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Shane Thomas@tokenbg· 24d

Screenshot of text: Labour fell behind in the polls because the party antagonised its own base. It became, for millions of voters, the party of criminalising protest; the party of forcing trans people out of workplaces; the party of spending more on war. Rescuing the party's fortunes will require turning back to natural Labour voters. This will involve courting
renters. In 2018, private renters were 22 percent more likely to vote Labour than Conservative; in May 2025, high proportions of renting suggested an area would vote Green.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· 25d

Screenshot of text: It may not have been the face-melting exhilaration inferno of 2022. But I look at the world right now and it's so grim. The air's full of smoke from runaway wildfires. We're all getting explosive diarrhea thanks to Trump's CDC cuts. AI doesn't do almost any of the stuff they say it does, but you still have to use it all the time, because a CEO said so.
Everyone in power seems to be so bad at doing the exact thing they've been empowered to do. I mean, my God—we can't even do photo ops correctly in this country.

Screenshot of text: So I don't know —maybe it's a stretch, but to me, Spain's World Cup win feels like a small act of vengeance for every lost FedEx package, every health-insurance snafu that cost us three hours on the phone, every time we had to work harder at our jobs because our bosses insisted we'd be more productive using some broken tool they never even tried to understand. It's a reprisal for all the gadget designs that made the tech harder to use, all the legal reforms that made life more difficult, all the city roadwork that created more problems than it fixed.
It may not feel cinematic or epic, and it may not make you leap out of your seat. But Spain do what works, and they do it better than anyone else. And what works has its own romance, at a moment when so few things do.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· 26d

Screenshot of text: Over the course of the month, the football itself has provided us with some fantastic stuff, because of course it does. We love this game for
many reasons, but chief among them is how it can create moments of joy and beauty and unity - far beyond any kind of FIFA slogan. On the pitch we've seen some brilliant games and incredible individual and collective stories by virtue of this being the greatest sport on earth. Off the pitch we've had that too as fans and host cities have
demonstrated that, despite what the politicians keep telling you, people of all kinds can exist together quite happily. We've seen fans come together in victory and defeat, the power of community and the human spirit at the forefront of everything - even as those in power foster division from their ivory towers.

Screenshot of text: I've enjoyed much of this World Cup, as I have with every tournament | can remember going back as far as 1978 (just about), but there's a lot not to like about how the game is run and who is running it. Some people may say that's just the way of the world, but I think what we've seen around this tournament has been a grotesque show of pitiful toadying, arch-capitalism, Machiavellian manoeuvring, and outright corruption which, ultimately, comes at the expense of ordinary people. The real football fans who have brought so much to this tournament are the ones who will pay the price one way or another, as Infantino, Trump, and their ilk, continue to line their pockets. Their insatiable, gluttonous greed for money, fame, and power knows no bounds, but it's ok because we had some nice football.

Screenshot of text: We could, you know, have the nice football without all that. It shouldn't be impossible, but the more we just accept it, the less likely it becomes. I'm happy to state my objections for the record, for all the difference it will probably make, but I feel like not saying something is the wrong thing.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jul 15

Screenshot of text: If you watch a female coach of color thrive, it's a reminder that expanding opportunities for historically marginalized groups doesn't have to come at the expense of excellence.
If you go to a game and find your chosen family, you might feel less inclined to conform to a role in a nuclear family that doesn't fit.
If the league puts a spotlight on women like Dearica Hamby, who is outspoken in defense of her rights as a mother-not against the rights of mothers-it flies in the face of the narrow conception of choices the right wants women to believe they have.
The right's worst nightmare is not Caitlin
Clark getting hurt.

Screenshot of text: Their worst nightmare is more people finding out about the Golden State Valkyries, where the energy of a Game 7 meets a gay pride parade and woke has gone anything but broke.
It's the joie de vivre of the StudBudz, who are the antithesis of the humorless scolds the
conservative movement would like to paint the league's Black, masculine lesbians as.
It's Chelsea Gray kissing her wife and hugging her son after winning the WNBA Finals.
It's WNBA core, Part 1 and 2.

