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Handy site with stats and infographics here sotg.footballregulator.org.uk
IFR State of the game
English football is underpinned by contradictions. It is simultaneously the richest, best and most deeply competitive in the world but it’s also standing on the edge of a financial disaster.
sotg.footballregulator.org.uk
Richard E Grant appears to have been banished by mistake…
Every day I have a new reason to hate AI, but today’s is that they faked the work of one of my longtime collaborators.
Nieman Lab@niemanlab.org · last wk.ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiP
Sunday working (student facing stuff) along to soundtracks: So far - Koyaanisqatsi The Changes Children of the Stones Chernobyl Lined up - Arrival Rollerball Blade Runner I don't know what this says about me apart from the bliss of working in isolation in ropey times.
Trish Keenan would have been 58 today. Everyone go listen to some Broadcast.
Vidi printer vidi printer . . . Manchester City 115 (one hundred and fifteen) #mancity
Chocolate stout and a test drive for new old vintage dogtooth bags (couple with Chelsea boots and knackered Levis jacket). Its been a very long week and I may be some time.
if hundreds of uniformed and balaclava wearing non-white extremists gathered outside a police station because their leader had been arrested, it would be the lead national story
also known ‘doing an Ed Sheeran backing band’.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 3w agoRoom empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
Why do companies that make robots insist on making them look like humans?
At primary school we were all ushered into the hall for an impromptu assembly. Our unbelievably strict head teacher stood in furious silence for a good five minutes. He then said "SOMEONE has done a CRAP on the boys bathroom floor and I WANT to know WHO it was." (it wasn't me)
Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 3w agoBizarre things that happened in your assembly: A neighbour of one of the teachers gave us a five-minute lecture about kwashiorkor which involved him reciting a list of his favourite words (yes, ‘kwashiorkor’ was one of them). Included the unforgettable phrase, “Diarrhoea, another beautiful word.”
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
Academics shilling for the Gen AI industry should be fucking ashamed of themselves
No sign of him being hounded to death over his fundamental unsuitability for the position. Curious and inexplicable.
Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social · last mo.Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live which aren't The Fall or Half Man Half Biscuit Autumns The Breeders Carl Craig The Cramps Laibach Primtive Knot Public Enemy Shit & Shine Sparks William Basinski
Peter, or Pete, if you like.@dasjarg.bsky.social · last mo.Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live which aren't The Fall or Half Man Half Biscuit Toots and the Maytals James Brown Love Jimmy Cliff Kristin Hersh Bootsy Collins Daniel Johnston Bill Callahan Swans Damo Suzuki
Who signed Bombi? Who signed Bombi? Stoke signed Bombi! With obv. apols. to Ed Tudor Pole. #stokecity #bomborino
Not long after 31.08.97, I was in a record shop in Nottingham and they were playing something stupid, funny and near-sacrilegious. Asking what it was, they got a copy from literally under the counter. It was Cassetteboy's debut 7" Di + Dodi Do Die. Utterly infantile but brilliant.
10 bands you’ve seen supporting other bands: Wet Leg Chiefs of Relief Broadcast Meat Beat Manifesto Anti Pop Consortium Gallon Drunk . . . . er… that’s it.
Nick Portnell@nportnell.bsky.social · 2mo ago10 bands I've seen live supporting other bands. Tortoise Raincoats Supergrass Saint Etienne Bert Jansch Verve Megadeth Mercury Rev Crescent Liz Phair
French newspaper Liberation pays its respects to Dolly Parton.
Farewell today to the high priestess of polka dots, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026). Her work was unforgettable and for her, a means to survival. It’s playful, psychedelic, compulsive, beautiful and slightly unsettling all at once. Into infinity and beyond Yayoi! 🔴🟡⚫️
