Peter G
@dwyfor16.bsky.social
Welshman in Berlin. Statistical programmer. Rugby Please forgive my posts, I've busted whatever part of my brain that allows me to not quote the Simpsons all the time I won't be any less annoying on here https://pgdatavizandstats.netlify.app
Yes please
Matador Records@matadorrecords.bsky.social · 5h agonew from This Is Lorelei -"Oh No Now My" video directed by Julia Fernandez full clip : youtu.be/bn7wmxAOTn8 From 'The Singer In My Band', out September 11 stream/DL "Oh No Now My": thisislorelei.mat-r.co/ohnonowmy presave/preorder 'The Singer In My Band': thisislorelei.mat-r.co/thesingerinm...
Me 🤝 My Daughter Finding it an outrage that, in order to visit the zoo, you have to wear clothes
"£30k and a pair of roller blades"
RFU expects £10m loss off the back of England’s worst Six Nations campaign
The failures contributed to the loss in the financial year ending June 2026, but the RFU insisted the union ‘continued to perform in line with our plans’
theguardian.com
Peter G@dwyfor16.bsky.social · yesterday"Given the state of Rugby Union finances, the best we can do is £50k and a parking space"
This was already done in 2006
Taff Wars Episode 3 Rhondda Bar Video The World of Star Wars
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Empire Magazine@empiremagazine.bsky.social · yesterdayStar Wars is officially getting a Welsh-language dub this Christmas, with Matthew Rhys, Rhys Ifans, and more lending their voices to a galaxy far, far away. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies...
"Given the state of Rugby Union finances, the best we can do is £50k and a parking space"
Henry Pollock: Northampton star set to demand £1m-a-year to stay with Saints
Henry Pollock is set to demand a substantial increase on his current Northampton contract to stay at Franklin's Gardens, with agent Eddie Hearn suggesting annual earnings of £1m are his going rate.
bbc.co.uk
Didn't think those types of meetings could be any worse TBF, I stand corrected
Glaxton T. FireTheWholeDamnBullpenWolf@8stringandsushi.bsky.social · 2d agoThis war is now a Teams meeting.
Doesn't look any less crap when you see it laid out like this does it?
Everyone is forgetting why we're on Bluesky in the first place
Neil Pferd@dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 3d agoDespite following neither, I've been subjected to posts from two "Big Accounts"™️ on here raking over Covid. Neither offering much nuance, let alone actual debate. Reaffirms why I don't follow Big Accounts. Social media is pointless as anything other than an interpersonal exchange between peers.
Phil Vickery came into @observeruk.bsky.social recently to be part of an upcoming #SlowNewscast episode. It was extraordinarily moving. We discussed his fears for his future living with probable CTE, his great mate Steve Thompson, and why he would do it all again. observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
‘I’ll find out how to kill myself so you can use my brain...
Phil Vickery lifted the Rugby World Cup in 2003 as part of England’s greatest men’s rugby team. Now he lives in fear and confusion for his future
observer.co.uk
I disagree. Genius move this by the WRU. Allowing middle-aged Male spectators to go direct from the Stadium to the Club without having to change. Pair that with some Jeans and Sheux 👌👌
James Brown@jimbobrown1850.bsky.social · 4d agoI feel like the WRU are experimenting on us. Just push us to see how much we can take
On the one hand. It's great that everyone gets a day off from relentless consumerism. On the other hand having to cram in the weekly food shop, any DIY (not between 12-3) cleaning, clothes washing, other shopping (clothes etc.) and everything else into one day means Saturdays are just too insane.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 5d agoBeating Berlin’s Sunday blues ft.trib.al/e1Xxw35 | opinion
Update: Over half of the 50,000 people who crossed into Ceuta have voluntarily returned to Morocco, according to the Spanish Interior Minister. The death toll is now at 41.
Jorge Liboreiro@jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 5d agoJust in: Over 49,000 people have crossed from Morocco into Ceuta in the last 24 hours, according to estimates from the Spanish Interior Minister. For comparison: - 2021 crisis: over 10,000 crossings - Ceuta population: 83,600 people
Welsh rugby fans: "Mum can we have Adidas Rugby Stash?" Welsh rugby fans Mums "No we have Rugby Stash at home" The Rugby Stash at home:
Not too mention the methodological reasoning by fMRI was considered flawed when I was at uni. And the evidence ain't got that much stronger since, so can we dispense with this modern equivalent of phrenology? www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex - Nature Neuroscience
Using quantitative brain imaging, the authors show opposite fMRI BOLD signal to metabolic activity due to variable oxygen extraction across the human cortex. This questions the canonical interpretatio...
nature.com
Eiko Fried@eikofried.bsky.social · 6d agoProminent researchers in my field spent over 2 decades telling big stories about the relation between brain & mental health with very little robust data. This has led to really crazy stuff like this, impossible if we had not normalized this bizarre storytelling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
"We've had one Kiwi coach who only really coached white ball cricket try and coach the English Test Team that went badly yes, but what about a second one?"
Cricinfo@cricinfo.com · 6d agoBREAKING: Stephen Fleming has been confirmed as England's next Test head coach, replacing Brendon McCullum Fleming will take charge after the upcoming series against Pakistan, which will be overseen by interim head coach Marcus Trescothick 🏴
The one/two hours I get of an evening and after a shit day in work and everything else is sorted is not to be spent getting ruined by a boss that cheeses a death through bad game design or because you've not read half a novel in guides. I'm glad people find them fun. But I don't understand it
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 7d agoLuke: "I'm just not into Souls games, I'm being tested enough as it is" aftermath.site/i-hate-souls-g...
Nice bit of a morale boosting headline before pre-season of a World Cup year
Rhys Knott@wrhys-writes.bsky.social · last wk.But nobody would be surprised if they changed their minds over the course of the next 12 months
