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Nick Hide
@nickhide.bsky.social
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Managing copy editor at the website CNET dot com. Englishman in Virginia. Dad of twins. Indoorsman. Serial monogamer, currently playing: MENACE
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Nick Hide @nickhide.bsky.social · Aug 26
ok I played some more Zero Company and it totally hooked me. strong game of the year contender for me
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philippeauclair.bsky.social
Dear England fans, ir's absolutely fine to say it: your team is wonderful fun to watch.
September 26, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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tariqpanja.bsky.social
Maybe a bit early to discuss the process whatever the outcome may be here. But Man City investigation started in 2018. The club was charged more than 3 years ago. In that time, the team has continued unmolested, recruiting at incredible fees, winning at great frequency. The PL still can’t comment.
September 25, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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craigcheslog.com
A 114-point penalty should be a small part of the sanctions.
September 25, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
My proposed sanction: Allow Cavan Sullivan to stay in Philly for 3 additional seasons
September 25, 2026 at 2:52 PM
nickhide.bsky.social
look I know there's big news in football right now, but don't miss this phenomenal interview @samdalling.bsky.social did with Kieron Dyer, who has had Some Life www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Kieron Dyer making waves at Southend after leaving ‘hooligan’ days and ‘deathbed’ behind
Day in former England midfielder’s company reveals a chess fan and hands-on manager who will not tolerate tardiness
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2026 at 2:44 PM
nickhide.bsky.social
well www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...
Manchester City found guilty on almost all Premier League charges relating to financial breaches (Gift Article)
City were charged by the Premier League in February 2023.
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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serrels.bsky.social
IT'S ALIVE!!!! @continuemag.bsky.social
September 25, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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maxrushden.bsky.social
A (hopefully reasonable) bit on the influencer dog in the women’s Champions League studio. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
My bad TV history qualifies me to discuss Disney’s women’s football coverage | Max Rushden
A golden retriever and a game of guess the pasta were unusual inclusions for a Women’s Champions League show on Disney+ – but I understand how the producers arrived there
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2026 at 8:47 PM
nickhide.bsky.social
he can’t keep getting away with this (complimentary) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m an avid fan of chard – but you can have too much of a good thing | Adrian Chiles
My veg patch has turned into a chard jungle and now it’s chard for breakfast, lunch and supper, writes Adrian Chiles
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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whitneycwimbish.bsky.social
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
elivalley.bsky.social Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 2d
Boasting to the world of his mass terrorist atrocity:
Netanyahu showing off a pager during his speech at the UN
September 24, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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acosta32jp.bsky.social
Great endorsement of the product, "yeah it makes everyone lose basic skills to be a functioning person but who cares?"
mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 2d
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?”

Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address. And I —— I don’t really believe that to be true. It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you. One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it. But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded —— Yeah. I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books. You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers. Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker. What do you mean by systems thinker? They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things. So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
September 24, 2026 at 4:56 PM
nickhide.bsky.social
out of everything in this horrifying thread, this is the one that makes me ashamed to be British. they should be grovelling.
sarahjeong.bsky.social sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3d
another great detail: no one in a BA uniform has been remotely apologetic, even performatively. everyone keeps acting like this is a normal delay. the closest thing we've gotten is a guy at check-in saying "we're doing our best" (no sorry, no sympathies)
September 23, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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jonathanliew.bsky.social
so good
September 21, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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theonion.com
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming https://theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nefarious-plot-to-undergo-years-of-m-1850433563/
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
September 18, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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jonathanliew.bsky.social
a tale of two 15-year-olds. on raheem sterling, jj gabriel and football's army of child labour

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Raheem Sterling’s bleak tale a reminder of absurd path young footballers face | Jonathan Liew
The winger was one of the first big-money academy transfers, part of a child labour market that has barely been questioned
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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victoriascott.bsky.social
This isn’t funny. Commodities traders only do this when they’re in extreme distress
ljkawa.bsky.social Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 9d
JPMorgan’s commodities team:

“For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view. We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.”
September 17, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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chen-yenhan.bsky.social
I don't think the Secretary of the Army should retweet Russian propaganda.
September 16, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started
unamullally.bsky.social Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 11d
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
September 15, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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dbernstein.bsky.social
… Launching an undeclared war; blowing up boats in the Caribbean; threatening Sen. Kelly; blowing up the girls’ school; kidnapping a foreign leader… it’s a Greatest Hits impeachment bill.
September 15, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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lincolnproject.us
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie reads articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth.

About. Damn. Time.
September 15, 2026 at 5:37 PM
nickhide.bsky.social
hedges are BACK, baby
‘It’s really taking off’: hedge revival as farmers rediscover ancient tools
Grant applications in England surge as interest grows in habitat that captures carbon and helps reduce flood risk
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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lucyjames.games
what are we DOING here, man. much love to the folks impacted
September 14, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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scottstein.bsky.social
My Steam Frame review, please read, currently on plane using it www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/...
Steam Frame, Reviewed: Valve's Ambitious VR Headset Feels Like an Experiment in Progress - CNET
Whether you consider it a PC VR evolution or a Steam Deck for your face, the Frame is both frustrating and fascinating to play with.
www.cnet.com
September 14, 2026 at 5:03 PM