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@themlg

Soccer nerd. Sometimes I even do soccer poasts.

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The should be numbers when referring to the position but you should stick with the common rule when referring to things. “The 10 seems to have been phased out of the modern game” and “England’s top ten attacking midfielders” are both correct.

06.03.2026 07:49 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is far more threatening to American Jews than anyone's policy views toward Israel

06.03.2026 01:23 👍 442 🔁 83 💬 10 📌 1

Our market has two rib guys and we are ride or die for Niko and his family. These things are very important.

06.03.2026 07:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We love our waffle lady so much! I honestly think our friends at the market, her and my rib guy are gonna be the people here we miss most.

06.03.2026 07:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh shit it’s Slay the Spire 2 day!

06.03.2026 07:23 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

PIF gonna sell Ronaldo to Kansas City to make ends meet.

06.03.2026 07:21 👍 32 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

(Unfortunately for her she was in the penalty box as her glasses remain missing for the second straight day. So, you know, peaks and valleys).

06.03.2026 07:16 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Six-year-old was angling to get bestowed the honor of hopping out of the car to pick up our morning waffles from the waffle stand on her own.

“Daddy I CAN do it. I’m INDEPENDENT!!”

Real unironic they grow up so fast hours around here this morning.

06.03.2026 07:05 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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More Champions League, More Paul and the Resurrection of Israel | The Double Pivot Podcast Get more from The Double Pivot Podcast on Patreon

for subscribers, we've got Part II

Man City - Real Madrid, Barcelona - Newcastle, Paul - The Resurrection of Israel

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05.03.2026 19:45 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Lol Tottenham are really gonna do this huh.

05.03.2026 21:04 👍 37 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 1

Sure picked a hell of a time to unplug and do a very interesting podcast interview,

05.03.2026 19:48 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah once you remember everybody blaming Silver for saying it was too close and then immediately turning on a dime and blaming him for saying Hillary would win, some of his obnoxious habits get a little clearer.

05.03.2026 16:24 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nate Silver Is Unskewing Polls -- All Of Them. Here's How. The vaunted 538 election forecaster is putting his thumb on the scales.

I’m not exaggerating www.huffpost.com/entry/nate-s...

05.03.2026 15:53 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One thing he is is extremely stupid.

I bring this up even few months but in the lead up to 2016 he accused Nate Silver of unskewing the polls to give Trump more of a chance and get attention for himself.

He did this because he didn’t understand what a weighted average or a regression was.

05.03.2026 15:50 👍 24 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Special flower syndrome strikes again.

05.03.2026 13:40 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Oh yeah that’s absolutely true. There’s a reason antisemitism is the “socialism of fools.”

05.03.2026 12:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This also happens to just be entirely untrue, his wife isn’t Jewish, and the idea she is originates as a ridiculous bit of ham fisted sleuthing around from the founder of fucking VDARE if you want to know what waters Grim is swimming in.

05.03.2026 12:32 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Champions League and Paul the Apostle - The Double Pivot: Soccer analysis, analytics, and commentary We discuss the Round of 16 and why it seems like there are fewer and fewer new matchups in the Champions League knockouts and what might have to be done to address this.And then, it's time for the ret...

new @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social

we talk Champions League bracket and then it's the return of Bible History Corner

(actually part I of a two-part extended Bible History Corner this week) www.buzzsprout.com/819853/episo...

04.03.2026 21:55 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 2

It’s not unreasonable though I I think it’s a tad too laser focused on antisemitism as a unique thing as opposed to another form of bigotry. To me it’s absolutely true that bigotry is interpreted by many as authenticity, and some form of bigotry serves to get them to believe your populism.

05.03.2026 12:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I grew up with a kid who went exactly that route during his teenage years, though seemed to become a pretty normal adult by all accounts.

05.03.2026 11:22 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Tbh I’d prefer to be doing a lot less Jewish posting. But the world does not appear set to knock its bullshit off any time soon.

05.03.2026 07:33 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Somebody should ask Ryan for his sourcing on Platner’s wife being Jewish.

05.03.2026 06:58 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My general take is that for so long it was extremely lonely being principled against Israeli atrocities in the west and you took whatever allies you could find, and that imprinted some really bad habits. And now it’s everybody’s problem.

05.03.2026 06:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

As long as we’re doing a personal gripe session (and apparently we’re two Jews having a chat so of course we are), it would also be great if all the people who knew how bigotry worked didnt forget how bigotry worked the moment it came to talking about antisemitism. But we are where we are.

05.03.2026 06:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don’t think our opinions are particularly different when you get right down to it.

05.03.2026 06:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fwiw, I don’t think he like harbors hatred for Jews in his heart or whatever (who can really know) I think he’s basically a dumb dumb who has done a bunch of things that are antisemitic. And, well, when you’ve don’t a bunch of antisemitic things, I judge you on the things you have done.

05.03.2026 06:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot of a podcast app playing “THE DOUBLE PIVOT: SOCCER ANALYSIS, ANALYTICS, AND COMME...
Champions League and Paul the Apostle”

Screenshot of a podcast app playing “THE DOUBLE PIVOT: SOCCER ANALYSIS, ANALYTICS, AND COMME... Champions League and Paul the Apostle”

Get you a soccer podcast that decided to hit you with surprise Biblical historiography. Fantastic stuff from @michaelcaley.bsky.social & @themlg.bsky.social
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05.03.2026 03:36 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
04.03.2026 15:20 👍 291 🔁 77 💬 6 📌 2

The critique of AI went from “it can’t do something anybody can do” to “it can’t do something, I, a subject matter expert can do” to “when I check it’s work doing things I, a subject matter expert can do, sometimes it makes mistakes,” all said in the exact same sneering tone.

04.03.2026 20:12 👍 42 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2

I think you should vote for Janet Mills in the primary even though you don’t like her because Graham Platner is antisemitic, similarly my family (who are all Jewish and live in Maine) will vote for Graham Platner if he wins the primary even though he is antisemitic because it beats the Republican.

04.03.2026 20:00 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0