We’re away until November now, but Patreon supporters have access to 287 extra episodes that are already online, plus eight more that will go up while Sam’s away. Details at www.patreon.com/c/handofpod

HOP546 is up! @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social and English Dan discuss the chaos at Independiente v Universidad de Chile, success for Argentine sides in the Libertadores and more. handofpod.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/e...

In a little while @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social and English Dan will be recording HOP546, our last episode for a couple of months. Any questions for us?

HOP545 is up! @samkellyproof.bsky.social and English Dan talk last week’s league games, Marcos R. and more … handofpod.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/e...

HOP544 is up! @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social and English Dan discuss the Copa Argentina and more. handofpod.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/e...

In an hour or so @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social and English Dan will be recording HOP543. Any questions for us?

In a short while @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social, @santisouri.bsky.social and English Dan will be recording HOP542. Any questions for us?

Get your questions in! @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social, @santisouri.bsky.social and English Dan are about to sit down to record HOP541.

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

HOP540 is up! @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @santisouri.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social, English Dan and Santi B preview the Torneo Clausura. handofpod.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/e...

Oops, forgot the link. Here you go: handofpod.wordpress.com/2025/06/28/e...

HOP539 is up! @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social, English Dan and both Santis look back on River and Boca’s Club World Cup exits.

HOP538 is up! @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social, English Dan and Santi Bauzá review the recent World Cup qualifiers, discuss Franco Mastantuono’s transfer to Real Madrid and more. handofpod.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/e...

Partner has just come across a job ad for a podcast producer on LinkedIn. Among the requirements: 23 years’ experience as a podcast producer. Good luck with that (and maybe hire a proofreader for your job ads) …

In an hour or so @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social, English Dan and Santi Bauzá will be sitting down to record HOP538. Any questions for us?

HOP537 is up! @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social, @remilehmann.bsky.social, @marcusjhaydon.bsky.social and English Dan discuss Platense becoming champions of Argentina, some total nonsense in Rosario, the national team and more. handofpod.wordpress.com/2025/06/05/e...

In a few hours @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social, @marcusjhaydon.bsky.social, @remilehmann.bsky.social and English Dan will be recording HOP537. Any questions for us?

Love reading @lynneguist.bsky.social’s email newsletter.

In a little while @samkellyproof.bsky.social, English Dan, New Santi and special guest @marcusjhaydon.bsky.social will be recording HOP536. Any questions for us?

Also because likely this letter is going to bring out a lot of people with questions about accounts from Gaza, here is a link to my FAQ about these accounts, this and much more information can be found in my pinned post. I also am more than willing to answer any good faith questions you may have.

Special thanks to everyone who reviewed, revised, shared and signed on early to this letter but huge thanks to Alaa Salim who from Gaza reviewed and then translated it into Arabic so that it could be shared among our Palestinian friends. You can help Alaa here: chuffed.org/project/1252...

Also I apologize the alt text is cropping off but the full text of every screenshot is in the letter.

Please sign and share this letter widely and call on @bsky.app, @safety.bsky.app, @support.bsky.team, @jay.bsky.team and @aaron.bsky.team to do better by their most vulnerable users.

تتوفر هذه الرسالة حول معاملة سكان غزة أيضًا على موقع Blue Sky باللغة العربية ويمكنك التوقيع عليها هنا: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Here are the current 246 signatories of this letter. We are all active Bluesky users, many of us from Gaza but most of us are not. We all however think this app is a better place when the voices of Palestinians in Gaza are heard. Add your own name here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first. You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In a couple of hours @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social, English Dan and Santi the Boca fan from a couple of episodes ago will be recording HOP535. Any questions for us?

This evening @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social, English Dan and Santi will be recording HOP534. Any questions for us?

Listening to investigative journalism podcasts from the BBC is such an odd experience. They’re in-depth and meticulous in their research and every episode is like 13 minutes long so just as you’re settling into it you get ‘to find out what happens next, join us next week …’

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

@netflix.com What do I have to do to get you to charge my card like normal instead of getting constant nudges to update my payment method when there’s nothing wrong with it? If I try to reconfirm (or put in a different card) I get a constant loop of invalid card number messages.

This story about ChatGPT causing people to have harmful delusions has mind-blowing anecdotes. It's an important, alarming read.

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

HOP531 is up! @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social and English Dan review last weekend’s games, eventually remember to preview the superclásico and more. handofpod.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/e...

Have just been reminded what I first learnt twenty-odd years ago when I read this in English: that the worst thing about reading is when you get to the end of a novel like this and realise that’s it, you can’t just keep reading this book forever. #booksky

In a few hours @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social and English Dan will be recording HOP530. Any questions for us?

HOP528 is up! @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social, English Dan, Santi and Fer review GBS’s first games in charge of Vélez and the start of this year’s continental cup group stages. handofpod.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/e...

In a couple of hours @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social, English Dan, Santi and Fernando will be recording HOP528. Any questions for us?

Bloody hell, Google. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw the amount (I’ve checked my admin console and it is in fact an annual invoice, as it normally is).

Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.

HOP527 is up! @samkellyproof.bsky.social, English Dan, Santi, Chris and Andrés Gurrieri review Argentina’s thrashing of Brazil, discuss life as a player and more. handofpod.wordpress.com/2025/03/27/e...

In a couple of hours @samkellyproof.bsky.social, English Dan, Santi, Chris and special guest Andés Gurrieri will be recording HOP527. Any questions for us?

@vivaldibrowser.bsky.social My mobile browser just crashed and when I restarted it, all my stacked tabs were gone. Is there a way I can recover them?

If you’re on desktop, you can uninstall Copilot from the Apps list in Windows settings (there might be two instances, as Copilot in MS365 is a separate program, so search the apps list for Copilot and uninstall any you come across).

Just finished Moon Witch Spider King by Marlon James. Wonderful stuff, and looks great next to the first book in the series. Can’t wait for the next one! #Booksky

I’m going to be very blunt and say: do not send Atthis Arts any money or manuscripts. The four-alarm red-flag phrase here is “borrow … to pay due royalties.” Let me explain for those who don’t already know roughly how money works in small presses.

Well, FIFA couldn’t care less, for starters.

HOP526 is up! @samkellyproof.bsky.social, @andresbruc.bsky.social, English Dan and Santi review the clásico de Avellaneda and preview Argentina’s two upcoming WCQs. handofpod.wordpress.com/2025/03/20/e...

Don't trust "AI" and also realize that the push to have "AI" in everything happened because some tech people wanted to get rich and other tech people didn't want others to get rich without them, and now they've all spent too much money on a bad product and are trying to scramble out of the hole.

Oh dear. Well, I suppose it's been eight years since Catherine Nixey's *The Darkening Age* peddled a highly selective Gibbonian narrative about Christianity causing "the Dark Ages, so it was inevitable we get another such book. @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is well qualified in medicine, ...