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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 6h

Bank robber describes getting caught robbing banks as "one of the most difficult moments" in his career of bank robbery.

ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 7h

USA Cricket has described the ICC's decision to suspend it as "one of the most difficult moments" in its history and "difficult to comprehend"

USA Cricket calls ICC suspension 'one of the most difficult moments' in its history

USAC said it remains committed to navigating through this "challenging" period and will hold elections in line with the timeline agreed upon with the ICC

www.espncricinfo.com

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 11h

*Peadophile Ian Watkins

anything else he did, like songs and shit, is much, much further down the list, the cunt.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 13h

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies after attack in prison

Paedophile Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in prison.

news.sky.com

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 18h

If we had more politicians willing to use accurate descriptions of Farage, Tice and their ilk, we'd be in a much better place.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22h

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22h

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 1d

"Can't have an EAP qualifier because PNG will get a free pass" www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-m...

PNG vs Samoa Cricket Scorecard, 6th Match, Group C at Al Amarat, October 09, 2025

Live Cricket Scoreboard: Get Papua New Guinea vs Samoa 6th Match, Group C, cricket scorecard, ICC Men's T20 World Cup Asia & EAP Qualifier 2025/26 dated October 09, 2025.

www.espncricinfo.com

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely delighted that "Italy all-rounder" is in the headline. When I started writing about associate cricket it would be the funny bit at the end of the article if it were mentioned at all.

The Cricketer @thecricketer.com · 2d

"We're delighted that he has chosen to remain a part of the project here, as we build for the future that will be able to compete across all formats."

Italy allrounder agrees Kent contract extension | The Cricketer

Kent allrounder Grant Stewart has agreed a new two-year deal at Canterbury, as the county looks to solve its seam-bowling problems

www.thecricketer.com

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 2d

Proportional representation probably the one thing that would keep Starmer in office after the next election.

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 2d

Fourth in the back row officially the coolest cricketer in history.

Duncan Stone @drcricket.bsky.social · 2d

#BlackHistoryMonth is always a wonderful excuse to share my all-time favourite team photo. 📷

This is the mighty - and very cool - #Luton United #Cricket Club in 1974. ❤️🏏

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 2d

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 3d

Fucking hell

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 3d

Why would USA v Canada be in the Ashes mode?

Facebook post from Cricket Australia advertising the Cricket 26 video game.

Text reads "It's back.

Cricket 26 will launch on all popular consoles in November 20 - complete with an expanded #Ashes Mode allowing fans to experience cricket's oldest rivalry on their own terms."

Image below the text is the PlayStation box for the game.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

"We used to ring up our GP and get an appointment on the same day," says Kemi Badenoch. She does not add: we're all looking for the guy who did this!

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Rick Eyre on cricket @rickeyrecricket.com · 4d

/ping ICC

Women's Agenda @womensagenda.bsky.social · 4d

The FIFA-backed Afghan Women’s Refugee Team is about to fly out to Dubai for its first chance of international football for four years.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/afgha...

Afghan Women’s Refugee Team to return to international football, fighting for freedom

The FIFA-backed Afghan Women’s Refugee Team is about to fly out to Dubai for its first chance of international football for four years.

womensagenda.com.au

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 4d

Zimbabwe women drawing an ODI series and losing a T20I series against the lowest ranked of the five associates with ODI status does suggest that other teams may have deserved a place in the ODI Championship ahead of them.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 4d

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 5d

Leonard Rossiter as Reggie Perrin explaining why he was late to the office

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 9d

My website has a page for my work in #cricket – stories from the global game that never make the headlines:

🏏 Writing for the Wisden Almanack and others;
🏏 A book, Getting Out, about Ukrainian cricket;
🏏 Podcasts, talks & interviews.

See, hire and connect with me here ⬇️
jonathancampion.com/cricket

CRICKET

My first book Getting Out: The Ukrainian Cricket Team’s Last Stand on the Front Lines of War was published in 2024. Getting Out is the story of how Ukraine’s cricketers helped the peopl…

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Hypocaust @hypocaust.bsky.social · 10d

Today's game makes Anne-Marie Garth (Ireland 1988) and daughter Kim (Australia 2025) the first mother and daughter to have played at Women's Cricket World Cups.

#AUSvNZ
cricket.com.au/news/4349630...

How Kim Garth crossed – and conquered – the world | cricket.com.au

From Dublin in the '80s to modern-day Melbourne, the Irishwoman's story is one of generations and...

cricket.com.au

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 10d

I am in fact begging people to signal more virtue. That would slightly raise the net global virtue

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Apr 3

I remember all too little of the interviews I did with rock stars when I was briefly employed as the music critic for a national newspaper, but there is this.

24 years ago I was sent to a London pub by a newspaper to interview and drink whisky (no “e” over here) with Lemmy, who was in the band Motorhead and, before that, slightly less famously, Hawkwind and, before that, much less famously, Sam Gopal. We had a good chat: about being from the part of the Midlands north of the River Trent, about books, and about roadying for Hendrix in the mid-60s (him, not me; I was minus nine at the time). When the record company PR sidled over to tell me my time was up, Lemmy waved him away. “No, no, I’m enjoying this,” he said, commandingly. I realised at this point that I had another question I’d been meaning to ask but hadn’t. “Are you scared of anything?” I said to Lemmy. “Nothing,” he replied. Then he paused and frowned for a moment, as if an idea had suddenly occurred to him. “Oh, maybe snakes,” he said. “It’s because they’ve got no shoulders.”

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 11d

Yes and yes. Ed Joyce played for Ireland in the qualifier for the 2007 World Cup and then for England in the main event, and Eoin Morgan did the same for the 2011 tournament.

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah, A team matches aren't covered by the eligibility regulations.

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 11d

This does not make Tribe ineligible for Jersey, but he's obviously on England's radar.

Nick Webb @nickwebb2017.bsky.social · 11d

🏏Congratulations to Glamorgan’s Ben Kellaway and Asa Tribe who will become the county’s first players in more than a decade to represent England Lions👏🏽

The tour party will face the senior England tourists and Australia A among four matches Down Under in November and January

#Cricket

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 11d

Kier Starmer urges you to choose being punched in the face over being kicked in the balls.

Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 11d

Keir Starmer Says UK Is 'At A Fork In The Road' As He Urges Voters To Back Labour Over Reform

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/keir-s...

Keir Starmer Says UK Is 'At A Fork In The Road' As He Urges Voters To Back Labour Over Reform

The prime minister will tell the Labour conference the choice facing the country is between "decency and division".

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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