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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 · 15/10/2026

I've signed up for a 10k, I think it's obvious what guy I am now.

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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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Alan @alan.cool · 07/10/2026

It's a good idea, Jed, how do you plan to wrap it up? "Dunno."

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Alan @alan.cool · 07/10/2026

I was going to say Milos Kerkez as a joke, but he's having a weird old time of it and there's maybe potential to be misunderstood.

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Alan @alan.cool · 03/10/2026

This is how it starts and suddenly you're buying trainers with huge thick soles and doing 7k "easy runs".

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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

I realise now I should have added an image of a spinning bowtie to my post.

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Alan @alan.cool · 02/10/2026

We're re-forming our bonds with the EU, and restoring old agreements. Just call it "reform and restore".

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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

"Check me out, there's a multi-platinum global smash hit single that I only know as 'The Stephen Bunting walk-on song', bet you're impressed now."

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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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Alan @alan.cool · 25/09/2026

(Usual caveats that I'm not an expert etc) I used to travel this way a lot by bike and bus and the general approach of bike lanes on Rosendale Road and improving buses on Croxteth Road does seem sensible to me.

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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 · 24/09/2026

I'm reminded of Soma, which I loved but I might have enjoyed even more with the later patch that added the option to remove the stealth entirely.

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Alan @alan.cool · 23/09/2026

Even if you do like football it recommends lots of different club subreddits and that's not really how it works.

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Alan @alan.cool · 21/09/2026

Maybe they see some birds as okay, as long as it's not a raven image.

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Alan @alan.cool · 21/09/2026

Should they have mascots? I thought they weren't keen on the inanimate becoming flesh.

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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

Army of Shadows, a WW2 French resistance story that's been reimagined as in a future* authoritarian UK. There were also signs for "Victoria Park Internment Camp". www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/fil... *Insert joke here.

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Huge tower and barbed wire fencing appears in Sefton Park

Filming appears to have taken over Sefton Park

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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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Alan @alan.cool · 11/09/2026

There's a theme here. Sam the Eagle.

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Alan @alan.cool · 03/09/2026

Barely appears in one of the best comedy series of all time. But yes.

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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 · 26/08/2026

I do know you're making a sneeze joke but I've decided to instead interpret this as extremely condescending.

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Alan @alan.cool · 26/08/2026

It's "skooshy cream" anyway.

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Alan @alan.cool · 26/08/2026

You need to make it simple. Is thing good, or is thing bad? Some people can't be bothered with anything that comes after "yes, but".

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Alan @alan.cool · 25/08/2026

I hear this about public transport quite a bit and it's definitely not universally true across the city. I wouldn't have moved here otherwise. And one of the best things you can do for a better bus service is reduce the number of cars on the road.

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Alan @alan.cool · 25/08/2026

I think a big mistake we often make is to look at the amount of traffic and think of it as constant and necessary, so where would it go? But we encourage and attract this level of traffic by having large, convenient roads that cut through the city.

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Alan @alan.cool · 25/08/2026

Maybe some places have lots of yeast and in other places they have naan.

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