Screenshot of text: It's a league in which athletes, whether white or Black, straight or queer, are the main characters in a story that does not villainize, does not pity, does not evoke feelings of superiority or anger, but offers dimension, complexity, and courage.
This is the league as it actually is, but you'd have to dig through endless layers of rage bait and controversy to know about it.
It's a league that can organically, just by way of existing, remind America that the lifestyles its stars lead don't lead to despair and
dysfunction.

Screenshot of text: Right now, this is a battle that the WNBA'S enemies are winning, because they understand the league's power as a symbolic vehicle better than the WNBA does itself.
Commissioner Engelbert, time and time again, has shown up to this knife fight with an empty task force and a rote statement. Her regime has rested its laurels on television rights, sponsorships, and expansion fees while ignoring its biggest asset: its story. The longer it takes for the league to figure out how to tell it, the longer other people will.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jul 9

Screenshot of text: He repeated his frequent assertion that he is the 'most physically and verbally attacked public figure or politician in modern times', a distasteful claim in a decade when two MPs have been murdered and another near fatally stabbed. You might think that his noisome self-pity would turn off some of his supporters, but despite the occasional apostrophe to stoicism and virility, most modern reactionaries traffic in imagined victimhood.

Screenshot of text: Regardless, an uncontested platform won't make Farage disappear: a depressed seaside town in summer may prove irresistible to a media pack already inclined to broadcast the Reform leader's every word, and he has a much more varied, individually targeted and barely regulated world of digital propaganda at his disposal than existed in 2008.
Reform will want to make any by-election, now or later, a referendum on the government rather than Farage, and will probably campaign on a sense that the incoming Burnham administration lacks a clear political mandate, while continuing to press hard on immigration. The traditional attacks on Farage - that he is privately educated, a former banker, rarely seen in parliament or his constituency - will have as little purchase in Clacton this time as before. Enthusiasts for Farage see him as a champion of their xenophobic politics, not a representative of their class or community.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jul 6

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jul 2

The 2 have gotten closer, but I suspect he means getting direct access to the locker room, and I’m betting he wanted to be the main guy on a UK version of First Take.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jul 2

Feel he gave the game away on Stick to Football. Think he wanted to be like a famous US sports mouthpiece, like a Stephen A Smith.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jul 2

Screenshot of text: The penalty shootout is the worst, most agonizing, and yet wonderful and thrilling concept in the game. It compresses all the tension and drama of the game into one segment. When a player misses a shot during the 90 or 120 minutes of play, it's terrible. But when a player misses their penalty kick in the shootout, it feels like the end of the world.
Every feeling is at its maximum.

Screenshot of text: The shootout is also fantastic because, for all of the skill of the players, and the hours they spend practicing penalties, it feels like it's out of their hands. The moment of putting the ball down, stepping back, running and kicking the ball is so singular, so removed from everything else, so isolating and lonely, that it is overwhelming for even the best players in the world. Football is a team sport, and though penalty shootouts have an order of players to take them, it actually reduces the game to its most basic principle. An attacker against a goalkeeper. You have to get the ball beyond the keeper with one kick. There is no second chance. Your teammates are depending on you and everyone's eyes are on you.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jul 2

Screenshot of text: What makes an athlete different from any other celebrity, though, is that on a field or a court—and especially on a tennis court-there is only so much a person can control. There is a sense, finally, of something essential being revealed. A test of strength and skill seems to turn into a test of something else. A stadium becomes a panopticon with the prisoners' doors blown off, leaving the guard, in her tower, the one exposed.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 26

Screenshot of text: The Dirty Bill didn't change the rules. The Dirty Bill was the rules.
The Dirty Bill is DOGE running the government. It's Al killing your job, including the programming and writing jobs that trained the Al that killed your job. It's Hollywood pontificating about soul-sucking Al through an SOS from HBO. It's a smartphone going from a luxury to a convenience to a necessity whose true purpose is mass surveillance and social control. It's rule by algorithm that beats to a dead heart. It's a Flock camera on every corner and a Ring doorbell on every home and a frightened family on every block. It's a million QR codes that all read "You're fucked."
No one asked for this, but it keeps coming.

