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And this all only covers up until 2018, when they had won (I think) eight trophies. They've won 15 since. Do we think they just magically stopped cheating in 2018? Of course we don't.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 39m

For those outside football circles, which I appreciate is most of you, it's hard to truly convey the depth of their cheating and lying, the impact this will have on football for years, and the fury of everybody not connected with City, including the media.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 40m

Andy Burnham can be the PM of the country that has the most popular football league in the world, or he can keep sucking up to UAE. He won't get to do both.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 43m

There is not one single person who is not connected to Manchester City that thinks the current owners should be allowed to remain owners, but our PM would be 'really concerned' if they sold. Corrupt as fuck.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 47m

Can't half tell their government has been threatening the UK government.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 51m

This is insane "The prime minister said the situation was "contested by Manchester City" and he praised the club's owners since 2008 - led by Sheikh Mansour, United Arab Emirates deputy prime minister and royal family member - for investing in Manchester." They were found guilty. Of all of it.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 54m

'rule breaches' RULE BREACHES! This is unprecedented in its scale and Manchester City's refusal to cooperate while provably lying while giving evidence

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 56m

The new football regulator has the power to force the sale of a club and this is as clear a case as you will ever see of that being required but this gives me no faith they will be allowed to be independent.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 56m

There we go. The former Mayor of Manchester, who was very cosy with the owners of Manchester City who have been found guilty of the biggest cheating scandal in British football, would be "really concerned" if they sold the club www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Andy Burnham 'really concerned' if Man City owners sell up after rule breaches

The prime minister compares the allegations against Man City to the plight of his own club Everton.

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 1h

As of 260 AD, a unified Greek-speaking dynasty rules over most of India and is in a prolonged standoff with Rome which now has control over most of the Iranian Plateau. The Wu Dynasty has fully consolidated control over southern China and is spreading into northern Southeast Asia.

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 1h

Over the centuries the Roman Empire spreads and consolidates its hold over East Africa and Arabia, and eventually retakes much of North Africa and even Sicily, with Babylon serving as the Imperial capital. The Parthian Empire is defeated with Seuna and Rome joining forces in a war of survival.

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 1h

Classical-era Peshawar Lancers. A meteor strikes somewhere in southern Russia during the reign of Trajan, creating a dust cloud and 3 year winter. Trajan rallies the Roman Navy to evacuate much of the surviving population into Nubia and Mesopotamia...

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Julia Grant Reed @juliareedwa.bsky.social · 1h

No, you’re providing concentration camps that hold people against the law in horrific conditions without access to counsel.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 58m

If Canadians are serious about "Truth and Reconciliation", they should stop supporting Israel's livestreamed genocide of Palestinians. It's hard to take Canadians seriously when they can't even acknowledge the basic truth that from Turtle Island to Palestine, colonization is a crime.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 1h

drives me up the wall when Austen adaptations give their heroines loose, historically inaccurate hair to communicate that they’re free spirits or modern women or whatever when generally the point in Austen is that these women aren’t. yknow. free.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 7h

".. the argument starts to become whether you will split the progressive vote.." @zackpolanski.bsky.social : "I don't think you can describe Labour as a progressive vote. They are still arresting pensioners for holding carboard signs saying 'I support Palestine Action'" 🎯

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 1h

Remember the little people have “assets” not homes but the landed gentry will be allowed their emotional support grouse moors

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 2h

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

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John Chadfield @joxn.bsky.social · 1h

We hit 7000 members yesterday at @utaw.tech There is a future in grassroots trade unionism, and we're leading the way in tech.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 1h

He's back ⛓️🙏 HELLRAISER: RETURN OF THE PRIEST is on shelves wherever you get your comics! I am so incredibly proud of what Alessio Avallone and I made here, and so thankful to Clive Barker for inviting us to walk through Hell.

Zach Howard's cover for RETURN OF THE PRIEST

Christian Wards cover for RETURN OF THE PRIEST

Federico Sabbatinis cover for RETURN OF THE PRIEST

Ariel Olivetti's cover for RETURN OF THE PRIEST

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3h

🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 2h

Living in a £1 million house =/= having £1 million of disposable income (ask me how i know) and firm believer that one of the richest nations in the world can have neither pensioner nor child poverty

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 2h

Somewhere in BMW is a manager who has lifelong experience who knows not to do something like say, put the fuel tank behind the rear bumper and AI hasn’t got this knowledge as it’s not in the sources they’ve scraped 💥

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 3h

Just to add to this pension discussion my mum doesn’t get the full state pension as she did not amass 35 years of Ni contributions this will apply to a lot of women some of whom won’t have any other source of income

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 3h

Fuck me, the amount of people trying to get this Manchester City cheating scandal to be called 'The Pepstein files' is going to drive me off a cliff. Take a second and think where the joke is here and what you are using to land it. Then stop it.

