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| Econ and Phil BSc | 30 | he/him | aspiring stats boff | GGMU ⚫🔴 | "it's still real to me dammit" |
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There’s a Burmese New Year /Myanmar Thingyan food fair and festival in #Manchester TODAY raising desperately needed funds for the people of Myanmar! 📍 Flixton Girl’s School ⏰ 11am to 7pm

The absolute callousness of announcing a 44% trade tariff against Myanmar this week, of all weeks.

My book is called ‘MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen’ because Mandalay is where my heart lies. My father and my brothers were all born in Mandalay, and my parents met at Mandalay Medical School. My tastes, my food, my vocabulary are that of a Mandalay-thu (မန္တလေးသူ - ‘Mandalayan’).

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

Real Betis have created the most inventive and unlikely tribute to David Lynch (truncated version here) to announce their new signing. Sadly, the player isn't worthy of such great work

“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”

Sir Jim Ratcliffe has put the famous Trinity statue outside Old Trafford behind a paywall. A barrier has been erected around the depictions of Best, Law and Charlton, with pay-per-view holes available to sneak a peek at the club's glorious past. These 'glory holes' will help the club comply with PSR

Delighted to say my copy of United We Stand came in the post. Please keep doing what you're doing @andymitten.bsky.social, in a world where football seems further and further away from the everyday fan, it's integral journalists like you that ensure that we're not forgotten.

Are you gonna liberate us girls from male, white, corporate oppression?

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

I wrote about the increasing contradictions of Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s persona and project at Man United. There’s the obvious ones in this tickets increase but even more fundamental ones in the quest to simultaneously build a world-beating team and world-beating stadium. www.nytimes.com/athletic/595...

13 years apart!