@goalmine.bsky.social Will there be a World Cup game?

@danielstorey85.bsky.social As football is ruled by narrative, just a heads up about some narrative that us fans of Exeter City are now grasping on to. To stay up, we must beat Bradford at home next week and hope other games go our way. Arise Kev McDonald: plays for us and used to manage Bradford.

We've reached the nadir of scrutiny of VAR. That on-field review for the penalty award against Dunk was a total mess. The VAR only showed the ref a still image which made it look like an obvious handball, but the frame chosen wasn't the frame in which the ball hit Dunk. #WHUBHA #WestHam #Brighton

Exeter is for Everyone ❤️ The far right tried to intimidate and sow hatred. Devon showed them what community looks like.

Great to see Djed Spence coming off the bench to be the first Muslim man to win a senior England cap. #SRBENG #WorldCupQualifiers

The Sky Sports GOAL swipe looks like the sort of graphic that you see in spoofs of American sports broadcasts. #Sky #WHUCHE

More data centres are coming to the UK, with British citizens being expected to foot the electricity and water bill. A textbook example of socialism for corporations, cutthroat capitalism for the public.

Semenyo was abused by a fan who leaned out of his seat when Semenyo was about to take an attacking long throw on the near side a few mins before the stoppage. #LIVBOU

15 mins into the first game of the season and the first VAR madness is comfortably in the bag. #LIVBOU

@solioanalytics.com Hi. Really enjoying playing around with the tool—such an interesting and complex yet intuitive way of approaching optimisation. Great work! Can I just ask, how do I restrict the projection table to fewer than 12 GWs?

For clarity, the code isn't C1724G—the C is just to cancel any previous presses, so the code is 1724G and beginning by pressing C is just best practice.

"Got called transphobic in academia earlier lads" "Tell us what happened lad" "I got called transphobic in academia" "Ye but why" "I was being transphobic" "In academia?" "Yeah it was in academia"

The Fulbright Scholarship board resigned due to political interference from the Trump administration. The State Department, led by Marco Rubio, is canceling scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers based on their research topics, which include climate change, gender, and race.

There is one obvious piece of #CanCon to mark the passing of Brian Wilson, and that of course is this: youtu.be/Ch84fmOa414?...

"We don't think article 8 rights apply" If article 8 rights don't apply when you're taking a piss, when DO they?

Me bending down to pick up the several parcels the low-cost courier has just photographed strewn across our doorstep and saying "what has she been buying now then?!?" even though all the labels clearly have my name on them.

Me thanking the delivery driver and before closing the door calling "food's here" up the stairs even though they know full well that I'm eating alone.

Great to see Tom Banton back playing for England. He scores lots of runs of the face of the bat, unlike his dad Pato Banton who was always bye bye bye bye bye bye, bye bye bye bye bye bye. Still, Pato did often help his teams recover when slightly behind—not a full reversal, just a baby comeback.

Gekommen um zu bleiben: Punkt in Frankfurt – Klassenerhalt gesichert! 🤎🤍❤️ #fcsp

1/5 All true. But it overlooks the most important wedge driving conservatives apart over the last 60 years: race. Macmillan’s government introduced the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act restricting Black and brown people’s immigration. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Saudi sportswashing just levelled up. All the punditry is about the romance. RIP Jamal Khashoggi. #CarabaoCup

Lovely to see a break to allow players who are fasting for Ramadan to take on water and some glucose as the sun goes down. #MNUFUL #FACup

NEW: The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social

“It comes back to the question of: safety for who?” New technology & support from law enforcement & federal agencies allow universities nationwide to monitor student activists like never before, Sophie Hayssen reports. prismreports.org/2025/02/26/u...

STOP USING GENERATIVE AI. Seriously. Listen to Alex please.

UTC #ECFC

"As with the resurgence of the far-right, the rise of tech oligarchs is the result of a long series of mainstream failures" A few thoughts on reactionary tech oligarchy by @jfarkas.bsky.social and I for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/01/26/t...

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means. A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.

Depressing how much editorialising about Holocaust Remembrance Day leaves readers/listeners with some message other than that we must all watch carefully for political movements using scapegoating and act decisively to protect vulnerable communities from brutal state violence.

Every #Gladiators: I'm Lisa, I'm 46 and a florist from Bath. I may not be the strongest or fastest, but I'm here to show age is just a number! I'm Sia, I'm 23 and a PT from Bury. I train 60hrs/w and I came to smash. At end: Sia, you go on my 1st whistle; Lisa, you go (16s later) on my 2nd whistle

'Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the start of a “large-scale military operation” in Jenin targeting a hospital and refugee camp. Meanwhile, a new US administration has endorsed Israel’s “biblical dominion” and lifted sanctions on settlers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Mw...

In a format like #Traitors, where there is production interference throughout, the main thing you absolutely have to avoid is overshadowing the ending with a piece of production interference that over-determines the outcome. And that was exactly what happened. The result feels arbitrary. #TraitorsUK

I don't see any other plausible outcome than the players banishing both Frankie and Charlotte, a move that guarantees they remove a traitor. The only jeopardy left is whether the other three split it, or play on. #Traitors #TraitorsUK

This series of #TraitorsUK has been annoying because of the group's resolute commitment to making drama out of air and decisions based on pure vibes rather than any strategy. But the finale still would have been tense without the stupid Seer innovation, which will force a single outcome. #Traitors

Please be warned about this.

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Watching the Jet Lag Season 12 finale on @nebula.tv. Wait, who TF let Sam into The Snack Zone™️??!?

Why Magnus Carlsen is playing for St.Pauli’s amateur chess team. @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/606...

A week ago, I had dinner with a key author of the AI consultation. Not just dinner: I berated them for about 7 hours. In return, they gave me a horrid cough. Which is a fair revenge. Anyway, here's a thread about what I took away from the conversation. These are my inferences, not quotes.

I interviewed a civil servant about driverless cars policy. He told me this... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

NYTimes was the most credulous, calling 2012 “the year of the MOOC” Soon the major companies (edX, Coursera) were bankrupt, bought out, and/or never made money. In subsequent realignments, arts + humanities paid the price for universities’ bad investments. The end. www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/e...

Either Keir Starmer is the biggest mark to ever live or he's still hoping for a few 'freebies' from his corpo mates. I cannot understate how atrocious this is.

Even at his best, Harry Maguire has that panicked face that Alan Partridge does when he pierces his foot on a spike. #FACup #ARSMNU

By rights, the aspiring, semi-pro players of #Tamworth FC have earned themselves and their fans a magical day at one of the world's best football grounds. Because of the greed that has packed the elite fixture calendar to bursting, sadly they won't get one. Hold your heads high lads!

While Musk and Farage are talking about “grooming gangs”, just thinking of how we recently saw the biggest child abuse in English football history and it was barely a feature of political discourse - it was widely reported on but barely left the football bubble. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

My dudes, turn this shit off. On iOS it's under Settings > Apps > Photos > scroll all the way down.

Melanie Phillips is quoted extensively in Anders Breivik's 2011 Manifesto. She "took exception" to suggestions she influenced him. Would a black/Muslim/Palestinian journalist quoted extensively in Hamas's 7/10 statements still be regular panelist on BBC programmes?