I’ll never understand why it all gets so last minute. It’s a collective mania.
Same as over on the old bird site. But less wound up. Default mode is sarcasm.
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I’ll never understand why it all gets so last minute. It’s a collective mania.
Yes, he’s got a different set of big cheeses to your average Bluesky guy. But yes, the big cheeses have to leave to kill a platform
The bigger story today is signing Woltmeyer. Isak has been going for a month and you looked like you were starting the season with no strikers. This is very decent signing.
The Athletic are compelled to create a *lot* of content. So rot like this has to be produced.
Your annual tax take is around $5Tn. You guys should be asking when you are getting your rebate with a 60% Trump tariff bonus on top.
We all have very different algorithms, I think people on here forget that.
I don’t think you should. So I left. But my kids, only one of whom is political, are all still there and they’re not fascists. One of them just likes chatting shit with strangers about football, the other is getting her celeb gossip fix.
And yet most of those freelancers aren’t nazis. Your life must be terribly uncomplicated to have this pure moral outlook.
I am not a flag fan. I’ve spent enough time in Northern Ireland to know they quite often mean “you’re not welcome here” but I also get the desire to reclaim the flag from arseholes.
Oh for Starmer to have the balls to answer “stop wasting my fucking time”
Oh, yay, silly season is over.
One issue is that his cabinet are largely non-runners when it comes to replacing him, they’d be voting to be fired by President Vance. Then there will be Reps who want to be President and won’t want Vance having a free run. Perhaps they then have to impeach the VP? It’s impossibly messy.
The stock market doesn’t. They were always *wildly* over-valued when European manufacturers like BMW, MB and VAG were going to devote time and investment to making a similar product. They could never maintain a technological advantage that justified the stock price.
They will be incompetent. They are incompetent at council level and when it comes to coherent policy. But you are right, will not stop them attracting votes without significant attention being brought to bear. They are some people’s “they can’t be any worse” option. They really can.
This deserves more likes. I’m wasted here.
Ok, but Peter’s *absolutely random* QTing of random folk who said something disparaging about him, was a genuine old school Twitter highlight.
They are in custody. I hope the book is thrown at them.
Even better if they hadn't butchered the quote.
I wonder how "appalled" he remains about factions that won't accept election results?
They do duck up, though.
That £35m price I think means there is a buy back in place - we've made it very easy for them in terms of PSR. But he's their asset now - they have to play him (unlike a regular loan) but we can still buy him back if he kicks on (which I really hope he does)
plus they get a discount from Axa 🤣
Sad about this. I know he's got five big names ahead of him in midfield but I think he offers something different.
5/6 if we count Yorkshire ….
Thanks. Was unaware of Clearsky. I now see I appear to be blocked by almost as many people as I have followers.
Am I blocked by him or has he blocked you? Either way, can’t see the quoted post.
He’s been *training on his own* for a month. Hopefully not with the enthusiasm of say, me.
Won’t they be waiting for him to be resurrected?
I’ll rehash one of mine, replaying to someone who commented on Iain Duncan Smith, pretend alumnus of University of Perugia. bsky.app/profile/amho...
I’m not sure this is productive. Organisations, think-tanks etc are fair game. I don’t think freelancers are.
Perhaps the small boat migrants will be sent back and the asylum seekers have their claims processed and stay, safe from being murdered / persecuted.
The way football has implemented is rubbish. I’d draw a fatter line for offsides and make that “umpire’s call” and go with linesman’s decision. I’d also let the VAR alert the ref about things he might have missed and let the ref watch the monitor. We eliminate howlers, not strive for perfection.
There was literally no consequence for IDS’s straight forward lie about this. Pretty sure all of my past employers would have fired me for a similar lie. Tories, eh?
He’ll be guest of honour.
Why have Arsenal turned up with their third strip which actually has red shorts? #LIVARS
Not sure, but the discussion between the ref and her TMO didn’t touch on that. I think it was pretty recent - certainly the Irish tackler made the knock on signal straight after the score. I’m sure it’s fine, I just think it’s worth communicating as well as possible.
Does anyone on X actually call out this pure racism?
Wales have players and a coach that can take them forward. Just expand
It’s Dubai-on-the-Thames.
Do you know what it always makes me think? How damned cheap they are to buy. So here’s a thought: if Dale Vince bunged them £5m a year, would they revert to a pro net zero position?
Mibikity now!
She’s another grade A idiot that I don’t miss from X. And had blissfully not thought about for a long time.
They play the tournament at a completely different time. Just make it the 7N and get on with it
Yep. Don’t do what the men do and worry about the long term consequences of whether they are a one-off team (like Romania in the 70s or Georgia now) or the impact on the rest of the calendar if they have to add an extra round to the 7N. Just make it happen.
The romantic says that, of course, but Aus and USA are going to be separated by tries and points difference so these do matter.
I would have liked the TMO to have mentioned how many phases of play that was before the try. If it’s 1-2, then fair. If it’s 4+ then it’s tough, the ref missed it, we played on and shit happens.
Aloha Bundoran!
First time I’ve seen them and yes, the W6N needs to expand. Don’t miss the opportunity to grow their game.
Maybe she’ll surf for Ireland….
I saw U2 at Twickenham a couple of years ago, doing the whole of the Joshua Tree for its 30rh Anniversary. I thought they were brilliant. A man next to me actually cried during Exit. And Achtung Baby is unarguably a better record.