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cones @coneshotline.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i have been informed that this is NOT ai slop and is in fact drawn by someone from east and south east asians for labour so that’s something at least. and you know what let them cook. kind of a fan of the rayner one

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cones @coneshotline.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

WHY IS THERE A CHIBI ANIME ANDY BURNHAM

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Owen Blacker @owen.blacker.me.uk · 2h

Judo fighter banned for life after breaking gay Olympian’s jaw in post-match attack earlier this month Akaki Japaridze, the athlete who put gay Olympian Timo Cavelius in the hospital, has received a lifetime ban. That's just the beginning. www.outsports.com/2026/9/29/24...

outsports.com

Akaki Japaridze gets lifetime ban after judo post match attack - Outsports

Akaki Japaridze, the athlete who put gay Olympian Timo Cavelius in the hospital, has received a lifetime ban. That's just the beginning.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 3h

then i got on the hammersmith & city line

A poster on the tube that says

POSTHOG
PERMISSIOONS SKIPPED DANGEROUSLY

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 4h

As much as I hate corporations messing with me, I do love getting to write letters of complaint. "Your competitor's hotel in Toronto invited me to a guest reception with free drinks. You guys, meanwhile, couldn't even be relied upon to give me the breakfast I already paid for."

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Weirdlet @weirdlet.bsky.social · 4h

I want a New Deal- but as we’ve seen, the new deal will never happen when they keep forcibly passing the “Nevermind All That” act. Vengeance. Jail time. Executions in The Hague. I want my Viir moment.

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Babylon 5: Alfred Bester's Cheerful Wave

ALT: Babylon 5: Alfred Bester's Cheerful Wave

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churro @churropdx.bsky.social · 4h

free quote post

A picture of a bear at a farmers market from a CBS News Colorado article/video on YouTube that reads bear ghost into Aspen Farmers market, eats pastries and bread.

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aidsmap @aidsmap.bsky.social · 4h

Can I still have sex when I have HIV? What does 'U=U' mean? How will U=U affect me and my partners? Find out about sex and relationships when you have been recently diagnosed with HIV on aidsmap.

aidsmap.com

Recently diagnosed with HIV: sex

Having HIV can affect people’s feelings about sex. Most people living with HIV continue to have sex and form relationships.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 4h

Proof gays can be evil

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 5h

"Lisa Nandy told BBC Radio 5 Live: ‘It’s hard to overstate how serious it is. ‘It is important to say that Man City contest those findings and they have the right to a fair process, but the implications are serious if they are upheld and serious for football as a whole.’" [Mail]

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 5h

Then there was a period of British Chinese food being dissed as “not authentic” and that’s because it is British Chinese food

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 5h

We keep telling them that everyone in the UK has eaten British Indian food even the smallest towns and they’re like “haha they’re not British” and they were calling this latest viral take “comedy genius”

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 5h

This headline reads like they are going to teach kids how to be misogynistic, which, tbf, is probably what the BBC are hoping it is

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United Tech & Allied Workers @utaw.tech · 5h

Multiverse employees organising with UTAW are lifting the lid on the effects of intrusive, inaccurate and remorseless monitoring by the company's AI model: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

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

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

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 6h

I was about six and a young man, about 18 or 19 pulled my dress up so he could see my underwear

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 7h

Alright, gonna ask a question aloud into the void here and I already regret doing so but: For women especially, what’s the first age you recall being sexualized, by men? I’m a trans dude but I’ll answer (in brief, writing a longer thing on this): I was about 7 …

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 6h

Or you could just get a library card and read it for free on pressreader.com

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 7h

Why is this ruinous and uncorrected tory austerity rarely discussed?

During the 2010s, councils' overall core funding per person fell by 26% in real terms, on average, with higher council tax revenues only partially offsetting a 46% fall in funding from central government. But these cuts affected areas differently: in the most deprived tenth of councils, funding per person fell by 35%, compared with 15% in the least deprived areas. Councils in the North and London were also relatively harder hit.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve always said this country is total bad vibes when it comes to elders when you visit other countries and see old people enjoying themselves and very much part of society. And people proposing more pensioner poverty prove my point. Anyone who refers to funding elders as a “burden” - vile

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 8h

A US gallon of diesel in the UK is about $10…

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