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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 4h

Ms Rachel is a fascinating study in American ideology.

She's what America claims as its values: a family-centric, self-made business formed from nothing and driven by free speech and justice.

Yet constantly, she comes up against criticism from the powerful at the heart of what America *really* is.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4h

This is depraved beyond belief

Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 5h

No words.

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Count Snrub @mrsnrub.bsky.social · 5h

The Guardian editors after Barney Ronay curls out another article.

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Count Snrub @mrsnrub.bsky.social · 6h

Hi @barneyronay.bsky.social, weird for you to single out @zackpolanski.bsky.social in your disingenuous article like that.

Guardian Sport @sport.theguardian.com · 1d

Ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans is a terrible decision – and a depressing one | Barney Ronay

The idea that barring the Israeli club’s supporters from Villa Park will de-escalate a volatile situation just doesn’t stand up Well, at least we have Ayoub Khan in the house, Birmingham MP and a voice of tolerance, unity and de-escalation in these difficult times. “Sports entertainment events should be enjoyed by all regardless of their race, ethnicity and background,” Khan wrote on X on Thursday. One hundred per cent this. Heart emoji. Slay, king. This is not just the best part of sport. It’s the only real point. “Now is the time to ease tensions, set aside political difference and focus on the football,” Khan concluded, scattering flowers of all shades, fluttering his fingers to release a cascade of butterflies, and opening his arms to embrace, personally, brothers and sisters of every caste and clime. Continue reading...

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LiLBazula 👻 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 14h

In which Barney, an actual paid sports journalist apparently, pretends he isn't aware other football teams fans are regularly banned & MTV are being singled out, strongly insinuates this is bc of antisemitism & not their history racist agitation & violence, & concludes this is Zack Polanski's fault

Guardian Sport @sport.theguardian.com · 1d

Ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans is a terrible decision – and a depressing one | Barney Ronay

The idea that barring the Israeli club’s supporters from Villa Park will de-escalate a volatile situation just doesn’t stand up Well, at least we have Ayoub Khan in the house, Birmingham MP and a voice of tolerance, unity and de-escalation in these difficult times. “Sports entertainment events should be enjoyed by all regardless of their race, ethnicity and background,” Khan wrote on X on Thursday. One hundred per cent this. Heart emoji. Slay, king. This is not just the best part of sport. It’s the only real point. “Now is the time to ease tensions, set aside political difference and focus on the football,” Khan concluded, scattering flowers of all shades, fluttering his fingers to release a cascade of butterflies, and opening his arms to embrace, personally, brothers and sisters of every caste and clime. Continue reading...

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Sasha the Furious Ghost 👻 @sashafury.blackskycomra.de · 22h

I am once again trying to tell BlueSky that their block function does not work on some browsers. I can see posts by people who block me and whom I block.

BlueSky so far has not even responded to my multiple attempts to communicate this.

@bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team

Apologies for not providing proper alt here, but I don't want to attract the attention of the page I've screenshotted.

What it shows is an account I've blocked but with their posts below still showing.

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John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 8h

Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.

A tweet from Sky News reading 'Aston Villa fan Andrew Fox says he has received online abuse and even death threats following the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the match in Birmingham.' A follow up tweet says 'This is a correction of a previous post that incorrectly identified Mr Fox as Jewish'.

A page from the Henry Jackson Society website for Andrew Fox, Research Fellow, which says he joined HJS in 2014 and that 'Andrew specialises in Defence, the Middle East, and disinformation'.

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Count Snrub @mrsnrub.bsky.social · 6h

Nah.

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Count Snrub @mrsnrub.bsky.social · 9h

It's probably something to do with object permanence.

"The NES never existed in the UK because I never had one, or played on one when I went over to a friend's house. Of course everyone's experience is exactly the same as mine..."

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Count Snrub @mrsnrub.bsky.social · 9h

The NES really wasn't that obscure in the UK. It was also a crowded market at the time at the tail end of the microcomputer trend.

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Count Snrub @mrsnrub.bsky.social · 9h

Back in the early/mid 90's we had an Atari STe and a Mega Drive in the house but my grandparents bought a NES.

I used to love playing Crackout, Micro Machines and Super Mario Bros. with them. When they decided to get rid of it they gave it to me. I still have it to this day.

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 14h

The silence of the Westminster lobby as one of their own backs calls for me — an elected Member of Parliament — to be deported is telling.

No condemnation, just bootlicking of their proprietors and jostling for Zone 2 dinner party invites.

Our media class is rotten to the core.

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Count Snrub @mrsnrub.bsky.social · 10h

Oh no! She replied and blocked. Stephanie does know that I won't be able to read that, right?

Count Snrub @mrsnrub.bsky.social · 10h

I don't know any hyenas as I don't tend to visit any zoos.

Product of My Environment is a banger of a song though. Nice to meet a fellow Circle Jerks fan.

Count Snrub @mrsnrub.bsky.social · 10h

I'm just like those Israelis because I have online friends???

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