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Niles
@nilesbarker.bsky.social
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Topics: Arsenal football club and (less frequently) global democracy
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touloutoumou.bsky.social
From @zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Comics of Superman saying: "I stopped Superman from killing all of you once again." Caption: "Superman really isn't earning that key to the city these days."
January 19, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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uglygame.bsky.social
Fifa is an enormous criminal enterprise which has unilaterally enclosed world football and now charges fees and accepts bribes to access it. Its main responsibility, the oversight and awarding of the World Cup, is a relatively small task that in no way justifies the number of staff it has or the billions of pounds the organisation extorts from sponsors, hosts and broadcasters. And, above all, Fifa is beyond reform. It needs to be abolished completely and replaced by a new world football body.
January 3, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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edwardprice.bsky.social
Confucius wrote: “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
December 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
nilesbarker.bsky.social
Madrid deserve all the failure that is coming their way. That is no way to run a football club.
January 13, 2026 at 7:19 AM
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pickardje.bsky.social
a decade is a long time in politics
January 12, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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ianboudreau.com
If you're on the Death Star, nobody cares that you only did it for the college money
January 7, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
This one is resonating today. #Andor
Screen shot from the show Andor. Someone says to Mon Mothma “They [meaning the Empire] don’t even bother to lie badly anymore.” Mon replies “I suppose that’s the final humiliation.”
January 3, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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micheleikelenboom.bsky.social
#Traditie 🎆
January 1, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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lostcitymagic.bsky.social
A message for you all to carry through the year
Image is a popular astronaut meme. An astronaut is looking at the earth from space saying wait, I am worthy of love? An astronaut is behind him holding up flowers and saying always have been
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 AM
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followtheh.bsky.social
Good morning, Happy New Year and some personal news - not dead yet!
January 1, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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barrydeutsch.bsky.social
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen. Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?" If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing! But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else. It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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keithfitzgerald.bsky.social
Jason Segel, playing David Foster Wallace in "In the End of the Tour," makes an important point.
December 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”

Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Leo has made care for immigrants and the poor key themes of his early papacy.
www.reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
nilesbarker.bsky.social
Stock rising: Martinelli!
December 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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okwonga.bsky.social
It’s not necessary to keep highlighting the qualities of exceptional immigrants as a reason for them to be treated well by their governments. We don’t have to be on our best behaviour to receive a basic level of human decency: that‘s why they’re called “human rights”, and not “human privileges”.
December 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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thegmcconnachie.bsky.social
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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doriantaylor.com
imo we shouldn't have character limits it should just get physically harder to type
December 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
nilesbarker.bsky.social
Spaceballs!
December 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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leyawn.bsky.social
has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane
December 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
nilesbarker.bsky.social
Fuck FIFA.
December 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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bombsfall.bsky.social
idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
being ruled by tiny men bereft of both curiosity and the ability to feel wonder is a terrible fate
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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aklingus.bsky.social
tfw you’re fucking the lasagna man for lasagna
•*• Funny-Presence4228 LPT: How to win as a guest and make new friends at a raging, alcohol fuelled party Food & Drink I'm getting older now, and some of my friends' kids have recently started college. I've been reliably told that alcohol-fuelled parties are still happening, and I shared this advice about how to make new friends and be a hero. One of them took my advice, and now has a new girlfriend because of this. The key to the following advice is an element of secrecy because the surprise makes it even better. Arrive late and sneak Lasagna into the party. I mean, taking a large, catering-sized tray of lasagna, along with a stack of paper plates and forks, to a raging house party. I used to do this back in college. I'd make one, sometimes two, in the afternoon in big foil trays before goin to a party. Show up around 10.30pm, and slip them into the oven without asking permission telling anyone. Medium heat for 30 minutes to warm it up. Get my paper plates out, and shout: "Lasagna is ready" to a packed house of drunk people, and hand them all a fork. It's cheaper than bringing beer, no clean-up, and I got laid pretty often. Important note: Make sure the person who owns the oven is the first in the line, and don't make a mess. Maybe make one meat and one vegan or something... This last point was less of a concern back in my day, but we must move with the times.
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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skrafc.bsky.social
This clip from @skysportspl.bsky.social has been doing the rounds on the other place! Thought I’d share here. And also say, our latest Goal Difference is out, check out on Apple, Spotify and YouTube for me vs @lolakr.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
nilesbarker.bsky.social
Gyök is a bit slow. Does’t help that he has to play every waking minute…
October 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM