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Ben Meakin
@bnmkn.bsky.social
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Freelance Copywriter, plays games, watches sport, does BladesPod and writes WOMEN OF STEEL: http://womenofsteel.substack.com
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · Aug 27
8 years, 375 episodes, 1.4 million (!) listens, countless mispronunciations. Pretty overwhelmed by the reaction to this!
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BladesPod @bladespod.bsky.social · Aug 27
👋 Hello everyone, bit of an announcement from me and @panchero.bsky.social - after 8 years, I've decided to call time on the podcast. One for the road:

SC: soundcloud.com/ben-meakin-6...

AP: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Sp: open.spotify.com/show/6wLq5qa...
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 5h
England playing Latvia last night reminds me that I wrote a whole article about the time Sheffield United played Latvia (???): www.thepinch.uk/p/why-did-sh...
Why did Sheffield United play a friendly with Latvia in 2000?
Ben Meakin on an unlikely friendly, a bizarrely strong starting XI and the managers who became best of enemies.
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 6h
Good performance, good point, think this team is going to be absolutely fine this year.
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BladesPod @bladespod.bsky.social · 6h
New WOMEN OF STEEL out this morning, looking at the Blades' draw with table-topping Charlton, Emma Taylor's first United goal and some underlying numbers for our start to the season:

womenofsteel.substack.com/p/md6-united...
MD6: United hold frontrunners Charlton to a draw
Emma Taylor's first Blades goal earns United a 1-1 draw at the Valley
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 1d
Has she only played friendlies for Jamaica rather than competitive? Pretty sure that's how it works with the men's game
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Harvey Hinkler @harveyhinkler.bsky.social · 1d
Catch up on all the goings on from Sunday's WSL 2 fixtures - including Southampton once again securing South Coast bragging rights - in this week's review!
#wsl #wsl2 #woso
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Saints seal South Coast derby double & Durham delight against Forest - Gameweek Six Review
Looking back on another action-packed WSL 2 weekend.
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 1d
The Patriots being top of the AFC East through six games is pretty, pretty funny
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 1d
I definitely wasn't falling for this, by the way. I've seen what happens with free trampolines
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 1d
Diggs (bottom of the screen) apparently. And no, I've no idea and neither did announcers or Steratore
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 2d
Tramampoline!
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 2d
That's a bingo!
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 3d
Game 14: Hallam 1-1 Consett AFC, Sandygate, Northern Premier League East. Glorious afternoon at Sandygate and over 1,000 in. Visitors probably shaded this one but Hallam had a late goal contentiously ruled out.
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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 6d
Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov is clearly David Moyes in a terrible disguise
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Elysia Tatsu @elysiatatsu.bsky.social · 18d
🎃
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 6d
Well I'm interested
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1000xRESIST | Available Now @sunsetvisitor.studio · 6d
We have some upcoming news that we are VERY excited to share next week.

Thank you for making the future of 1000xRESIST so bright. Hekki grace. 💙

In the meantime, here's a little sneak preview of what's to come...
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 6d
Oh nice, thank you!
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 6d
Where do you find results / tables etc, incidentally? Our club account is quite inconsistent in what it provides updates on...
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BladesPod @bladespod.bsky.social · 7d
5️⃣6️⃣0️⃣ days later, Sheffield United Women have won a home game! So of course, I wrote 2,000 words about the victory over Ipswich that lifts the Blades up the #WSL2 table:

womenofsteel.substack.com/p/md5-blades...
MD5: Blades beat Ipswich to earn a first home win in 18 months
Two Amy Andrews goals and another from Charlie Devlin give United their first win of the season
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 7d
Oof that last angle 🤩
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 9d
Appreciate your sacrifice
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 9d
Thank you! Had they blown it (we were miles better than Ipswich but then seemed to decide to give them a free goal to make it interesting) I think I'd still be crying now. Amy Andrews was immense.
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 9d
Them NOT BOTTOM BLADES 👏
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 10d
Game 13: Sheffield United 3-2 Ipswich Town, Bramall Lane, WSL2. A long-awaited and fully-deserved home win for the Blades, who rather let Ipswich off the hook after racing into a 3-0 lead. Amy Andrews with a masterful performance in attack, scoring twice.
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 10d
Today: can the Blades bag a first home win since March 2024 (ffs)?
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BladesPod @bladespod.bsky.social · 14d
New WOMEN OF STEEL is out, as United come oh-so-close to nicking a point against the league leaders Birmingham. I was really impressed with how we played in this one. Big game against Ipswich at home on Sunday.

open.substack.com/pub/womenofs...
MD4: United fall just short against league leaders
An excellent effort from the Blades who lose 2-1 to Birmingham City after a late error wipes out Joy Ralph's equaliser
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Kiyone @kiyonescarlet.bsky.social · 10d
lol
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Ben Meakin @bnmkn.bsky.social · 11d
As someone who writes a lot of marketing related copy this was a really useful read in terms of "don't accidentally write like an LLM"!
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Matt @matt.blobfish.zone · 11d
Wikipedia has a really handy list with examples en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 11d
A fateful encounter, a chilling transformation for the hero of Hyrule.

The coverage and ads for Majora's Mask left little doubt that it was going to be a *different* kind of Legend of Zelda game but still, I imagine quite a few people were caught off-guard by this sequence.
"what's with that stupid horse of yours?!it doesn't listen to a word that's said to it." Says a lounging skull kid in a cutscene screenie from the GC version of Majora's Mask. A close up of Link in profile listening to SK's taunting about getting rid of Epona. A shot of baleful orange-yellow-green eyes as Link transforms into a deku scrub Link staring at his reflection in water in horror, now s cap wearing deku scrub
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