stuart mchugh

[César Azpilicueta @CesarAzpi]

Dear football,

Today, I want to share with you that this season will be my last as a professional footballer. After so many years living my dream, I feel it’s time to start a new chapter in my life.

Being honest, even though I have been preparing myself for this moment, I found it hard to write this letter. After 20 seasons , many people have played an important role in my career.

When I first kicked a ball as a child in Pamplona with my schoolmates, I never imagined the amazing journey ahead. I’m grateful for every moment: the wins, the tough losses, the challenges, and most of all, the people I’ve met and the friendships I’ve made along the way.

To my teammates, coaches, and every staff member at all the clubs I’ve been lucky to be part of, thank you for helping me grow as a person and a player every day. Wearing the shirts of CA Osasuna, Olympique Marseille, Chelsea FC, Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla FC, and representing my country at the biggest stages has been a true privilege. Every moment has meant so much to me…

[Meghan McCain @MeghanMcCain]

Can someone who is an expert in this space just keep it real with me and tell me if I should be worried about Hantavirus or not?

I've got 3 kids and the youngest is 4 months old, I don't know what to believe.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A kid drew himself sleeping in bed between mom and dad and labeled it 'safe.'

In Japan, this exact sleeping arrangement has a name. They call it 'the river.' Mother is one bank. Father is the other. The child between them is the water. Roughly 70% of Japanese mothers sleep this way with their kids, sometimes through the teenage years. The Western model of putting a kid alone in their own bedroom is barely 200 years old. For most of human history, in most cultures still alive today, kids slept beside their parents.

James McKenna runs the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab at Notre Dame. He spent decades watching what happens when parents and kids share a bed. The bodies sync up. Heart rates align with the parent's, breathing falls into the same rhythm, and by morning even sleep stages have started matching. The parent's body, in McKenna's words, acts as a kind of biological jumper cable for the child's.

In 2013, researchers in the Netherlands tracked 193 babies through the first year of life. They measured cortisol, the brain's main stress hormone. Babies who had spent more weeks co-sleeping in the first six months produced less cortisol under stress at 12 months. Sleeping near a parent had rewired the kid's stress system to be calmer under pressure.

Inside the kid's brain at night, the amygdala, the fear alarm, gets more sensitive as the body gets tired. Darkness makes it worse. A 2021 paper in PLoS One from Australian researchers showed that light directly suppresses amygdala activity. Lights off, alarm louder. The whole brain is wired to read 'alone in a dark room' as a threat.

Now add a parent's body to that bed. The kid's nervous system reads warm body, breathing nearby, familiar smell. The threat alarm dials down. Two parents on either side dial it down twice. The drawing is the kid's brain calculating maximum safety: I am surrounded by the people who keep me alive, and nothing can reach me without going through them first.

The arrangement in this drawing is what most of human history called 'sleeping.' Sleeping the kid alone in another room is a 200-year-old Western invention that we forgot was an invention. Every kid who has ever padded into your room at 3am and crawled into the middle of the bed is just trying to redraw the picture.

[Happy Punch @HappyPunch]

One of the nastiest cases of “f*ck around and find out” just went down in Korean MMA

Straight out of a movie 😳

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇬🇧 “If I criticize a Jew, I'm antisemitic.

If I criticize a Muslim, I'm Islamophobic.

And what are you, if you criticize me?

What are you if you try to replace me?”

He has a point

[stuart mchugh @mchugh60]

@FPL_Harry I transferred him out for evanilson this week🙂🙃

[Transfer News Live @DeadlineDayLive]

🚨 This hasn’t aged well for Jurgen has it? 🤔

[Football Factly @FootballFactly]

Arsenal FC 🚮

❌21 years without a Premier League title
❌33 years without a Carabao Cup
❌0 UEFA Champions League titles
❌0 UEFA Europa League titles
❌0 UEFA Super Cups
❌0 FIFA Club World Cups
❌No UEFA Champions League win in 139 years
❌Never defended a Premier League title
❌No treble-winning season
❌No quadruple-winning season
❌Never won a domestic treble (Premier League, FA Cup, and League Cup in the same season)
❌Fewer Premier League titles than Blackburn Rovers
❌No European success since 1994
❌Struggled to finish in the top 4 consistently in recent years
❌Longest league title drought among the traditional top six
❌Decline in global stature and competitiveness compared to other European giants
❌Inconsistent performances in domestic and European competitions
❌Rebuilding phase under Mikel Arteta without immediate major success

Yet Arsenal fans celebrate like Barcelona after every minor victory, yet they've spent decades without major trophies, making more noise about "potential" than actually lifting silverware.

The only thing they will lift this season is their hands on corners and freekicks 😃😃🤔🤔

[stuart mchugh @mchugh60]

@HakanBorolu @HerbsandDirt @interesting_aIl MRI does not use radiation

[vpooja @poojavnair]

Meat eaters are better hosts because they care about providing vegetarian options to their guests but the same hospitality is not extended by vegetarians (to serve meat options).

[stuart mchugh @mchugh60]

@FPLMattW Sarr!

[Ross McCulloch @Rossmac212]

Usyk’s impression of Tyson Fury😂

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“Why do women’s sports exist? If you can’t define the difference between women & men, why not abolish women’s sports…”

Gender ideology does not survive even the most basic scrutiny.

[stuart mchugh @mchugh60]

@AfcFrosh @TobilobaM80769 @Sean_C113 @16Billl @Tunnykvng It big chances don’t lead to goals it’s a useless stat

[stuart mchugh @mchugh60]

@StenaLineUKIE your 24h Sailing updates has been down all day and we are due to travel tomorrow? Can you please update Belfast > Cairnryan

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Get a load of this. 🤣

Two years ago, The Guardian reported that Spain and Portugal were becoming too dry thanks to climate change. 🏜️

Now, The Guardian says that Spain is too wet because of climate change. 🌧️

The narrative changes with the weather.

No matter what the weather does, it is always your fault and the only solution is to expand the government’s power.

[Wealth @wealth_united_]

People acting around the Kylian Mbappe case like women can not be vile and take you down if they feel like. Neymar was a victim, she dropped "evidences". His only saving grace was this laptop camera. She's currently still living her life like nothing happened

[Maw @TheEbonyMaw]

Good morning.