Ben Meakin

Happy Halloween to rememberers everywhere. To celebrate, we have enlisted the help of
@bladespod
creator Ben Meakin to uncover the chilling hype, mysterious marketing, and enduring legacy of The Blair Witch Project.

Give it a listen, if you DARE!

It's me! 🎃

Game 16: Hallam 2-3 Stocksbridge Park Steels, Sandygate, Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup. Not a game high on entertainment despite the five goals. Stocksbridge deserved winners, a late penalty for Hallam giving a flicker of interest but ultimately the team from the league above going through.

Ta, imagine @harveyhinkler.bsky.social might be too 👋

I hope their official response was indeed "oops 🥹👉👈"

Oops! Seem to recall LCL doing something similar last season

Oh yeah they're largely a bunch of idiots, I thought this was something Wilder would be ideal to remedy but look at how last season ended

Performances are definitely trending in the right direction, it's just a meh midtable direction ourselves rather than anything to be more than mildly interested in

I've actually come out of the Preston game more confident that we'll be ok (chances! Goals!) - as always there's a LOT of meh in the championship. Don't think it'll be comfortable though

Squad photo

We should move the clocks back more often

I'm all in

Fox broadcast: we aren’t going to show you this awful injury
Red Zone: hey kid, wanna see a dead body?

Well, I now feel like neither Sheffield United men or women are likely to get relegated this season, so we're in a good place

The kind of thing that happens when you need to get to 30%...

Taking This Way Too Seriously: stuff like this just doesn't help the women's game at all does it. Like when you see a woso account tweet "INSANE goal by whoever 🔥🔥🔥" and it's like a completely standard shot that the GK probably should've saved. Think, people!

Wait, what?! I'm assuming that was the culmination of a longer team move but incredible that the people running the WSL YouTube channel thought it was ok to just show the finish if so...

The timing of this new profit margin target certainly lines up with the $69 billion Activision purchase, but it also lines up with Microsoft's pivot to generative AI, in which the company has invested many billions of dollars

Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins Management’s goal of 30% profit margins for gaming has led to job losses, canceled projects

SCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average.

This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything.

Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Album cover for Frances the Mute by The Mars Volta

Listening to Frances the Mute in 2005: mmm not really my thing

Listening to it now: holy shit

As an outsider to this it seems really harsh based on what she's achieved, but also not surprising given the push for the WSL and how that's likely to have raised expectations massively in the short term

@amydevlin.bsky.social

At the 12 second mark, that camera operator called an audible and just said "fuck it, the lane is clear, no tripping hazards, I'm winning a Sports Emmy for cinematography right now"

English person here, these are pretty nice! As to why we have shrimp-shaped strawberry-flavoured confectionery I've no idea

🤩🤩🤩

I've been hesitant to get on the Drake Maye bandwagon after previously thinking Mac Jones was pretty good for a while there, but hoy, this kid is REAL good

Superb!

@amydevlin.bsky.social Amy Andrews on target vs Sunderland ;)

Come on you Blades