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Danny @dafrankland.bsky.social · 4h

I'm confused. I thought Americans uniformly had a higher level of customer service and business acumen which would mean things like this never happen...

A tweet by Peter Della Penna saying "Under the failed leadership of board chair Venu Pisike & CEO Johnathan Atkeison, USA Cricket has bled out more than 5,600 members since 2023. That includes 55 out of 116 (47%) former member leagues from 2023 who have completely abandoned USA Cricket in 2025. Shame on USA Cricket".

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Sinister Golden Bear 🎃 @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social · 2d

Techbros: Dead women can't say no

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

October 10, 2025

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 2d

A young trans girl DIED by her own hand, in part over feelings of desperation that trans healthcare was unobtainable.

And Graham Linehan wrote THIS!!! 😤🤬

Save this and post it in response to journalists writing “trans people ruined my marriage” articles about him in the future!!!

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 2d

And favourite.

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 2d

I'd love to be proved wrong but I wouldn't put money on any of this happening including the August 2026 launch.

Tristan Lavalette @trislavalette.bsky.social · 2d

T20 franchises in Paris, Berlin, Barcelona and Rome? This could be a reality as per the longer-term plans for the European T20 Premier League.

The long-proposed league, backed by Netherlands, Ireland & Scotland, is finally set to launch in August 2026

www.forbes.com/sites/trista...

A T20 League Set For 2026 Is Hoped To Fuel Cricket’s Rise In Europe

Iconic cities such as Paris, Berlin and Barcelona could emerge on the cricket landscape as the European T20 Premier League takes shape.

www.forbes.com

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 2d

Hard agree.

Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 2d

The Waterboys version of Purple Rain. youtu.be/KMsTWIrcHR8?...

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 2d

I once misspelled "Public Services" as "Pubic Services" five times (once accidentally, the others on purpose for a giggle) in a two page report to senior management and not a single one of them noticed.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 2d

In three different companies, I had to submit reports to the board on a monthly basis. I started putting in a line that said "if you read this, call me and I'll give you £XX". I started at £10, and went up by £10 per month. Nobody ever called, nobody ever mentioned it.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 2d

Found on Facebook.

Screenshot of a post from some social media site (not sure which) from a user named "salt_bear". Text reads "I put a fried egg on my Croque Monsieur to make it a Croque Madame, and now JK Rowling is outside my house shouting at me."

An accompanying image shows a Croque Monsieur with a fried egg on top".

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 3d

(Some notes to this one - East Asia here is as the ICC defines it so doesn't include the multitude of defeats against Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. PNG did lose three times to Vanuatu during the 2015 Pacific Games but were fielding a second XI and the men's tournament wasn't ICC sanctioned)

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 3d

Similarly, Papua New Guinea's loss against Samoa the other day is only the second time they've lost to another associate in the East Asia Pacific region in an official match, the last coming against Fiji in 2001.

Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 3d

South Africa's loss to Namibia yesterday was only the third time they've lost to another African side. Previous occurrences were both against Zimbabwe, one during the 1999 World Cup and one the following year in an ODI tri-series.

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 3d

Felt it was important context!

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 3d

(And given that those defeats were in the midst of Hansie Cronje's involvement in fixing, this is possibly their first legit loss to an African side)

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 3d

South Africa's loss to Namibia yesterday was only the third time they've lost to another African side. Previous occurrences were both against Zimbabwe, one during the 1999 World Cup and one the following year in an ODI tri-series.

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 3d

That was the general impression. And also shows what they think of the audience tuning in. No sport insults its audience quite like cricket.

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Hypocaust @hypocaust.bsky.social · 4d

Not sure it's appropriate for commentators to be giving endorsements (or otherwise) of domestic politicians on World Cup broadcasts.

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 4d

Watching India v West Indies on TNT Sports. Commentators poking fun at Ian Bishop for watching lots of cricket is very revealing.

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 4d

That was an easy one to identify. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 4d

Bank robber describes getting caught robbing banks as "one of the most difficult moments" in his career of bank robbery.

ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 4d

USA Cricket has described the ICC's decision to suspend it as "one of the most difficult moments" in its history and "difficult to comprehend"

USA Cricket calls ICC suspension 'one of the most difficult moments' in its history

USAC said it remains committed to navigating through this "challenging" period and will hold elections in line with the timeline agreed upon with the ICC

www.espncricinfo.com

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 4d

*Peadophile Ian Watkins

anything else he did, like songs and shit, is much, much further down the list, the cunt.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 4d

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies after attack in prison

Paedophile Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in prison.

news.sky.com

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 5d

If we had more politicians willing to use accurate descriptions of Farage, Tice and their ilk, we'd be in a much better place.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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