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Can I be the first ever to quip ‘one field goal point for the Tottenham Cockerels, who now lead the Magpies nothing to one’ because no one’s ever done it before, have they?

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 4h

The Hot Cross Bun of St George!!!

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 4h

For me, Clive, the equation is simple: if it’s for the benefit of the actual football, I have no problem with it.

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 4h

Perhaps. Tempted to make a gag that it would have improved the flavour.

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 6h

Yep. No one makes the argument ‘you, you weak willed liberal you, must read a far-right online mag and add your thoughts to the comments section.’ Personal choice, innit?

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 9h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 6h

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 6h

That Millie Bright like a tackle, doesn’t she? Almost as much as that loudmouth in the crowd singing ‘one man went to mow’ on his tod.

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 6h

Is this what we have come to? Did Magna Carta die in vain?

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 6h

Hah, indeed. Is this what my dad single handedly won the war for?

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 6h

With terrible timing that will inevitably result in a goal for CFC, Spurs Women are battling really hard here.

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 6h

Gawd knows. The coffee is in the cardboard wrap thing which is then fixed into the cup. It's like some hipster barrista asked AI to design a pointless new coffee cup design and this is what it came up with. So it's probably what did actually happen.

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 7h

Takeaway coffee, Hove beach style, 2025. WTAF is this monstrosity? Bring back normal cups!

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 21h

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 21h

If you’re down Brighton way… Dosa Kingdom. Yet another nosh house away from the centre that puts so-called rated places that charge double to shame: Fantastic Sri Lankan food in deepest West Hove. The mutton curry - oh my days.

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 21h

Indeed.

Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 1d

I'd drink it straight from the can.

Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 1d

There'll be more to this story than probably meets the eye but good to see people in my town won't take this normalisation or racist thuggery lying down. Good on them.

Brighton and Hove News @bhcitynews.bsky.social · 1d

Man thrown off bus after aiming racist abuse at a woman

Passengers stepped in and threw a man off a bus after he racially abused a woman. Sussex Police said: “We are appealing for witnesses to a report of racially aggravated assault on a Brighton and Hove bus in Ditchling Road, Brighton. “The incident took place on Friday 3 October at around 4.35pm. “It was reported […]

dlvr.it

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 1d

Can You Feel It (The Jacksons) 8/10
Can You Feel It (Mr Fingers) 10/10

Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 2d

Fun music game.

Take two songs with the same name and post your combined score out of 10. How high can you get?

No covers/no triples (e.g. Power of Love)

My first effort, which i think is hard to beat...

Zombie (Fela Kuti) 10/10
Zombie (The Cranberries) 7/10

Total score: 17

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 2d

This could read as Thiel's pitch for the job.

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 2d

Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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