Mark Burnley
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ATP botherer, Human Intelligence developer.
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The world did have A.V. Hill, so thatās something to be grateful for in spite of current affairs.
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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Blue plaque review series: A.V. Hill, athletic records and the birth of exercise physiology
Abstract figure legend Depiction of the world running records from 1925 studied by A. V. Hill and those of 2025 up to and including ultradistance events on a semi-logarithmic plot. These records, in ...
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP288130
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Superb.
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Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home
This intimate film follows the final three years of Ozzy Osbourneās life as he and Sharon plan a return home after 25 years in LA and prepare for the ultimate farewell gig.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002hgzz/sharon-ozzy-osbourne-coming-home
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Otto English
about 17 hours ago
Nine jobs Nigel Farage hasn't updated his Āregister of interests in months. Potentially hundreds of thousands of ££££ from his many "outside interests" remain undeclared
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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āNine-jobs Nigelā Farage denies not declaring extra earni...
Roles outside Parliament make Reform leader the highest-earning MP, but register of interests has not been updated since end of May
https://observer.co.uk/news/politics/article/nine-jobs-nigel-farage-denies-not-declaring-extra-earnings-to-parliament
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taber
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this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link:
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Comedians attending this should be treated the same as athletes signed up to the enhanced games. Fine, you got a big pay day, but youāve destroyed your own career.
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Saudi comedy festival: Inside the controversial Riyadh event starring comedians Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Jack Whitehall and Jimmy Carr
A-listers including Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr and Jack Whitehall have faced a backlash over the event.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyn2yqpnnpo
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James O'Malley
1 day ago
Have I Got Fake News For You
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Have I Got Fake News For You (Odds and Ends #79)
A jaw-dropping screw-up on prime time BBC One ā and more!
https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/have-i-got-fake-news-for-you
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Eric Reinhart
1 day ago
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
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āThe administration doesnāt like laying people offā. Your man literally fronted a show where the point was to fire people.
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Apparently we have a bunch of racist bastards in town tomorrow.
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Protest in Loughborough: Saturday 4 October
The University is aware that a protest is scheduled to take place on Saturday, 4 October at 1pm at the Ramada hotel in Loughborough. The protest is against asylum seekers.
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/internal/news/2025/october/protest-lboro/
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My initial read of this is that the thesis is based on bog-standard pre-season fitness testing that every team does, and heās just pasted the data into SPSS to confirm what has been known since at least the 1970s.
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Medlife Crisis (Rohin)
4 days ago
Yikes, this is pretty damning. A thorough analysis with some important wider points about fitness science, especially the online health hellscape, that are hard to disagree with
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Mike Israetel's PhD: The Biggest Academic Sham in Fitness?
YouTube video by Solomon Nelson
https://youtu.be/elLI9PRn1gQ?si=W_YlOp59uCTwNpRT
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Phillips OBrien
3 days ago
So the US subsidizes Argentina to sell soybeans to China, which means China doesnāt have to buy US soybeans, which means the US is going to have a massive bailout of its own soybean farmers. This might be the single worst policy in the history of policies.
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The Bulwark
3 days ago
"They want it to be put into the law that universities don't get life-saving research grants if anything happens on campus that belittles the feelings of the conservative snowflakes." "They should sue....it is brazenly illegal."
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LeithMotive
3 days ago
As an aside to this, when was the last time the BBC said Farage made stupid stuff up in a headline?
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Otto English
3 days ago
Elon Musk: āI love Javier Milei.ā Kemi Badenoch: āJavier Milei is the template.ā Donald Trump: āMy favourite president.ā Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing ⦠doing all the things heās done ⦠thatās leadership.ā Meanwhile... in Argentina
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty
The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentinaās president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nationās finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/02/javier-milei-argentina-nigel-farage-donald-trump-elon-musk?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1759381869
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But cLimAte cHAnge IsNt rEEEL.
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2026 World Cup: Fifa likely to schedule matches featuring European nations after midnight UK time
Fifa are likely to schedule World Cup matches involving major European nations after midnight UK time next year in an effort to combat heat issues that affected the recent Club World Cup.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5yqr5rvz3qo
4 days ago
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One for
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4 days ago
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Greg Jenner
4 days ago
Farewell to one of the greats
www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
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Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91
"Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wedne...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/dr-jane-goodall-legendary-animal-rights-advocate-dies-91-rcna235001
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Nima (Doctor Yak) šŖšŗš¬š§
4 days ago
Führage whingeing about hurty words when his gutter politics has consistently poisoned this country for years. The sheer chutzpah of this toad, even right wing commentators are bemused ā¬ļø
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Halloween name
4 days ago
"i just use it to generate ideas"
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100 years ago this month, AV Hill published 3 papers summarising a lecture on the physiology of athletic records he gave at the British Association for the Advancement of Science. They gave birth to exercise physiology as we know it today.
