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Guy Bailey
@guybailey.bsky.social
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Can see around corners. Was a gift, it's now a curse.

Writer, Stoic, Socialist, Dad, Gamer, Curmudgeon, Antifa, Karen.
@Boro @RedcarBears @AtlantaFalcons @F1
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Guy Bailey @guybailey.bsky.social · Jan 20
Fuck This Guy.
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jvl.bsky.social
I drink your milkshake.
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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domshawecho.bsky.social
🗣️ Chris Wilder once said that managers going into Championship jobs mid-season know they're usually going to find clubs that are 'broken' or in 'bad position'.

👔#Boro opportunity is rare. When was last time there was a vacancy as appealing as this one?
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/256129...
What Chris Wilder said is a reminder of rare Middlesbrough head coach opportunity
Analysis of the unique opportunity at the Riverside as Middlesbrough look for their next head coach
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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dreharrison.bsky.social
Bookies manager of 6 years here.
- They do not support mental health, they enable problem gamblers. “Responsible gambling” is a myth.
- They moved gambling addiction to being a healthcare problem in 2022
- Penny machines? Not the same, not even close.
- Completely agreed on Point 4.
sturdyalex.bsky.social Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 8h
You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:

1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit

◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley

◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas

...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
Houchen’s deprivation failure exposed – official
Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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dlknowles.bsky.social
John Le Carre was right about the British establishment and how the alumni of the best schools will sell out their own country for status and money and in particular a desperate desire for American attention
November 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
Clear out toys now!
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
"This entire saga has a smell hanging over it. The people of Teesside, Hartlepool and Darlington are no fools. That smell will not go away until there is a full, transparent and independent inquiry."
Teesworks scandal: a dark tale of public wealth lost and private gain
Teesworks - a story that reads like a screenplay for a dark political drama
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
Reform UK won control of Durham County Council in May, hoping to cut council tax...

...they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax.
County Durham residents fear higher bills as Reform UK plans council tax changes
Reform UK won control of Durham County Council in May, hoping to cut council tax; they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
guybailey.bsky.social
Really strong late entry on the Cock of the Year competition - www.telegraph.co.uk/money/jobs/c...

Also, the originator of the 996 concept, Jack Ma, LOOKS like someone working 9 hours a day, 6 days a week.

Before he got yeeted by the Chinese state so fat lot of good it did him.
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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scottwilsonecho.bsky.social
🔴 ICYMI: What #Boro want from their head coach search, how the process is likely to play out and the early names in the frame…

Read here…⬇️
Boro's 'preference' for head coach position revealed - with time-frame for process
Middlesbrough will take their time as they embark on the process to recruit Rob Edwards’ successor as head coach.
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
guybailey.bsky.social
Then go and listen to a week of American Radio.

You'll come back and voluntarily pay double the licence fee and we haven't even mentioned the iPlayer, the websites and the apps or your BBC Local Station. #BBCTees
itsjoels.bsky.social Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 1d
If you don’t like the BBC, I suggest that you go to America and watch their TV for a day. It gives you a migraine. The BBC also keeps the standards of the other outlets relatively high. If you think we watch shit now, imagine it with no BBC. And they actually care about drama, children’s, factual.
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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scarredforlife.bsky.social
Check out the brilliant teaser for PLAY TO DEATH, @manoghosts.bsky.social new podcast about the dark side of videogaming. The first guest is... me!

youtu.be/QCYP3ioRYFU?si=KuAImj9oSYzMmCN0
Play To Death - with Stephen Brotherstone (Scarred for Life) Podcast Teaser
YouTube video by Manoghosts
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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bestforbritain.org
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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domshawecho.bsky.social
📹🔴⚪️ 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝘼𝙍𝙀 𝙈𝙔 𝘽𝙊𝙍𝙊!

Rob Edwards, the #Boro fallout and the start of the next head coach search...

