@michaelcaley.bsky.social
I write the Expecting Goals newsletter (expectinggoals.com) and I'm gonna try to bring soccer analytics to bluesky. Let's see if it works. He/him.
Virgil van Dijk's goal from a Mohamed Salah corner clinched an important 1-0 win for Liverpool against Sunderland on Wednesday; Arne Slot talked up their improvement from set-pieces but what's it down to? Inswingers and the "meat wall" have been key
we are making Meat Wall happen y'all www.skysports.com/football/new...
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Peter β’ @notalawyer.bsky.social β’ 2h a seafood aversion is also outrageous Larry Juana @dylpickles626.bsky.so... I know one person with a legitimate reason to have a seafood aversion (He was duct taped to a chair and force fed anchovies until he threw up as a child) but for everyone else it's fucking bogus. 6:22 PM β’ Feb 12, 2026
POV youβre riffing on bluesky
13.02.2026 02:06 β π 2414 π 131 π¬ 81 π 24the sprint is gonna start in a few minutes here
check out this quick overview and when it's over you can listen to the whole @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social episode with the Penalty Loop guys and learn how to watch biathlon like an expert open.spotify.com/episode/1Jj6...
the power of Ailes era Fox News as a propaganda organ arose at least as much from what they didn't say as what they did say
when things were happening that made people want to vote for Dems, Ailes wouldn't have his channel try to convince people otherwise, he'd desperately look for another story
broadly my opinion is that if left-libs in media and academia want to take influencing mass opinion more seriously, they need to pay more attention to what's *popular*
simply putting a left-lib spin on things doesn't move opinion if lots of the left-lib things you say are unpopular
Steven Mnuchin, the social democratic hero of the super dole?
13.02.2026 12:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0nostalgic for steve mnuchin, the CEO of Exxon, and "some guy he knows from the golf club named like Jeff Tobacco"
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Current state of things: One Fox News host casually declares that Epsteinβs money comes from βJewish billionairesβ and a βJewish banking family,β another responds that he was a βsex rabbi.β www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...
13.02.2026 12:25 β π 507 π 188 π¬ 52 π 43it's very funny how SBF could have filled the hole in the FTX books a hundred times over with their Anthropic investment if the timeline had been slightly different
12.02.2026 22:48 β π 30 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0zero. i am a growd up
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Regardless of what he said, my question is why the FUCK there was a man behind Hot Girls for Zohran
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/n...
A tweet from Anthropic saying "We've raised $30B in funding at a $380B post-money valuation. This investment will help us deepen our research, continue to invest in products, and ensure we have the resources to power our infrastructure expansions as we make Claude available everywhere our customers are" followed by Elon Musk saying "Your AI hates Whites & Asians, especially Chinese, heterosexuals and men. This is misanthropic and evil. Fix it. Frankly, I donβt think there is anything you can do to escape the inevitable irony of Anthropic ending up being Misanthropic. You were doomed to this fate when you chose your name. The Name of the Wind."
real, "sir, this is a Wendy's" moment here
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hell yeah baby premier league football we've got two innovators doing innovations at each other
12.02.2026 20:39 β π 52 π 7 π¬ 3 π 0this is kind of a fun take on "traditional field is not very good at moving votes" -- that traditional field is also relatively scalable with enough money so is it so bad it's not so helpful?
and likewise the problems in scaling relational point to it being harder to buy
Had so much fun doing this.
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for @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social subscribers we did also cover, yknow, the big football news
Thomas Frank sacked by Spurs, where did this go wrong, how much was this all baked in to much larger dysfunctions at Tottenham, and what will it take to dig the club out? www.patreon.com/posts/frank-...
big new @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social on Biathlon!
it's my favorite winter games sport and we found the perfect guests, RJ and Jordan from the @penaltyloop.bsky.social podcast to get us the expert's view of the sport
cannot wait for tomorrow's race, I'm ready www.buzzsprout.com/819853/episo...
right at that horrible intersection of so awful and so predictable www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Shameful, dumb and self-defeating by @washingtonpost.com
They consciously gave up one of their very best in @ishaantharoor.bsky.social
This episode has been a nightmare for my city and state, but I hope people realize itβs also a profound defeat and political catastrophe for Trump and DHS, who are slinking away having accomplished nothing. Minneapolis simply wouldnβt bend to them and they lost
12.02.2026 15:09 β π 4131 π 838 π¬ 192 π 49It's corny as hell but the solution to fascism is loving thy neighbor
12.02.2026 16:32 β π 1581 π 288 π¬ 21 π 18oh yeah relational organizing absolutely has those kinds of effects
12.02.2026 16:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0yes. it's yet another way I am narrow-casting.
12.02.2026 16:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0WE HAVE AN OLYMPIC SCORING SCANDAL! I REPEAT, A SCORING SCANDAL!
We have never been more back
"Cizeron made several mistakes, including a glaring one during his twizzle sequence, while Chock and Bates were nearly perfect. Yet the French judge favored the French skaters by nearly eight points..., while five of the nine judges favored the American team." -- apnews.com/article/mila...
12.02.2026 16:10 β π 68 π 13 π¬ 8 π 0yeah lol agreed
I will say that I feel good that LLMs still more or less suck ass at writing words that anyone would ever pay to read so at least that part is mine in the same way more or less
the way I saw someone put it is that LLMs can make you into a manager, which is a big change, but a manager still needs to understand the systems at a pretty granular level, even if they're not making every on the ground decision, in order to make sure the project ends up where it needs to go
12.02.2026 16:01 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1there should be some kind of coupon or code word that's good for like 3 free cans of soup that you only find out about at the end of the nightly news
12.02.2026 15:41 β π 709 π 44 π¬ 15 π 1Rand Paul knows better than most politicians what happens when you go too far
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