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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Blue plaque review series: A.V. Hill, athletic records and the birth of exercise physiology
Abstract figure legend Depiction of the world running records from 1925 studied by A. V. Hill and those of 2025 up to and including ultradistance events on a semi-logarithmic plot. These records, in ....
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP288130
4 days ago
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John Bull
4 days ago
Actual Picard facepalm happening third seated row from the back
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Dmitry Grozoubinski
5 days ago
"Look at how hard we're taxing Americans!"
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Desperate last throw of the dice from a PM with a massive majority and 4 years to the next election.
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5 days ago
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James Dart
5 days ago
Andy Young, the coach who guided Laura Muir to Olympic and world championship medals, has been banned for three years for serious misconduct, which included driving at speed with an athlete in his car following a disagreement before abandoning them at the roadside. Story:
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Laura Muirās former athletics coach banned for three years for serious misconduct
Andy Young, the athletics coach who guided Laura Muir to world glory, has been banned for three years by an independent appeal panel
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/30/laura-muir-former-athletics-coach-andy-young-banned-three-years-serious-misconduct
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Dave Jones
5 days ago
Turns out the free speech champion is just a little cry baby when people say some hurty words about him.
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dag
5 days ago
Thatās the spirit. Well said, that judge.
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This is because every person in the room swore an oath to defend the Constitution, not their politically-appointed leaders.
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5 days ago
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This is a manifesto for the SS.
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5 days ago
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EV tanks are a really good idea, Pete. No heat, exhaust or noise signature, instant torque, low maintenance, donāt burn a gallon of diesel per mile etc etc.
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Mike Dickison
7 days ago
Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts.
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
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Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) ā Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/
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Taps sign. Tuition fees and losn repayment rates are decoupled.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Martin Lewis on one big misunderstanding about student loans
Student loan repayments depend solely on how much you earn.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c4g25mm41npo
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A running back called Gainwell. Nominative determinism.
7 days ago
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Prof Bill McGuire
7 days ago
"the female master of ceremonies employed to inject some life into the crowd at the 1st tee was recorded using a megaphone to lead a chant of 'Fuck you Rory!' ā What has happened to this country and its people?
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
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PGA silent after Ryder Cup MC leads foul-mouthed chants abusing Rory McIlroy
The Ryder Cup host organisation did not respond beyond boosting security and posting requests asking for decorum that were booed
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/27/pga-silent-after-ryder-cup-mc-leads-foul-mouthed-chants-abusing-rory-mcilroy
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dag
4 months ago
Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Kat Abughazaleh
8 days ago
Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and heās giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Letās be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.
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Less unhinged than Trump.
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8 days ago
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Weāll forgive one or two students for not showing up next week. They just played in that rugby match.
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Bad decision.
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Otto English
8 days ago
I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.
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Every digitised record kept by any organisation is āan enormous hacking targetā. That why banks, hospitals and universities are under constant attack. And all have systems to prevent data breach.
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Bethany Black
8 days ago
Itās over for us
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I know this isnāt inferential stats, but a 14.3% chance that itās not legit seems⦠high?
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Itāll backfire if she turns out to be Epsteinās pilot.
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Europeans at the scene ought to follow-up with āthatās what your mum said!ā
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Prof Richard Davison
9 days ago
Met him a couple of times, great intellect and a nice guy. BBC News - Former Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell dies aged 84
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Former Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell dies aged 84
Campbell led the Liberal Democrats from 2006 to 2007 and was the MP for North East Fife at Westminster for 28 years.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8j7jnjd6ro
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When āINCREASE INFANT MORTALITYā would have done.
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Richard Ticeās āscience is never settledā mantra grinds my gears. Itās a meaningless phrase used in bad faith to sow doubt over facts. Just because science rests on the notion of falsifiability does not justify showering the world with bollocks, which is what heās preparing the ground for.
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Yes, and the paracetamol issue is them testing their messaging on unscientific positions, specifically so they can attack climate science in any election campaign.
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Put on my blue suede shoes and I/Got shot in the faceā¦. Cos I was walking in Memphis.
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You need to spool through to the angler fish.
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Kate McKinnon Gets Weird While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones
YouTube video by First We Feast
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