mark thompson

So, how many of the last Ballon d'Or winners has Harry Kane taken more goal-kicks than, combined

See, the Falcons (2-4) taking down the 49ers (6-0), that's the W/L sweet-spot you want to be in

Per Fotmob, Bournemouth's two 'gift goals' add up to about 1.1xG of their 2.2xG, which still leaves them enough left over to have out-created United. Away from home, with less possession, and leading much of the match

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[idly checks the WSL score] oh, hello?

But also, nothing is more 'oh, *that* is how this should go' than writing a talk

The BBC have started posting clips of Traitors on Instagram *ahead* of the night's episode (clips of the upcoming episode) and I am not here for it

You can take this energy to other platforms too and block those interview/podcast/TV clipper accounts on Reels etc

twitter is a lost cause obviously because it's a septic tank but i am begging the good people of bluesky to discern original work from empty aggregation accounts and spend your attention and time on the former, not the latter

I wish more journalists and influential outlets could divorce themselves from the narrative of "undercover tourism of weirdo internet trend" and insted focus on how these trends are vehicles for diagonalism.

Is there a way to turn off seeing peoples' threaded replies in your feed? E.g. person you follow posts, person B replies, person you follow replies to that a couple times

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Reminder the deadline is end of the day tomorrow!

El Capitan is what they predict the end of season league table on, btw

PSG-Barcelona is a high-class, high-energy game, I'll just leave it at that

@tifofootball.bsky.social used to call Allan Saint-Maximin and Adama Traore as 'dribbly-boys'. They went away a few years ago, but with a modern implementation of the W-M formation, they are back and better than ever!

ah. meepmeepball seems to have resulted in two injuries in 25 minutes

We are absolutely going to (eventually) develop a taste for VisSlop. In the meantime...

I at this point am like 90% convinced that reusable/shareable skills packages are a bad thing for LLM users. The 10% is that it can show you what's possible; the 90% is that people want to be incurious and just slap something in the only person who can effectively guide your tasks is you

In a long-running problem with The Athletic app's landing screen, I don't love Svitolina and Monfils' divorce being the number 1 story on my homepage

The invincible airplane

"Oh look at that, look at that. Would you look at that" is perfect commentary for this

Brighton saw you all complaining about xG and decided to skew the shot distance averages

Sorry, we've gotta turn this game off and turn it back on again, something's wrong

'Chelsea had two shots from the 26th minute to half-time' seems like a lifetime ago