Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
It's more that it's a pro-white-dude country.
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view profile on Bluesky Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
It's more that it's a pro-white-dude country.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
No
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social)
If you watched Liverpool concede goals but score more in the first two GWs and are now complaining that Arsenal weren't more aggressive and open this match, then I can only conclude you must have wanted us to lose 4-3.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social)
Once again, players like Eze, Dowman, and Gyokeres should be getting easy ramp-ups to the season to get used to playing in our system. Instead, they're playing significant minutes because the squad is ALREADY beset by injuries.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
They really need to find a better definition for that rule - subjectivity is impossible to legislate for at the best of times, and the PGMOL are not sending their best.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
The only thing that's *bad* is that we're 3 matches in and we've already seen 3 key players miss a match through injury, tbh.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
If he's truly an Arsenal boy, he'll have known that for decades
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social)
OF FUCKING COURSE.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
And people still watch him. Does not augur well for the average football follower.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social)
The nerves are amping up - need to keep the emotions in check.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
There's a reason why he does so well. He's tall AF, strong, sure, but he also gets so much protection.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social)
Heart in my mouth.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
I agree, but I'm hoping that international recognition means that some of the spineless cowards start to use the G word in regards to Palestine
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
PSR prevents absolutely nothing, as we've seen.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
That case study would be finished in twenty minutes. You can't read the scribblings of lunatics as you would a novel, and you can't psychoanalyze the human brain equivalent of TV static.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Yet another money laundering scheme disguised as a tournament that no one other than club execs care about? Yeah, I'll pass.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
If you go watch recordings of 2025 town halls, you'll see the outrage - but it turns out that elections have consequences and short of a recall vote, there's not much that can be done until 2026.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
The waters were tested by their daddy and it turns out the consequences, if any, have been minimal. So why wouldn't they continually push the boundaries of decency?
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social)
Mosquera done, Gyokeres soon. Blimey.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Berta drives a hard bargain, which I love to see. Lots of Arsenal fans have been embarrassing themselves lately shouting at the club to "just spend" as if we aren't currently watching Chelsea and United spend themselves into a mini-recession
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Carlo's gonna cook in gen pop
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Typically, non-morons find other, more fulfilling things to do with their lives than make others miserable.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
There are certainly some who enjoy any chance to lambast the club. There are also others who had hoped that the club we love would do more than the bare legal minimum.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
No. 60M up front is *a lot*, even if the board have committed to spending this summer. We need to wiggle that down and pay in installments so that we can still push the boat out on a striker and backup winger.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
they need to find some grift to fund their safety, even (or especially) at the expense of other people's well-beings.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Right-wing philosophy only endures because it preys on people's fear that they will one day be poor and destitute and that society will not help them. Instead of, you know, fixing or implementing systems that would help people, the conservative mindset convinces them that
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Chelsea rejects = young players that were signed for way too much money and are now untouchable by clubs whose level matches their skill. So yeah, we're shopping at Poundland. What of it?
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
This isn't what they intended, but I do think we need way more technical colleges and trade schools. This idea that everyone needs to attend university only favors for-profit schools (that's almost all of them in the US, if you've been paying attention).
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
because no one wants to appear anti-Semitic. Problem is, along with the fact that the question is obviously disingenuous and somewhat nonsensical, people have heard the question so often that it's lost all meaning.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
They don't have any other moves. Watch any interview where someone is asked "Do you think Israel has the right to exist?" and the answer isn't an immediate and loud YES. The interviewer invariably just looks confused and shuffles their notecards. They were told that everyone would answer this way
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
The internet was fairly confident in his Bournemouth salary being £75k a week, and while we can pay him more, he's also on a 3 year deal at age 30. I'd guess he's on less than £100k a week now.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Unless he's paying *us* wages, that's still not worth it 🥲
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe I'm just cynical (I definitely am), but I assume they'll find a way to write him off as a loss. The club should definitely be fined on top of his ban.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
For the first time in a while, we have a sensible GK lineup; Martinez was one of the first sensible sales we made in the Arteta era. When you bargain from a position of power and a (relatively) settled squad, you can buy lower and sell higher.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
From what I've seen, we don't *have* any GK scouts anymore. Caña is the only one who's mentioned when we bring in prospects (Runar/sson is the glaring example, though he did push for Raya as well). Arteta was the one who wanted Garcia, for contrast.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
I saw a rumor that the announcement has been delayed because the announcement video is still in editing 🙃
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Martinelli is the wrong player to target with this sort of move; he's too ambitious. If they'd come after Partey last year we could have made bank *and* rid ourselves, but we can't all be bailed out by the Saudis, I suppose.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Prison is not an adequate deterrent for the rich - they can make themselves very comfortable inside and they generally are released on parole much faster than ordinary inmates.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
See, that would be useful. Big no-no in today's economy.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
United we bargain, divided we beg.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Better that than a Zionist.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
You don't know enough about him but you know enough to say that "socialism is not the answer". Dear God, Americans need to go back to school.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Meaning you're probably a cunt and your opinions can probably be disregarded safely.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
So basically: all citizens should get the benefits that Americans currently have to kill and die for.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
The unions had a massive hit job done on them by popular media and blue collar workers bought it hook, line, and sinker. United we bargain.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Then unfollow this account that specifically regurgitates transfer news. Dear Lord, these magpies.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
If nothing else, we seem to have learned something from this mistake and given players a chance to heal (El Neny, Tomiyasu, Jesus, Havertz come to mind).
