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"Crank magnetism is the idea that cranks—science denialists, conspiracy theorists, and contrarians—do not simply believe one wrong thing: they tend to believe many wrong things"

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Alan @alan.cool · 14/10/2026

Perfectly normal baseball scores.

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Alan @alan.cool · 13/10/2026

They're just called "Rovers" now.

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Alan @alan.cool · 11/10/2026

Well it's nice to see Federico Chiesa if nothing else.

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Alan @alan.cool · 11/10/2026

Time to watch a very normal, low key, uncontroversial game of football.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool, by Edward Wadsworth, 1919. It’s a topic that appears to have fascinated Wadsworth. I love every single one of his takes on the subject.

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Alan @alan.cool · 09/10/2026

My dad had shoes with a compass in the heel and tread that looked like pawprints. Kids today get this. And what did we have? "You can inflate the tongue a bit." We were robbed.

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm not saying my luck is bad right now but I had a tenner on under 0.5 Scooby Doos on the pitch in the first 10 minutes

Dog on the pitch in the Scotland North Macedonia game

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Alan @alan.cool · 02/10/2026

Translating for Munetaka Murakami looks like a fun job, you translate the reporter's questions and Murakami just bellows one of the few phrases he knows in English, usually "100" or "I am drunk". www.youtube.com/watch?v=9far...

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Munetaka Murakami: Electric on the field AND on the mic! 🎙️ (Best interview in baseball? 🤣)

YouTube video by MLB

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Alan @alan.cool · 28/09/2026

It's definitely Autumn.

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Alan @alan.cool · 27/09/2026

Flashbacks to being at university and people being stunned that I hadn't heard Crazy in Love despite it being released early the previous year and it being everywhere. I'm not sure I got much "cultural cachet" out of it.

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Alan @alan.cool · 26/09/2026

Didn't hear a word of the new Scotland manager's interview because I was distracted wondering what height hair needs to be before it's technically a beehive.

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 24/09/2026

It's really refreshing seeing shitey normal working class life depicted like this in a game, and a Silent Hill game no less. Pebble-dashed council flats, three-bar fires, Post Office counters, concrete shopping precincts. This must be how posh people felt playing Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

A Post Office (well, 'Post Service') counter.

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Alan @alan.cool · 21/09/2026

Tutting at every review that uses "fog" instead of "haar".

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Alan @alan.cool · 20/09/2026

The Chicago Bears logo is good because it can look like it's roaring in victory or agape in horror at how badly the team is playing, depending on what's needed.

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Alan @alan.cool · 20/09/2026

Make Treymaurice Nyoni use his full first name.

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Alan @alan.cool · 19/09/2026

I'm glad I saw the "closed for filming" signs a couple of days before they built this and put "Internment Camp" signs around it.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thank you TNT for posting this gem on UCL Draw Day 🙏🏼

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Alan @alan.cool · 27/08/2026

I guess that means I've been "into football" rather than "yes dear I'll watch the football with you" for three years.

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Alan @alan.cool · 24/08/2026

@scully1888.bsky.social I'm fairly confident you'll be aware of this film but wanted to make 100% sure: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ76...

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

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Jules @jules111985.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Poorly timed notification from the range there 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Alan @alan.cool · 14/08/2026

Just started with fright and dropped my fireworks in the barbecue.

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Alan @alan.cool · 12/08/2026

The Path of Totality would be a good name for one of those Serious Novels. An academic has an affair with a young student who ends up blinded by staring at the sun, maybe.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"I tried on my friend's glasses and it made everything look all blurry!"

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Alan @alan.cool · 12/08/2026

To the tune of Tullycraft's The Punks are Writing Love Songs.

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Alan @alan.cool · 10/08/2026

In days gone by they'd be asking a question that might seem obvious.

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Alan @alan.cool · 10/08/2026

I do prefer it when people at least admit that they are happy for hundreds to die so they can get to the supermarket a few seconds faster.

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Alan @alan.cool · 09/08/2026

High chance of me being smacked in the face with an errant shot this afternoon.

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Alan @alan.cool · 08/08/2026

Set a personal best at parkrun by running to keep up with a dalmatian.

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Alan @alan.cool · 06/08/2026

It's always a "wake up call for the left", and never "why did no one believe the weirdo bigot when he was right for once".

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Alan @alan.cool · 05/08/2026

Just went for a walk IN THE RAIN.

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Alan @alan.cool · 04/08/2026

But he's very imitable, it's just that if you're not a newspaper columnist you'd get punched in the face and a mob outside your door chanting "beast".

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Whenever I hear people saying that figures who were vile in public, and actively made life worse for other people through their actions or words, were kind in private, I think that they should have applied themselves to greater consistency across all areas of their lives.

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Harrison Ford, the actor behind loveable scoundrels Han Solo and Indiana Jones, started his career as an on-set carpenter. That makes him a roguelike deckbuilder.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 27/07/2026

If you put together the season posters for Reacher they tell the story of a large man who can't remember where he put his keys.

Reacher Season 1 Poster. "Did I leave them in the bedroom?"

Reacher Season 2, "No, I checked the bedroom. Did I leave them in the bathroom?"

Reacher Season 3. "No, I checked the bathroom. Hey, have you seen my keys?"

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Alan @alan.cool · 26/07/2026

@scully1888.bsky.social Today's NYT crossword might interest you.

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Alan @alan.cool · 21/07/2026

The first few seconds has a car zooming along the pavement and traffic lights that are both green and red.

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Friends' nine yr old has told me her class has had a sort of child sweepstake and she has Spain. So now I want Spain to win so she gets the jackpot (four fidget toys)

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🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @classicbritishtv.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Derek Griffiths is 80 today, Happy Birthday Derek 🎁🎂

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Alan @alan.cool · 15/07/2026

I don't think I've ever watched a game featuring Alexis Mac Allister without seeing him puce-faced and rolling around on the ground in agony at some point.

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.

These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need.

In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.

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