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Joined June 2009
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huge news from me and @TheM_L_G and the @DoublePivotPod we are going full-time Mike is going to be writing again(!), and we are going to make the Double Pivot and Expecting Goals a daily operation, your one stop on the internet for soccer and analytics
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There are certain litmus tests for how much football fans are blindly prepared to act as footsoldiers and cheerleaders for everything their clubs do. This is one.
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people are against AI but these are the creative minds who would otherwise be gatekept by Hollywood from sharing their art
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David Berman, man. Nothing’ll ever surpass this.
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Elon Musk found us here. We’re indigenous to this land.
Bella (@stockbella) profile pictureBella
@stockbellaOct 22
If people dislike Elon Musk so much, why do they still use the platform he owns?
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Hi Fab, have you or your PR company ever been paid by Man City or any related MCFC entity for PR advice and / or promotion of their narrative, or received benefit-in-kind gifts for tweeting / writing / promoting their version of events? Thanks in advance for your swift response
Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) profile pictureFabrizio Romano
@FabrizioRomanoOct 9
🚨 Enzo Maresca: “In my view, the right moment to speak about that is when we're going to WIN this appeal”. “I spoke with the club, for sure, and we all trust our people”.
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#MCFC’s key defence in its appeal over the Premier League guilty verdict was denied by its own title sponsor Etihad Airways in an extensive submission to the US government in 2015 With @SamWallaceTel ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/football/202…
Revealed: Damning evidence that undermines Man City’s defence

Revealed: Damning evidence that undermines Man City’s defence

Exclusive: Document submitted by Etihad Airways in 2015 directly contradicts key argument in club’s appeal

telegraph.co.uk
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@vidxn_Sep 30
NAOMI KLIEIN to SAM ALTMAN: "...you ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation and without credit to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed. You are not 'liberating human creativity' -- you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft 'training data'."
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Honestly not all that different to me than that Hobo Johnson clip that gets passed around here every other week.
Lydia Kauppi (@lydiakauppi) profile pictureLydia Kauppi
@lydiakauppiSep 29
I never scroll past this old video of the slow looks of existential horror on Ray Romano and Marc Maron’s faces as a young Bo Burnham reads them for filth
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(first day teaching at woke university) it's not my job to educate you
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the investigation ended at the 2017-18 season so i guess we'll never know what happened with city's funding after that. (from @SwissRamble)
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The evil red cartel introduced financial regulation in 2013 to protect their position and it led them going from winning 76% of titles to 23% of titles since. What a master plan
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When they interview Maresca about the charges
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The NYT confirms Haaretz's report that Benjamin Netanyahu was secretly warned before Oct. 7, 2023 by the Emirati president that Hamas planned a major attack, per 2 sources The warning was not shared with Israeli security chiefs, per 5 ex-officials nytimes.com/2026/09/25/world…
Netanyahu Is Said to Have Been Warned About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7 (Gift Article)

Netanyahu Is Said to Have Been Warned About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7 (Gift Article)

The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials...

nytimes.com
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When you’re asking foreign royals who don’t know you exist to increase your cost of living, it’s probably worth contemplating whether at some stage your football fandom might have caused your brain to fall out.
City Chief (@City_Chief) profile pictureCity Chief
@City_ChiefSep 25
Raise the price of petrol and diesel, @MansourBinZayed. Let’s see what decision they come to after that.
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Micah is an incredible, wonderful person and also a gem of a South African, an asset to all of us. This needs consular support and diplomatic pressure from @DIRCO_ZA, paging @ClaysonMonyela, @Chrispin_JPhiri
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@amaBhunganeSep 20
AmaBhungane is deeply concerned by reports that our former colleague, South African journalist Micah Reddy, and his local fixer, Kooki Mahmoud, are missing in Djibouti. Micah is a former amaBhungane journalist and a valued member of the investigative journalism community in South Africa and across the continent. We join the Committee to Protect Journalists in calling on the Djiboutian authorities to urgently clarify Micah and Kooki’s whereabouts and ensure their safety. We call for their immediate safe return. teapawt.net/cpjafrica/status/21014…
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AmaBhungane is deeply concerned by reports that our former colleague, South African journalist Micah Reddy, and his local fixer, Kooki Mahmoud, are missing in Djibouti. Micah is a former amaBhungane journalist and a valued member of the investigative journalism community in South Africa and across the continent. We join the Committee to Protect Journalists in calling on the Djiboutian authorities to urgently clarify Micah and Kooki’s whereabouts and ensure their safety. We call for their immediate safe return. teapawt.net/cpjafrica/status/21014…
CPJ Africa (@CPJAfrica) profile pictureCPJ Africa@CPJAfricaSep 19
CPJ is deeply concerned by reports that South African journalist Micah Reddy and his local fixer Kooki Mahmoud are missing in Djibouti and urges authorities to immediately clarify their whereabouts and ensure their safety.
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The behaviour your friend is experiencing is a result of people like you normalising it You should be ashamed of yourself
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Ro Edge (@rosey_nz) profile pictureRo Edge
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Jill is a woman. I went to school with her. Gender ideology trained people to treat “woman” as a look, so now a female cop gets the side-eye because she doesn’t match the approved aesthetic. It does my head in! Women shouldn’t have to pass a beauty test to be believed.
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OpenAI and Anthropic’s models are so magical and mystical and dangerous, they can do anything! They may even destroy the world! The only thing they can’t do, funny enough, is generate positive cash flow. And that’s where the US Taxpayer comes in!
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