Disinformation, Cyber-security & North Korea wonk at
@BBCMonitoring
. Former internet celebrity, author, a bit 🇬🇧 & a bit 🇮🇪. Arsenal. Also on Bluesky.
I’m still seeing quite a few posts asking why Joe Biden has “a Chinese bodyguard”.
He doesn’t. That is David Cho, he is Korean-American, one of the most respected and experienced members of the Secret Service who has worked for administrations both Republican and Democrat.
@CrimeGirI
We had an “is everything alright at home?” meeting with my daughter’s nursery teacher over a series of drawings of five people and a coffin. It was the Spice Girls and Princess Diana.
🚨 BREAKING: Chelsea have narrowed down their search for Mauricio Pochettino’s successor to 4 candidates:
🔷 Kieran McKenna
🔷 Enzo Maresca
🔷 Thomas Frank
🔷 Unknown
Chelsea have dropped interest in Stuttgart’s Sebastian Hoeness and Girona’s Michel.
(via
@Matt_Law_DT
)
It was a sad day when the World Taekwondo Federation voted to change its name to World Taekwondo, because people like me though pictures like this are supremely funny.
This amazing photo of Emmanuel Macron was the work of Alexei Nikolsky of TASS news agency. Credit where it's due - it's a superb capture.
#WorldCupFinal
There are claims that the bearded guy in this photo inside the Capitol is Antifa because of his hand tattoo.
It's the Outsider's Mark from the 2012 video game Dishonored. He's a gamer.
I’m not saying three decades as a media analyst has changed my brain, but I just busted a local estate agent for using the same stock image of clouds for two different properties.
People actually believe that he has bodyguards supplied by China, and/or his “CCP Handler” went to the inauguration to keep an eye on their asset. Nope. He’s a bonafide decorated American hero.
I’ve found the worst thing in the world - a Costa coffee machine that plays coffee shop noises while it makes your drink, so you can pretend you’re not all alone at the 3rd floor coffee machine.
Let’s get our retaliation in first:
🔸Yes, it has been adequately tested
🔸No, mRNA vaccines don’t overwrite your DNA
🔸No, Bill Gates hasn’t put a microchip in it
🔸No,
#COVID19
is not a hoax
I’m going to put it out there that
@RichardEGrant
’s current state of infectious, unbridled joy is the only thing that is holding this planet together right now. We must never let it end.
WORLD LEADERS: The new Prime Minister of the UK and Northern Ireland is
@trussliz
. Do not send your congratulations to
@liztruss
as she is my pal’s sister in law, has no plans to lead the country, and her mentions have gone completely John Lewis. Looking at you, Sweden.
The Kraken - Sidney Powell's lawsuit that will supposedly blow Biden out of the water has been released. And it's not a great start, managing to spell "district" incorrectly twice, differently, in the opening sentence
'As it becomes clearer that the British population will soon achieve herd immunity, people will begin to ask tough questions of the Government,' writes
@toadmeister
So, B&Q are selling off their unused social distancing arrows in the ‘reduced to clear’ bin. I’ve literally no idea what I’m going to do with these, but you can’t argue at 10p.
Norman Price out of Fireman Sam would be in his mid-thirties by now. What do you reckon he’d be doing today (apart from ‘time at His Majesty’s Pleasure’)?
I am at A Thing at the British Library. The barman has just dropped a glass and one (1) person did an ironic cheer in full compliance of the Obligatory Banter Act of 1997 (otherwise known as the Oi Oi Saveloy Law).
Getting the author’s name wrong on the cover is a pretty bad error, but it’s still not my favourite typo.
Particitrousers - the result of a lazy search-replace when switching the manuscript from US to UK English.
Russia's RIA-Novosti news agency accidentally published its victory piece on Saturday, and swiftly deleted it. But the web archive remembers, and oh boy (Google translate is your friend).
"Now this problem is gone - Ukraine has returned to Russia."
Australia - we need a conversation about the colour of your crisp packets, and I think we’re going to copy in
@GaryLineker
.
GARY - Have a word if you could please
In twenty years time, people will still remember where they were when they found out Blackpool Tower wasn’t on fire. Sitting at home, full of cheese and chocolate, saying “When is bins?”
Here's the uncropped version of this photo. The Philly Antifa dot org tag is correct - it's from an article on their website naming him and claiming that he is a neo-Nazi activist. So if it *is* the same person, you've gone scored an own goal.
@MonicaLewinsky
@Rschooley
People keep telling The New Owner that this would happen, it happened from day one, and it’s still happening. The New Owner doesn’t seem to care.
I’ve just had to go outside and rescue our black and white cat from a fight with another, near identical, black and white cat in our garden, and I’m not 100% sure I’ve let the right one inside.
My father, Professor Jonathan Coleman, died peacefully at home this afternoon. I’ve never been entirely sure how old he was, but I think he was 86. Or 85. He’d been living with dementia for years, and was patiently cared for by my stepmother. I feel strangely calm about it.