8 Ace
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8 Ace
@8ace.bsky.social
Support Wolves, live in Brum, read a lot, Dad of two
That bottom three feels right
🟣 Can Aston Villa defy the data?
⚪️ Leeds' strong summer research pays off
🐝 Kelleher's phenomenal penalty record

@markcarey93.bsky.social & @conor-oneill.bsky.social bring you five tactical trends to look out for over Christmas

🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/691...
December 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Much like the crypto con artists before them, the AI CEOs are realising they need to hook themselves firmly onto the infinite money hose that is state finance in order to remain a going concern.

But you'll need a deeply connected moral vacuum as your front man, and hey presto:
“Which of these malicious idiots is offering an assload of free money in exchange for the contacts in my phone and the ability to place drivel in British newspapers at will”, more like
December 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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🏆 From Lower Leagues to Champions League #FM26 challenge

Take charge of a club until you win Champions League

Budapest Honvéd (🇭🇺 Division II)

Bring Honvéd back to the top and return Hungarian football to the European stage.

📖 sortitoutsi.net/content/7504...
🎬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX4f...
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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The fools! They'd be so much happier now if they had just talked endlessly about battery trains and hydrogen.
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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‘Socioeconomic changes of recent decades have enabled the right to shape its own version of “the people”, providing a willing foundation for the kinds of authoritarianism that used to be imposed by force.’

Tony Wood on Latin America’s rightward drift:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tony Wood · Sell Your Children: The Latin American Right
It’s​ striking how thoroughly Latin America’s contemporary right has absorbed neoliberalism. Earlier cohorts...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This was great. First time encountering @danielagabor.bsky.social , superb ideas and reflections. Thank you.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
On Politics: Do bond markets and the Bank of England run Britain?
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 29/10/2025 · 1h 6m
podcasts.apple.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
6 defenders and one central midfielder?

Tonight I’d like to see a Scooby Doo reveal where it turns out Dean Saunders has been pretending to be Vitor Pereira since August… #wwfc
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Love the FT, but their reporting of the economics of energy transition remains so, so poor.

They've published effectively this same lazy, confused piece -- renewables are cheap, so must be taking over, but oh! they aren't -- every year for the past decade.
The global boom in solar — with or without the US
Despite the scepticism about renewables in Washington, falling prices for new panels are making a compelling business case around the world
www.ft.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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I don't think we should talk about climate change anymore, we should talk about kitchen-table issues. Like how climate change will destroy your kitchen table and everything else you have
October 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
There’s false memory syndrome on my part. I could have swore blind they were in 2018 but turns out no.
A 2-0 win over Slovakia has given Northern Ireland more than a fighting chance of qualification for the 2026 World Cup.

They have not reached a men's World Cup since 1986 — could Michael O'Neill's side make history?
October 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM