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I'd forgotten how hard that is. Plus last time I reffed a Sunday league friendly many years ago, there were no over-competitive parents on the touchline and half the players were too hungover to run.

Off to ref a Year 6 school football match. Thoughts and prayers welcome.

I like the Greens and have voted for them often. They did a good thing in choosing a single leader after that childish shared leadership nonsense but unfortunately they picked a terrible candidate.

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Honestly thought they might run this as a stadium event. They're not far off now.

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Grim. No AI would have thought of giving The Tiger Who Came to Tea a broad Welsh accent and so my kids would have a much higher opinion of me now. Which would be terrible.

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The magic money tree will provide.

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And abolish stamp duty at the same time. My Dad is very conscious of IHT and they're comfortable (not rich). I can absolutely guarantee that if the Tories did this my parents would immediately buy the biggest house they could afford.

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It would be nice to see it repeated somewhere in West Yorkshire. On general principle given the subject and also because I'd like to go, it looks great.

That new Jag is spectacularly ugly. It looks like somebody learning to draw has tried to sketch a car, buggered up the dimensions and abandoned it half-finished, with the construction lines still visible.

Definitely worth at least a cautionary parable when we write the post-apocalypse bible.

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It's like a lot of open source - gives you tons of detailed options that you rarely need, just in case you like that sort of thing. Once you realise the 'Colour Balance RGB' tool contains 80% of what you want to do, it's much easier :)

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I don't know. If you're looking for an open source LR alternative though, Darktable is very good but it does take some getting used to. Worth persevering with.

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It looks like it's being filmed from a about kilometer away, through a 1000mm lens. Also, Kemi's on it obviously.

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That Lightroom clone is very lightweight compared to the real thing (and it's bloody awful at loading RAW images). Impressive all the same and a lovely small download but it's a long way short of replacing anything you can't already do for free.

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That's not Lightroom, it's closer to Google's photo editor. It's not bad (its RAW import is bad) but it's nowhere near as capable as Darktable or Lightroom. Still, a useful suite to bookmark.

Good lord. *Heads straight for the Lightroom clone*

Neil Charles @neilcharles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Watched Backrooms. It is extremely odd. Not sure I've seen another movie that recreates the feel of a dream quite so well.

Neil Charles @neilcharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Disappointed that "weird" doesn't appear in Badenoch's word cloud. Apart from being the right answer, it means nowhere near enough people are listening to Dead Ringers.

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Neil Charles @neilcharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is very good. Massive points deductions screw up the league and punish the fans, so priorities should be to expunge the titles, kick ADUG out of English football and enough transfer restrictions to consign MCFC back to their 2008 mid-table level. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Let there be blanks instead of Manchester City’s name on trophies: there was no honour there | Jonathan Wilson

The spaces can stand as a memorial to these lost years both as a rebuke to an era of greed but also a tribute to the Premier League’s hunt for justice

Neil Charles @neilcharles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The fuzzy one is me. You don't get to choose your photographer :)

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Neil Charles @neilcharles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I love autumn flying. The air's still interesting enough to keep you on your toes but you get plenty of chilled-out cruising breaks.

Neil Charles @neilcharles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This test said I should live in Slovenia. I'm happy with that, Slovenia is lovely.

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Neil Charles @neilcharles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

*Yelling* "Those rules aren't my rules! They don't apply to me! they aren't fair!" "No sir, but those are the rules. Now put your trousers back on or you'll be arrested."

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Neil Charles @neilcharles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Man City now doing a good impression of a drunk staggering around the high street at 3am, yelling at police that he can do whatever he wants because he's a freeman on the land. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

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The diabolical defending of Manchester City

Understanding an aggressive litigation strategy

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Neil Charles @neilcharles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Those fuel thieves are probably now absolutely bricking it in case they're extradited to the USA and sent in orange boiler suits to Gitmo, to hide the fact that the US president is a compulsive liar.

If Man City get a massive points deduction, ADUG have to be declared not fit and proper owners, surely? Maybe they'll just drop the whole project anyway but you can't read that judgment and conclude they were a bit naughty but they're probably OK now.

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Did Man City get Donald Trump's lawyer to draft that statement?

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Might have been wrong about Burnham. Really hope so.

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Not enough media conversation around abolishing the triple lock touches on UK state pensions being bloody awful. The triple lock is very slowly improving them towards EU levels. Rich pensioners we see today are due to final salary schemes and our generation don't have those.

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This is colliding with a coaching view that winning itself is the prize and almost everything else is secondary. RUN. PUT THE WORK IN. NOT GOOD ENOUGH. Actually there are no prizes because the FA know this is what some adults are like so there's no league table until the lads are older.

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Having difficult conversations around kids football at the moment. My view is that they're 11 and none of them are going to be professionals so the real aim each week is that they want to play again the following week. Winning matches is important but only because it keeps them motivated to play.

Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work

Ha. Somebody actually asked me a while back whether I could build something very like this and I said probably yes but it would be completely awful and I wouldn't want to. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system

The Fairford news is feeling like when your local Facebook group dramatically overreacts to a non-white delivery man in a van being spotted on the street.

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It can do great posters, people are just lazy and use chatGPT for everything.