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New Episode: Kick Israel out of FIFA

Check out the entire conversation with @leylahamed.bsky.social, Abubaker Abed, Roger Waters, @scotsport4pal.bsky.social, @shireenahmed.bsky.social, @nkalamb.bsky.social and others on why Israel must be banned from global sport.

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No dollar amount is worth more than human lives or well-being. EVER. Kicking a ball around is never ever ever ever worth more than keeping people safe. Not a backyard game, not a NWSL top of the table clash, not a World Cup final. That should be common sense.

Special Issue: Call for Proposals

We are excited to announce a new Special Issue in the Journal of Sport and Social Issues on post-qualitative inquiry!

i've spent worse Saturday afternoons, to be fair

An interesting read

Abstract When Prince Philip died on 9th April 2021 aged 99, the media coverage was extensive. Not only did the BBC dedicate wall-to-wall coverage to his passing (and received nearly 110,000 complaints from viewers for it), but social media, too, participated in what had quickly become a major media event. Social media remembrance has become an expected part of the death of a celebrity or well-known figure. However, what stood out in the Twitter activity, in particular, was not only sombre remembrance but also many instances of what can be considered bad-taste humour. Particularly prominent were comparisons of Philip to zombies, often including images of him. We explore the ways in which Twitter reactions to Prince Philip's death may highlight the monarchy as an outdated, presumably useless (yet undying) institution. The use of the zombie metaphor complicates the reading of these Tweets are merely offensive, as they are used to articulate resistance to royal power. We thus argue that the use of zombie metaphors in instances of bad taste, while considered offensive, may at the same time also offer a critique of the royal family as an institution at a particular moment in time and offer reflections on the ethics of researching controversial social media content.

Co-written with @poppywilde.bsky.social, our article is out now in @icsjournal.bsky.social. We analyse humorous bad taste Twitter reactions to the death of Prince Philip as a critique of the monarchy, and reflect on the ethics of researching controversial content on social media
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My old man attempted a doctorate in the 80s but he didn't complete. This weekend he told me the real reason - he fell under the spell of the immense Orientalism & theology library at Durham and completely got sidetracked - reading!

Totally relate to and celebrate this. Now think he's my real dad.

At a theme park because niece and nephews made me do it. I swear the inventor of theme parks are British - so much queueing.

Oh, Copilot. You never cease to give me faith in humanity.

This is why the Premier League needs an independent regulator Professor in sports business Geoff Walters tells Miguel Delaney why English football needs an independent body to save itself from a crisis of regulation

Prof Geoff Walters of University of Liverpool is one of the most authoritative voices on football admin and I spoke to him as he makes the case for the independent regulator

"the Man United example is why there’s been a need for an independent regulator

www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

Okay I did not see this coming before end of season.

Would have loved to be at Wembley but it's a work night..... as I remind myself, I must work to support my football habit

Google is tripe kosher All Images Videos Shopping Forums News Al Overview Learn more : Whether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow. Kosher meat can be ordered online, including kosher beef tripe. ~ Generative Al is experimental.

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

I'm trying to decide if this is not the Japan I saw at the WWC; or it's the Colombia and Australia WWC versions that didnt turn up.

Trying to coordinate post-Eid hols for siblings who live and work on three continents was not where I thought I'd be in 2025 - but there you go 😂

This is why I love Ian Wright, always says the things every other pundit is too cowardly to.

And answering my own question: www.linkedin.com/pulse/has-de...

in sum, nowhere near as energy efficient as google, but DeepSeek is better than ChatGPT on the energy use scale at least.

All this talk about Deep Seek vs ChatGPT - which one uses energy more efficiently and uses lest water (i.e. better environmental impact)?

Another nudge in favour of a critical employability studies

Financing Opportunity: Masters of Commerce in Finance with PhD opportunity at Monash

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Do you not just love it when:

- you want to make some paneer biryani
- you might as well order some groceries as you're ordering the paneer anyway
- the groceries arrive.. one item unavailable... it's the paneer.

Good weekend of sport coming up: AO Finals, WSL and EPL footy, me wrestling with my taxes...

How my Tamworth teammates and I were able to go toe-to-toe with Spurs – explained with science A part-time footballer and full-time university lecturer on how he and his team-mates prepared for the match of their lives.

theconversation.com/how-my-tamwo...

Can I nominatw the next Nobel whatever-is-relevant Prize to the creators of the HeatTech range at Uniqlo because bro you cooked. Thank you for keeping my tropical ass toasty this winter.

hahaah! One I was reminded of yesterday - Pete Tong.

Interesting reactions among peers and also on social
media re: Mark Parsons' appointment as ACFC's Sporting Director. Most US fans are positive and think its a coup; those from Europe have a more.. facepalm.. reaction. #Divisive

OMG that is hilarious!!!! I wonder if that's where the phrase 'it's all gone pear shaped' comes from...

Good to see that even in the 15th century, the tactic used to not make a decision was to pass the issue from one commitee to another to another....

The identity and philosophy of Colombian football: focus of the second Football with a Future seminar National-team head coaches, coaches, former national-team coaches and youth-system directors were brought together in Bogotá to debate the issue

Remember when Gianni Infantino swore that FIFA Forward was a billion dollar investment in women’s football? Please note what the Colombian Federation did with that money- this conference on the future of its football program. No woman attended.

inside.fifa.com/football-dev...

Kyle Walker’s talents deserved so much more than his crude tabloid caricature | Jonathan Liew One of the most successful full-backs of the modern era, the Manchester City veteran has been dogged by a prurient obsession with his personal life

kyle walker: one of the great modern full-backs. and yet leaves english football (probably) with a strangely contested legacy based - at least in part - on a weird, problematic tabloid obsession with his private life and his physical attributes

www.theguardian.com/football/202...