Oh my god of course it was Max "football equivalent of a child's self-insert Mary Sue, but real" Dowman.
14.03.2026 19:30
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Oh my god of course it was Max "football equivalent of a child's self-insert Mary Sue, but real" Dowman.
And the winner for funniest goal of 2026 is... #EPL #ARSEVE
On the bright side, it's not like Liverpool are swimming in players either!
(Seriously, they're openly at "Ceri Holland as a central midfielder" and that's with them throwing on an injured O'Sullivan)
... this is quite beyond the point, but... the Worm Starmer post was real?! The Tories actually did that?!
Good god, what is going on there.
Looks like one candidate apiece ran first time (it's a two member ward, the Green was the one who stood down).
(Also, wow, Tudor has to be one of the worst managerial appointments of all time, certainly in the PL. At least other notable bad ones had a clear on-paper justification, or at least a strong reason to believe their floor was higher than it was)
I know that it's probably not my place as a Not-Spurs fan, but, ngl, I kind of miss when "Spursy" meant "coming agonisingly close to glory, only to implode" rather than, well, [gestures broadly].
There was a kind of tragicomic nobility to it, rather than, well [gestures broadly again].
Leicester? Keeping a clean sheet? In this economy?! #EFL #EFLChampionship
Like, I don't think I want it to be illegal to be this pathetic, because actually applying the law is a level of effort they simply don't deserve.
(it is a good sign that, possibly, maybe, major organisations should get off the edgelord nazi site that caters to edgelords, nazis, and nazi edgelords)
The Athletic has a bit more detail, in terms of what the prompts were for the pathetic edgeposts, and my god these people are somehow even more pathetic than I thought they were before www.nytimes.com/athletic/709...
To be fair, there is absolutely going to be overlap with the people trying to 'solve' wild animal suffering, who I think do (unsurprisingly) skew vegan.
(anyway, thanks for the reminder of this bop)
It did way better with the juries than the audience vote, though.
(8th place with 104 points vs... 22nd with 16. not sure why it did so badly there, though - it wasn't uniquely screwed over by the iffy production iirc? Maybe "Cha Cha Cha" consolidating the vote?)
Pundits *love* snap elections as it keeps the subject of discussion on horse-race coverage. If there is distance between now and the next election that means the subject has to shift to substantive analysis of policy and governance, topics they find boring and are mostly pig ignorant about
(without examples being shown or even vaguely described beyond [the prompted] 'vulgar', I'm not sure whether or not they cross the line (imv) from "any decent platform would ban users for this" to "any platform that doesn't ban this should be illegal", but they are definitely, 100%, loser stuff)
Being too chicken to actually say something yourself and asking an LLM to do it for you is somehow even bigger loser behaviour than making edgy posts about tragedies in and of itself, and that is saying something www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
(... it is doubly wild when they bring PSR/FSR, which explicitly has money spent on womens' teams as an allowable loss, into it. But that's the Keir Starmer mentality of looking for a solution that feels the worst morally, because surely it feeling bad morally will magically make it succeed.)
... this framing kind of makes sense, but also: combined they're... half a Mo Salah?
(it is very wild when men's football fans go "well, obviously the women's team will need to be cut" as a default response to financial/footballing difficulty in the men's team)
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
An bit of a Spotify Wrapped rip off reading "You banished boredom. And your life goals, thanks to your entertainment choices". It's item 8 of 20 or so. There's some border stuff to show it's taken from the article linked above.
Ngl, I think they did go a bit too hard and the concept is, perhaps, flawed. ('banish[ing]... Your life goals, thanks to your entertainment choices"?! Like, the order of magnitude is probably, uh, off for this to be not-absurd)
(Like, aiui LLMs are superhuman bullshitters (in the technical sense) pretty much because they aren't 'intelligent'. A similar thing could be said of the proverbial paperclip maximiser; it's not far off a type of 'stupidity' we see in humans irl (see: the Home Office), but humans can avoid it)
Definition of intelligence for sure (as OP said already).
Though, I think the model of "AIs" as 'intelligent' can obscure their actual fail cases - assuming that they assemble strings of text that happen to be lies because they're so smart, rather than as the mathematically lowest cost option.
Yeah, no the mandate of footballing heaven is with Oxford United. I can't object to that.
(Now, if I could just shut down the "caring about football" bit of my brain that woukd be a great boost to my health, ngl)
Okay, strictly speaking it would be good for Leicester if Oxford drop points to Preston North End (writing it like that, uh, yeah I cannot expect neutrals to prefer Leicester to Oxford, damn), so I guess I ought to be happy that PNE equalised but, also: ugh _that_ guy. #EFL
Today I want to talk about Jess’ Rule and Martha’s Rule, two new initiatives across NHS England that I think are really important and you should know about.
Tl;dr: if your symptoms are not improving or getting worse, at home or in hospital, you have the right and Drs the responsibility to review.
I think a bigger deal is being made in advance because a. it is easy to make fun of Spurs (enjoyable, too) which in turn makes pumping out #content easy and b. Leicester's 2023 relegation burned all the pundits that would otherwise still be going "of course they won't be relegated".
(Honestly though, it's a sign of how stacked the Championship really is in terms of 'pedigree' that they had to resort to looking at League One for their hypothetical. Well, that and Oxford United are in the relegation zone, even if they could legit actually stay up)
They _are_ 10 points clear in the second automatic spot (one point shy of Cardiff at the top) with a game in hand over Bolton Wanderers in third (4th place is 13 points behind on the same games played).
It's not certain, but it is actually a reasonable working assumption at this point.
... bloody hell, Spurs really are the farce to Leicester's tragedy aren't they?
(... not that that wasn't also a farce, but there's farce, then there's _that_)
I only heard the "you can't take Starmer's approach in a nuclear war" bit (via Radio 2) and... uh.
Yeah, what the hell was that.
(Seriously, you cannot go "this obligatory base proposal is bad because we might have to do a bit of rural services" and then go "we want Willoughby Waterleys" (a small village, if not a hamlet, a few miles outside the current border))