🎙️ with @scottwilsonecho.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgPz...
Rob Edwards, the Boro fallout and the start of the next head coach search
YouTube video by You Are My Boro
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November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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edzitron.com
Me, two weeks ago
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr...
As we speak, big tech is hoarding masses of GPUs, and by extension, masses of depreciating assets that will without fail lead to a massive impairment loss, which will come directly out of their earnings, and when they’ve spent tens or hundreds of billions of dollars on GPUs, these impairments will be extremely harsh, and come directly out of earnings. So, on top of spending hundreds of billions of dollars in capital expenditures, big tech is also conjuring a giant anvil above their heads. GPUs start losing value the moment you buy them, and by purchasing hundreds of billions of expensive, ever-rotting assets, big tech guarantees their revenues will take a hit sometime in the future, and likely multiple times as each generation ages. Let me put it in really simple terms, and use a hypothetical example. Ten companies bought $10bn of GPUs each to sell AI services, each requiring billions of dollars of data center infrastructure to go on top of them to make them run. As a result, one of the companies — let’s call them BallWeave — has had to take on an absolute shit ton of debt to buy them. BallWeave eventually runs into solvency issues, and has to start selling off masses of GPUs, massively reducing the market value of these GPUs by 30%. This causes the other 9 companies to have to take an immediate impairment — a $3bn haircut directly off of their balance sheet. There is no spreading it out. This is a problem, in part because $3bn is a lot of money, and in part because that’s more than the revenue being generated from AI. The impairment has an immediate negative effect on their assets, while also directly eating into their income, because this shit is almost certainly being financed. This hypothetical scenario is quite real, and it can hurt you, and will hurt any and all companies buying masses of GPUs. One last thing: Remember how I said that there are many ways to calculate depreciation over the useful lifetime of an object? Well, the depreciation rate is always the difference between the initial value of the item and its salvage value — which means how much a company can expect to make when they dispose of the item, either by reselling it or literally scrapping it for parts. So, for the sake of illustration, if a GPU costs $50,000 and has a useful life of five years, after which it has a nominal salvage value of $10,000, the amount said company could mark down as depreciation over that lifespan is $40,000. This is simply me talking out loud, but I worry that there’s no real way to accurately predict what that salvage value of an enterprise GPU will be. It’s contingent on a bunch of factors — namely, how long these cards last in real-world conditions, where they’re experiencing near-constant utilization, as well the pace and the quality of Nvidia’s future releases. It’s bad, and only compounds the fact that they’ve already created a giant, ugly, unsustainable hole on top of their earnings.
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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rufustsuperfly.bsky.social
Like asking Hannibal Lecter about vegetarian recipes
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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scottwilsonecho.bsky.social
✍️ #Boro Latest:

🔴 Preference for 'head coach' position revealed
🔴 Time-frame for process - and what this week will look like
🔴 Early names in the frame as hierarchy assess their options

Read here...⬇️
Boro's 'preference' for head coach position revealed - with time-frame for process
Middlesbrough will take their time as they embark on the process to recruit Rob Edwards’ successor as head coach.
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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jessicaelgot.bsky.social
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
guybailey.bsky.social
Happy Tenth Birthday @fallout.bethesdastudios.com 4!
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
guybailey.bsky.social
FAO #BBC - the only acceptable response
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
Robbie Gibb once suggested that reporters should reflect if they were getting more retweets from one side than the other - a braindead analysis that ignores that fair and impartial reporting of education might get more Tory retweets than say, criminal justice.
benansell.bsky.social Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1d
Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
stephenkb.bsky.social Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d
The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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ip33.bsky.social
A reminder to the next DG of the BBC that Bargain Hunt has over twice as many viewers than the Daily Mail has readers. Don't fucking forget it. #BBC
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
guybailey.bsky.social
Is it ok to celebrate the downfall of a truly terrible #BBC DG - if he resigned for the worst possible reason in the world? 🤔
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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quizzicaleyebrow.bsky.social
there you go, that's what I was trying to word. Saved me the editing.
paulbernal.bsky.social Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d
All kinds of reasons Davie should have resigned before, but one whiff of anti-right-wing scandal and off he pops.
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM