I'm setting up a new MacBook, and I need #LibreOffice obviously. It occurred to me that it might be available in the App Store, which would be slightly more convenient than a separate download. It is ... for £8.99. What on earth is going on?! CC @npub1tgg4...qwzh

I was already done with the shrivelled husk that still calls itself the #Labour Party and will be voting #Green in future — a party that actually stands for something. But if I'd not yet given up on Labour, yesterday's vile anti-refugee rhetoric would have put the lid on it. The UK has not had a #Conservative Party for ten years now: the name and machinery succumbed to reverse takeover by UKIP. Now the same is happening to the former Labour Party. It's a cancer.

Today I learned that all those pointless collective nouns (a murder of crows, a parliament of owls, a pride of lions), which are only ever used in pub quizzes, were made up by one woman 500 years ago.

The Marginalian

A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How Groups of Birds Got Their Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith

Language is an instrument of great precision and poignancy — our best tool for telling each other what the world is and what we are, for conv...

#TIL #TodayILearned

My word, this is bleak. Imagine having everything material that the world can give you and still being so inadequate.

I expect #LFC to get shafted by officials in the Premier League. We've seen it consistently. But I don't expect it in the UCL.

We all knew about this trend, but I didn't realise it was nearly so extreme as this: "Before 2000, for instance, only about 25% of top-grossing movies were prequels, sequels, spinoffs, etc. Now it’s 75%."

The Decline of Deviance

Where has all the weirdness gone?

Liverpool now up to 1.02 xG according to FotMob. #LFC