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"Liverpool captain Grace Fisk has reduced England's already depleted defensive options for their final friendly match of the year against Ghana by injuring her calf in training. "

Obvs I hope for a swift recovery, but something absolutely sends me about the opening paragraph of this article accidentally implying that Grace Fisk got injured on purpose to leave Sarina short at centre-back. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

(granted, I went to Manchester at a point where the path on one side of the road near where I was staying was blocked for some works or another, and the other side had an active building site on it, but even on the other side of the city I had issues)

See, "oppressive and difficult to navigate" was my experience of Manchester when I went - I didn't really experience it as much in Birmingham (like, I didn't go there super often when I was at uni, but I don't recall ever getting lost like I did in Manchester).

tbqh microsoft excel would save the imperium

Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.

Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions

... y'know, it kind of makes sense that the US doesn't have that type of sausage roll, but also wow this was still a surprise to read.
(...god, now I fancy a Gregg's vegan 'sausage' roll)

(Like, Blanchard getting the only yellow card there is wild - Cain and Tierney probably should've got yellows too (and Palace #15. And Blanchard maybe two yellows at once?) - but my god the attempts at defence are embarrassing)

What, no, clearly Olivia McLoughlin (the Leicester player already on the floor) deliberately tripped her up somehow, with her back and/or head.[/s]
(Also, RLJ was just protecting a teammate(???), and shoving is far more rare and serious than wrestling takedowns, which happen all the time)

(bonus tag for @charlieparkes.bsky.social, since it's rare _good_ news regarding a potential LCFCW injury)

Further update: I think this was indeed someone just making stuff up: her appearance is very brief, but she is in a [ngl, kinda terrible?] training video the Welsh FA posted from the camp in Spain (that is: Not Leicester). (on [sigh] X, embedded here: faw.cymru/match/korea-...)

Sorry, no, Motability was not about 'helping the most vulnerable' - it was about providing people who need modified vehicles modified vehicles!

Isn't it already fairly limited? (Like, you have to have grounds for appeal in the first place! Unless it's now to have another layer of permission to appeal gatekeeping?)

... I was about to be incredulous but no I can actually believe that (like, my Primary school first got an IT suite while I was there (Year 4 or 5, so circa XP's release) and I can see people my age just having not used a computer until Year 7, which just hits the Vista release)

Oh, _that's_ why I vaguely recognise him! (also, tbh, I can conceive of people younger than us (...and thus also Will from the Inbetweeners) drawing that conclusion from the toy-specific catalogues of their own childhood? Which is, uh, really on Argos but anyway...)

A statement from @FAspokesperson stating that "A Claim of Clearly Insufficient Punishment has been submitted against... Ruesha Littlejohn..." for the incident that led to her being sent off for violent conduct. Via the Nitter front-end for X.

Well, I can't say that this is a big surprise...
(actually, I guess it is a little bit of a surprise that it's being posted about now, but I guess it is a high profile case)

Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody' after school racism claims

Carefully qualifying my "I've never racially abused people" claim, in a totally normal and non-suspicious manner.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The standard timetable for Fast Track 6 [where the FA considers that the standard ban is "Clearly Insufficient"] says the relevant commission meeting is on Friday (claim issued by 1pm tomorrow, response by Thurs, meeting then)? So I'd guess around then?

(also, like, I guess I should add that regardless of how injured or not Hannah Cain was, there's got to be an extended ban there my god)

Correction: Cain possibly was injured - there's a few people saying that people are saying she's been seen around Leicester (that is: Not Spain, given where Wales's camp is for this International Break) in a neck brace? (though, to be clear: I've only seen reports of reports of reports)

Has... has anything like this happened in professional football before?

I mean, fights, obviously, but a straight-up "oh man you have watched too much WWE" move?

(also, important context: Cain played the rest of the game, so presumably wasn't [seriously, or even moderately] injured)

Yeah, uh, I'm beginning to think that maybe holding a 'home' game in Nottingham was a mistake...

(... actually, thinking of it, I can't rule out it genuinely being down to a mistake somewhere; it seemed weird for the venue to only be announced [checks] 10 days in advance)

Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

(... that's not a joke; I've definitely seen polls where literally no Reform voters trusted him, though I can't rule out his actual subgroup approval nowadays being 1% or something)

Well, you see, the way you defeat Reform is by making sure you point out how they are right about everything, and saying that they have ever been wrong ever will only further alienate people signalling intent to vote Reform.

[... who _universally_ hate Starmer. He polls 0% approval with them]

If I were a bowler, I would simply not be offering shoulder-height balls to the guy who keeps hitting them back for boundaries. (... admittedly, if I could keep the ball within the crease at all, it'd be reliably low, slow, balls but hey) #TheAshes

Man, RIP to the people over here who got up at silly o'clock to watch the whole of this day. (I'm assuming watching England's less than stellar 2nd inning score was also Like This)

#TheAshes

I will not engage on BMA strikes I will not engage on the BMA strikes I will not engage on the BMA strikes I do very much value my clean record of not being put in the suspension corner for 72h I will not engage on the BMA strikes.

I mean, that isn't the argument they make (in public). It's the same as last time except now the headline figures don't seem ridiculously low.
(I mean, it's because they know they don't have to, there's a critical mass and they have "people will literally die" as emotional blackmail, but)

I mean, I don't know why, but on some level I did assume this government was above actively namedropping the far-right term for the HSC visa in the HoC?

The "Man Who Thought He'd Lost All Hope Loses Last Additional Bit Of Hope He Didn't Even Know He Still Had" Onion headline

Looking into what this government is doing every day like: