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Wannabe musician, trytobe dad, embarrassingly superstitious Arsenal fan, just embarrassed generally, really. I stand with my legs, sometimes holding a guitar.
A bit late but I finally watched Band of Brothers and what a disappointment it turned out to be: all the characters were white and it took until the penultimate episode for someone to start playing a musical instrument.
Sinéad O'Connor's version of Nothing Compares 2 U was playing on the radio and it occurred to me that she, Prince and Chris Cornell probably all shared the same doctor, whose advice of "try to have fun, no matter what you do" at least suggests they aren't a real doctor and at worst may have contributed to the untimely deaths of two out of the three.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2023/jan/02/antonio-mateu-lahoz-plays-cards-wrong-catalan-derby-referee-barcelona-espanyol-la-liga

"his own record falling to the only man it could fall to, like the Sergey Bubka of referees." and "dishing out the cards like a croupier on crack" are my highlights of another great Sid Lowe column.

Antonio Mateu Lahoz plays his cards wrong to make Catalan derby history

The celebrity referee who handed out 17 cards in the Argentina-Netherlands quarter-final came home and went one better

The Guardian

It's almost the first #socialistsunday of 2023

I'm a nurse activist who has been raising awareness of the struggles for both staff & patients in the NHS under the Conservative government on here, Twitter, Tiktok and soon on the picket line.

If you support us please consider a Boost to help get my posts started on Mastodon. Thank you & Happy New Year 😊

#nhs #nhscrisis #fairpayfornursing #safestaffingsaveslives #SOSNHS

20yrs of teaching has taught me one thing in particular... never ever ever engage in an argument with a teenager who is smarter than you.

#gretathunberg v #andrewtate was only going to end one way.😂

In the space of 24 hours, I've gone from having no idea who Andrew Tate is, to thinking it's great that Greta Thunberg handed his arse to him, to being glad they arrested the piece of shit.

All of us will eventually die of something but it doesn’t make murder a hoax.

Just like the existence of natural climate variability doesn’t make anthropogenic #ClimateChange a hoax.

I love how on the internet you can ask a simple question, like "does A integrate with B?" And get dozens of unhelpful replies that don't answer the question.
"C is better than B"
"Use D"
"I'll never use products from A again in my life"
"B is against free speech!!"
"I can't believe people are still using A! I moved onto D decades ago"
😤

I hear a lot of White people in Britain saying that UK doesn’t have the kind of racism that America has. They might want to talk with Black and Brown Britons before making that determination.

“More than 2 in 5 Black, Brown & minority workers in the UK say they have faced racism on the job. Racist incidents included racist jokes, being subjected to stereotyping/comments about appearance, racist remarks, or outright bullying & harassment. ”

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/business/uk-workplace-racism/index.html

#UK #BlackMastodon #Racism

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.