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I just started Alice in Borderland on Netflix. I'm only a couple of episodes in but it's canny so far for switch your head off telly - a bit like Squid Game. Three kids find themselves in some sort of game that seems to have taken over whatever Japanese city they're located in, where the outcome for losing is death. It's Japanese so you can either read subtitles or watch the dubbed version.

So Look North is better than The Penguin?

The official club account is now on Bluesky, so they're at least in two places. Not sure they're actively posting in it yet but they will do shortly once Bluesky reaches bigger numbers.

It's way over the top, the bloke presenting it. I think he's some journalist and the series opens with some high drama with him on the phone to the whistleblower.

There's a new Netflix series called investigation alien or something. All about some whistleblower from the intelligence services in the US. I started watching it but couldn't hear it for the sighs coming from the other end of the sofa.

"Where did we get him?! The fucking nerd can't even describe a supernatural encounter without talking about his models!?"

Ted Lasso is dog logs. Silo, Severance, and Slow Horses are all top notch. I'd start with Severance tbh cos S2 is just coming out.

Strummer fans! £1200 gets you one of these, complete with accurate "relic" job.

Pre-CT. Early 2000s. The whitest man in the Oakland Arena.

I saw Madonna once. An hour late on stage. She'd already lost the dressing room at that point. I don't think I unfolded my arms for the full show.

If that level of reading comprehension is applied on twitter, he might come away unscathed.

Someone needs to have the conversation with him that his dropping deep AND being mobile enough to turn up in the box days are over. He's still an absolutely lethal finisher, he's just not around enough to do it, and having really mobile flanks is underlining the fact.

Well if nothing else, he gave Gordon a fair crack of the whip, and he had the balls to drop Kane. Both things which his super limited predecessor couldn't do.

I was advising you to leave twitter ffs. "Good luck if you decide to stay on THERE". Not HERE.

Gordon!

30th April, 1997.

Batty, Lee and Shearer vs Georgia apparently.

Nobody is going to dispute your knowledge of cockends.

Have you hipped the cryptobros to this stuff on the discord?

Meanwhile I don't need an algorithm. I implanted the little two note melodic line from Gorillaz' "On Melancholy Hill" into my lass's head just before bed last night and she's woken up today feeling like she's going mad. I just keep dropping in the odd reminder every now and again this morning to keep it fresh for her.

I'm enjoying it. It's Disintegration minus any of the pop songs, which is no bad thing. Added bonus that it matched my pace perfectly.

Right it's going on right now for this morning's run. Because running on pitch black paths with a headtorch on wasn't spooky enough.

I'd add: If you use twitter to talk about Newcastle and don't want to lose that, join Bluesky and ask Kev Lawson to add you to his starter pack. You'll very quickly have hundreds of followers and hundreds of NUFC people in your feed to get your NUFC fix, minus all the bots and blueticks. And most importantly, there's no algorithm on there feeding you one very fucked up man's outlook on the world.

@Tdansmithentirely up to you obviously, but I would strongly recommend coming off twitter. If you don't, it's overwhelmingly likely that Musk's algorithm will do its job and melt your brain. He has it in for this government and this country at the minute, and his algorithm is literally designed to stoke division and hatred. You can let it do its job on you, or you can opt out. Like I say it's up to you, but that website is clearly doing its job at the minute. It won't make you a happier person to stay on there, it'll turn you into a ball of hatred, and a lot of the stuff you'll be wound up about will either be completely untrue or a very one-sided interpretation of the facts. Some of it will be batshit insane propaganda and conspiracy, but the drip drip of more believable stuff will eventually lead you to wonder "well if they did that other stuff, is this really that mental?!". Anyway. My advice. Take it or leave it, but good luck if you decide to stay on there.

Oh dear.