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Dems are having a really hard time pushing back on things people care about, because *they* don't care about them. There are essentially no politicians that serve the will of the populace anymore.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Sounds like he really wants to come... this bodes well for us, assuming we're still interested
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Honestly Chris Farley made that sound way too fun for me to wish that on Alex Jones. Alex Jones should have to live in a caribou hunting cabin up in the Great North with no internet and his only sustenance should be the freeze-dried MRE-y food pouches they sell at Cabela's.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Since there's no ROI on stopping kids from killing themselves, Republicans (and most Democrats) don't care.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
"They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
PGMOL are licking their chops right now, cooking up their newest wacky refereeing scheme
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Imagine we get him for 40M because Sporting wanted to draw United into a bidding war.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
My response: "Nah, he didn't."
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Anyone who suffered through Katrina and still voted for this orange moron: I'd like to rub your face in this like I'm disciplining a dog that pissed on the carpet.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
I also thought I'd seen somewhere that he wants to play on the left, and that's part of the reason he's not in the starting XI.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Who wants to bet that Ocean's 13 was on TV last week? www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ50...
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Let's see you whip out your state of the art machine that can simulate what SNAP cuts are going to do to millions of families.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
If the settlement was for $7.4B, you can be sure that the damages were in the trillions of dollars.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
I once accidentally called it Day's Inn and can never not call it that now
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
But also remember that it's very standard for DoFs to muddy the waters by leaking interest in other players to bring down the price of the ones you really want/throw off rival clubs who want to copy your homework (looking at you, Chelsea).
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
No one is watching that competition organically. Their entire plan is to parade around Ronaldo and then usher him back on the plane before he gets arrested for
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Berta's doing it right so far - make your interest known but don't be exclusive. Shop around like you're trying to find the most cruelty-free eggs at the store
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
I've been noticing that now nowadays: when I was a kid I didn't even realize that motorcycles could *have* stereos. Now I'm flabbergasted to learn they do; isn't your goddamn vehicle loud enough?
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
I always wonder: if these people are so callously fascist, what do they get out of writing these articles? I guess clicks and attention, but why bother trying to explain yourself?
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Why would they? They (the ones who were there) all voted for it in the first place
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Uh, why? Jorginho and Havertz have been excellent for us. And what has Ornstein done to upset you now?
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd take a giant asterisk trophy tbh
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
It's always the wages. Hopefully Zinchenko wants to actually play and will take a bit of a cut.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm all for it - we need to move on more players. Just not for pennies...
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, the last point where you could reasonably say this is probably 2000 (right before the first of many stolen elections).
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
It's completely vibes-based. They're trying to craft rules based on what yer da would think a handball is and working backwards. No wonder it doesn't make any fucking sense and changes every week.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
I look forward to the inevitable book tour in lieu of actually standing up for something for once
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
The latter. Full stop. If they actually believed it, they might actually explode from the dissonance they experienced day to day. Their thought process is "well, everyone lies, right? no harm in one more. gotta secure that bag."
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope he gets some confidence back on internationals.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Spurs are England's club like the Dallas Cowboys are America's team. The colors make sense, but they're ultimately dross
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
There was one moment when Rice got subbed off at like the 87th minute of a game with some really hard yards (Newcastle?), and I swear to god the man was foaming at the mouth like a horse that had just won the goddamn Kentucky Derby.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
He's like an amoeba
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
It never has been. The Patriot Act was the beginning of the end for this country, and ICE is the logical conclusion.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm hearing that both clubs have agreed to do the deal in July for balance sheet purposes. Calma
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Ketchup and mustard bottles
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Sounds like I'm better at Geoguessr than LLMs
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Mmmm, they do when the backers of that cult run the country. I've got some bad news for you if you think Trump is going to suffer actual consequences for this, given that he arguably should be serving prison time.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
There were reports that both clubs would prefer that the transaction take place in July for financial reasons, so I think we can put a nail in this for now. That won't stop everyone from posting about it every day until then.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
First requirement to get POTS is generally to play the whole season. It's not harsh on Gabi to say that Rice had more impact.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
You can't fault the man, he clearly lost all respect for Spurs supporters at the end of the last season and rightfully so. He's going to be the new Conte, but upside down.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
He's being brought in the fill the gap left by Ayto, who *just* tendered his resignation. Our fanbase really loves to jump to panic stations.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Surely he's the only eligible candidate? Saka and Gabriel both missed large parts of the season.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Dear God please no, sign the boys
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
So our corner scoring stayed steady, our corner defense dropped off of a cliff, our defense dipped slightly, and our attack cratered. Sounds about right.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
One of the defining traits of fascists is that they can't think that far ahead.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
?? Jason Ayto just left
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks Sky Sports, illuminating as always
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Their dads' ensuing legal battle would be one for the ages
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Somehow, after 2 years and 2 appearances for Arsenal, he'd be moved on for 10M to someone in Italy. Kepa's career is like 5 cats tied together for unlimited lives.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
I think we know the answer. There's few people Republicans hold in more contempt than their own constituents.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
You can say that as much as you want, but the numbers don't bear out. Arsenal don't exactly shy away from their deep touches, but refs are not our friends.
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
Petition to call Morgan Rogers Egg for the rest of the summer
Gina Cruikshank (@ceruleansquid.bsky.social) reply parent
You have to be deluded to support that lot, I suppose