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Gustavo

@gustavoporco.bsky.social
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Both sides. Interested in stuff. Love life, music, art, sport, countryside, food, drink, friends, fun.

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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Even the over-65s are only fractionally against ditching the triple lock. And yet every other party (and Labour until now) has gone with the indefensible position of maintaining it, assuming that the electorate is fundamentally stupid and venal. This may be a big moment.
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Realised they were Renoirs, so tried to dump them, but were only able to get rid of two before the police arrived… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Renoir paintings worth millions stolen in French museum heist
It is the latest in a string of high-profile art thefts in Europe that has again put the security of museums and galleries in the spotlight.
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Jack @jdanial16.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Listen to Fabregas here on defensive substitutions at 1 goal up. Hits the nail on the head.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In many ways, dropping deep early to defend a lead and undermining your overall performance is the perfect end to Keir Starmer's premiership
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The Battle of the Peasants, by M.D. Hout, 17th c
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Isn't even as if young people want to work in manufacturing. This is the nostalgia of the old for a life their parents wanted to avoid. It is completely mad.
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Grumpenstein’s Monster @maxwellshabbsby.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
All Bluesky users will now have to pass the following security question to use the platform #totp
A captcha thing saying you need to select all images with A NIK KERSHAW.

The pictures are Nik Kershaw, Limahl, Howard Jones, Nick Heyward, Cheryl Baker, Jive Bunny and George Michael
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
i wrote about arsenalism www.theguardian.com/football/202...
theguardian.com
Arsenal’s party embodies the metropolitan swagger and angst of a divided city | Jonathan Liew
The crowd that gathered late into the night to celebrate on the streets reflected an idea of London where all are welcome
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I can’t remember a football team with a more likeable group of players than this Arsenal team. Everyone’s slagging off their style of play, but they’re genuinely a good bunch. Arteta recruits on character as well as ability, and it’s paid off.
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Impressive work here. If anything the standard narrative is 100% the wrong way round: Arsenal got so good at set pieces (legally - at worst with a player standing in front of the keeper) that other teams responded by jostling, wrestling and rugby tackling. And refs weren’t willing to deal with it.
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...
kucharski.substack.com
Real signals or artificial stereotypes?
Adventures with a cultural Copilot
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Starting a campaign to have bathroom mats renamed as floor towels. If you know, you know.
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 29/03/2026
how cool would it be if we had different words for "incredibly computationally intense and kinda troubling but startlingly effective coding tools seeing massive uptake", "dumb UI shit nobody asked for polluting everything", "cheating helper", and "computer program for identifying bird calls or wev"
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
this photo leaves little to the imagination
A photo of entertainers Little and Large. Large’s face has been blanked out and a question mark placed over it.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".
A photograph I took quite early on New Year's Day, 2019, while walking on the Isle of Purbeck during the research for my book Ring The Hill, not long before I did a tweet using the photo and this same caption. I imagine it won't have as much impact here, since loads of people have since reused it, and the phrase is now more widely known. It is still very very true, though. Lots of things are solved by walking. Although not everything, obviously.
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Geoff St Louis 🎗️ @geoffstlouis.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
An interesting graph: we face by far the deepest defensive low blocks of any team in the league (look at how much space opponents give Man City - tossers). We also play with the highest defensive line.
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Let’s celebrate some good news for once www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Homicides at lowest level in nearly 50 years, ONS statistics show
The 499 cases of murder and manslaughter in the year to September are the lowest in England and Wales since 1977.
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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
MY PETS (Palindrome) Dog. A sad dog or fat cat. Nine dragons (no garden intact). A frog, odd as a god.
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I so wish Adil Rashid had played more test cricket. What a bowler.
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
An interesting and provocative read
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version? I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/ It all started a few years ago... 🧵
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Holy hell, what an obituary
nytimes.com
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Really interesting on deceleration as an under-appreciated facet of elite athleticism. This piece covers football and basketball, but it must be true of rugby too.
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Gian van Veen - you probably think this song is about you
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Life-changing roast potatoes
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Mind-blowingly cool use of AI “Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales.
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Unpopular musical opinions #3: Dark Side Of The Moon was always a pretty average album, and now it just sounds awfully dated. An honourable exception is Money, which is a banger touched with genius, but most of the rest of it is dreary, pompous, overblown dirge.
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HEATED RIBALDRY @kneelbeforeclom.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Absolutely gone at this story from Harris on FB, the last sentence is pure Atlantic coast magic.
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I’ve always had a bad DNF (did not finish) habit. I’d love to take comfort from the idea that it’s a sign of a discerning mind. Trouble is my DNF habit has turned into a DNS (did not start) habit.
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
“Smug-faced crowds with kindling eye…”
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Got to admit I prefer the Electric Nebraska versions of Atlantic City and Johnny 99. And I prefer the Electric Nebraska version of Born In the USA too. Makes you wonder how great it could have been if Bruce had made one album rather than two. #springsteen
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
There’s a fairly reasonable chance that, if you look around, you’ll spot something purple right now. (I did – it’s a massive pillow.) Purple absolutely definitely exists. You apologise to Alice Walker, right now! So - exactly why is it the internet thinks the colour purple does not exist?
jonn.substack.com
Some notes on the non-existence of purple
The colour light forgot.
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Brilliant little bit of football writing from F365…
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Private Eye.
Minority representation on TV causes outrage
There has been widespread
way of life and their strange
support for prominent Reform MP
customs, but Reform MPs
Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of
comprise only 0.7 percent of the
minorities on television.
House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time
Said one angry viewer, "She's more than Fiona Bruce.
right. Every time you turn on
"I'm not prejudiced. Some of
the telly there's another Reform
MP being interviewed by Laura
my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough.
Kuenssberg."
There are too many people with
She added, "I respect their angry red faces on television."
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I think this counts as an apology - nice.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Waterloo
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Sam Fender is a deserving winner of the Mercury Music Prize. If you’re not sure, have a listen to this, which is one of the very best musical podcasts I’ve heard. open.spotify.com/episode/6S2f...
open.spotify.com
Sam Fender - People Watching
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I think I might write a book called Printernomics. Or Inkonomics.
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
“Many, many people with bad reading comprehension will use Ron’s image as their avatar when they’re super-right-wing. I can’t sit every one of them down and explain why they’re bad at watching television.”
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Unpopular musical opinions #2: Nirvana were exciting at the time, but sound incredibly dated now. And seriously, cheer up…
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Unpopular musical opinions #1: Prince was a pretty good writer of middle-of-the-road pop-rock songs. He wasn’t funky, his rhythms were leaden, and over his career he underdelivered on his extensive musical talents.
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Chilterns>>Cotswolds Dales>>Peaks Lakes>>Snowdonia
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Only very infrequently do I want Tottenham to be any good. They invariably let me down.
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Gustavo @gustavoporco.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This is lovely
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