Matthew Collette

Uhhhh I’m not sure I’m ever going to be able to present again with a straight face after reading this….

The most unsatisfying part is that Haaland has to foul back to preserve the outcome. I don’t love that but I’m not sure addressing that is worth ruling the goal out

Managed to get involved or impact the outcome in any way. It’s not that the fouls cancel out, it’s just that they didn’t impact the goal. Cherki is the one hard done by.

Wilson’s parade of horribles that he uses as reasons the call must be upheld is completely reversible. What if Man City loose the title on goal difference now? What if Liverpool don’t make the CL as they lost at Sunderland? Two players fouled each other trying to get involved in a play. Neither

You may not like the Liverpool red card, but it was the right call | Jonathan Wilson Referee Craig Pawson sent off Dominik Szoboszlai by the letter of the law; the only way it should be done

I’m not sure I agree with any of Wilson’s logic. Cherki struck a goal-bound ball. There were multiple off the ball fouls by others, which didn’t impact the outcome. Reds are for denying a team, not a specific player, a goal scoring opportunity (per the rules)

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Genuinely fair criticism here. #nufc

Search for survivors halted after Massachusetts fishing boat lost at sea One dead and six missing as body and life boat from Lily Jean found after its disappearance from Gloucester port

I started my career supporting this industry and our societal inability to reduce the risk faced by fishing crews is a decades long failure that brings only sadness and frustration, with seven more families now forever torn apart…

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The "but what would be better" question is key - I see it missed in large engineering projects where people revisit past decisions, assuming the road not taken would have been pothole-free. Howe isn't perfect, but a cup, CL knockouts - it's working. The league is different than when Man City grew...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

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This is pure, unabashed bigotry.

If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party.

But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence.

A stain on our Congress.

Us 2 months ago - our kids have never been to Newcastle, they're huge #NUFC fans, and we haven't been back in a decade. Let's go this summer!

Us today: Will US citizens be allowed into the UK by the summer - should we really spend money on tickets?

This is the stupidest timeline ever.

That explains how there are lifeboats in the water, but also still on the davits, which seemed strange...

Russia fucks up and Sweden joins NATO and their first NATO operation is a show of force in Greenland to protect it from the United States. That's a hell of a plot twist.

End of western alliance means UK must be bolder, says Chatham House director Bronwen Maddox says Trump’s rejection of international law leaves UK and Europe facing huge dilemma

A disaster of our own making. This was not widely discussed this during the campaign, I think because the majority thought this was all bluster

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Would be interesting to know if there is any uptick in injuries for the 20 minutes after these long pauses. I get the desire to get each call correct, but there is also a balance with the costs

America’s Strategic Alliance with Denmark and NATO A statement by 14 former officials in Democratic and Republican Administrations—including four NATO Ambassadors, 3 Assistant Secretaries of State for Europe, and 3 NSC Senior Directors

Joint statement by 4 former officials in Democratic and Republican Administrations—including four NATO Ambassadors, 3 Assistant Secretaries of State for Europe, and 3 NSC Senior Directors.

Excellent opening in particular.

Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:

“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.

“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”

Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.

Service door of Crans-Montana bar where 40 died in fire was locked from inside, owner says Jacques Moretti, who is in custody, told Swiss prosecutor’s office he forced door open and found people lying behind it

The DIY foam added to the ceiling is so reminiscent of The Station fire…

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Some distro A on this test - discover.dtic.mil/results/?q=A...

#tuesdaystimelesstales #innovation #carderockrocks #navyhistory #navalarchitecture #engineeringhistory | Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD) 🌊🚢 THE 100-KNOT NAVY & THE TEST THAT BROKE RECORDS 📸 Caption: Fatigue Test of Hull Structure. In the Structures Laboratory, this large test stand subjected a scale aluminum hull model to severe fatig...

This account will always be an ASEM stan account....

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Uhhh... only wish it was a new policy...

The Risks of Decarbonized and Digitalized Shipping The future commercial fleet will be harder for the Navy to use in wartime.

about a year ago www.usni.org/magazines/pr...). This space simply a mess at the moment...

Norway stands by IMO net-zero plan despite Teams call threats from US US warned Norwegian negotiators with sanctions

restart my Green Fuels updates on Substack every 2-3 months but the chaos in this space (let alone how the IMO meeting went down -e.g. www.politico.eu/article/us-a...) still needs exploring. There are a range of climate and security risks associated with this uncertainty (e.g. what I wrote...)

(and offshore wind in the US, but that is another story). My read was the majors (Maersk, CMA CGM) had invested enough that we would see continued movement to protect these investments. Now at the dawn of 2026, nothing is clear, except that another year has passed. I don't have the bandwidth to

At the end of 2024, I expected 2025 to be a year when much of the zero-carbon fuel uncertainty would be resolved for the maritime domain, and work would start on scaling up solutions (probably multiple fuels). I significantly underestimated the Trump administration's power to slow decarbonization..

Expensive organic one-way search and targeting info for those missiles?(some of which seem to have been removed?)

Has anything been published on the operational concept or design development of the USSR Kirov and Slava classes? I am trying to get materials together for student teams interested in exploring the golden battleship concept, and figure those two plus the 1990s Aresnal ship are worth exploring.

The problem of maintaining a coherent shipbuilding plan in a country with a 2-4 year political cycle remains undefeated. DDG(X) was making steady progress behind the scenes but apparently no more…if BBG-1 goes in 3 years we’ll have lost another 48 months.

Has been of little use to make sense of anything past the Balkans in the 1990s. Baston’s weaving of history and present tensions is really well done throughout. Highly recommend Borderlines.

As well. I wish I had been exposed to more of this writing in my youth. A combination of young-nation focused American history in school and a childhood marked by the fall of the USSR gave me a very limited linear view of history of the world marching towards a stable always better future, which…