Adam Powley
adampowley.bsky.social
Adam Powley
@adampowley.bsky.social
Author, lecturer.
Excellent work. Let's hope it gets a contructive and positive response.
Have written to the club's head of social media with the following. Is it worth reaching out to the Trust?
January 6, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Interesting chat with @migueldelaney.bsky.social and
@david-ornstein.bsky.social on SSN re: managers fronting up for anything and everything, rather than e.g. DoFs doing pressers on transfers. It would be welcome if this happened. Extend it to owners and stop them hiding behind their employees.
January 6, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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The world capitulates.

150 countries agree plan to stop global companies shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions, but US companies will be exempt from 15% global minimum tax.

They make profit we fund the cost.

The race to the bottom will accelerate.
US will be exempt from global tax deal targeting profits of large multinationals
Agreement finalised by the OECD waters down a landmark 2021 deal that set a minimum global corporate tax of 15%
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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At a time when the US is proving to be actively working against our national interests, and our dependence on the US for aircraft and missile supply and support is raising massive concern, this is a truly perverse decision.
Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.
Palantir lands biggest ever UK defense deal
The £240 million contract with the Ministry of Defence has renewed a debate about Britain’s dependence on American technology.
www.politico.eu
January 6, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Evening Bluesky folk. Someone posted info about how to delete your account and data on that hellsite, could anyone oblige, please?
January 5, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.
January 5, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Not least because the largest energy reserves are not fossil fuels.
Occasionally they spell it out.

Here's the US at the UN security council this afternoon
January 5, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Not only is this a bad reason, it's likely not even the real reason - which is probably that they fear antagonising Musk and Trump, as well as giving Reform another stick to beat them with.

And so, out of fear, they continue to post in a cesspool of racism, disinformation and child pornography.
Cabinet Office Minister Baroness Anderson tells the Lords the Government will keep on using X.

"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."

"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
January 5, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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Gawd big football clubs are badly run aren't they? Three sackings in three days. They really can't be trusted with the sort of money the game's bonkers economics bestows on them
January 5, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Good for Reuters for changing their headline. Pressure works. Grok did not do this. Elon Musk did.
January 3, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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grok didn't say shit. Grok is not sentient. This is you helping musk escape accountability for this shit. Journalism fail.
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes."

This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.

Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
January 3, 2026 at 12:12 AM
A quite extraordinary, terrible story. 'Internet fortune-teller' indeed. But it's this kind of tinfoil-hat mindset that is now driving US foreign policy and has the codes.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ten found guilty of cyber-bullying Brigitte Macron
A Paris court found them guilty of
www.bbc.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 2:49 PM
And again. C'mon @tottenhamhotspur.com, as the man said, do better.
@tottenhamhotspur.com hello again! You're electing to direct traffic to a site that's actually using "we will make sexual content involving children" as a USP. New year, new you, right? RIGHT? I don't think it's unreasonable to want to know our line ups without having to use X, why do you disagree?
Went to check if this screenshot (posted by @aric.bsky.social) was real (it is) and then made the mistake of also scrolling through Grok's replies on X. Still constantly cranking out sexualised images of young girls. Beyond bleak.
January 5, 2026 at 1:13 PM

Thought this was about the monarch for a second.
January 5, 2026 at 1:09 PM
I guess it's no surprise as to what Trump and his crazed gang are up to, though it does feel like US foreign policy with the mask off rather than anything fundamentally new. Also no surprise that a supine and weak UK (and to extent EU) are being weak and supine. Realpolitik, eh?
January 5, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
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From Manchester United to Crawley and Morecambe, it seems to be an almost universal phenomenon that rich men believe running a football club successfully will be easier than it in fact proves. What is it that someone owners learn and why do some seem never to learn?
January 5, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Ha ha
Yeah? Well my dad says Thomas Frank should be abandoned at a motorway service station.
January 5, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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@tottenhamhotspur.com Hi there! You really should start using this more and abandon X. Not sure if you've seen but there's quite a lot of concern about the way it generates sexual images of children, never mind the rest of the issues associated with the platform. It's very bad brand association.
January 5, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Stand by for Jim Ratcliffe asking the tax payer to fund Amorim's compo.
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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The commentary on this clip is worth the entire licence fee www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
The Ashes 2025-26: Jamie Smith dismissed in dismal fashion for England against Australia in fifth Test
England wicketkeeper Jamie Smith's dismissal by Australia part-timer Marnus Labuschagne is called
www.bbc.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 9:05 AM
In the spirit of positivity that @hal.thelastboyscout.uk rightly called for (it’s all too easy just to moan, guilty m’lud), some suggestions for What Tottenham™ Can Do Next.
January 5, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Only a quarter of voters thought Leeds’ team classic was MotD goal of the month. Game’s gone.
January 5, 2026 at 12:05 AM