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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 21h

I firmly believe that a reasonable judge of someone’s character is how they react to the bridge of Sit Down by James.

Original Rough trade artwork for Sit Down by James.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 22h

Five years ago today.

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City Xtra @cityxtra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BREAKING: The UAE is warning Prime Minister Andy Burnham it will pull billions of pounds of investment the Government was seeking for a hi-tech hub between Oxford and Cambridge, billed as the UK’s answer to Silicon Valley, in retaliation for the guilty verdict against #ManCity. [The Telegraph]

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Farage always sides with the money. His opponents will highlight it, his supporters will dismiss it. But there’s nothing remarkable about it Burnham’s response is an issue because a) he’s the PM and b) the Labour Party are supposed to the ones supporting people *against* the tyranny of the wealthy

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“The Conservatives will win the next election” is one of those mathematical equations that we’ve all known is almost certainly right since November 2024, but “everything Kemi says or does” continually gives you a “maybe I should check my working again” feeling:

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

so like, I think if you are a rapist, you have the responsibility to make it possible for your victim to avoid you without that being energy intensive and restrictive. I don’t think being a public figure is very compatible with this.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Picking on Byline Times sends a message to other political journalists: Be careful. Don't be too critical. We can do the same to you." @adambienkov.bsky.social speaks to LBC's @mrjamesob.bsky.social about Byline Times' ban from Conservative Party Conference.

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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You guys want to see a murder?

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Noc @nocturnalibpool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m in tearssssss.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

‘If you’ve got £1 million or £2 million to spend on political advertising, forget it,…. If you’ve got £8 million, you can make people believe anything you want.’ I wrote about Britain’s broken political finance system for the latest @lrb.co.uk

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Keith Byrne @keithinkrakow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My amazement at how much bravery this girl, and others like her, show on a daily basis, is matched by my sadness that their bravery is required. I hope she feels loved.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wouldn’t trust that one word of the claims made after the first sentence is true

Tom Watson ® @tom_watson
X.com
Later today protesters will demand 'No Palantir in our NHS'
While they protest, someone, somewhere will get an operation scheduled earlier, a cancer diagnosis quicker, a loved one home from hospital sooner - thanks to the software that those protesters would switch off.
Here is what you won't hear. Trusts using the software have recorded:
• 117,000 additional operations
• 14.3 per cent reduction in discharge delays for long stay patients
• 5.6 per cent improvement in the number of people receiving a cancer diagnosis within 28 days
As a more articulate person once said: 'certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.'

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The feeling in the game is that the only appropriate punishment for City would be forced divestment. The only body able to enact that is the Independent Football Regulator, which comes under the Culture for Media and Sport. And then the Prime Minister says this: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

theguardian.com

Andy Burnham admits to ‘concern’ if Manchester City lose their owners after guilty verdicts

The primer minister said: ‘City have been a huge partner in building modern Manchester,’ while the Independent Football Regulator said it is monitoring the case

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Perry “Bastard Pac-AckAckAckAckAck You Outta Know By Now” Normal @perrynormal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Transphobes: “trans people are all gross freaks and everyone hates them” Also transphobes: “we need the government to step in to protect us from trans people who are too pretty and popular.”

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 33rd general assembly of the European Football Clubs takes place in Copenhagen this week. The Premier League’s representative on the EFC board? City Group CEO Ferran Soriano. You couldn’t make this shit up.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

or what letting them off the hook looks like. The government have already instituted the Independent Football Regulator precisely because fans had lost trust in the League to manage this stuff itself.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m not really sure who “the League” is in this sense The breaches run to 2018. The current CEO took over in 2019. The current chair only took office in 2013 and she’s credited with being a significant reason why this case was brought rather than being swept under the carpet.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

May as well have posted “Yes, I knew. Of course I fucking did”

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Harry Redknapp doesn't think Man City should be punished for fiddling the books. That's Harry Redknapp who opened a bank account in Monaco in the name of his dog to avoid tax.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How ‘LabourLGB’ felt after straight up typing out: ‘Do you know that schools can only record the sex of a child and that was introduced by our Labour Government?’

