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#AVFC Transfer Talk - Media Watch Week 12(?) Wild outgoings, wild incomings, the vast majority of them coming out of the blue, with no ITK speaking about them. 145 players linked now. I will run the final pass when window closes. Bullshit merchants, that is what our sports media are. 🐮💩
#AVFC Transfer Talk - Week 11 Things are hotting up again after that mid-summer reset. Fleet St and its analogues are busy spinning tales of interest. Villa are either dead, in crisis, or plotting stunning moves. Take your pick. The total names linked now sits at an impressive 140
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#AVFC Paper Talk - Week 11 The window begins to close, there is panic in the streets of Aston, and our great British press stand ready to fuel that fire. Late bids for key players incoming - etc etc ... 129 players coming to Villa now apparently. Just over two weeks left to hit the 150 😂
#AVFC Transfer Talk - Media watch - Week 10 The list grows ever longer. The window's close comes into sight, and the press begin to ramp up their story creation to fit. 124 players linked to Villa in more than one major story. 12.4 players a week would outdo Chelsea if there was any truth here 😂
I am embarking on a Grand Tour of the delights of Stourbridge tomorrow. I am sad to say my online plea for recommendations for the best cheese and onion cobs on offer in that shady dell have brought forth zero suggestions. So either Stourbridge is a cultural desert ... Or I mix in the wrong circles?
It's that time of the week #AVFC Transfer Talk watchers. We are now signing 115 players ... And still have a month to go! 😂
One of the greatest ironies of modern times will be that the anti-immigration far-right, by also denying climate-change for so long, will bring about the largest mass migration in the history of our species by making large parts of our planet uninhabitable. #NetZero
"Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity." Carl Sagan
Tonight in Harborne from about 9.30 if you want to come and say hello.
Matt Burton@mattburton72.bsky.social · 3mo agoBtw if anyone’s in Harborne on Saturday then I’m depping with my old band 7th Son at the White Horse. Come along and heckle!!! www.7th-son.co.uk
Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...
Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.
cnbc.com
** Week 8 of #AVFC Media Transfer Talk 👀 ** For all the heat there has not been much light. Who saw Manzambi coming ahead of the deal leaking? Gomes? Garnacho? Still, the bullshit factory has pages to fill with fresh manure and fresh names to link to aid that activity 😂 UTV
If anyone would like to see a short video of a baby Armadillo having a drink of milk, this is your lucky day.
Well. This won't go down well. I've just watched Mr Burnham's speech. What a load of bollocks. He was agitating and plotting for years. What on earth was 'unstable' about the UK that it needed St Andy to step in? Is the executive order to 'end rough sleeping' really the first item on the agenda?
#AVFC Transfer Media Watch - Week 07 We hit 99 links this week 👀 Wild how few stories were about Manzambi or Gomes before the story broke though 😂 Sports media exposed for what it is mainly 🐂💩
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." -Albert Einstein
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"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~ Plato
#AVFC Transfer Talk - Week 06 The list grows ever longer as the scribes scrabble for our attention and clicks. I think we may pass the 100 mark on 'reported' links this week. Such busy little bees In 4 parts or it won't work 😂
A friend of mine found these three kittens behind a Bay Area gas station. They are tame, vaccinated, and incredibly affectionate. Unfortunately, she's unable to keep them and I'm trying to find them a home. They are at risk of going to a shelter. Bay Area people, are you open to adopting?
The Trump MAGA agenda has devastated medical research in the US. He & his willing cronies have gone after science & research in a big way, which I find odd as it was those things that actually made America great. I guess if you don't understand it, its woke ... www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
nature.com
The story of Modou Keba Cisse: How #AVFC beat the City Group to sign him, winning the Austrian league last season, his upbringing, training with Emery between Dec 16-22 last year and his very "focused, serious" personality: Free to read @theathleticfc.bsky.social
Modou Keba Cisse is Aston Villa’s new pre-season arrival — but will he be part of Unai Emery’s plans? (Gift Article)
Modou Keba Cisse returns to Villa after a season away and now has an opportunity to become part of Emery's setup
nytimes.com
FIFA using their opaque 'code' to make things up as they go along is pure FIFA. As an organisation, it needs binning.
