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sethburn.bsky.social @sethburn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You can't fake this level of insanity. He might be slowly morphing into his statue.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am against the rise of largely unfettered online gambling to begin with, but it feels like society has collectively forgotten the concepts of a double standard or a conflict of interest!

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's not October if we're not getting ESPN reports about how Luka Doncic and/or Joel Embiid are really honestly for truesies coming into the new season in elite shape.

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the big questions of "what are LLMs" and "what is alignment" remain important but they are separable from the question of AI safety we can talk about safety as a systems process regardless of what the nature of the technology is, and AI companies are failing in those processes

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Journalistic balance does not require that you seek to find the positives in the largest, most sustained act of cheating in professional sports history. Especially if it's investigating an idea that, apparently, no one independent or respectable can be found to put their name to.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The obsession about losing "stars" to foreign leagues is also bizarre. Even with a triumphant* Man City, Real and Barcelona have remained the numero uno destination, with PSG becoming a proper one too. Look at where the likely Top 3 of the 2026 BO play today - it's not in England.

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Pardeep Cattry @pcattry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cristiano Ronaldo seems very committed to doing away with the sanitized, normal legacy he really was on course to have (even if he didn’t actually deserve it)

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Chris Lepkowski @chrislepkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well, I am shocked... (I'm not!)

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Lewis @lgambrose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Listening to Lineker say City fans are "ultimately the people that suffer from this" and I completely get what he means - yes, they will suffer, but: 1) For almost 20 years they have only benefitted; everyone else in the game has suffered. 2) Let it be a lesson: PROTEST YOUR CORRUPT OWNERS!

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Step 1: I’m not friends with liars Step 2: These people are my friends therefore they can’t be liars. Many such cases.

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Andy Burnham's comments today expose the situation of selling national football teams to foreign states. He's taking a view, at least in one reading of his comments, that corrupting the national game is not as big an issue as potentially losing foreign investment in Manchester.

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Lewis @lgambrose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"I'm here; more than ever." - Man who left

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010: Licensed To Post @tomtposting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An undeniable fact is absolutely none of the English teams have the sauce. They’re all extremely boring and have zero tangible personality, same goes for their managers.

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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

35-year-old Pascal Groß is the starting 10 for the only exciting team in the league! bsky.app/profile/tomt...

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it's so wonderful that even as Ronaldo had endless opportunities to close his international career on his own terms as a legend, he has chosen instead "inscrutably pissy" as an approach to the end

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Lewis @lgambrose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Manchester City signed Samir Nasri later that summer. Marseille, Chelsea, Man City. All in one man's career. It's no wonder he was bold enough to challenge it as it happened - must have been absolutely sick of being cheated.

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 29/09/2026

If City don't respond to sanctions by transferring the entire Man City squad to NYCFC on sketchy TAM deals then what is multi-club ownership even for

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Last Will and Testament Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

American CEO: “We can’t control it!” American CEO 2: “It will destroy us all!” American CEO 3: “The apocalypse!” French CEO [hitting a Gauloise, exhaling slowly]: “C’est une issue de skill.”

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CPN @oksettledown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

we used to be a country (that started a fucking moon program over sputnik anxiety)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 26/09/2026

Only stupid people would do that

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diegomarramorgan.bsky.social @diegomarramorgan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That is literally how things are for them in their country. Be weirder if they didn’t think that all the time.

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Mark Poletti @markpoletti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He knew. He helped cover it up. Then he left.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The behaviour of Manchester City's ownership has been fundamentally incompatible with the responsibilities of being a custodian of a priceless cultural organisation and so they must be drummed out of English football.

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Billy Carpenter @billycarpy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thinking even of this summer, and the Elliot Anderson fee's impact on every single deal to follow. It's hard to fathom how much this has altered everything.

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Foolish Samwise @foolishsamwise.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hope they go down just for this

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026

If one of the "rewards" of affluence is that you get to opt out of the services everyone else uses -- roads & transit, aviation system, schools, healthcare, etc. -- then those services are inevitably starved of resources & decline. We have to force affluent people to be invested in them.

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 20/09/2026

No one has ever understood the real job of a soccer manager better than Jose Mourinho

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

they were right

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Orbinho @orbinho.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Perhaps it's more of an indication as to how well we defend in the area, but the way our defenders backed off for the first two goals allowing time for well placed shots should be food for thought.

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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A24's 40 Year Old Virgin mads mikkelsen: do you know how i know you awre pwobably homosexual? you collect action figures. (dissonant orchestra) robert pattinson (hands shaking on controller) can we just play mortal kombat? mads mikkelsen: our couwrse we can. we awlready awre.

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 18/09/2026

The only reason this otherwise reasonable take feels hot is that the actual answer hasn’t changed in 20 years

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Suboptimal that the president is a fucking moron.

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have always respected the policy judgment of the great American median voter

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Caitlin Cooper @caitlinmaycooper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Notably, despite the fact that the league averaged the most possessions with at least three offensive players crashing (20.5) of any season in the tracking era, the only top-six defense that crashes heavily while also limiting fast-break points was Boston.

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Aaron Moniz @amoniz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Why are people pretending Bruno and Foden exchanged equivalent blows lol

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

best sport in the world

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the problem here is that insofar as this is the core of the issue, it is more or less entirely unaddressable by policy means my bleak intuition is that the median American wants the cleansing fire of a recession to reset their relationship to the price level

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Excellent discussion of how the Antebellum South drove itself entirely insane with the tension between its delusions of being chivalrous and honorable and the barbarous monstrosities of chattel slavery that formed the central pillar of their entire society. Spoiler: still relevant to today!

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/09/2026

i really cannot maintain enough that my current theory of donald trump is that he is utterly gripped by the terror of death, and is desperately attempting to leave some mark on the world that history cannot erase--this is the point of the wars, the annexation threats, the dc vandalism

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Even from a purely national pride perspective, this requires you to think that the 100 year period from 1926 was a failure for the United States, instead of the zenith of its power, prosperity, and influence

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Orbinho @orbinho.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This line feels spot on: "At times it feels as if the Premier League has been reimagined as a kind of player trading vehicle, a transfer show with 380 football games inconveniently attached."

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is very Vintage Twitter circa 2011 and I am locked in for the day.

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

one of the oddest persistent beliefs in internet sports fandom is the idea that how fans feel about offseason moves is important in any way at all if the team is bad it won't matter the fans liked the offseason, if the team is good it won't matter they hated it. just build a good team that wins

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ornstein specifying net vs gross and reporting wages in yearly form soccer finance spreadsheet bros we are so back

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James Benge @jamesbenge.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Swapping out Ollie Watkins for Nicolas Jackson at the same price is maybe the most analytically sound move of the transfer window. And it has been done by... Aston Villa?

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