I love it when teammates fight. The infamous Grobbelaar vs Mcmanaman scrap from 1993 is one of my top 10 favourite football moments. More teammates fighting please, it shows they care!

Some light viewing for Sunday evening

I'm wiped out after the Planetary Futures conference that @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and I organised over the past two days at the University of Manchester. Huge thanks to everyone who gave papers and attended. I think it all went well!

Only one man can arrest this decline Des

*Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays*

I love how the seaweed patterns this black sand as it's dragged out by the tide.

Crash is possibly the worst novel I've ever read, but I can just about let JG Ballard off for rejecting a CBE and then saying this

Ran past the Manchester 'toast rack' (former MMU Hollings Building) on my way into work this morning, as I do most days, and am sad to see it still neglected and unloved. It's infinitely more appealing than the countless bland skyscrapers being thrown up everywhere.

Northern Lights on my street last night (taken by a neighbour)

I'm looking forward to this; I've heard good things.

I searched for Andreas Malm's Fossil Capital recently, and Amazon now thinks I'd be interested in this book on 'why global human flourishing requires more oil, coal, and natural gas - not less'. I'm not sure the two books are related somehow.

'The New Life' by Tom Crewe is a brilliant book, the best novel I've read in a long time

Ah, Skibidi Toilet. Our 9yr old son was obsessed with this recently and even had a skibidi toilet birthday cake. He decided it's not cool now though and has moved on.

I've just encountered a familiar face at the back of my son's Guinness Book of World Records!