Stephen McCarthy
@stephenkmccarthy.bsky.social
Former software, data, data viz, analytics @NorwichCityFc Former Analyst and data guy @ASRomaEN E-mail: stephenkmccarthy at gmail dot com
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About This Account reveals the scale of X’s foreign troll problem
About This Account reveals the scale of X’s foreign troll problem
X’s About This Account reveals the scale of its foreign troll problem, confirming that many MAGA accounts aren’t actually American.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
About This Account reveals the scale of X’s foreign troll problem
Watched this about 200 times now. Ray Houghton losing his head on commentary is chefs kiss 😂
Troy Parrott. Echos of Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in 2002. What a moment. #COYBIG 🇮🇪
November 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Watched this about 200 times now. Ray Houghton losing his head on commentary is chefs kiss 😂
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Howard Webb claiming Robbo impacted the keeper's line of vision 🥲
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Howard Webb claiming Robbo impacted the keeper's line of vision 🥲
Football is a low scoring game. The closer you are to the line the more susceptible you are to luck being a deciding factor on the outcome of a game.
Ye olde xG per game chart w/various lightweight takes:
1. Arsenal is the blueprint here, 7 good games, 4 ~equal, 0 bad
2. Man City no bad games recently
3. stacking up the bad games: West Ham (but 2 good), Wolves (0 good) and Burnley (0 good) and curiously Bournemouth
4. No "good" Tottenham game :/
1. Arsenal is the blueprint here, 7 good games, 4 ~equal, 0 bad
2. Man City no bad games recently
3. stacking up the bad games: West Ham (but 2 good), Wolves (0 good) and Burnley (0 good) and curiously Bournemouth
4. No "good" Tottenham game :/
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Football is a low scoring game. The closer you are to the line the more susceptible you are to luck being a deciding factor on the outcome of a game.
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This is the way.
Building with a double pivot again and Liverpool all of a sudden look to be able to play football.
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is the way.
So far this is the best the press had worked all season. Having said that Villa play to invite the press so.......
November 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
So far this is the best the press had worked all season. Having said that Villa play to invite the press so.......
This is excellent...
Tony Adams was one of the great English footballers of his generation.
But what he’s done since — transforming his own life and others’ through the Sporting Chance charity he founded — is truly inspirational.
“This,” he says, “is what I was put on this earth to do”
www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
But what he’s done since — transforming his own life and others’ through the Sporting Chance charity he founded — is truly inspirational.
“This,” he says, “is what I was put on this earth to do”
www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
What happened after Tony Adams said, ‘I’m an alcoholic’ – ‘There’s more to me than drinking and football. Thank God’
It is 25 years since the former England and Arsenal captain founded the Sporting Chance Clinic, helping athletes with addiction problems
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is excellent...
None of the other <big> teams have a bunch of kids on the bench
October 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
None of the other <big> teams have a bunch of kids on the bench
Kieth Andrews is the only man in the world with 3 haircuts.
We cannot lose to a man with that haircut.
October 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Kieth Andrews is the only man in the world with 3 haircuts.
100% this. Astonished he was part of the midfield 3 tonight.
The #1 Question I had going into the season was whether Wirtz was good enough off the ball to be a 3rd midfielder in the PL.
14 games in and its an emphatic no. He can only be the 3rd forward with 3 actual mids behind him #lfc
14 games in and its an emphatic no. He can only be the 3rd forward with 3 actual mids behind him #lfc
October 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
100% this. Astonished he was part of the midfield 3 tonight.
That's an odd substitution to say the least.
October 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
That's an odd substitution to say the least.
Ekitike, Robertson and Writz have to be first choice starters. Strong case for Jones too. Having a No. 8 with who positions more defensively helps hugely with being played through. Especially with Writz roaming.
October 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Ekitike, Robertson and Writz have to be first choice starters. Strong case for Jones too. Having a No. 8 with who positions more defensively helps hugely with being played through. Especially with Writz roaming.
Could have done with spreading those goals out over the last few games.
