Patkomir

former CEO of Internet & retired minister of domestic idiotism

[Patkomir @JDuckBrah]

Sleep is for the weak, so that you’re not weak anymore, when you wake up.

[DailyMantle @DailyMantle3]

Dear Manul, Happy 250th Birthday.

1776 was also the year the term "Manul" was officially coined by German scientist Peter Simon Pallas.

[Patkomir @JDuckBrah]

@Earldormancy @mymoonovski probably because that „language“ is just 85% of an austrian dialect repackaged into hebrew letters

[Ink Blot @inkblotistan]

no money, no bunny

[една българка @transbulgaria]

A true Bulgarian miracle unfolded in Sofia. ❤️

[borzoi facts borzoi facts borzoi facts borzoi fact @borzoifacts]

two headed borzoi

[Patkomir @JDuckBrah]

@uncle_june Proper logo placement, whatever happened there…

[The Sopranos Guy™ @uncle_june]

"Ay, Tone. It's me. Go ahead and put 10 grand on Portugal. Let's just say, the referee is gonna play ball if any VAR decision comes up."

[The Sopranos Guy™ @uncle_june]

Finished 2nd in 2018
Finished 3rd in 2022
Robbed in 2026

[Goals Side @goalsside]

🚨🗣️| Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Croatia's disallowed goal:

"It was a robbery. They disallowed the goal to set up a Portugal vs Spain last-16 clash. It was manipulated."

[𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙢 🇭🇷 @sensitivechud]

American capital is already proving a disaster for football. Private equity sees the sport as an undervalued asset so expect further enshittification.

[Mr.RekT @ar_rekt]

@Keegan59992745 The fact that fifa just straight up pretended like this rule doesn't exist 💀💀

[Alex Nezlobin @0x94305]

@Keegan59992745 FIFA also has the technology to show that the Portuguese defender’s touch was unintentional. Here is the graph.

[keegan @Keegan59992745]

It clearly touched a strand of his hair. Please consult my graph.

[Josip @l3d1c]

FIFA mafia! I can't believe Croatia got robbed like this.

[TheFollower❤️‍🔥 @Earldormancy]

The thing with the ball’s sensor showing a touch, notice they did not show the surrounding signal changes, because they probably dwarf it significantly

[🇺🇸🇩🇪🦉 @jonahcelona]

Okay explain me this then? The sensor detected a touch which was his hair strand, but if you don't show the spike when the ball touched Veiga's head how can we compare the scale you are using to measure the touch? Moreover the trajectory of the ball didn't change at all

SCANDAL

[horse dentist @equine__dentist]

can i come over and just do this

[Josip @l3d1c]

🇭🇷 Croatia got eliminated from the World Cup by a closed-source sensor.

FIFA says the Kinexon chip in the Trionda "proved" Matanović touched the ball. Absolute disgrace. What actually happened: they ran signal processing over 500Hz IMU data from a 14-gram sensor and isolated a supposed contact spike from thousands of noisy samples dominated by bladder harmonics, panel flex, spin wobble and stadium micro-tremors, then nullified one of the most dramatic World Cup equalizers in history via spectral analysis of what is essentially glorified noise.

Oh, and it gets better. They moved the chip this year. Back in 2022, it used to hang suspended in the center of the ball. Now it's glued into the sidewall of ONE panel, with counterweights stuffed into the other three so the ball doesn't fly like a shopping cart. So sensitivity now depends on which side of the ball the "contact" happens relative to the sensor. Totally fine basis for ending a nation's tournament.

An IMU measures acceleration. Somewhere in a proprietary pipeline, a threshold decides which acceleration counts as "touch." That threshold is unpublished. The false positive rate is unpublished. The calibration data is unpublished. The patents are literally still in their secrecy window. And FIFA owns the raw data, so nobody can independently audit the trace that ended Modrić's last World Cup.

And we're all supposed to accept a "heartbeat graphic" on the broadcast as if that settles anything.

Since we sadly all know you won't ever admit your crimes or remove this technology for good, at least open source the detection pipeline, @FIFAcom!

Publish the thresholds, the error rates, the raw IMU trace from last night. If the tech is right, transparency costs nothing, right?

[TheFollower❤️‍🔥 @Earldormancy]

Didn’t watch it award

[Flux🥂 @FluxCFC]

🚨Pierluigi Collina on Portugal being awarded a penalty after the VAR review:

🗣️ “This is simply not a penalty — I’m stunned they’ve awarded it.

Awarding a spot-kick for that kind of minimal contact in a World Cup knockout game risks creating a terrible precedent.

Croatia had been outstanding at the back all evening, and now their disciplined performance is at risk of being undone by an intervention I strongly disagree with. Football involves physical challenges; not every brush or nudge should be penalised.

VAR exists to fix obvious errors, not to go looking for fouls that weren’t there. The referee saw the incident clearly in real time, yet reversed his decision after checking the monitor.

Moments like this are precisely why trust in the system keeps eroding.
If Portugal convert this, Croatia will rightly feel the result was decided in the VAR room rather than on the pitch. Calls of this magnitude can swing an entire competition, and in my view, this one has been badly misjudged.”