Alessandro Acquistapace

This quote is giving Italian parliament shenanigans when we used to have like fourteen governments per legislature. It’s giving “Matteo Renzi ousts the prime minister from his own party just because he couldn’t wait to put his hands on the highest position”

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

We might lose TWO games to Joe Flacco in the year of our lord 2025?????

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.”

@theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister says after asking for prayers Dolly postponed her first Las Vegas residency in more than 30 years late last month, saying she was dealing with health challenges.

DON’T SCARE US LIKE THIS, FREIDA www.wsmv.com/2025/10/08/i...

costco founder jim sinegal and his wife janet

fun random thing from the first game of mariners-tigers: that was jim sinegal, costco founder and of “if you raise the price of the fucking hot dog i’ll kill you” fame, sitting front row with his family

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Fwiw here in Italy usually the game cuts away completely to ads for subs, which is worse, but also the ad literally just five second so it doesn’t miss any game action. Also I remember Latin America tvs running some very colourful and weird ads in the middle of play, but without cutting away from it

La squadra di ciclismo Israel-Premier Tech cambierà nome nel 2026

La squadra di ciclismo Israel-Premier Tech cambierà nome nel 2026

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

"A free education is incompatible with fascism. Education is likely to be one of the great battlegrounds upon which is waged an intense and desperate struggle for power."

—John Dewey and Goodwin Watson, “The Forward View”

Pretty boring to see Americans and Europeans jack off against each other over who is more fucked up politically

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

it's been repeatedly proven that giving people free money is cheaper than not doing it

Pixel Perfect: How Wendy Carlos Gave an Extra Dimension to Tron How synthesizer innovator Wendy Carlos created a combination orchestral/synth score for Disney’s big-budget adventure ‘Tron.’

With TRON ARES about to hit, here’s a bit I wrote for @crooked-marquee.bsky.social on the original TRON and it’s fabulous composer, the amazing Wendy Carlos

Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

MLS 🐐, that’s it

legitimately the most country and western thing about Zach Bryan is that he is reflexively, militantly anti-cop.

nothing more country than that.

Some context on what this might mean: last weekend Zach Bryan played the largest ticketed concert in US history, selling 112,408 seats at Michigan Stadium.

At some point fans who blame the US will have to come to terms with the fact that this development is just the natural consequence of the meritocratic pyramid system at work as it’s intended. It’s always been about haves and have nots, and those that have can get to have even more

Uefa going out of its way to disavow something it has actually approved is a real head scratcher. Reminder that Relevent, which filed the lawsuit in favour of overseas games in the US, is a Uefa partner. 😵‍💫

Here's the top U18 players (2007 born or younger)

🥇: Rayan Elloumi - Whitecaps 2: 26 points, (2.10 p96)
🥈: Stefan Chirila - FC Cincinnati 2: 24 (1.07)

Then a 3 way tie for third with 23
🥉: C. Adams - Crew II: (1.27 p96)
🥉: J. Lacher - NYCFC II: (1.03)
🥉: M. Saja - Miami II: (1.00)

A Different Approach to the MLS MVP Race What does it really mean to be MVP?

With the MLS Next Pro season officially over, it's as good a time as any to revisit the top players by MVP Points (explainer linked):

🥇: Sam Sarver - North Texas SC: 42 points, (1.81 p96)
🥈: Yu Tsukanome - Tacoma Defiance: 41 (1.74)
🥉: Jason Shokalook - Chicago Fire II: 47 (2.10)

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...