This is an absolute disgrace.

"Since Brexit, the UK no longer has a data-sharing agreement with many countries in the EU, making it more difficult to check criminal and immigration records of asylum seekers, according to Lucy Moreton of the Immigration Services Union." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kane diving. Plus ca change.

Musk shared a free download to a film on X that promotes attacking migrants and portrays them as rapists. One Muslim family of a perpetrator are murdered. A few weeks ago we saw pogroms on our streets. Imagine if I promoted a film that attacked Jews or Christians? Why is he allowed to do this?

Ben Cullen, a leading figure of the "Raise the Colours" campaign, will stand trial for three separate charges regarding a total of 78 indecent images of children. I have only seen this covered in local newspapers, so far. Grim as it is, it needs wider coverage www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...

Bonus summer Gabriel vs. Haaland

The 2026-27 Champions League campaign starts a week from today.

If you thought that penalty last night was unlucky for the keeper, then what about this one? www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_oZ...

There is a chance for Arsenal to become the dominant club in English football for the next few years, an opportunity that they squandered for various reasons post 1971, post 1991 and post 2004. Discuss.

Okay here's the entire Algeria possession 5 minutes and 34 seconds of completely uncontested midfield possession 109 completed passes And then they scored a goal

They clearly decided on 116 instead of 115 to avoid all the obvious gags.

It's fairly typical of all decent metrics & visualisations out there - there's rejection, early adoption, excitement, pushback or backlash and then universal use. It took me four years to convince Sky to put their first "Last five penalties" graphic on screen. Took four years to get xG in a feed!

The Point of match momentum is to aid in telling a story. For the broadcast viewer, that may be a story they have already concocted in their brain. But I think information is useful! I think challenging our own narratives is useful! And I also wish FOX put a source for their momentum!

This is such a cynical view of data's use in the game. Like, yeah, momentum can confirm what you already know or describe what you missed, but this argues that is... a bad thing? The argument is that momentum is a tool for ads, a reflection of the AI-ification of the industry. But that's just wrong.

There will be more games played at this World Cup (104) than were played in the first five editions of the competition put together (101).

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

There were those who doubted us, but a new independent report shows major reductions in air pollution in our city are linked to an estimated 40% fewer annual premature deaths.

Fifa’s shift from goal difference to head-to-head to decide groups is an inexplicably terrible decision that has needlessly killed or muted loads of final-round group games USA-Turkey would have tonnes on it, for one Now it’s a needless dead rubber www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

Penalty?

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

funny how that works

Feel sorry for Starmer. Seems like a really decent human being. Probably too decent in the world of politics.

The Celebration Police are taking things too far.

Arsenal have won nine and lost just one of the last 11 meetings with Coventry City in all competitions. #ARSCOV

Slightly obscure fact, but the 2026-27 campaign will see the fewest teams whose names begin with a letter from the second half of the alphabet participating than any other season in English top flight history. There were 12 from N to Z as recently as 2012-13 which is a top-flight high.

It is inescapable now that many politicians & most of our media judge the severity & seriousness of a crime differently according to the ethnicity of the perpetrator and/or victim. An utterly hideous state of affairs ushered in eagerly by Nigel Farage & Elon Musk. It is very easy to do better.

This is actually incorrect. Howard made only 15 saves. We (Opta) pointed out that one was not actually a save and FIFA's data collectors amended it post match, but the internet obviously has conflicting reports as news outlets don't update things and someone's database is clearly wrong.

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer being played at the hydration break. Technically though they're three quarters of the way there.

Tech billionaires are getting richer while we pay the price for the real-world harm their platforms cause. The "neutral host" loophole lets them off the hook for pushing dangerous content. MPs are demanding emergency laws to make them pay. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

All these close ups of celebrities,,,,will no-one think of the data collectors?

27 of the 34 Premier League seasons have seen the champions win on the opening weekend of the following season (D4 L3).

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

Slightly obscure fact, but the 2026-27 campaign will see the fewest teams whose names begin with a letter from the second half of the alphabet participating than any other season in English top flight history. There were 12 from N to Z as recently as 2012-13 which is a top-flight high.

Maybe the best/worst own goal I've ever seen came in a home game against Coventry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4FS...

Good stat. Book those flights to Madrid.

Arsenal have played promoted teams on the opening day in six previous Premier League campaigns, winning four and losing one. 95-96 Middlesbrough H 1-1 98-99 Nottm Forest H 2-1 02-03 Birmingham H 2-0 08-09 WBA H 1-0 20-21 Fulham A 3-0 21-22 Brentford A 0-2

This will be the second time in Premier League history where Arsenal have faced Coventry City at home on the opening day of a Premier League season. The last time was in 1993-94 and Micky Quinn scored a hat-trick in a 0-3 defeat for the Gunners. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEhQ...

Arsenal have won four and lost four of their last nine opening day fixtures at the Emirates Stadium.

Arsenal have won six and lost just one of their last seven opening day Premier League fixtures.

Translation.

Moscow very much experiencing the “find out” stage.

Arsenal have been drawn at home on the opening day the joint-most of any team in the Premier League era. 22 Arsenal 22 Man Utd 21 Everton 21 Chelsea 18 Newcastle

Every industry is making billions of dollars and it's workers are getting paid barely above minimum wage and then fired, and all the money just disappears into a hole forever. It's gone. The rich will never spend it. It's number go up. This will destroy the economy

Just doing some stuff which involves looking back at old videos from the early 2000s and what a player Patrick Vieira was.

This entire thread is mandatory reading @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

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