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Shane Thomas
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Screenshot of text from Gideon Haigh writing about the antisemitic terror attack in Bondi: What does cricket do in the circumstances? I recoil from those columns about what must now happen in any context - especially in this instance, I can't even pretend to know. First thing this morning, I was invited by the ABC to talk about how sport could help 'get us through these terrible events! Really, I thought? They've barely happened and we're already 'getting through' them? How can we even be thinking about sport at such a time? So I declined, and instead visited another Jewish friend, who'd sent her kids to school that morning worried inevitably about what other kids might say - it is not so long since she had a Star of David scratched in her car door. 'Why do people hate Jews so much?' she asked. Something else I could not answer.
December 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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uvwunion.bsky.social
The workers — predominantly migrant, Black and brown staff — say management has left them no choice after a year filled with covert surveillance, union-busting attempts, broken agreements, and legal claims totalling hundreds of thousands. #strikeaction #workersrights #uvw
More 👇 t.co/qELc979nOx
https://www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2025/12/christmas-strikes-to-hit-west-end-quay-after-luxury-flats-bosses-enforce-scrooge-style-pay-freeze/
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December 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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twoht.bsky.social
A little something on the Mo Salah story, and why we shouldn't expect better when we treat footballers like deities.

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Mo Salah's outburst is the inevitable consquence of a world that treats footballers like deities
Is it any wonder that players' egos can spiral out of control when they're spun a constant narrative of the entire world revolving around them?
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December 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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There’s a lot of talk about the Hitler youth types who are turning in their professors and not enough discussion about the ones who are feeling intense despair because they're going to school with the Hitler youth types and immigrants are being kidnapped and trans people are facing genocide &etc
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
can't say what I think about this as it would get me banned from this website permanently
December 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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sarahoconnorft.ft.com
Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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samwhyte.bsky.social
When this is all over the Labour party will just be six puce men with silted voices and no ideals beyond promotion, all of whom used a briefcase as a school bag.
December 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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bartiddu.bsky.social
Please donate to this cause
zoejardiniere.bsky.social Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 9d
This year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal.

Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
December 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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tomstevenson.bsky.social
On the anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, the White House issued a proclamation celebrating trade deals in Latin America and the restoration of ‘privileged access through the Panama Canal’. The US, it said, would always decide destiny in ‘our hemisphere’. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Tom Stevenson | Detrimental Outside Influence
Last week, the US published its new National Security Strategy (one is produced each presidential term; this is Trump’...
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December 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
tokenbg.bsky.social
Screenshot of text: What sustains the film industry and the music industry and the world of culture in general is not just the handful of incredibly successful musicians, artists and writers at the top. It is the jobbing violinist and the working camera operator. It is the young director that hones their craft doing regular work on a syndicated show who becomes a great artist. Screenshot of text: Indeed, for some works of genius it is the job as a pianist in bars and cafés. In pop music, we are already seeing the consequences of this no longer being as common. And in the worlds of classical music and jazz we have long since moved to a situation in which many artists are part-timers, or live off academic grants and foundations. Screenshot of text: Netflix did not invent this world, but it is the most successful operator in this new dispensation. However, it remains to be seen whether its success in knowing what its customers want to watch can be matched by an enduring ecosystem for creative talent. For when we have grown used to paying such small sums for such huge libraries of talent, who is going to persuade us to pay enough to give a new talent their start? Screenshot of text: It's clear that the world of streaming can provide us with better recommendations from a wider canvas than we enjoyed before, at a much lower cost to us as consumers. It is less clear that it can provide pathways for artists to develop their talent when they aren't paid enough to afford the rising cost of essentials. It can give star showrunner Shonda Rhimes a deal to make movies, but it is not clear it can train her successor The surplus that Netflix and Apple have given us as consumers could yet become a supply side crisis.
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
tokenbg.bsky.social
They should ban the Slavia fans from the fucking stadium.
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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meglinehan.com
As things stand now, the NWSL isn’t fighting for Trinity Rodman. It’s fighting against her, and shadowboxing with its own potential in the process.