The other things in that list are true though. Except filling the river with shit. That was done by Australians.
Some of these women playing in the Rug y World Cup are as tough as hell.
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Dumb as a rock.
What really impresses me is how classically correct she looks. She’s got power but she’s just so good to watch.
Add in two expensive America’s Cup failures ….
My 22 yo daughter claims Bluesky is a haven of centre-right middle aged dads. I accept she’s way to the left of me but object quite strenuously to the characterisation!
One for all and all for one, Muskehounds are always ready.
I’m 20 minutes in. And it’s dreadful.
Working hard to justify 🤣
You've only included Westminster so that you have an Ikea.
That is a vast amount to power generation - to the point where carbon-based generation must only be the back up solution.
I saw this yesterday somewhere else. I don’t think he’s the author and there were 2/3 other underlaid maps with things like crime, average age etc. it’s obvious nonsense. The guy you have re-posted + his followers are *really* losing their shit over it, however!
It’s better than real, it’s on brand.
You’re just provoking the chem trail people now.
So abolish the Supreme Court, appoint new judges, ignore common law precedent, promise whatever-the-fuck you like. Three quarters of the media will uncritically lap it up anyway. Q
If you are Farage, two things are relevant (1) you can promise anything because there’s historically been so little detailed challenge around the details / practicalities and (2) Trump is showing that you can actually bend the laws and the constitution *a lot*, so why try and be bound by them?
Yikes. Not sure I like the matter-of-fact way you are predicting the next global set to ….
His recent comments on how WWII ended kind of proves that he knows nothing about history at all.
Takes some chutzpah for Leavitt and the Rs to try and take the moral high ground here.
Nicely done.
Some days I wish I hadn’t been so rude to the local Tory canvassers that I am clearly on their “don’t bother” list.
Badenoch was SoS for Business and Trade under Sunak. To her credit (really!) she put a hold on the madcap scheme to simply blanket repeal all retained EU legislation. Hoffman is, in fact, too stupid to understand how catastrophic this would have been (like Reform)
He sounds like he’s taking a shit.
That’s happened to us all.
Better still if Ed Davey, John Swinney, Zack / whoever from the Greens wins, and Rhun ap Iorweth joins him. There are way more of us. The Tories need to pick a side.
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True. We have to assume they will be found out for what they are and there will be a reckoning, but what damage light they do in the meantime?
I agree they are not acting like they have a 150 seat majority
The plan is now no less pie in the sky but the opposition's fundamental moral objection has been neutered. This puts Labour in a bind - it really needs someone else to help fight the lack of substance in all Reform's plans. This ideally should be the Tories and the press.
Ellie Reeves got heat yesterday for pointing out the weakness in the plan. Farage has the considerable advantage that he can simply back track on the Taliban part. The plan is so insubstantial anyway that it doesn't matter. He can simply say "we will pay Pakistan to take them".
That was one of my key takeaways from Hutton (and Lord Adonis) book. I think it holds up. We have a lot of TV news time to fill and he's never had to invest time in doing an actual job / creating policy (hence his minimal commitment to MPing)
Which is rational because China provides little ICE competition and is much more competitive in the electric space. But their product roadmaps show they are still committed to an electric future. As you said, this is about jobs and protectionism and the end of ICE is better for their competition.
The big three in Germany are steaming ahead with electrification. They are not stupid. But they are still going to struggle to compete with Chinese costs - this is a challenge regardless of whether the engine is electric or IC.
SNP there is a clear majority that simply will not support Reform's economic, social or political agenda. They don't need to form an electoral pact or anything like that but they do need to start to coordinate their messaging and their opposition to a vocal, but minority set of positions.
This cannot just be Labour's problem. I feel a little sorry for them here (without excusing the moral cowardice of their current position). Governing is hard enough without having to deal with such a threat from the right. The Cons can't be relied on at all but across Lab, LibDem, Green, PC and
Solar + desalination + pipelines to distribute clean water could be a game changer for Africa.
Doing the 92 is a big thing, if you start this season back down at 90, you’ve probably had 2 chances to get to Bromley’s place - and you’d be able to get a ticket. This would’ve been the first chance to get to the HD.
The banter outcome
There might be some Mansfield fans who are the first to complete the current 92 grounds.
We tried to sign him in 1998. What a difference he could have made.
So funny to see retired Jaap Stam in his sensible glasses. He seems such a delightful chap. He was a beast on the pitch.
Claire Byrne only got the better of Farage on this one occasion. Because he’s avoided her ever since (just like he does James O’Brien)
Sesko had that look on his face at the weekend against Fulham. He knowe he’s made a terrible mistake
I think they’ve got funnier since the weekend.
In the past, they were accused of over-relying on focus groups. But if they were to do this now, they would surely see similar results that these polls give them. X is clearly a self-selecting, externally manipulated sample (and this is not complicated)
It must have been well loved!
I don't think his comms skills should be underestimated - he's arguably second only to Blair in the last 30 years. I also buy the Will Hutton argument that his constant attempts to get elected meant he was *always* campaigning. And always available to time-poor researchers on TV news
I guess one risk for Labour is inadvertently making Reform's plan *more* palatable. It's the RW press's enthusiasm for it that is most shocking.