Dan

@forzacaledonia.bsky.social

Celtic FC. Disillusioned turf accountant. Independence is normal. “Engaging on the vicissitudes of Sheffield Wednesday.”

What’s that, Dale? You want to give me an unconditional personal gift of £5million to do whatever I want with? Sure! I just need to fill out a form. If I didn’t declare it that would be silly.

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Do Cape Verde not realise they could have just turned in three utterly joyless group stage performances, gone home a week ago, and then have their fans be repeatedly told that simply getting to the tournament is what matters

Don’t engage with this stuff. Nobody connected with their show reads a single comment, but every comment telling them to fuck off boosts their engagement stats, incentivising them to spout more and more shite to get a reaction, drowning out reasonable voices and making us all a bit more stupid

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Today Senegal’s football team was searched on the tarmac on arrival. Iran’s team can’t stay in the US or have their manager. A Somalian referee is denied entry. An Iraqi striker was questioned for 7 hours. If you can’t do the job of “hosting”, the World Cup should not be awarded to you. Shameful 🤦🏻‍♂️

Remember that on the first day of the attacks by the US and Israel against Iran, they bombed an elementary school and killed more than 150 schoolgirls. The average age of the children killed was only 8.

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Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

BROOKE GLADSTONE:
The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter -
PAUL McMULLAN:
Oh, yeah -
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- which is one case that you truly do regret.
PAUL McMULLAN:
I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station.
Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.BROOKE GLADSTONE:
And you offered her 50 pounds -
PAUL MCMULLAN:
Yeah.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for.
PAUL McMULLAN:
No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.BROOKE GLADSTONE:
So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless?
PAUL McMULLAN:
I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I?
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself.
PAUL McMULLAN:
Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.

Ratcliffe again providing a reminder that the real group that doesn’t integrate and doesn’t live up to ‘British values’ like tolerance and honesty’ are the billionaires.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

Mark Agee@markagee.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

31st January. The celtic regime has not spent a PENNY on transfers. Green brigade banned. Fan media banned. Interim chairman. Interim manager. Incompetent CEO. Third in the league. A failed organisation. Time for change.