Man I did not realize just how terrible Newcastle were running in the Premier League.

The major difference here between Starmer and Trump is how their own party is treating them. Democrats are more or less irrelevant to the story of how Labour might do something and Republicans refuse to.

Meat wall? Meat wall.

Getting a little fancier. Probably needs some tweaking still.

lol the fake halftime show did a grand total of 14k????

Parlays are the biggest sucker bets out there, almost always, the spot where the sportsbook has the single biggest advantage over the betting public (with extremely limited and very occasional exceptions). Their prominence is a sign that the industry has complete disregard for its consumers.

Annihilation (2018)

About-to-be-nine-year-old who has displayed less than zero interest in sports lost her fucking mind upon being told she couldn’t stay up to watch the men’s skating.

I owe you an apology, Amber Glenn. I wasn't really familiar with your Magic: The Gathering Game.

VAR

Lol this shit is absurd.

Liverpool hitting new levels of "sometimes it is just not your year." Feel bad for Slot. Still think he's pretty good. Not sure what he's supposed to do about his best player becoming his worst player + a beloved locker room glue guy dying in an accident + losing every single dice roll.

Netanyahu is a war criminal who belongs in the Hague, but the only references to Netanyahu in the Epstein files are emails sent exchanging articles about him, or others discussing him. I think it's very bad that the most popular left-wing streamer on the internet is a raging antisemite.

Ok so do people want to abolish the entity known as ICE and switch atrocities to another agency or do they want to stop atrocities? Because I assure you the atrocities are older than you. Sloganeering is great to generate support and counterproductive when it makes you indifferent to actual policy

It seems a little bit random that the Norwegian army was able to go “how about if our life was just an Olympic sport” and everybody was like, “sure yeah that sounds great:”

*mob boss using Bluesky* That was a great joke you just told. It sure would be a shame though if it got interpreted in the most negative and pedantic way possible, if you catch my drift...

Ooooof Lindsey.

They're literally being worse than McConnell basically ever was. People just have this strange shibboleth in their mind because he kept the Scalia seat open, but the GOP literally had a majority in the senate wtf were you expecting

Anyways, dear reader, this congress has been wildly unproductive, and that includes things like appointments. The democrats have literally been as obstructive as possible in the senate and forced Thune to change the votes multiple times -after- wasting tons of time.

The six-year-old has dubbed it “finger skating” and that’s Goodman family cannon now.

I just looked up exactly how big a favorite Ilia “Quad God” Malinin is to win a gold medal. And lol. Lmao. How.

Newcastle-Brentford on one tv and American mixed doubles curling (or whatever you call it) on the other. Brother Claude installing the ability to filter shot charts for penalties on the computer. This is what Goodman peak performance looks like.

There is no Antimemetics Division was trippy as hell if you’re into, not exactly time travel, but memory loss constructed to create the same kind of time travel related mind fucks. You must be “Tenet obviously made perfect sense” tall to enjoy the ride though.

I think Trinity Rodman is pretty good at scoring goals.

That cannot be his name.

Is this a good shot chart? That looks like a good goal chart.

Otoh Tacos are the perfect meal for young kids who really want to start “helping” to contribute both in prep and cleanup.

Ok it’s not like I watch a ton of Championship football. But what the Hull City is happening down there. This team is in fourth place????

this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

To be honest I didn’t know Tottenham bought a random Brazilian dribbly boi-ish teenager.

Looking forward to a weird and unwatchable but nevertheless narrative busting win for Tottenham over Manchester United.

Less that I’m back on my bullshit and more that I never leave my bullshit these days.

Wife informed me that when she sees me at my computer making soccer charts she thinks “awww that’s nice he gets to hang out with his little buddy Claude” I told her Brother Claude was offended by her irreverence. She did not seem to care.

James Rodriguez may not work out in Minnesota but no matter what, it'll be fun to watch because the Loons are gonna score a whole lotta goals with him in the XI. www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...

Weird how that didn’t work.

How many production meeting hours do you think were devoted to “what if the United States gets booed at the opening ceremony?”

Kind of silly to criticize the most swing state-specific thing about the campaign when the shift toward Trump was smallest in swing states

I have literally had nightmares about doing this.

The thing I’m really proud of today is that I figured out how to make Brother Claude effectively account for own goals in my shot maps.

James heading to Minnesota is very funny to me (I remember what the thought of Liverpool’s weather). But that dude can still pass like nobody’s business when he’s on the field.

An interesting poll for the Twitter users that call other places an echo chamber.

Shot charts? Shot charts.

God commercials while streaming the Olympics are amazing. “We’ve reinvented cruises for the thinking person. No children and no casinos.”

and for subscribers, even more transfers -- Brennan Johnson, Tammy Abraham, Douglas Luiz, Oscar Bobb, Ricardo Pepi, and don't miss Goodman absolutely losing his mind over the Jørgen Strand Larsen fee www.patreon.com/posts/more-t...

new @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social ! we talk about the reception of the Expecting Goals set pieces study, a few of the biggest January transfers including Semenyo, Guehi and Lookman, and that leads us naturally into private equity and football www.buzzsprout.com/819853/episo...

it's time for everyone to catch up on the "Lazio fires eagle mascot handler over social media posts; he then barricades himself in the stadium" story

Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”

Coalition expert here. Coalitions only act like this when they’re in a great deal of distress.

one thing i have noticed is a lot of folks do not seem to understand the difference between a presidential election and 435+ legislative elections. i have seen any number of people say that you could subvert the outcome this november by targeting “swing states,” which does not make any sense.