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tim-stillman.bsky.social
Aston Villa selling their women’s team. Michelle Kang taking over as president of Lyon’s men’s team after buying their women’s team. Someone smarter than me is going to write a piece on how women’s football is subsidising cash strapped men’s football before long…
June 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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tamoorh.com
I’ve just learned that this isn’t my dad but is in fact someone surgically made to look like my dad. This is why we don’t get on; he’s always pulling this kinda shit.
tamoorh.com Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · Jun 15
Happy Father’s Day to my dad. We’ve had some rough times and didn’t always see eye to eye, but he did his best. I hope I can be as cool as him one day.
June 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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yairwallach.bsky.social
Israel is dominated by a populist coalition, which coalesced around a vision of Jewish supremacy between the river and the sea.
The US born Rabbi Meir Kahane laid the ground for this coalition. @joshualeifer.bsky.social piece on him is highly recommended.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...
Kahane’s ghost: how a long-dead extremist rabbi continues to haunt Israel’s politics
A violent fanatic and pioneer in bigotry, Meir Kahane died a political outcast 35 years ago. Today, his ideas influence the very highest levels of government
www.theguardian.com
May 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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ottocr.at
meh, it’ll do
A map of Europe shared on the /mapporn subreddit with the title “a map I found in a Texas history textbook” - it is missing several microstates such as Luxembourg, Andorra, Liechtenstein and… Poland Austria is shown as having an extensive Baltic coastline Denmark is missing a few kind of significant islands Ireland has been reunited etc
April 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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jeva.bsky.social
Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx
April 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
The NYT is obsessed not just with college campuses but with a tiny minority of elite college campuses - and because the cultural left had some power there, treated it as more of a threat than the far right using actual government power.
March 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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grubb.wtf
Welcome to the resistance, Ubisoft
stephentotilo.bsky.social Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · Mar 25
Ubisoft feeling confident over on Twitter…

(Musk notoriously reacted to AC Shadows’ reveal and its Black samurai by saying the game was proof that “DEI kills art”)
Tweet from Elon Musk: ““Sell-out” would be more accurate. Objectively, he is promoting a terrible game just for the money.” Tweet by Assassins Creed account: “Is that what the guy playing your Path of Exile 2 account told you?”
March 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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zhugeex.com
Guy who lived through the DS, Wii, Wii U, 3DS & Switch:

"Hmm, I was expecting something more powerful"
January 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
July 6, 2024 at 10:15 PM
akyrafiq.bsky.social
Finally making the jump after twelve years on Twitter.
November 13, 2024 at 9:28 PM