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I dunno man, I think referees should probably be sanctioning the dangerous, out of control tackle as much -- if not more -- than they should the petulant but unimpactful swing out in response.

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

How could any self respecting politician or voter look at this and say, "you know what we want to go back to the way it was because it's unfair on car drivers".

A month ago, Sir Jim Ratcliffe lectured the Prime Minister, telling him he should run Britain in the same way he runs Manchester United

The missing piece here is a question that isn't being asked: "What does Musk need from Russia that he cannot get anywhere else?" I believe the answer is right wing engagement trolls.

Cordial reminder that PSQ - your European champions - are like Manchester City. See @tariqpanja.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/s...

When JFK ran, they said the country would never elect a Catholic president. When Obama ran, they said the country would never elect a Black president. Michiganders care a lot less about how I pray than what I pray for: peace, dignity, basic goodness for all of our kids.

📽️ "Madueke makes the difference!" - Nottm Forest 0-1 Arsenal | On the Whistle youtu.be/ug1co_8c0kQ

We are top of the league, say we are top of the league! #Arsenal #afc #115

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

This is quite remarkable. 60% of clubs technically insolvent. 94% of clubs loss making, 17 would be loss making even if their players played for free. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

This is magnificent work by @martynziegler.bsky.social, which should disqualify Infantino from standing in the 2027 Fifa presidential election.

Fifa has paid 4 million USD in rent for its (most often empty) office in the Trump Tower. #thepeoplesgame

Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from."

United v Spurs. A movable object versus a stoppable force.

i rebooted minesweeper as a AAA shooter. loot boxes coming soon minesweeper.mikelacher.com

🔴 SCOOP: The chair of a lobbying firm paid by the UAE sits on a government council advising ministers on how Britain uses sport and culture abroad. As Man City's verdict puts Abu Dhabi in the spotlight, our latest investigation 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-u...

Not for the first time, the Norwegian football federation shows the way and files two separate complaints with Fifa's Ethics Committee, related to the Fifa Peace Prize, the Balogun case and Fifa Forward Enterprise.

"Suggest you google this guy" Manchester City Council responded to my 2013 Freedom of Information request for details of their deal with Manchester City by flagging my background to City's chief communications officer. Deeply inappropriate (and that's being generous).

There does seem to be an interesting subset of folks who seem huffily annoyed that creators might want to be compensated for their stolen work by the people whose intentional acts of theft has literally allowed to become billionaires, I mean, how dare we, right

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

Oddly this story is not being covered on the BBC.

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...

UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.

Well, I am shocked... (I'm not!)

"I think they (Arsenal) will be the most controversial champions of the Premier League era" says Martin Samuel, chief football reporter of the Times, who is often found writing about how amazing Man City are as a club.

I just keep coming back to this. This was six months ago.

Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires

I think this thread is worth reading, FYI

going to pop my assorted thoughts about the city stuff in a thread here as and when. safe to say, a very dark day, compounded for me personally by the news breaking as i'd dragged myself into work on about three hours sleep with both toothache and food poisoning, so i'm having a grand old time.

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

This AI discourse is amazing. "We've created this very dangerous thing, based largely on the mass theft of labour, that we should stop developing" - okay, so that means that you should be treated like social and economic vandals, not revered as sages on podcasts.

🎥 "A shocking performance - but no need to panic" - Brighton 3-0 Arsenal | On the Whistle youtu.be/WcoZtDbVSdU

So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...

It's a good job Chelsea were crowned champions after two games because they've been a bit shit since then.

Stock Trades by Presidents While in Office: Bill Clinton: ZERO George W. Bush: ZERO Barack Obama: ZERO Donald Trump (first term): 517 Joe Biden: ZERO Donald Trump (second term): 24,000+, averaging >60 trades per trading day. This is why the crook in the Oval Office manipulates the markets.

Wrote this 3 years ago over on Twitter, and it’s still exactly the same.

There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter.

Darren England will be officiating Brighton v Arsenal next weekend. Stuart Attwell who was VAR for Sunderland v Arsenal will be officiating Everton v Ipswich so clearly no consequences for the "judo roll" penalty decision. They're going to brazen this one out.

And that’s before you get into refs being paid a fortune by owners of PL clubs to referee friendlies, or refs having massive scandals that call their integrity into question. English football continues to stick its head in the sand over a potentially existential issue.