Screenshot of text: The Dirty Bill is the filthiest lucre: mandated counterfeit circulated in a nation of shrieking
Lady Macbeths. Scream all you want; it's content!
You know there is more to this world. You know they'd rather bombard children with digital facsimiles than let them see the real deal and force-feed them robot summaries before
they find a root cause. Conditioning the youngest generation to view life this way eradicates the greatest threat to technofascism: human memory.
Memory, and its expectations.
You write on a network owned by oligarchs — pick one, any one, they're all one — who can flick the kill switch at any time. All your work can be annihilated at whim: your years of effort, your original thoughts, your fleeting triumphs over precarity. No recourse, no rights: a world of words eliminated in a keystroke. You got the Dirty Bill.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 26

Ashleigh Plumptre during the 2023 WC in Australia and New Zealand.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 25

Tweet from Goma:

My "Roman Empire” is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 22

Really should have stuck a bet on this.

Tweet from a few years ago: 4 PM's in the past 6 years. I can foresee a scenario where it becomes 7 in 10.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 21

Screenshot of text: When I watch Zendaya, my worst fear is that she'll become her generation's Morgan Freeman-someone who spent the majority of his career being that great neoliberal construction of pop
"universality," which of course means appealing to whiteness. An actor we've never been afforded the ability to see surrounded by Blackness, seen through, and made for our eyes. I fear seeing a talented actor like Zendaya left unrealized, as a bifurcated identity reduced to its status quo mono.

Screenshot of text: Whatever the Black or biracial movie star is going to be in the future, that racial context cannot be ignored for the sake of access to that level of stardom, especially when that level of stardom should be in question itself. We cannot trade the work for half, or even all, of one's identity. We should center those questions around what can be added, not subtracted.

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Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 18

Screenshot of text: But don't be surprised if we wake up to a Reform win on Thursday.
Labour fear that Reform are motivating non-voters, boosting turnout- voters about whom little is known and who may easily throw off both their targeting efforts and the pollsters'.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 17

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Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 16

Posts from Grace Robertson: someone at the english fa lost their job because michael olise chose to play for france, right? i need to know that people have been held accountable for this.

does harry kane ever talk to olise or musiala about this

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 15

Screenshot of text: Beyond the economic tithes, there are the more abstract, less measurable tolls, tolls worth pondering even if today's deal is the real thing. There has been a destabilising impact on millions of people who lived through wartime, their economic, professional and personal lives unsettled by the rapid reconfigurations brought about by the destructive, belligerent partnership of Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Together those two decided to pursue their agendas in the Middle East and to hell with the consequences for those who actually live there.

Screenshot of text: In the absurdist "ceasefires" across the region, the very meaning of war is being redefined. In Gaza, nearly 1,000 people have been killed since the ceasefire in October of last year. In Lebanon, since the April ceasefire, Israel's killings, ejection of hundreds of' thousands of Lebanese from their homes and pummelling of parts of Beirut continue. About 1 million people remain displaced. In the last two months, the death toll of almost 1,500 amounts to a third of the total fatalities since the escalation of the conflict in early March. More than one in four of those dead are children. And after the last ceasefire between the US and Iran in April, the two traded more strikes, including recent US attacks on cities in southern Iran.

Screenshot of text: In the absurdist "ceasefires" across the region, the very meaning of war is being redefined. In Gaza, nearly 1,000 people have been killed since the ceasefire in October of last year. In Lebanon, since the April ceasefire, Israel's killings, ejection of hundreds of' thousands of Lebanese from their homes and pummelling of parts of Beirut continue. About 1 million people remain displaced. In the last two months, the death toll of almost 1,500 amounts to a third of the total fatalities since the escalation of the conflict in early March. More than one in four of those dead are children. And after the last ceasefire between the US and Iran in April, the two traded more strikes, including recent US attacks on cities in southern Iran.