October 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Could have done with spreading those goals out over the last few games.
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Buses, corners....... Corners, buses an all that.....
October 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Buses, corners....... Corners, buses an all that.....
The one thing baffling me is I haven't seen one thing yet that makes me think Kerkez is currently as good a player as Andy Robertson. Not saying Kerkez is not a good player by the way.
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The one thing baffling me is I haven't seen one thing yet that makes me think Kerkez is currently as good a player as Andy Robertson. Not saying Kerkez is not a good player by the way.
This is loaded with real world use questions. For example my e-share drive % is 75%. Community e-share drive is 35%. So I use the electric part of my plug in waaaay more than the average person. Put 40 euros of petrol in 5 weeks ago. Done 800km since. Still have 100km on the clock! ~85mpg so far 🤷
Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars, report finds
Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars, report finds
Analysis of 800,000 European cars found real-world pollution from plug-in hybrids nearly five times greater than lab tests
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This is loaded with real world use questions. For example my e-share drive % is 75%. Community e-share drive is 35%. So I use the electric part of my plug in waaaay more than the average person. Put 40 euros of petrol in 5 weeks ago. Done 800km since. Still have 100km on the clock! ~85mpg so far 🤷
Up there with one of the best things I've ever watched.
For anybody in the UK who didn't subscribe to Paramount+, ITVX will be streaming The Offer - a drama series about the making of The Godfather. It's excellent.
www.imdb.com/title/tt1311...
www.imdb.com/title/tt1311...
The Offer (TV Mini Series 2022) ⭐ 8.6 | Biography, Crime, Drama
1h | TV-MA
www.imdb.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Up there with one of the best things I've ever watched.
It was sensational.....
littler v price in the grand prix tonight comfortably the best thing i've seen on television all year. it's better than anything i've read or listened to. comfortably outstrips entire fields. eg: country music, ballet, sculpture. it deserves a book that would immediately be rendered unworthy of it
October 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
It was sensational.....
Must be watching a different game. Didn't think Liverpool were nearly as sloppy as some making out. Konate, yes. Keeper once. Thought Chelsea far more sloppy 🤷 look much more balanced in midfield than previous games.
October 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Must be watching a different game. Didn't think Liverpool were nearly as sloppy as some making out. Konate, yes. Keeper once. Thought Chelsea far more sloppy 🤷 look much more balanced in midfield than previous games.
Decent blue sky android app. Saves your position on your home timeline and counts unread tweets. Just like the old days of third party Twitter apps!
Skywalker - Apps on Google Play
App to explore ATProto based social media networks, e.g. Bluesky
play.google.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Decent blue sky android app. Saves your position on your home timeline and counts unread tweets. Just like the old days of third party Twitter apps!
When there's little jeopardy in these early games difficult to have any interest in any match but one involving the team you support.
October 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
When there's little jeopardy in these early games difficult to have any interest in any match but one involving the team you support.
Work rate bad. Second balls bad. Distances from opposition players bad. Konate's form a major concern. Could say Alisson, VVD, Szobo, Grav and Ekitike are the only ones with any form. Writz in the 10 isn't working. Too many spaces. Back to basics. Robbo at left back. Grav, Macca, Szobo midfield.
September 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Work rate bad. Second balls bad. Distances from opposition players bad. Konate's form a major concern. Could say Alisson, VVD, Szobo, Grav and Ekitike are the only ones with any form. Writz in the 10 isn't working. Too many spaces. Back to basics. Robbo at left back. Grav, Macca, Szobo midfield.
I don't know how and why. But I find the guardian consistently wrong when it comes to TV series and movie reviews. Read the replies 😂
Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue review – nothing has given me greater joy this year
Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue review – nothing has given me greater joy this year
Packed with Agatha Christie-meets-Lost shenanigans, this ludicrous crime drama from Anthony Horowitz is a most perfect piece of televisual trash. Treasure it!
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I don't know how and why. But I find the guardian consistently wrong when it comes to TV series and movie reviews. Read the replies 😂