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Alex Barilaro
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History, innit | PhD candidate | Australian | YNWA
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Based on EPA per drive, the 2025 Colts have performed better than any other offense in the last 10 years through the first 8 weeks of a season.
The battle for MVP between Daniel Jones and Jonathan Taylor is gonna be fierce
Best team in the NFL BABBYYYYYYY
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Because he’s a proper journalist, @shteyngart.bsky.social twice spent a week watching Russian state TV to get a sense of how media constructs our reality.

I did the same, on a budget and various other professional commitments, with Real Madrid TV. It was weird.

observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
Don’t believe your eyes – inside Real Madrid’s world of a...
Is the club’s TV channel harmless propaganda, or something more sinister?
observer.co.uk
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Turn your TV on

Colorado is down 43-0 at the HALF
The point is he’s shown no signs of improvement for going on 8 games now, and the only defensively solid performance was Arsenal at home. Which means he’s absolutely in the scope for criticism
Statistically sure, but if a manager can’t arrest a slump that’s almost entirely the fault of his system, then he’s gotta go. We’re not the type of club that can afford a season of working things out unfortunately. He’s got this season to figure it out, absolutely. If he doesn’t, he’ll be gone
Which is why I’m conflicted, of course. But calling this a “blip” when it’s Slot’s squad and Slot’s playstyle under Slot’s full management is as disingenuous as saying Slot only won the title with Klopp’s squad
That’s still not great, but sure. 16 wins and 12 defeats in 28 games. During which time we spent £500m and averaged 1.75ppg. Which puts us about 7th in a bad season and 9th in a good one. Still disastrous
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up to 700 league minutes and some real worrying signs on Mo Salah
Since 11th March, we’ve won 16, drawn 2, and lost 14, with 3 clean sheets. 1.9-ish ppg. That’s enough of a run for me to think he’s not gonna fix this. But he still might, I’m not fully Slot-out. Just think be won’t be here this time next year
Given it’s been like this since March, yeah absolutely. Wouldn’t have the big fallback
That’s fair enough, but today was the day I realised nothing had changed for a month tactically and he’s probably not cut out for it. I hope he proves me wrong but we’ll see
Liam Rosenior’s doing some really good stuff at Strasbourg. He’d be my first shout
This isn’t just a “bad run of games” though, it’s a diabolical losing streak after spending £500m in the summer with no obvious solutions being offered. Sometimes this stuff isn’t a blip, it’s evidence
Do most of the suburban electorate in any given Western country even encounter trans people on a regular basis? Probably not. Should they care about the wanton destruction of the rights of people who just want to exist? Abso-fucking-lutely
And this has historically been what the right-wing channels to get into power! It’s what historically made immigration the hot topic in Reagan/Thatcher politics - this shit didn’t happen organically, they scared normies into caring about it and it stuck for decades
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
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Once again, I fear Edwards was right about Salah - if we get a big Saudi bid I’d cash in
We’re no longer in a position to give the benefit of the doubt to a manager when we’re spending what we have

Slot needs to find a fix or he’ll be under pressure
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I think the funniest, most toxic thing that could happen for 2026 is a full on George Vs Max title fight.