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Football Supporters Europe @fanseurope.org · 5h

Game over for La Liga. The match will now be played where it belongs - in Villarreal. European football united once again to protect the future of our game. Congratulations to #Villarreal and #FCBarcelona supporters, @fasfeaficion.bsky.social, AFE, and everyone who stood up against this madness.

The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 6h

Villarreal and Barcelona’s La Liga match in Miami has been postponed, with organisers saying there is insufficient time to organise the event.

Full story from @adamcrafton.bsky.social ⤵️

Villarreal-Barcelona match in Miami postponed as organisers run out of time

In August, the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) approved the request for December's La Liga fixture in Miami,

www.nytimes.com

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 15h

Exactly how pleased were you with that "Aurions nous rêvé?"/New Rave juxtaposition?

Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 15h

He's very much in the top five of "I wouldn't want to pathologise but" candidates in the English-speaking world, I'd say. Although milhist is always going to be a crowded field.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 22h

The Epstein Memorial Ballroom is going to be quite the legacy for future presidents, isn’t it?

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 4d

Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums.

Thank you.

An Aston Villa fan.

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 3d

Well, yes - It was an attack on all English football fans. Far more than this single-team, single game ban is.

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 5d

I started getting random jours-non when I developed hay fever in my early 30s (after doing a lot of particulate-heavy city centre riding as a courier for a couple of years).

Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 5d

Hashtag fenian

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 5d

Just practicalities.

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 5d

I'm guessing that any hashtag mentioning "Irish" in English will promptly be overwhelmed by people from Chicago with one Irish great-great grandparent, and/or fans of the Notre Dame college football team.

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Tele-Piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 6d

Because I'm out at a gig tonight.

Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 6d

Chanson française or sad girl indie?

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 7d

Some changes to immigration rules today, not just increasing English language requirements, mean migrants looking to live and work in UK will have to meet far far higher standards than British nationals, while paying vast sums to be allowed to do so. That isn't a system based on "fairness". 1/

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 7d

Ah, target practice they badly needed, then.

Early enough war that they were doing the cruiser warfare thing, then? Stop, take crew off, sink.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 7d

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 7d

The shell splash seems quite a long way behind it, possibly firing at something else? Or just really bad shooting.

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 8d

The Isley Brothers medley of Ohio and Machine Gun.

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 8d

lol they're doing the thing again

Serving in the U.S. Navy was one of the greatest honors of my life.
Happy 250th Birthday to the United States Navy.

INS Godavari (F20)+INS Brahmaputra (F31)+INS Beas (F39).jpg

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 9d

BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country

BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 10d

A smooth criminal, though.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 10d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 10d

That will be it.

Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 11d

I stopped expecting things to make sense a while back. (For a fair chunk of those three decades, the charts have been pretty easy for record companies to manipulate, though).

Still trying to figure out the 15th Beatles album without looking it up.

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Roger Hughes @albertherring.bsky.social · 11d

Williams' solo career has been going for 30 years, the Beatles recording career was 8 years, so you can scale it to that.

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