Dr. Matt Loten

Not to defend men, but if I kick it hard and the keeper guesses wrong, I've got a chance.

I could play 10,000 points against Serena Williams and never win one, but I feel like penalties are a different kettle of fish.

I will also use this a reminder to read the latest edition to further appease the all-important Metrics Gods.

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Upsettingly close to missing my target this month, so... Special offer til Monday: sign up for a year and get 10% off AND I'll stick two extra months on the end. I need four of you to sign up TONIGHT or @jasperjackson.bsky.social will cry himself to sleep like a little baby. IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?

As a fully paid-up subscriber I shall simply LIKE, REPOST, and COMMENT FOR MY NETWORK.

To further prove your point, I am very well aware of Sydney Sweeney and much of her output, but hadn't so much as registered in passing the existence of that romcom until reading this post!

I have unfortunately been made aware of the Sydney Sweeney Discourse against my will and can confirm I am now 10% more right wing than I was this time yesterday

Yeah, there's a decent number of people on Bluesky posting about football in general, but as a Portsmouth fan I miss the club-specific community over on Twitter.

That being said, *not* having them over here is probably best for my screen time habits...

If you are one of the many people earnestly engaging in Discourse over this sign, then I beg of you: log off Bluesky, hug a loved one, go outside and breathe in the warm July evening air.

It is true there is no midpoint between 'burrito taxi' and 'cooking a Sunday roast with all the trimmings from scratch'.

If only someone would invent, say, dried pasta that you could cook and chuck in a bowl with a few bits in 5 minutes or less.

We'll soon have all-out civil war between those who want the first order of business to be to spray paint the Foreign Office orange and those who want to glue themselves to the road outside Starmer's family home

Incredible left-wing university politics energy

This is going to be so much more '1970s left-wing university politics' than any of us could have ever imagined.

So committed to the bit they can't even name the party. There will be no leaders, no hierarchy, no applause. Infighting strictly encouraged.

The man who wields a chainsaw as a visual representation of his approach to government would not want to be mischaracterized as cutting bits of the state off

I don't know whether I'm more concerned that she says she wants to emulate Milei, or that she's so clueless she doesn't seem to have the slightest grasp on his approach to governing:

The new Dacia Duster. Starting from just £19,380.

My 'I closed Congress to avoid voting on the Epstein Files' t-shirt has a lot of people

Only 29 peers from a House of approx. 200 had seen enough of proceedings to be allowed to cast judgement!

I was listening to David Runciman's excellent podcast on the impeachment of Warren Hastings yesterday and a real 'oh yeah, the world really was a very different place' moment was when he noted that, over the seven years of the trial ONE-THIRD of the House of the Lords had died.

I would still have him in my all-time favourite Premier League XI. A beautiful footballer to watch at a time when Gerrardian blood-and-thunder was considered peak Central Midfield.

*JAPAN RULING BLOC LOSES UPPER HOUSE MAJORITY: NHK

Edginton casually spreading his bile all over social media during his Telegraph days was one of those 'oh yeah his employers just aren't even trying to hide it anymore are they' moments for me. Not even a veneer of respectability.

turns out you really can just type words and no one will stop you

Brilliant!

Will this be part of the Events podcast series? Sounds like a fascinating listen!

Linked In post from Mike Matsel, Principle Development Lead, XBox Graphics: "The XBox Graphics team is hiring folks with experience with device drivers, GPU performance, or related validation or engineering system experience. If the positions are closed and you want to apply, please message me!" And below it is an "AI" slop that reads in white on green "XBOX GRAPHICS IS HIRING" and an image of a woman in a green sweater wearing earpods typing on a computer, except the "AI" has put the screen on the back of the monitor.

The fucking head of fucking XBox Graphics used a fucking "AI" slop image to hire new engineers but couldn't tell that the fucking screen on the fucking monitor is facing backwards.

Wedding Crashers. The central premise has aged so badly, Vince Vaughn is a reactionary so-and-so, but damn, it still makes me laugh.

TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CUP

I'd apologise for getting his name wrong but he'd never see and also I don't care