Screenshot of text: Lebanon will not be resolved overnight; its millions of displaced citizens will not return and rebuild the moment a deal is signed - Israel is not known for its wise de-escalatory appetite for relinquishing seized land.
Gaza remains an open wound. The Iranians still retain the power to seize up the region and the global economy with strikes and control of the strait of Hormuz. Arab countries remain in a holding pattern of insecurity, hostage to the impossible balance between Tehran, Tel Aviv and Washington.
And the sense that this is how it is, and how it always has been, will settle, as people continue to try to make lives during the biggest regional conflict in the Middle East in contemporary history. Because humans take a lot of killing.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 14

Screenshot of text: This week hundreds of masked men took to the
streets of Belfast to burn down houses and terrorise the families of ethnic minorities and migrants.
The attacks were highly organised, with prominent public figures, including the richest man in the world, openly promoting and glorying in the violence online.
Yet despite all this widespread criminality and terror, just 19 individuals have so far been arrested, with multiple politicians and commentators openly defending those who took to the streets.
By contrast a largely peaceful demonstration outside Woolwich Crown court on Friday, against the conviction of four Palestine Action protesters, led to a total of 107 arrests.

Screenshot of text: In all cases those arrested had merely held up a placard, worn a t-shirt, or delivered a chant in support of the group.
They did not burn down a building, they did not throw a brick, they did not terrorise a family from their home.
Yet all of these people have been arrested and branded as terrorists, with barely a whisper uttered in their defence.
The contrast between how these two groups are now being treated is stark.
Here's what it tells us about where the real
"two tiers" in British justice, politics and journalism now really lie.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 13

Screenshot of text: In recent years, that logic has expanded beyond Muslims to encompass asylum seekers and migrants. Yet the demand is no longer merely for condemnation or apology.
Collective blame has given way to collective punishment. It now manifests itself in medieval-style mobs roaming residential streets to set homes and businesses ablaze, and violent threats directed at anyone deemed 'foreign.

Screenshot of text: The Equality Act was not a revolutionary moment that suddenly bestowed new privileges on minority groups. Its main function was to consolidate decades of
existing equality protections into a single legislative framework. The Act protects nine characteristics, including age, disability, pregnancy, race, and religion. It seeks to protect the one in nine new mothers who report being dismissed, made redundant or treated so poorly that they feel forced to leave work - more than
54,000 women every year. It protects the 92 percent of disabled people who face barriers to at least one form of transport. It protects people of colour from discrimination in employment and public services.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 12

Screenshot of text: Racist crimes in Northern Ireland reached a record high last year and a political response is urgently required. It isn't just a question of policing. There needs to be a co-ordinated strategy that tackles not only acts of violence but also the narratives that make them possible. Hostility towards immigrants does not develop in a vacuum.

Screenshot of text: The constant negative coverage of immigration not only reinforces perceptions of immigrants as a threat but also fosters attribution bias - the tendency to attribute the actions of a few individuals to an entire group.
In this context, an event such as the attack on Stephen Ogilvie on Monday becomes what social scientists call an 'information shock' - a highly salient incident that appears to confirm existing fears and prejudices, often triggering hostility towards entire communities that bear no responsibility for the crime itself.
Information shocks don't happen if the fears and prejudices aren't already present, waiting to be transformed into collective blame and violent action. (As Natalie McNally's brother has observed, the sentencing of her murderer last week for a 'brutal and frenzied attack that involved the use of a knife' did not lead to 'the same angry outcry and mobilisation'.)

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 12

Screenshot of text: How do you stage a tournament while attacking the very basis of its existence, morally and also physically? Welcome to our celebration of openness and international friendship, which we hate! All visitors are welcome here, except the ones we arbitrarily throw into prison, which probably won't be you, but maybe! Please write your credit card number on this form. How can you stage an event when you can't even be bothered to conceal that this is your attitude toward it?

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 10

Screenshot of text: Mary Ramsay, the deputy director of public health programmes at the UK Health Security Agency, said: 'While the majority of parents are vaccinating, we know some parents do find it difficult to navigate the booking system and attend all their children's vaccination appointments. It is a complex schedule, and with busy lifestyles and other pressures, we know it can be hard for some to prioritise, find the time and get to their appointments?

