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Note to editors: Trump did not humiliate Zelenskyy, who remained calm and reasonably polite throughout. It was not a 'shouting match'; Zelenskyy quietly but firmly confronted lies with truth, gangster-like bullying with determination. #SlavaUkraini

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Zelensky not punching him right in the face is perhaps the greatest act of self-restraint I have ever witnessed.

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"I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the correct order."

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GET OUTTA MY PUB!

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Cricket Ireland continuing bilateral relations with Afghanistan isn't a good look. www.cricketeurope.com/DATABASE/ART...

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a few years ago if you said "college republican clubs are hotbeds of white supremacism and enthusiastic support for rape" people looked at you like you were wearing a barrel on a street corner and if you said it today most people would still do that because the newspapers won't print it

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@mrmmarsh.bsky.social I know you don't do much of the Bad PR stuff anymore but would appreciate your opinion!

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Trying to decide if this is an advert or not. The mention of Klarna is setting my bullshit radar off. www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yo...

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Christmas in Somalia: a wartime cricket story www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/147463...

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🚨 RUGBY LEAGUE IN THE ATHLETIC THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨

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Trying to fathom the depths of the moral panic that would happen among the absolute worst kind of cricket fans if some kind of hidden ball trick happened in cricket.

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Not too long before the ICC go "fuck it, we'll do it on rankings".

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There is increasing frustration that the ICC have yet to communicate when and where the 2025 Women's ODI World Cup Qualifier will be played, five weeks out from the mooted start.

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Little difference in my mind between Trott and those who went on rebel tours of South Africa.

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For those playing along at home we are now at the: "Ok sure they're Nazi salutes - but that doesn't make them expressions of Nazism" stage of denial.

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Three years ago today, our players stopped being cricketers. Almost ICC members, we instead became soldiers, humanitarians, refugees. We are all still alive. But hundreds of Ukrainian sportspeople have lost their lives. Слава Украïнi 🇺🇦 Героям слава! 🙏🏻 www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/getting...

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Must be confusing for the some people in Britain who feel they should celebrate the election success of the AfD in Germany but also need to maintain that illusion that they personally fought against right wing Germany in the Second World War.

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Amazing.

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In 2007 the UAE successfully chased 358 against Namibia in an ICC tournament. (Apologies for sharing an image without alt-text which Cricinfo can't be bothered to use. The image shows two Australian batters embracing with the scores from today's England v Australia match)

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If it's extremely obvious that your email has been written by AI, it goes straight into the bin before I finish reading the first few sentences. If you can't be bothered to put the effort into talking to me properly, I'm not giving you my effort back.

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trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

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As someone who advocates for the expansion of Test cricket, the bit in this criticising the "18 counties forever" slogan speaks loudly to me. Just as "Test is best" can only be true if all nations can be involved, county cricket can only be great if it stops being a closed shop.

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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

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After USA and Oman combined to score 187-20 off 61 overs in the last ODI, Oman have now managed 190-5 in the first T20 at Al Amerat. I'm assuming it's a different pitch.

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"It's quite simple really. Including alt text on images helps make your posts more accessible. It's a matter of common courtesy. There's even a setting you can turn on to remind you to add it!"

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One of the wildest stories in associate cricket in recent years has been the fake games scandal in French women's cricket. The national team as it then was essentially ceased to exist with the players (rightly IMO) unwilling to apologise for their part in bringing the scandal to attention. (1/2)

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I find it kind of amazing that within a single lifetime (half of one even), America has gone from viewing Russia as the greatest threat to mankind to having a President so far in Moscow’s pocket you can barely see his ill fitting shoes poking out of the top.

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I have a cat and I line its tray with newspaper before putting the cat litter in. I always keep an eye out for newspapers with pictures of Nigel Farage as I like the idea of my cat taking a shit on his smug face.

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Elon Musk's DOGE team of misfits have fired everybody at the Federal Aviation Administration ✈️ who is a probationary employee Thinking they have got rid of all the new hires It turns out many of these were experienced technicians, recently promoted and were on probation for their new senior role

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The Falkland Islands return to international cricket after a 13 year gap with a tour of Costa Rica next month. Anyone interested in how the Falklands first got a team up from a pool of 40 players can read more in issue 34 of @nightwatchmanxi.bsky.social

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if you call a tesla factory or showroom and say “there are a number of explosive devices in your building that could go off at any moment”, technically it’s not a bomb threat, just a description of their inventory

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The Zing stumps/bails set used in top level cricket (assuming the BCCI are using the same ones as they use in the men's IPL) cost circa US$40,000 a set, which is more than some ICC members get in annual funding. And taking this at face value they're basically useless.

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Always blows my mind that some people question the T20I status of lower ranked associates and nobody ever questions whether this glorified knock about should count as a T20I.

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can't decide if they are knowingly trying to reduce US influence abroad or if they're just so averse to academic language that they can't read between the lines of the program titles. are they confused that they don't see programs titled like "spies" & "bribes" & so on lol

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So it wasn't a bona fide example of a statue bleeding the Virgin Mary's blood? Shocking stuff. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Love how the AfD have finally included an accidental element of truth in their pamphlets. 😂 #FAIL

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The Greatest One Day Batter in the World just before that meant what it would mean now – these days he'd have made one hundred quintillion rupees and would play for Lancs once every three years 🏏

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