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

I dunno, I guess I care about them catching Man City in the same way i'd care about them catching the final horse as it bolted from my stable. But all them other horses are still out there, if you catch my drift.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thought i'd timed my trip back to North East England so i'd be back in time for peak Vermont foliage but an unexpectedly cool spell has moved it to basically the middle of my trip. Can going to see Boro v Wolves in person make up for missing it? Sure is a lot of pressure.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My take on the interminable bubble/Ella Langley discourse is that it’s fine to be in a ‘bubble’ for something as inconsequential as music, once upon a pre-poptimism time we called that ‘having personal taste’

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

We’ve looked okay in spells here but the defensive shape has been just awful. Konsa and Guehi look like they’ve no idea where they’re supposed to be.

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

Gotta say, seeing other big Prem club fans up on their high horses about City is both bizarre and funny to me, as if they’re not almost exactly as complicit in the utter corruption of the sport.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anecdotally, I know *a lot* of older Burlington folks who have had enough of him after his continued denial of meaningful aid for the drug issue downtown (regardless of how true the panic over it is), alongside the South Burlington ICE incident it's tipped them over the edge I think.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Emailing ‘info@gov.au’ to confess my many industrial-scale crimes and calling it a day.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Shame it's a Chelsea kit because the Amiga logo is a delight.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Correct, being someone who is on the left in educational research has been insanely eye-opening as to how fundamentally unserious many of my fellow travellers are. Truly 80% of progressive education work is 'alright, but what if we made pupil outcomes worse for [insert intractable reason]?'

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Alright, 'does not have the foggiest about the best team' sirens are officially going off now, with the understandable caveat of fitness issues/rotation in a busy period.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Are our centre backs cursed or something? How does this happen every year.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I mean the more replay you see it's blindingly obvious that Bruno should've gone too. Obviously Foden is braindead but yet again I don't know what VAR is doing if it's not bringing that up too.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Quite literally hadn’t even switched the match on yet and we’re behind, lovely #boro

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

OoT remake obviously looks amazing, can’t say I’m surprised that it’s a 1-1 remake but I do wish they’d gone full FF7 with it.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We genuinely ran a control study within the UK on school curricula and the answer was absolutely not whatever Wales are doing’

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

The most anxiety inducing trailer I have ever seen, good fucking lord.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Lovely to see Hackney changing the game for Everton, bittersweet but I’m glad to see him doing so well.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is an even worse sign for Burnley than their start to the season IMO, rudderless club and squad.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Great great ball from Britts, exactly what he's been missing the first few matches #boro

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Current thoughts on the insane New England humidity this week.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The best London pub is obviously the Shacklewell Arms, followed closely by the Lexington. Give me them with floors so sticky you need to wrench your feet off just to walk.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Would’ve taken a point before the match but that feels like points dropped. Uncharacteristically poor performances from McGree and Jones in particular and not enough service to Lanks. #boro

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

MLS giveth and it taketh away, apparently. Got to imagine we have a replacement for Whittaker lined up if this report is true. Our fans are completely dense about him so I can’t say I’d blame him if he wanted the move.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I think the only way to read into a lot of the big money Prem moves this summer, particularly those around the margins like Spurs business, a lot of the non-Anderson stuff City are trying to do, is that Prem DoF's simply do not trust analytics as much as they used to for players outside England.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

For the third match in a row we're just getting monstered in midfield, this single pivot thing we're doing doesn't suit Morris at all as it stands. #boro

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Have said this before, but basically everyone we've talked to here in VT about the process of my legal immigration to the US has thought we were exaggerating how long and convoluted it has been. People just have no clue how arcane and ridiculous the whole thing is.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Wait we’re signing another American?! Our scouts sure do have a type. #boro

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Happy with that Byram signing, especially on a free. Finally some actual cover for Brittain at RB, versatile enough to play LB in a pinch and also an experienced figure in a young team.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Outside of those who think I’m an Aussie/Kiwi (bless ‘em, they rarely know what to make of a Teesside accent), almost every American who asks where I’m from over here asks if I’m from the UK. .Clearly the insidious conspiracy has reached these shores.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

New Wild Pink album unsurprisingly rips, still waiting for them to have their big breakthrough moment. Feels like they're one Adam Granduciel guest spot (or someone similar) away from hitting the jackpot.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

That’s just lovely football. Happy for Sarmiento too, he’s started the season looking like a different player to last season. #boro

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

When I first moved to VT my inner image of them was somewhere around 'big horse' when in actual fact after seeing one it's closer to elephant. One walking across the road at night while driving on a VT back road was among the scariest moments of my life.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Like 80% of Ed tech is based around making tasks like grading, tracking, assessment management etc easier, I don’t want AI within a million miles of actual classroom instruction but there’s obviously space for AI to Improve those processes to the benefit of actual teaching.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Sorry to Stephen for piggybacking off his responses but you also only have to see what has happened to admission standards across US universities to see the problem with moving on from standardised, centrally marked assessments in favour of other forms of entry standards.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is absolutely what bums me out most about the whole debate, people I’ve been in bands with or friends who I’ve been to hundreds of gigs with happily sharing or creating slop, people like it! Even people who ostensibly value human creation highly.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Stephen is obviously correct here, but I am mostly impressed his response to this was anything other than 'you absolutely cannot be fucking serious.'

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The most ‘game of two halves’ I can think of for quite a while, absolute bobbins in the first half and much improved in the second, a few further thoughts - #boro

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Does feel like the UK emergency alert everyone is freaking out about is one of those 'gotta adapt to climate change somehow' things. Obviously I'm writing this from afar, but it's not unusual to receive weather based warnings like that over here in the States.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Thought that was pretty good for what was essentially a pre-season runout, a few thoughts: The most important one: a goal from a striker! Who knew such things were possible. Three new signings involved in the goal too.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This has been my cue to not eat at several places, if they can't be arsed to put some effort into one of the only customer-facing pieces of paper in a restaurant then I can't see why i'd be expected to eat the food. Have found food trucks are particularly bad for having AI menus.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I had a supervision every three weeks for ~5 months for my Masters thesis! This is genuinely the part of it that's most baffling to me, how did he do one supervision for a whole PhD! How did the viva even work in that scenario. His supervisor was barely more familiar than a stranger!

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Think we probably need one more striker and maybe another in midfield and we're pretty much ready to go for the new season, lovely to get the bulk of our business done so early too. I guess we prioritised getting Hayden out the door early so we'd be able to spend early too #boro

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I might have moved thousands of miles away from Teesside, but news of Houchen being a twat can still reach me. Feels unfair IMO. Who do I talk to about this.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Well, i'll take it from a Vermont point of view, but that's a comical own goal by Flint, how's he even done that.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Poptimism from the mid-00s on was obviously incorrect and the vast majority of it continues to be irredeemable dross with a few small exceptions.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I'm mostly excited about this, though less so about the price. I do worry that this has shades of us committing very hard to SPL players under Strachan and we all remember how that one went. Let's hope the new lads can adapt to the league quickly.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I truly think the backlash this time is specifically to the autotune (why that's a surprise to anyone is beyond me when Julian has been fucking about with it for a decade now). Otherwise Steven nails it here, there are no bad Strokes albums, just people misunderstanding the band at a base level.

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npwrth @npwrth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hope those absolute weapons who were waving Saudi flags around after the Toon takeover are feeling suitably chastened today. If only there was some sort of precedent for being brought crashing back to earth after selling your soul.

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