Screenshot of text: Anti-vaxxers have grown more emboldened since Covid, but they are still very much a minority. Most parents want to immunise their children. Often missing, though, is a sense of vaccination as a public good. Parents are more likely to be concerned with the safety of their own children than the collective healthcare of all children (and adults). There's a lack of solidarity - yet that is the shape of contemporary parenting. As so many aspects of our lives have become privatised and reduced to the nuclear family, so has the way people think about their health. But personal choice can only take us so far.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 9

Reason 1 million why we can’t be checking for awards too much. Rachel McAdams didn’t so much a come near a nomination for her work in this.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 5

Fairs.

Screenshot of text: The greatest lie ever told about penalty shootouts is that they are a lottery. This is a recognisable and trainable footballing skill, a test not just of ball-striking and placement but research, psychology, mettle under pressure.
Eberechi Eze puts the ball wide, Gabriel Magalhäes sends it in the direction of the Danube: this is failure on the most brutal and unforgiving terms. But it is failure nonetheless.

Screenshot of text: The second greatest lie ever told about penalties is that fortune plays no part.
Any encounter decided by 10 kicks of a football will evidently be at the disproportionate mercy of random factors: the divot, the bad contact, the goalkeeper's guesswork (and to all the preparation that goes into the process, it remains partly guesswork). That this sport - already a sport of low scores, narrow differentials and infinite variables - chooses to decide its biggest prizes on these smallest of morsels is one of its cruellest traits.

Screenshot of text: Was any other approach remotely plausible? Probably not. Bayern Munich in the semi-final showed up the limitations of going toe-to-toe with Paris Saint-Germain on their own terms. And of course Arsenal do not possess a Michael Olise, a Harry Kane, a Luis Díaz, a philosophy based on drilled waves of lawless attack. They were missing their top two right-backs, and finished the game with a front three of Gabriel Martinelli, Noni Madueke and Viktor Gyökeres, which should at least contextualise what it was fair to expect from Arteta here.

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 3

Screenshot of text: Behnam was there. He's a department head at a university. 'I feel like I'm having a mental breakdown, he said. His hands were wrapped around his teacup. 'I can't focus. My landlord increased the rent from 240 million rials to 300 million' (£132 to £165). He waved at the tables around us. 'I run my online class from here. When students don't have the internet for ninety days, you can't ask them to do research. We send exam questions, they cheat, and we pretend not to notice?
Mohsen, a painter and university professor, stubbed out his cigarette. 'You go to sleep at night, wake up in the morning, and your whole life has changed, he said. He was supposed to have been given a link for his online workshop but for two weeks there had been nothing. 'I follow it up. The university authorities laugh and say the responsible person is sick.'

Screenshot of text: His son has been married for two years. 'I tell them to have children. They look at me like I made a bad joke. They say they can barely afford their own lives.'
'I can't tolerate this situation anymore, Lila said. 'I just want to leave - anywhere, anywhere, where there are no clerics.'
Habib's a builder. Work has stopped,' he said.
'Everyone is in limbo, waiting.'

Shane Thomas@tokenbg· Jun 3

Screenshot of text: It all amounts to the clear reflection of an attitude that displays deeply entrenched attitudes towards women's football. For all their fine talk of being a 'community club', women's football remains an optional extra for too many clubs with funding that can - and evidently will - be pulled at will.

Screenshot of text: Plymouth Argyle have been perfectly happy to lean into their women's team in the past and take the positive publicity when it has suited to them. They were voted the EFL's Community Club of the Year as recently as April, and the club clearly carries out excellent work in its community. But it's fair to question what value an award like this has, it they can also simply pull the plug on their women's team for the purposes of financial convenience.
This can hardly be considered a one-off within women's football, either. This time last year it was Blackburn Rovers pulling the plug on funding for their women's team, forcing their withdrawal from the WS 2. The year before that it was Reading withdrawing from the Championship, a decision made so late that the season had to be played a team short.

Screenshot of text: This broader attitude, that the women's team is not a core, fundamental part of what makes a football club what it is, will continue to harm both the women's game and the reputations of those clubs who choose to treat teams as disposable.
Ultimately, the decision taken by Plymouth Argyle was a choice, and until these very thought processes are stamped out, women's football will continue to be hamstrung in terms of its growth and development, and it will continue to be treated as a second-class passenger.

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