' Munira Wilson from the Liberal Democrats told #BBCBreakfast the media regulator Ofcom should take stronger action against X's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok for creating non-consensual sexualised images of people, including children bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

It’s fairly well known that Mao Zedong’s so-called Great Leap Forward (1958–1962) ended in the greatest man-made famine in human history—some 45 million dead, fields littered with corpses, villages emptied by hunger, and the sound of chewing bark mistaken for the crackle of grain. What’s less well known is that Mao’s revolution didn’t just declare war on landlords, capitalists, and reason—it declared war on nature itself. In 1958, the Chairman launched what he called the Four Pests Campaign, a crusade against rats, flies, mosquitoes—and, inexplicably, sparrows. The tiny birds, Mao decreed, were “enemies of the people” for daring to eat the people’s grain. And so, as one historian put it, an entire civilization mobilized against the feathered menace. Schoolchildren banged pots and pans in the streets, peasants drummed on washbasins, and factory sirens screamed for hours to keep the birds in flight until they fell dead from exhaustion. Nests were torn down, eggs smashed, and chicks stomped into the earth. The results were biblical. In Beijing alone, more than a million sparrows were killed in a matter of weeks. Rural communes competed to see who could pile the highest mountain of avian corpses, a kind of grotesque festival of progress. But victory, when it came, was short-lived. The sparrows, it turned out, had been eating more insects than grain. Within a year, the skies were empty, and the earth was crawling. Locusts rose like living clouds, devouring fields from horizon to horizon. Peasants watched in horror as the crops disappeared into the mandibles of an unstoppable plague of their own making. Rather than admit his mistake, Mao doubled down on absurdities. He replaced the sparrows with imported Soviet “science”—the theories of Trofim Lysenko, an agronomist who believed that crops could be re-educated through hard labor. Genetics was bourgeois nonsense, Lysenko said; what mattered was enthusiasm. If you plowed deeper, planted closer, and shouted revolutionary slogans loudly enough, the harvest would multiply. Yes, they actually believed that. So fields were churned to depths that strangled their roots, seedlings planted shoulder to shoulder until none could breathe, and bureaucrats inflated yields to impossible heights. Mountains of fake grain were reported; much of the real grain exported to show socialist success. By 1960, China was starving. Whole provinces were dying in silence. Peasants boiled leather belts for soup, mothers abandoned their infants by the roadside, and in some villages, desperate men turned cannibal. Still, the propaganda blared: “The people’s communes are good!” Mao’s war on sparrows was part of a nationwide war on reality itself. Years later, a survivor put it simply: “We killed the birds, and then the insects ate everything else.” It was the perfect epitaph for Mao’s age—a revolution so blinded by ideology that it devoured not only its people, but the very balance of life that sustained them. #archaeohistories




Thousands of fans in India fans were frustrated after paying over $100 dollars to see Leo Messi, only for him to leave after 20 minutes. The scene then turned violent, with fans ripping up and throwing chairs and other objects onto the field. Wild! 🫣😬












