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Stoke Newington Gooner
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Arsenal fan. West stand block 133. Teacher.
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
n16gooner.bsky.social
Can’t wait for Keown to deal with pronouncing Nwaneri when he comes on.
December 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
n16gooner.bsky.social
Jesus is coming on. Praise the Lord!
December 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
n16gooner.bsky.social
Can’t help wondering what we’d do with a fully fit squad. We appear to be really quite good.
December 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
n16gooner.bsky.social
Merinoooooooo
December 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
n16gooner.bsky.social
Madderwacky
December 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
n16gooner.bsky.social
New trim for Ødegaard - he means business. Come on you Gunners!
December 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
n16gooner.bsky.social
Gutted
December 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
n16gooner.bsky.social
TROSSAAAAAARRRDDD !!!!
December 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Thanks to everyone who voted for us - we have won Best Fan Media at the FSA Awards 2025. We love you all ❤️

@gunnerblog.bsky.social and @tim-stillman.bsky.social were there to represent Arseblog – and big congrats to the other nominations who produce really top class stuff for their clubs too 👊
December 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
n16gooner.bsky.social
Now we need to keep our heads and not get a sending off ourselves.
November 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
n16gooner.bsky.social
Today is a good day. North London remains red 🔴
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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prasshant.bsky.social
Happy Kieran Tierney, Happy me. Happy Scotland ! 🥹❤️
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
n16gooner.bsky.social
Arsenal 2 Serbia 0
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
n16gooner.bsky.social
Robot Haaland does it again. So predictable. Man’s a machine. Can’t see LFC getting anything out of this tbh.
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
n16gooner.bsky.social
Hang on a minute. The opposition are allowed to score??? Wtf?
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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pickardje.bsky.social
must-read analysis of how Musk's twitter is drenching new users with right-wing propaganda

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
n16gooner.bsky.social
Set piece again olé olé
November 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
n16gooner.bsky.social
What a weird season. Top four with Bournemouth and Sunderland, and Man Utd above Liverpool! Crazy. Anyway… Come On You Gunners!!!!!
October 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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davidheniguk.bsky.social
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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humanists.uk
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media — the 30-second sound bite (now down to 10 seconds kind of celebration of ignorance.”
October 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
n16gooner.bsky.social
Weird seeing a few Athleti shirts on the concourse at the Emirates pre-match. Were plenty of away fans around in the Olympiakos game but didn’t expect it so much tonight.
October 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
n16gooner.bsky.social
A Gooner as president in 2028 anyone?
theathleticfc.bsky.social The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · Oct 21
Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat nominee, is the frontrunner in a three-horse race to become the mayor of New York City.

Unusually for a New York City mayoral candidate, Mamdani has chosen to ingratiate soccer issues into his campaign.

🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...
October 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
n16gooner.bsky.social
👀
October 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
n16gooner.bsky.social
I’m liking this version of Liverpool. Prediction - they’ll score in the 90th minute and then a winner in the 98th.
October 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM