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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
that Traitors episode was a carbon copy of the SNL UK big crab man sketch
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026
Animal Facing Extinction In 2003 Fucks Its Way Back theonion.com/animal-facing-extincti…
Animal Facing Extinction In 2003 Fucks Its Way Back
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unpopular opinion: I quite like goal music even when in the stadium. Especially at Palace when often the goal music will be different depending on who scores and it starts that player's chant. Organic celebration can sometimes go flat very quickly if you're in certain parts of the ground.
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this has ruined my weekend
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Tom Curren @tomoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
redstory.substack.com
Obliterate them
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You could stick a lot of the Manchester United team in Fulham/Palace/Leeds/Brentford shirts and not conclude that any of them look out of place
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I didn't watch Palace today but very encouraging to see the general consensus
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Palace have limited their managerial options by spending three years recruiting very specifically for a 3-4-2-1. There aren't many good coaches who use that system. There are also several players who I'd be uncomfortable having in a back four.
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I am not having a game in which there was an 89th-minute red card issued after all four goals were scored being described as '10-player Hammers salvage draw'. That did not happen and I will die on this hill.
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wishing a spectacularly messy split to the teenager who yesterday refused to let me have the empty seat next to him on a packed double decker bus because "my girlfriend is getting on in a bit and wants to sit here. sorry bro"
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The amount and range of Palace-related things which have occurred since July and have made me think 'yeah, that's not ideal' concerns me.
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Critical support for West Ham
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Matt Woosnam @mattwoosie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Prince William launched a toolkit aimed to prevent suicide in sport yesterday at Everton's Hill Dickinson stadium Intended to help start conversation around mental health & suicide but also to equip everyone in sport at every level to know what to say, how to respond & with the tools to help
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Prince William and the toolkit aimed at preventing suicide in sport: ‘This can help so many people’ (Gift Article)
The Prince and Princess of Wales were at Hill Dickinson Stadium on World Suicide Prevention Day for the launch of On Your Side
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Probably isn't the platform to air these thoughts, but I pity anyone who has become so radicalised that their anti-immigration views have extended to demanding the RNLI to let people drown at sea just because they are arriving from another country. It must be an ever depressing life to lead.
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Max Read @maxread.info · 10/09/2026
one takeaway i had from working in digital media in the 2010s was that it's pretty bad for your brain and your understanding of your career/the world when your industry becomes the main subject of twitter and twitter becomes the main context for your industry. also bad for the industry overall
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My partner is from Braintree and would travel to visit me in Croydon. She routinely received comments (both seriously and in jest) about how we avoided getting stabbed.
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milk bottle champion @stepheniscowboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
nimbys remained unmatched
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's freezing, we've got our country back
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
corr
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I can't have Castella's go the same way as Coughlan's
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Got a fryer going cheap? Croydon's best chippie on the brink insidecroydon.com/2026/09/03/g... #Croydon #Selsdon #Sanderstead #FishandChips #Business
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Got a fryer going cheap? Croydon’s best chippie on the brink
While Ponte Nuovo, one of Croydon’s top-end Italian restaurants, undergoes an expensive refurb, Castellas Fish and Chips, a fixture on Selsdon Road for 60 years, urgently needs replacement pa…
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You'd hope Guessand was signed with knowledge that he would not be in the Europa League squad
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Championship club Millwall" is hilariously petty
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ahanor is an exciting signing. It's a shame the logistics of it stink.
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The things I am expecting of Palace today, and they're very sensible expectations, are probably beyond their capability. There's a hell of a lot to dissect and blame to go in various places, but ultimately whatever strategy was in place in May was either bad or has failed. Neither is good.
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Nwaneri shrieking and jolting in his sleep and awakes to see Poltergeist Romano standing over his bed softly saying "Do you accept the possibility?"
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm assuming it's some sort of branding/PR-motivated thing to clear an Instagram account of any mention of your [soon-to-be] former club. But my god it's a net-negative in terms of optics.
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
PL rules prevent a club signing a player and loaning them straight to another PL club. Feels like Chelsea/Palace are exploiting a loophole with which I don't feel hugely comfortable by technically loaning Ahanor from Atalanta before he joins Chelsea. What are Palace gaining from that?
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Khalaili looked more tham comfortable as Muñoz's replacement and, albeit based on 75 mins, looked like a better 1v1 defender.
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Palace look okay. The defence obviously needs improving but at least Disasi is getting some minutes. My fear is confidence dips before the squad is settled enough to find form. I'm now going to stay off socials because I can sense criticism for this result going in all the wrong directions.
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
That's three times Mitchell has allowed himself to be dragged inside to create room for Foden
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
That is a get at-able Man City team
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'm not interpreting the HF statement as any sort of implication that there won't be a group leading the atmosphere at Selhurst. They just won't organise under the HF banner. And I think people have correctly worked out why.
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'd have snapped off many hands for £50m for Sarr back in July. Not six days before the deadline.
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
would be Very Palace for a manager to self-combust at full-time
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This account is fascinating and depressing in equal measure
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'd love to handle the inbox currently receiving suggestions for the Selhurst anthem
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Not that I'm really having the Bowen story anyway, but there absolutely must be a right-sided forward somewhere in the world, literally anywhere, who is better value for money than £50m for Bowen. That would be the antithesis of the model that saw £12m Sarr replace £45m-ish Olise.
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Could be worse, could be Villa
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
People moan about Palace's relationship with USG but I feel like I'd rather have a squad full of USG clients over some of the agents other members of the squad have got involved with
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
That Disasi deal can't happen quickly enough and, if we're not signing another CB, the trio of Disasi, Richards and Canvot have to stay fit all season. It's concerning that we're going to be four or five games into the season before we feel anything close to settled.
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Question for Palace fans: Do I need to be a gold member to buy away tickets or can I simply have an adult membership? I'd like to attend more games (home and away) this season and it's been a very long time since I actually bought a ticket.
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
palace drop their best home kit in years and it's a third kit
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Appreciate his recent CV is a bit meh and the fact he's replacing a £52m departee in Lacroix makes it a bit underwhelming, but I think Axel Disasi is going to surprise people. I'd much rather spend any remaining transfer budget on midfield depth.
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Just in case anyone else (i.e. nobody) was concerned that Anan Khalaili's appearance for USG in a Champions League qualifier made him ineligible for Palace's Europa League campaign, fear not my friends...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I just think a proper Reply Guy is irreplaceable by an algorithm. The low quality ones are in trouble tho.
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Palace played well then?
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Oh mate, this is so grim
BBC News YouTube thumbnail in which the title reads: "UK records hottest day of the year, but are people getting used to it?"
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