A column, at @theathletic.com:

www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...
NWSL said it would fight for Trinity Rodman. It’s only fighting with itself
One way or the other, the league will set a precedent with Rodman. The NWSL has the power to choose what that looks like.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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ICYMI: @scarletteharris.bsky.social on harsh demands of mothering in Christmas movies.

"Holidays add weight...decorating, cooking, throwing parties for which various presents need to be procured, wrangling excitable children who just won’t go the fuck to sleep in anticipation of Santa Claus..."
Bad (White) Moms Dominate Christmas Movies
It's Christmas movie season. Why do so many feature bad moms?
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December 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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twoht.bsky.social
This morning on UD, your weekend match features low-flying planes and an emo horse, and if that isn't enough, then I don't know what is.

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The Weekend Match: Bedfont Sports 6-0 Fareham Town - Hold Me Like You'll Never Let Me Go
19 miles from Central London and barely a couple of hundred yards from Heathrow Airport you'll find a football team having a very nice afternoon indeed.
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December 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
tokenbg.bsky.social
And the smartest thing Dano has done publicly is to do nothing. Clearly knows not to interrupt his enemy when they're making a mistake.
sloanelysbeth.bsky.social รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 7d
the thing about paul dano is i only know him from two movies.

little miss sunshine and there will be blood.

he does a perfectly fine job in both films and he doesn't seem out of place or bad when acting opposite daniel day-lewis which is no small thing.

so idk really where the hate is from..
December 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
tokenbg.bsky.social
We now go live to @tim-stillman.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
tokenbg.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
tokenbg.bsky.social
David Squires satirical cartoon on the men’s World Cup draw, mocking it for being overlong and a platform for Donald Trump to be obnoxious and abusive.
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
tokenbg.bsky.social
Don’t disagree with any of this.
Screenshot of text: King is all powerful, all seeing, all knowing. There should be a rule. She gets to be in any movie she wants. She doesn't have to do the movie if she doesn't want to, but if she wants to do the movie, she should just automatically get to do the movie. She should be paid in gold and boats. She makes everything better because she makes everything realer.
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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lawsonsv.bsky.social
My mum just sent me this, she's a good woman. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
notinourname.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
tokenbg.bsky.social
Sorry, was this *really* Football Manager, or did @suzywrack.bsky.social get put in charge of the real life team and I missed it? 😅😭
Screenshot of text: Within minutes I am in the deep end as the Arsenal manager before the start of the 2025-26 season, sizing up a transfer budget that does not match my ambitions for the club. I am immediately at odds with the board when I launch a rogue bid to sign Aitana Bonmatí, which is immediately rejected. Screenshot of text: I manage to recruit Alex Greenwood to shore things up in the wake of Leah Williamson's injury and my late bid for Patri Guijarro, who wants to be part of my project, falls through at the last minute with the budget once again the problem. I demand answers from the board as to why they will not release more funds when the player-in-question wants to join, pointing out that our scouting report says she's a necessary replacement for Lia Wälti.
December 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Sources told @theathletic.com the WNBA’s salary structure proposal would result in players receiving less than 15% of total league revenue.

Plus, news on many more proposal items with @benpickman.bsky.social, including a (mandatory?) draft combine, benefits and more. www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...
WNBA CBA proposal includes mandatory draft combine, new revenue-sharing model: Sources
The league proposed a draft combine requirement that ties participation to rookie salary.
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
tokenbg.bsky.social
Not sure why I'm suddenly getting Harris Dickinson energy from Rob Edwards. Guess we know who will play him in the biopic if his managerial career has a sudden upturn.
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Went to the Battle of Ideas, where speech has been successfully freed but all anyone wants to talk about is Tommy Robinson.

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Morgan Jones | At the Battle of Ideas
In The Impact of Labour, Maurice Cowling wrote that politics in the 1920s was ‘fifty or sixty people’ in tension...
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December 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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barrymalone.bsky.social
Today in Proximities:

- Cameroonian opposition leader dies suddenly in detention
- Flooding toll in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand tops 1,300
- Surveillance fears as India orders phone makers to pre-load govt app

Read it in under two mins.

www.proximities.news/p/cameroon-i...
Cameroon, Indonesia, India
Today's three stories you should know
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December 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM