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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

@danielstorey85.bsky.social As football is ruled by narrative, just a heads up about some narrative that us fans of Exeter City are now grasping on to. To stay up, we must beat Bradford at home next week and hope other games go our way. Arise Kev McDonald: plays for us and used to manage Bradford.

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

We've reached the nadir of scrutiny of VAR. That on-field review for the penalty award against Dunk was a total mess. The VAR only showed the ref a still image which made it look like an obvious handball, but the frame chosen wasn't the frame in which the ball hit Dunk. #WHUBHA #WestHam #Brighton

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Ed Tyldesley 🔶 @chulmleighed.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Exeter is for Everyone ❤️ The far right tried to intimidate and sow hatred. Devon showed them what community looks like.

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Great to see Djed Spence coming off the bench to be the first Muslim man to win a senior England cap. #SRBENG #WorldCupQualifiers

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The Sky Sports GOAL swipe looks like the sort of graphic that you see in spoofs of American sports broadcasts. #Sky #WHUCHE

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

More data centres are coming to the UK, with British citizens being expected to foot the electricity and water bill. A textbook example of socialism for corporations, cutthroat capitalism for the public.

bbc.co.uk

Data centres to be expanded across UK as concerns mount - BBC News

The number of data centres is set to jump by a fifth in the coming years, figures seen by the BBC suggest.

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Semenyo was abused by a fan who leaned out of his seat when Semenyo was about to take an attacking long throw on the near side a few mins before the stoppage. #LIVBOU

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

15 mins into the first game of the season and the first VAR madness is comfortably in the bag. #LIVBOU

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

@solioanalytics.com Hi. Really enjoying playing around with the tool—such an interesting and complex yet intuitive way of approaching optimisation. Great work! Can I just ask, how do I restrict the projection table to fewer than 12 GWs?

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

For clarity, the code isn't C1724G—the C is just to cancel any previous presses, so the code is 1724G and beginning by pressing C is just best practice.

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minus9 @minus9.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

"Got called transphobic in academia earlier lads" "Tell us what happened lad" "I got called transphobic in academia" "Ye but why" "I was being transphobic" "In academia?" "Yeah it was in academia"

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The Fulbright Scholarship board resigned due to political interference from the Trump administration. The State Department, led by Marco Rubio, is canceling scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers based on their research topics, which include climate change, gender, and race.

nytimes.com

Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference (Gift Article)

The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 11/06/2025

There is one obvious piece of #CanCon to mark the passing of Brian Wilson, and that of course is this: youtu.be/Ch84fmOa414?...

youtu.be

Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson (Video)

YouTube video by Barenaked Ladies (official)

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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 11/06/2025

"We don't think article 8 rights apply" If article 8 rights don't apply when you're taking a piss, when DO they?

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Me bending down to pick up the several parcels the low-cost courier has just photographed strewn across our doorstep and saying "what has she been buying now then?!?" even though all the labels clearly have my name on them.

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Me thanking the delivery driver and before closing the door calling "food's here" up the stairs even though they know full well that I'm eating alone.

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Great to see Tom Banton back playing for England. He scores lots of runs of the face of the bat, unlike his dad Pato Banton who was always bye bye bye bye bye bye, bye bye bye bye bye bye. Still, Pato did often help his teams recover when slightly behind—not a full reversal, just a baby comeback.

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FC St. Pauli @fcstpauli.com · 11/05/2025

Gekommen um zu bleiben: Punkt in Frankfurt – Klassenerhalt gesichert! 🤎🤍❤️ #fcsp

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

1/5 All true. But it overlooks the most important wedge driving conservatives apart over the last 60 years: race. Macmillan’s government introduced the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act restricting Black and brown people’s immigration. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Saudi sportswashing just levelled up. All the punditry is about the romance. RIP Jamal Khashoggi. #CarabaoCup

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Lovely to see a break to allow players who are fasting for Ramadan to take on water and some glucose as the sun goes down. #MNUFUL #FACup

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/03/2025

NEW: The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social

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The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.

The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts...

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Prism @prismreports.org · 01/03/2025

“It comes back to the question of: safety for who?” New technology & support from law enforcement & federal agencies allow universities nationwide to monitor student activists like never before, Sophie Hayssen reports. prismreports.org/2025/02/26/u...

prismreports.org

Universities used pro-Palestine protests to expand surveillance

New technology and support from law enforcement and federal agencies allows universities to monitor student activists like never before

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 01/03/2025

STOP USING GENERATIVE AI. Seriously. Listen to Alex please.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 27/01/2025

"As with the resurgence of the far-right, the rise of tech oligarchs is the result of a long series of mainstream failures" A few thoughts on reactionary tech oligarchy by @jfarkas.bsky.social and I for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/01/26/t...

Reactionary Tech is Reactionary Politics

The alliance between tech billionaires and far-right authoritarians should be a cause for grave democratic concern. Crucially, it being on full display since Trump’s inauguration should be a wakeup call for journalists, politicians, and scholars who have gone along with the portrayal of tech CEOs as mere ‘innovators’ and ‘entrepreneurs’ whose aims and actions are beyond or outside politics.