Victoria beckham on an early 00s computer

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How fucked they are depends entirely on the punishment.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Have now slowly re-read the ruling, and it is even more damning than at first reading. The ruling pretty much sets out Manchester City was fraudulent on a systemic long-term basis. Not just mere non-compliance, but ‘concealments’ and ‘disguises’. Also some MCFC witnesses were ‘dishonest’.

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Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everyone's praising Burnham for what he plans to do. But he's PM now. He could have prosecuted water CEOs for polluting the environment - he could have nationalised water. He could have stopped jailing grannies for peaceful protest. He could have gone after the fascists etc He's full of it.

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Sam @sodazen.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/09/2026

As always, @jonathanliew.bsky.social's commentary is incisive - from the root "incision." "The top end of English football is…owned by bored men given more money than they can possibly know what to do with & more power than it is ever advisable to invest in a single human being."

theguardian.com

The Manchester City case shows us how the global mega-rich now expect to operate with impunity | Jonathan Liew

When transnational alliances have scarcely been weaker, the way the club was allegedly run offers a bleak vision of a world driven by brute power and wealth, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Did Andy Burnham have any words of comfort for the UK’s 10m Black and Asian people who have witnessed the government tacitly nod along to pogroms or the LGBTQ community where trans people face toilet segregation and Section 28 the sequel in schools and cis LGB folk are facing erosion of our rights?

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are Stoke a “big team”?

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Have little sympathy with the ones who have spent the last 15 years giving shit to anyone who raises the topic. I do feel for those who have said all along that the Emirati ownership made them uncomfortable and those who’ve just stuck to football.

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please note: Burnham keeps saying "public control" when talking about watercos, not public *ownership* These are not the same thing

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foolsrushin.bsky.social @foolsrushin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

£900m identified sporting fraud. That is everything they were built on. They have to suffer the most serious penalty

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

theintercept.com

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pretty much the first thing Andy Burnham did on reentering government was to endorse a segregationist politics of hate. It’s quite hard for me to be very interested in the man’s plans for a hypothetical 2029-34 Parliament when that’s your starting point.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Who is City’s first game against after the international break? Asking for a friend who makes banners.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I agree with the perspective. But my focus would be on not letting City off the hook first. Punishment isn’t decided and once it is it’ll be appealed. There’s still a chance the “irredeemable” will be back to business as usual in a year or two. No eye needs taking off that ball til it’s pocketed.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Tbh it was a good speech and I would really like to be able to back the man, I just need him to have a decent position on our human rights obligations. Which is also a necessary component of any future relationship with the EU.

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Keep politics out of sport! OK. Who is playing? The best players from within the rigidly defined borders of nation states, including those who have ancestors that met that nation state's legal definition of a citizen. But that's polit... Never mind.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 29/09/2026

So for all the chatter about the ruling's potential impacts on the City players, either their new signings were lied to about the charges by Man City or their new signings were informed & signed with full knowledge of who they were joining (and presumably made comfortable in their contracts)

espn.com

Man City learned of guilty verdicts in summer before transfer activity - sources

Manchester City were first informed that they had been found guilty of more than 100 breaches of the Premier League's financial rules in the summer, sources told ESPN, before spending heavily in the transfer market.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sponsorship deals, bonuses, even transfers due to sales of players because of lost revenue to the club. And then the impact on those players, their careers, their families. It truly is incalculable. So yeah, City fans, players, keep lauding it over us - all you’re doing is damming yourselves.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Because City did take those things away from others. Players, fans, clubs all lost out because of their cheating. And not just the joy of winning a cup here or a run in Europe there. For many of the opposing players the consequences of City’s fraud will have been huge.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Re: previous post. This is what the likes of Noel Gallagher and Rodri seems to miss when they say people can’t take away the joy they felt and the experiences they had. In saying this they are providing the evidence as to why the punishment needs to be as severe as possible.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“This affects people’s lives in tangible ways. Not just hopes and dreams, but employment, wellbeing, the goals you work for all your life. How many families have been uprooted, incomes affected, moments of happiness scrubbed by outcomes that might have gone the other way?”

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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In 2019, Jurgen Klopp told Rog that winning wasn't everything and that "all the other guys who won with ignoring all the rules" would be ultimately be judged differently 👀

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Leo @leor7.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good to see they’re taking it well in Manchester

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