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🇭🇷 🇺🇸 environmental policy analyst, political nerd/former campaigner, video game designer (Retro Bowl College, Australian Football Coach)
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Tip to pollsters: if you have two candidates who are clearly in the lead in a ranked choice contest, ask people directly if they prefer in the lead 1 or in the lead 2! These simulations... granted there are rarely four way contests in Australia but it's a complete overthink

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Time moves fast. People last week: "Auckland City shouldn't be in the FIFA Club Cup thing" People today: "Seattle shouldn't have been in the FIFA Club Cup thing"

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I think I'm most interested to see whether US pollsters know how to poll a ranked choice vote properly Hypothesis is no

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Corey Worthington is back.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

That is twice today I have tried to open a link at a bottom of a website only for it to lazy-load news in such a way to make it impossible to do so

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Finally was able to see one of my favourite bands - Klinika Denisa Kataneca - live last weekend, they were fantastic

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Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

submitted 11 days ago • 2249 comments

The 2026 World Cup Simulation has been updated - now with 6% more Croatia: stattosoftware.com/wc2026/index...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Belgium may not want to visit America next year

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

All I want is a television that you turn on and there's a channel and you start watching the channel and if it's the wrong channel, you can type in the number of the channel you want and start watching that Televisions peaked 20 years ago

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Expected Scores North Melbourne v West Coast, Round 13 Match Stats wheeloratings.com/afl_match_st... #AFLNorthEagles #AFL

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Unseen for 61 years ! We have found the only surviving TV broadcast of the 1964 Grand Final. Long thought lost, it shows Ch9's 3rd + 4th qtr telecast. You can now watch it for the first time since Sept 19 1964. youtu.be/ofkt7lhZpsw

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

World Cup 2026 simulator, now with even more Uzbekistan stattosoftware.com/wc2026

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Squiggle Football is coming for PC, Mac + Linux! Demo will be released next week. Wishlist to be notified >>> store.steampowered.com/app/1543960/...

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Bahamas, Barbados, Aruba, Belize, British Virgin Islands, and Anguilla all were eliminated from World Cup 2026 qualifying today.

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World Cup Qualifying returns tomorrow, and we're going to have a few teams eliminated in North America by the end of the day! Bermuda-Cayman Islands and Grenada-Bahamas probably the most interesting of the six matches, it's uphill for the teams in the other four games who all have one point combined

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This is real www.pennlive.com/news/2025/06... www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/u...

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Nerd post: just entered the weird wild decimal based world of 1/97, 1/98, 1/997, and 1/9899

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Dust storm triggered by an approaching cold front over drought-affected parts of SA and VIC.

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Dinamo Zagreb, if Luka signs this summer:

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