As with the resurgence of the far-right, the rise of tech oligarchs is the result of a long series of mainstream failures: from sycophantic media coverage of the endless stream of unfulfilled promises to tax policies (or a lack thereof) that have allowed tech CEOs to become so rich they can literally spend hundreds of millions influencing politics domestically and abroad. From antitrust policies (or a lack thereof) that have allowed tech giants to obtain near-monopoly status to media policies that for too long have ignored the internet and failed to fund public service alternatives to the tech giants that now threaten democracy.

The liberal rhetoric of saving democracy through fact-checking and media literacy was always a pipe dream. No amount of literacy training can counter the resurgence of oligarchic and authoritarian rule.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Brandon Wolf @brandonwolf.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means. A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.

NYT headline about Trump pausing PEPFAR disbursements

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Depressing how much editorialising about Holocaust Remembrance Day leaves readers/listeners with some message other than that we must all watch carefully for political movements using scapegoating and act decisively to protect vulnerable communities from brutal state violence.

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Every #Gladiators: I'm Lisa, I'm 46 and a florist from Bath. I may not be the strongest or fastest, but I'm here to show age is just a number! I'm Sia, I'm 23 and a PT from Bury. I train 60hrs/w and I came to smash. At end: Sia, you go on my 1st whistle; Lisa, you go (16s later) on my 2nd whistle

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

'Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the start of a “large-scale military operation” in Jenin targeting a hospital and refugee camp. Meanwhile, a new US administration has endorsed Israel’s “biblical dominion” and lifted sanctions on settlers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Mw...

youtube.com

Why is Israel cracking down on the West Bank after Gaza ceasefire? | The Take

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

In a format like #Traitors, where there is production interference throughout, the main thing you absolutely have to avoid is overshadowing the ending with a piece of production interference that over-determines the outcome. And that was exactly what happened. The result feels arbitrary. #TraitorsUK

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I don't see any other plausible outcome than the players banishing both Frankie and Charlotte, a move that guarantees they remove a traitor. The only jeopardy left is whether the other three split it, or play on. #Traitors #TraitorsUK

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This series of #TraitorsUK has been annoying because of the group's resolute commitment to making drama out of air and decisions based on pure vibes rather than any strategy. But the finale still would have been tense without the stupid Seer innovation, which will force a single outcome. #Traitors

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🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵Janet Sara🖤🩶🤍💜 @janetsara.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Please be warned about this.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 16/01/2025

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Watching the Jet Lag Season 12 finale on @nebula.tv. Wait, who TF let Sam into The Snack Zone™️??!?

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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

A week ago, I had dinner with a key author of the AI consultation. Not just dinner: I berated them for about 7 hours. In return, they gave me a horrid cough. Which is a fair revenge. Anyway, here's a thread about what I took away from the conversation. These are my inferences, not quotes.

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I interviewed a civil servant about driverless cars policy. He told me this... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

NYTimes was the most credulous, calling 2012 “the year of the MOOC” Soon the major companies (edX, Coursera) were bankrupt, bought out, and/or never made money. In subsequent realignments, arts + humanities paid the price for universities’ bad investments. The end. www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/e...

nytimes.com

The Year of the MOOC (Published 2012)

Massive open online courses are the educational happening of the moment. Everyone wants in. No one is quite sure what they’re getting into.

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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Either Keir Starmer is the biggest mark to ever live or he's still hoping for a few 'freebies' from his corpo mates. I cannot understate how atrocious this is.

Politics
‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI
Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data

Technology companies including Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI welcomed the plan as Starmer said the “AI industry needs a government that is on their side”. Regulators will be told to “actively support innovation”, setting up a potential clash with people who believe regulators’ primary role should be to protect the public from harm.

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Even at his best, Harry Maguire has that panicked face that Alan Partridge does when he pierces his foot on a spike. #FACup #ARSMNU

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

By rights, the aspiring, semi-pro players of #Tamworth FC have earned themselves and their fans a magical day at one of the world's best football grounds. Because of the greed that has packed the elite fixture calendar to bursting, sadly they won't get one. Hold your heads high lads!

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

While Musk and Farage are talking about “grooming gangs”, just thinking of how we recently saw the biggest child abuse in English football history and it was barely a feature of political discourse - it was widely reported on but barely left the football bubble. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Football sexual abuse report: FA 'did not do enough to keep children safe'

Generations of young footballers suffered sexual abuse at many of England’s clubs due to a wholesale absence of child protection policies, ignorance and naivety, an inquiry for the FA has concluded

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

My dudes, turn this shit off. On iOS it's under Settings > Apps > Photos > scroll all the way down.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Melanie Phillips is quoted extensively in Anders Breivik's 2011 Manifesto. She "took exception" to suggestions she influenced him. Would a black/Muslim/Palestinian journalist quoted extensively in Hamas's 7/10 statements still be regular panelist on BBC programmes?

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