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Look, I was brought up a Catholic - Catholic school, Celtic fan Glaswegian family - and just found it all nonsense from a very young age. The current Bishop of Rome though…

Young Gamgee’s second greatest moment after “PO-TAY-TOES”

Love this - not all business people are pricks, we just live in an era of knock-off Batman villains

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I’d love to be able to ask this racist dope if I, born in England to Scottish parents, am one of the English volk or Scottish volk she blithely and ignorantly imagines exist

Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 02/10/2026

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Still the absolute funniest "trailer remix" ever made -- as well as one of the very first of its kind, debuting in 2005 Every shot is perfectly chosen God I could watch this all day

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sham Fraudiola deciding to go down with a sinking ship. Surprised he’s got the courage to do that

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another win, another Puskas award contender. Up the Hamlet!

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The latest one of these, on the admittedly brilliant After Hours, is yet again proof of the American aversion to walking. Paul could walk from SoHo to his Upper East Side apartment in about 90 minutes. It’s a bafflingly daft plot contrivance that he doesn’t just, you know, do that

Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Three in five people will not vote based on free speech at the next election. 🤦‍♂️

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not a one of them as good as Sol Baugh’s winner against Brentwood, tbh

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Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Andy Burnham believes football supporters should be to able to drink alcohol in the stands. I agree, stating the case in a 2018 piece for Football365 about the draconian and out-of-date treatment of fans in general. Stand by every word. www.football365.com/news/stop-tr...

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Stop treating football fans like it's still 1984... - Football365

Football fans are locked in and stopped from drinking during the games. Isn’t it time we were trusted?

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What if Andy Burnham called an election in 3 days? What will your (technically sound, etc etc) imagitorium predict then?

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today, in dramatic news, a thing that’s never, ever going to happen has been reported as news

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy birthday to the Bagginses

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Brilliant win, terrific performance too. Great atmosphere - the Rabble were in fine voice throughout. On we go!

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Honestly, just make your own Manchester United joke…

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Raiders of the Lost Ark, you say? On a big screen? Oh, go on then

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You know what’s great about Bluesky? Blocking someone because they very mildly said to someone else that they didn’t especially care for Mogwai. To the bin my friend

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Big Dumb has stunk the place out since coming on. We’ve been far, far worse since the midfield change

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Currently reading the Kynaston post-war books (just finished the second one) and this very much scans

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I see Riley’s tucked away at the back of the beach there

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

2027 ticket for End of the Road acquired

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This is a fantastic and grim read

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The right take, I think. Certainly fits with how I’ve been with, say, Ryan Adams’ Heartbreaker

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Ffs, what a question. Which brain of Britain cooked this one up?

The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Once again: the vox pop is shite. Either do journalism or do some qualitative research

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NEW: London has among the lowest violent crime rates in England & Wales, tops a ranking of best cities, and pays more in tax than it gets back – but the public overestimate crime risk, underestimate its standing, and don't know it's a net fiscal contributor. Our latest Mistaken Britain study ⬇️

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London misperceptions: public often wrong on capital's crime, quality of life, contribution to public finances and Muslim population | King's College London

A third believe there are "no-go" areas ruled by Sharia law

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I remember doing an amazing tour of the Palace of Westminster as part of some public opinion work we were going to do about renovation and moving options back in 2015. We got to go on the roof and everything. Anyway, yeah, 2015. I won’t hold my breath

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The “X percent chance of Y happening” people are just attention-seeking wannabe Nostrodumuses (Nostrodamii?). It’s bollocks. AI is no more going to kill all humans than fucking C3PO is

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C3po: We're Doomed

ALT: C3po: We're Doomed

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bit of a mess you’re part of here. I’m sure it’s more Citizen Ticket being amateurs than anything else, but come on, surely you do some basic checks on whether they can do the job before letting them loose on the thing?

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Paul Carroll @supertrain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You’ve hired quite the gang of cowboys to sell tickets this year, haven’t you?