Daniel J Shepley

A variety of likes, many interests besides, and so on.

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

I don't need a beer to not have fun.

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

@technopopulist Sorry, but this is bollocks. The reasons excitement has been muted is general FIFA fatigue, relative lack of jeopardy (this could backfire) in group stage, and KO times for a Euro audience. If England progress people will buy in.

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

Absolutely this! Time to look seriously at mitigation, but making ourselves poorer and less competitive while the chief culprits continue unabated is not the answer.

It's far from ideal tbh, but it is where we are.

[self titled @gyattmosphere]

If the AMOC is collapsing it's not clear that decarbonisation will do very much to prevent it at this point (and certainly not Britain alone), even under ideal emissions pathways a certain amount of climate disruption is locked in.

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

@DavidDack Coffee before anything at this point.

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

@Linahuaa Well this take can get rid!

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

WC2026 seems a turning point for me, in starting to measure in how many I might have left.

[Ororo😎 @McFlybowy]

World Cup is the biggest indicator of life, it’s also very easy to use to track your life, and I’m talking from a fan angle. If you’re watching your 4th World Cup, you can easily picture where your life has been in those 4 cycles.

You remember who you watched it with, the house you were in, the phone you used, the friends you had, the dreams you were chasing at that time. One World Cup you were still in school, another you were struggling to find direction, another you’re working, paying bills, growing up without even noticing it.

That’s why World Cups feel bigger than football sometimes. They come every four years, so they almost act like checkpoints in life. The gap is long enough for everything around you to completely change, but the tournament stays familiar. Same emotions, same nerves, same songs, same feeling when the anthem plays before a big match.

You can literally measure your growth through football memories.

2010? I was just a kid.
2014? Secondary school days.
2018? Different phase entirely.
2022? Real adulthood started hitting.
2026? You’re probably Married

And by the time another one comes around, you realise life never waited for anybody. Players you grew up watching are gone, new stars arrive, and somehow your own life changed just as much too.

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

@owenjonesjourno @Steve_Laws_ He won't answer. That way he doesn't upset his *checks notes* more moderate nazi followers.

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

I'm genuinely a little unsettled. Either, they were exceedingly proficient, and consistent at being someone else then, or these algorithms really are warping people beyond all recognition.

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

I'm sure I've made the point several times in the last few years, but worth repeating. This site is bad for you. It's bad for them and bad for society.

I'm quite intermittent here, because frankly, it's a little depressing. But that does allow me to see the regulars evolve.

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

Scary to see so many people that were -just a couple of years ago- either posting music, FPL, vanilla centrist politics etc... but are now regurgitating ethnonationalist content.

I don't know when they were radicalised, but I'm certain it was this place that broke their brains!

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

@carlfhoward They're banging the drum for all hospitality, including those charging £20 per head, and rightly so. It's a tough business with fine margins including for those at the pinnacle of industry. Are they likely to gain more traction than our Cath from the greasy spoon on the corner?

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

@HoyasFan07 Support seems reflective of their relative fiscal postition.

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

@afneil It's 'proven & theorised' though. 😂

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

Done engaging with this shit. Dabbling in the outrage machine is plenty, I don't wish to be captured.

You lot crack on. 👍

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

@SlasherSunny @Danjsalt Continue regurgitating uninformed online talking points that your algorithm feeds you. Happy days 👍

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

@SlasherSunny @Danjsalt No, when have I denied that? I live less than miles away from there. The whole thing was utterly grim, and a disgrace!
I don't profess to be an expert on anything, but I make observations, and my own at that.
Anyways top whataboutery, now jog on.

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

@SlasherSunny @Danjsalt Are you in UK? Just want to understand whether your awareness of roaming rape gangs comes from first hand experience of the country?

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

@SlasherSunny @Danjsalt You in London?

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

@SlasherSunny Isn't it? Sorry wasn't aware. 🙄

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

They are cooked, truly.

US education, utterly polarised politics and media environment, social media, all coupled with the exceptionalism the pervades right & left alike. It's done for them.

[Maximus 🇺🇸 @DrMaximus_NYC]

This is how the leftists rewrite history in front of our eyes.

The Falklands were invaded by people 8000 miles away in 1833 and now somehow they’re the owners

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

@HoyasFan07 Indeed. A de facto Russian asset remains a boon to Putin and, more importantly, is damaging to the West. Possibly permanently so.

[Daniel J Shepley @ShepleyDan]

@PDXFato @BrunoTertrais Anyway, my original reply was just a snarky way of saying, be careful where you get your facts, esp on other countries. UK has fair share of problems at min, and yes, immigration levels are one. But the picture painted by many US posts, is not rooted in reality in my experience.