@johnmcgooner.bsky.social
Dad, Husband,Former Public Service Trade Unionist, (NIPSA), Non Belligerent Permanently Fatally Optimistic Arsenal Fan. Reposts may or may not be endorsements.
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Something I wrote about news emerging of Arsenal signing Eberechi Eze and how it compares to the news and reaction to Bergkamp, Campbell and Özil and what it says about the media cultures those signings emerged in 👇🏻🔴⚪️
arseblog.com/2025/08/eze-...
arseblog.com/2025/08/eze-...
Eze Come Eze Go
When Arsenal signed Dennis Bergkamp in the summer of 1995, my next door neighbour, also an Arsenal fan, knocked on my door one Sunday morning. I opened and he didn’t say anything. He was just holding ...
arseblog.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Something I wrote about news emerging of Arsenal signing Eberechi Eze and how it compares to the news and reaction to Bergkamp, Campbell and Özil and what it says about the media cultures those signings emerged in 👇🏻🔴⚪️
arseblog.com/2025/08/eze-...
arseblog.com/2025/08/eze-...
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reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland
August 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland
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TMNT was right… 🐢 🐈⬛
July 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
TMNT was right… 🐢 🐈⬛
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This, by @sidlowe.bsky.social, is beautiful. It is the kind of piece you can show people when they ask "but how can you still love football?" "Dear Sir/Madam, this is why".
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Santi Cazorla and Real Oviedo pull off the most romantic of returns to La Liga
Twenty-four long years after their relegation, then tumbling lower into ‘the mud’, the club whose fans would not let them die witnessed their return to Spain’s top table
www.theguardian.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This, by @sidlowe.bsky.social, is beautiful. It is the kind of piece you can show people when they ask "but how can you still love football?" "Dear Sir/Madam, this is why".
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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NUJ shocked at Nigel Farage's "baseless" attack on reporters
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
NUJ shocked at Nigel Farage's "baseless" attack on reporters
Reform UK leader falsely accused journalists of being "involved" with protests outside press conference
www.nuj.org.uk
June 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
NUJ shocked at Nigel Farage's "baseless" attack on reporters
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
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Yesterday was alright
May 27, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Yesterday was alright
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Irish News: Priest heard Joe Lynskey’s confession before killing CONNLA YOUNG CRIME AND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT [email protected]
ereader.irishnews.com/2025/05/19/p...
ereader.irishnews.com/2025/05/19/p...
Priest heard Joe Lynskey’s confession before killing
ereader.irishnews.com
May 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Irish News: Priest heard Joe Lynskey’s confession before killing CONNLA YOUNG CRIME AND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT [email protected]
ereader.irishnews.com/2025/05/19/p...
ereader.irishnews.com/2025/05/19/p...
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Released 40 YEARS AGO Today
Raspberry Beret (1985)
Prince & the Revolution
Raspberry Beret (1985)
Prince & the Revolution
May 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Released 40 YEARS AGO Today
Raspberry Beret (1985)
Prince & the Revolution
Raspberry Beret (1985)
Prince & the Revolution
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Word of the day is ‘beek’ (13th century): to bask in the pleasurable warmth of the sun.
Also available as a noun, as in ‘I took a wonderful beek today’.
Also available as a noun, as in ‘I took a wonderful beek today’.
May 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Word of the day is ‘beek’ (13th century): to bask in the pleasurable warmth of the sun.
Also available as a noun, as in ‘I took a wonderful beek today’.
Also available as a noun, as in ‘I took a wonderful beek today’.
@susiedent.com from a family letter in 1877. Scapegrace is such a good word. Never heard of it before.
May 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
@susiedent.com from a family letter in 1877. Scapegrace is such a good word. Never heard of it before.
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We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy.
Third time’s the charm, I guess.
Third time’s the charm, I guess.
April 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy.
Third time’s the charm, I guess.
Third time’s the charm, I guess.
@apiln.bsky.social Irelands southern star has a gem
March 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
@apiln.bsky.social Irelands southern star has a gem
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The Ascension of Christ, by Sebastiano Ricci, late 17th/early 18th c, 📸 by Garrett Ellwood
March 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The Ascension of Christ, by Sebastiano Ricci, late 17th/early 18th c, 📸 by Garrett Ellwood
Take Raheem off, Jorginho on, move Rice up front centre with Trossard out wide
February 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Take Raheem off, Jorginho on, move Rice up front centre with Trossard out wide
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What made Twitter grow was Retweeting, but interaction changed when a Like button was introduced. So hard to find good follows when people don't crop up in your timeline. People who followed you over there don't know you're here either.
I'd encourage people to repost good stuff as a civic duty! #FF
I'd encourage people to repost good stuff as a civic duty! #FF
February 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
What made Twitter grow was Retweeting, but interaction changed when a Like button was introduced. So hard to find good follows when people don't crop up in your timeline. People who followed you over there don't know you're here either.
I'd encourage people to repost good stuff as a civic duty! #FF
I'd encourage people to repost good stuff as a civic duty! #FF
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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
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We’ve lost a lot (personnel wise) this season but MLS and Nwaneri have made this squad bigger and better.
February 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We’ve lost a lot (personnel wise) this season but MLS and Nwaneri have made this squad bigger and better.
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A single Wind Turbine produces 32x the energy it takes to build.
Infinite energy and infinite money too.
All the Government has to do is build them.
Infinite energy and infinite money too.
All the Government has to do is build them.
January 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A single Wind Turbine produces 32x the energy it takes to build.
Infinite energy and infinite money too.
All the Government has to do is build them.
Infinite energy and infinite money too.
All the Government has to do is build them.
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John Prescott’s coffin has arrived at Hull Minster for his funeral. Appropriately, the hearse was a Jag, as is the family’s car.
A knowing wink you suspect. Two Jags to the end.
A knowing wink you suspect. Two Jags to the end.
January 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
John Prescott’s coffin has arrived at Hull Minster for his funeral. Appropriately, the hearse was a Jag, as is the family’s car.
A knowing wink you suspect. Two Jags to the end.
A knowing wink you suspect. Two Jags to the end.
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Word of the day is ‘matutolypea’: extreme grumpiness in the morning.
From the Latin ‘Matuta’, Roman goddess of the dawn, and the Greek ‘lype’, ‘grief’. Put them together and you get ‘morning grief’.
From the Latin ‘Matuta’, Roman goddess of the dawn, and the Greek ‘lype’, ‘grief’. Put them together and you get ‘morning grief’.
January 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Word of the day is ‘matutolypea’: extreme grumpiness in the morning.
From the Latin ‘Matuta’, Roman goddess of the dawn, and the Greek ‘lype’, ‘grief’. Put them together and you get ‘morning grief’.
From the Latin ‘Matuta’, Roman goddess of the dawn, and the Greek ‘lype’, ‘grief’. Put them together and you get ‘morning grief’.
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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
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When the concept of VAR was first mooted I liked the idea of experts with technology to advise on terrible decisions. It seemed unfair to refs that they had a split second and maybe a bad angle, while millions at home saw instant replays.
But how can VAR, and assistant VARS, be this bad/mad? 🧵
But how can VAR, and assistant VARS, be this bad/mad? 🧵
January 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
When the concept of VAR was first mooted I liked the idea of experts with technology to advise on terrible decisions. It seemed unfair to refs that they had a split second and maybe a bad angle, while millions at home saw instant replays.
But how can VAR, and assistant VARS, be this bad/mad? 🧵
But how can VAR, and assistant VARS, be this bad/mad? 🧵