Patrick Sturgis
@patricksturg.bsky.social
social science methodology, sport etc.
It was an incredibly poor performance and result. Terrible team selection, tactic and substitutions. Big call to start Hermansson which backfired. He’s under huge pressure now.
August 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It was an incredibly poor performance and result. Terrible team selection, tactic and substitutions. Big call to start Hermansson which backfired. He’s under huge pressure now.
I wouldn't see that, he blocked me.
August 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I wouldn't see that, he blocked me.
As I said, Twitter is awful, a total cesspit. Bluesky is nice but boring, liberal people agreeing with eacher other. like being a Guardian reader in the 90s, although you didn't get punishment beatings for wrongthink then.
August 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
As I said, Twitter is awful, a total cesspit. Bluesky is nice but boring, liberal people agreeing with eacher other. like being a Guardian reader in the 90s, although you didn't get punishment beatings for wrongthink then.
I'm not sure that would be very helpful if you were prosecuting these 2 people in a court of law.
August 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm not sure that would be very helpful if you were prosecuting these 2 people in a court of law.
I mean that if a bunch of left-wing liberals flee X to Bsky because X is too rightwing then follow a heuristic of "block jerks, don't feed trolls", it's a recipe for very boring ideological conformity. This is why Bluesky is boring and rapidly losing subscribers.
August 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I mean that if a bunch of left-wing liberals flee X to Bsky because X is too rightwing then follow a heuristic of "block jerks, don't feed trolls", it's a recipe for very boring ideological conformity. This is why Bluesky is boring and rapidly losing subscribers.
will have a read!
August 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
will have a read!
the big problem is when you move beyond banning what is unlawful (not itself unproblematic given many laws), how do you decide what can and can't be said? That is how you end up with Twitter banning women from saying there are only 2 sexes.
August 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
the big problem is when you move beyond banning what is unlawful (not itself unproblematic given many laws), how do you decide what can and can't be said? That is how you end up with Twitter banning women from saying there are only 2 sexes.
do you also think that banning legal speech is problematic, i.e. once the threshold moves beyond what is lawful?
August 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
do you also think that banning legal speech is problematic, i.e. once the threshold moves beyond what is lawful?
And that pressure can result in lawful speech being banned, such as women expressing gender critical beliefs on pre-Musk Twitter. Making perceived harm the threshold is therefore highly problematic for free speech in a democratic society.
August 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
And that pressure can result in lawful speech being banned, such as women expressing gender critical beliefs on pre-Musk Twitter. Making perceived harm the threshold is therefore highly problematic for free speech in a democratic society.
So who gets to decide whether these tweets, that you presumably selected as being egregious examples, are a "coded incitement to violence" or observations?
August 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
So who gets to decide whether these tweets, that you presumably selected as being egregious examples, are a "coded incitement to violence" or observations?
Not defending them obviously but it kind of does make a difference in understanding the motivation in that mindless morons boo the opposition no matter the extent of the bad taste. I've witnessed it many times.
August 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Not defending them obviously but it kind of does make a difference in understanding the motivation in that mindless morons boo the opposition no matter the extent of the bad taste. I've witnessed it many times.
It was the Palace fans
August 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It was the Palace fans
the obvious defence the people you have screenshotted would mount is that they aren't calling for terrorist violence but predicting it will happen.
August 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
the obvious defence the people you have screenshotted would mount is that they aren't calling for terrorist violence but predicting it will happen.
It's rooted in complying with the law. But practically, trans-identifying women ('trans men') aren't the problem here, no man is going to care if they use the men's toilets. Alternatively, they can use mixed-sex toilets.
August 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It's rooted in complying with the law. But practically, trans-identifying women ('trans men') aren't the problem here, no man is going to care if they use the men's toilets. Alternatively, they can use mixed-sex toilets.