Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 13/07/2026My six year old wants to play soccer. Not because she’s been captivated by the World Cup games, but because she wants to be on the cards like the Bosnian players in their “Take Me To America” video. 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Norway manager saw Belgium win taking its two biggest names off and learned the wrong lesson 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 09/07/2026With these red and green kits the team is ready to be Moroccan around the Christmas tree. 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Gotta think that there’s a strong correlation between how bad Belgium have been in this game and the fact that they’re trotting out some of the greatest players in Leicester City history. Does Danny Drinkwater have some Belgian heritage? 100
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Haven’t seen Virgil shut down an attack like that since the Gates of Dis. 010
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I’ve never liked cheese graters. Just can’t abide their holier than thou attitude. 010
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 17/06/2026With the Spelling Bee finished, I took a look at what it got right, and what it got wrong. cc @minakimes.bsky.social doomsdata.substack.com/p/spelling-b... 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Sure Norway is great, but you should also check out their sister country, Neitherway. 020
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 13/06/2026This is exactly what I just said. Where has this energy been my entire life 010
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 11/06/2026There’s no washed quite like the type of washed you get from having kids. A washed I know well. 110
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 10/06/2026@iankarmel.bsky.social Ian I love the pod and am a big fan, so please know that I say this with the utmost respect: I cannot abide your Goodnight Moon slander. “It doesn’t even really rhyme” is the sort of literary criticism I would expect from Sean 000
Reposted by Bloody Mat ConnerDan Orlowitz @aishiterutokyo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The Pope called it soccer, game set match. 2244092
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 04/06/2026@scrippsbee.bsky.social Hello! Is the website going to post the Spelloff results? 100
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Going to become a DJ with a vampire aesthetic called The Disc Count. 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 30/05/2026An Arsenal goal from open play? In this economy? 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Final three speller pre Bee ranks: Champion: 3 Runner up: 12 Third: 1 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Tethyan now rated as the hardest word of the Bee so far #spellingbee @scrippsbee.bsky.social 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Just a heads up: word given is missing on the site 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 28/05/2026ccing @minakimes.bsky.social because I feel like I should get to toot my own horn at least a little. 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 28/05/2026BEELO pre-Bee rank based on the model priors (in order of speller number): 37 4 3 5 1 12 20 22 100 Out of 247 spellers. Not bad for a first run. 100
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This one felt like the refs giving the extra second before throwing a delay of game flag. 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Fixed an issue with some spellers incorrectly being marked as still active (result of some feed errors earlier on the Bee site). We are now current. foxandfortune.shinyapps.io/BEELO/ 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Thank you! Bee Week really IS the best week 😉 110
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Top 5*. Ethan Robert, who was 6th, was eliminated. 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Top 6 pre-Bee spellers are still alive as of the end of Round 7. 100
Reposted by Bloody Mat ConnerMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The Scripps National Spelling Bee Semifinals start now! 2:30-6:30 at spellingbee.com 8-10 pm on ION @scrippsbee.bsky.social 2785857
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026@scrippsbee.bsky.social is someone able to fix the missing words in round 4? Gives the result but not the word attempted spellingbee.com/round-result... 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Site is still running smoothly but being held up by the Bee site, which is still stuck in the middle of round 4. We will have updates once the Bee site refreshes. 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026@scrippsbee.bsky.social the round results page is a bit behind on updates for round 4 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Ivermectin ranked the 197th most difficult word of the first round so far. 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026After correctly spelling “funori” BEELO now rates Israel at a 1531, with a 0.54% chance of winning. 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Had to rework how the live poller updates but we are now officially live: foxandfortune.shinyapps.io/BEELO/foxandfortune.shinyapps.ioBEElo RatingsBEElo Ratings — 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Site is updated. I’ve cleaned up visuals so they appear readable on laptop/mobile. Also word prior model improved so the round baselines are more robust, giving us much more realistic difficulties for later-round words + kick on effect for speller ELO priors foxandfortune.shinyapps.io/BEELO/foxandfortune.shinyapps.ioBEElo RatingsBEElo Ratings — 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Omg That would be amazing. Thank you so much! 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Thanks! Really glad you appreciate it. The plan is to have it live during the Bee once it kicks off next Tuesday through the Finals Thursday. Prayers up I don’t run into technical difficulties! 120
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Happy to answer any questions you might have about this, which might be my most absurd project to date. 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Ask and you shall receive @minakimes.bsky.social. Still working on cleaning up some of the visual elements and toying with the word model, so things may change between now and the Bee, but this is the general structure for BEELO. foxandfortune.shinyapps.io/BEELO/foxandfortune.shinyapps.ioBEElo RatingsBEElo Ratings — 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee 220
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Still working on it! I haven’t gotten the live version up yet. I need to clean up a few things visually and then the plan is to set it up hopefully by next weekend. It should be fully functional by Bee Day. 000
Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026This is just the first draft of the website (which isn’t live yet) but I’ve made a lot of progress just this weekend. 100