Philippe Auclair

With renewed thanks to @lilithwittmann.bsky.social for breaching the defences of the Curacao Gaming Board/Authority and giving us the springboard for this new Alice in Nightmareland story.

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See what the Football Weekly panel have to say about the latest Manchester United crisis: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iSi... @maxrushden.bsky.social @barneyronay.bsky.social @brewin.bsky.social @philippeauclair.bsky.social

A month ago, Sir Jim Ratcliffe lectured the Prime Minister, telling him he should run Britain in the same way he runs Manchester United

Wow. Any questions for the panel? @maxrushden.bsky.social @barneyronay.bsky.social @brewin.bsky.social @philippeauclair.bsky.social 👇

The worst Manchester United performance since the last time we said "the worst Manchester United performance since the last time we said" "the worst Manchester United performance since..." ad inifinitum, on a never-ending loop.

I remember visiting that place with my parents a long time ago, and noticing that a number of visitors were in fact pilgrims (they weren't hard to spot, believe me). Razing it to the ground felt like the best option then, and still does now.

As if this week hadn't been depressing enough.

A striking passage from the "Queensland" chapter of Perkins', Gapps', Murray's and Reynolds' recently-published "The Australian Wars". "The colonisers themselves [...] had ultimately been successfully colonised by global capitalism as well".

I am not referring to the actual conversion (good luck to them all!), I am referring to the use of "to convert" as a transitive verb. You convert *to a * religion, you do not "convert religion". Please.

Am I terminally out of touch, or is "to convert religion" (God, it hurts to type that) a genuinely new monstrosity? At least outside of the USA, where I suspect it was born?

DJT and Musk should make the shortlist but, stricto sensu, Pavel "Telegram" Durov is the enabler par excellence.

And, in the thick of it, again, the noxious AI cheerleader encamped at the heart of Burnham's government, Kanishka Narayan.

"Only" detects AI content generated by NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google and kakao, but precious all the same.

Back at one of football's most poignant shrines: Johnny Warren's pub in Jemberoo, which @bonitamersiades.bsky.social first took us to three years ago.

Melbourne sunset, parts I, II and III. No filter.

3 July 2023 - two and a half months after Paul and I decide to team up and work on 777 Partners, our first piece is published in @josimarfootball.bsky.social.

Allow @pbsportswriter.bsky.social and I to raise a glass to this news. It's been a long, long road to travel for the two of us since we first turned our full attention to this man and his associates for @josimarfootball.bsky.social. But the story isn't over yet.

"They [ESPN] had posted an interactive gambling story—a primer on how to gamble on sports. I opened it and it literally made me sick to my stomach. The animations are bouncy and bright; it’s pretty much made for kids."

Fifa has paid 4 million USD in rent for its (most often empty) office in the Trump Tower. #thepeoplesgame

The world's great libraries: the Victorian State Library, Melbourne, with added Ned Kelly.

This is magnificent work by @martynziegler.bsky.social, which should disqualify Infantino from standing in the 2027 Fifa presidential election.

Eternal gratitude to @grovejoel.bsky.social, who found the video highlights of the greatest game of the year. I shan't say more.

Half a dozen handles have been added since this afternoon, so do check the Pack again if you have an interest in this delicious/infuriating pastime.

Swedish top division game today. 0-0 at half time. 5-6 at full time. From 5-1 down to getting the equalizer in the 97th. Still lost it in the 99th. Oh and it was a derby.

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

More brilliance by @brianphillips.lol.