Bill

@billwashere.bsky.social

if you’re not sure, assume sarcasm. mostly sports, mostly COYS.

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Newcastle's business is completely logical for a club in Newcastle's financial position. But man, what a kick in the nuts to lose three of your best players, if not the best, in one summer.

As someone who enjoys a very curated feed, I always get wary when I see that little 30+ blue circle on the bell. No, I am not going to engage, sorry, I am not built for this, thanks for liking my post, though. Stick around if you want to find out what a Deki is.

Another example tying together some low key discourse from the past few days: people (in general) will always opt for a lower cost over a higher quality, but they also reserve the right to complain endlessly about it.

Alex Kirshner@alexkirshner.com · 11h ago

It's fine to complain about air travel but if you're going to do it, I think you have to acknowledge the tradeoff, which is that it's not any more expensive than it was 20-30 years ago. Pretty good! slate.com/business/202...

I’ve understood our targets and buys in defense and midfield even if I don’t agree with all of them, but the attacking targets seem extremely random.

the big complaint generally revolves around schools, but the timeline there was pretty sensible: most schools were fully remote until the vaccine rollout, after which they fairly quickly moved to in-person learning.

I know that they’re rich now, but Tottenham repeatedly overpaying for “Premier League experience” is not the flex they think it is. Just chuck in the extra £10k or whatever and upgrade the scouting network to “World”

COVID policy skeptics are just making up an alternative reality to get mad at. The amount of people that seemed to have forgotten what it was actually like 6 years ago is shocking.

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that