Craig

'Ugh I hate those kind...'

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[Craig @ckempo]

LinkedIn telling you who's looked at your profile: amazing. Especially when it's a prick from your block list.

[Aston Villa @AstonVilla]

The next chapter has begun.

[Freeman @FreemanLowell01]

@danroan Venture capitalist shocked to discover there are people not motivated by money. I would suggest Joshua broaden his circle of friends.

[Dave Clerihew @Blaaaarb]

@danroan “Had I realised that the rest of the world wasn’t as corrupt as the US & wouldn’t just roll over because my brothers father-in-law, who is in no way connected to this deal honest, said so, i wouldn’t have got involved”.

[She Wolf @RapierDiva]

This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.

"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.

You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.

Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.

Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.

And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.

And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.

'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.

So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."

[Craig @ckempo]

@AstonVilla 😭 One of my favourite Villa players for years. Gutted.

[Richard Mills @RichardMills113]

Depressingly accurate. Fuck the @premierleague #avfc

[Ty Bracey @TyBracey]

Now that Rafael Leao isn’t joining and we’ve turned our attention to Ibrahim Mbaye can we please stop tagging Damian Vidagany giving him a hard time everytime we lose out on a player you’d like us to sign

It is pathetic.

#AVFC

[Craig @ckempo]

It's Jacob at the backpost!

[Jacob Tanswell @J_Tanswell]

New: #AVFC reach agreement in principle to sign Ibrahim Mbaye from PSG. Deal worth €55million - Villa in process of finalising deal for long-standing target.

Story @TheAthleticFC @David_Ornstein

https://t.co/mkwCD2QCtC

[Craig @ckempo]

@fortressavfc There are sooo many on here that repeat the same loop every window. #AVFC generally don't make noise on transfers, and announcements come when they are ready. Lots of people like to claim they are ITK and speculate but it's all balls. And yet they still wind themselves up!

[Craig @ckempo]

@NoContextBrits Gone somewhere better.

[Aston Villa Statto @AVFCStatto]

Before Unai Emery joined Villa, Ezri Konsa was nowhere near England squads and was inconsistent (although he still had good moments) for #AVFC.

By the time Emery had worked with him, Konsa was a major cog in how Villa played, was super consistent and had become a starter for England at a major tournament, with elite passing and tackling numbers.

Trust in Unai Emery to work with and improve any players who come in.

[FG10 @FHG10VTID]

@J_Tanswell First goal was on Maatsen

He throws that ball forward and it's a different situation

Plays a bad throw to Pau

[Craig @ckempo]

@AstonVilla Aaaaaaahhh fuck. Gutted.

[Idle Comment 🌱🐰🤗 @IdleComment]

Thought my phone was about to explode when the Government Severe Alert came through!

[G.T @gingerrtom]

The reason the country is on it's
arse is not because Keir Starmer was the Prime Minister for 2 years.

The country is on its arse because of the people who stupidly voted the Tories into power for 14 years straight!

[Louis Gleeson @aigleeson]

A Danish engineer dropped out of university in 1979, wrote a Pascal compiler so fast it made Borland a hundred-million-dollar company, then built the language that became the backbone of Microsoft's entire software ecosystem, then built TypeScript, which became the number one language on GitHub in 2025 and most developers who use his work every day have never heard his name.

His name is Anders Hejlsberg.

He was born in Copenhagen in 1960, started studying engineering at the Technical University of Denmark in 1979, and left before finishing his degree because he was already building something more interesting than anything his courses could offer.

He had access to a minicomputer at his high school, one of the first in Denmark to have one. He taught himself machine code, Algol, and Pascal.

By the time he was supposed to be finishing his degree, he had already written a Pascal compiler from scratch for the Nascom-2 microcomputer. He released it under the name Blue Label Pascal.

A small Danish software company called PolyData picked it up. Borland, the American developer tools company, found it and saw immediately what they had. They licensed the compiler, brought Hejlsberg to California, and in November 1983 released it as Turbo Pascal.

The price was $49.95. At the time, most Pascal compilers cost hundreds of dollars and ran slowly. Turbo Pascal was cheap and compiled code so fast that developers could not believe it was real. One reviewer read the speed claims on the box, assumed they were marketing fiction, tested it, and then wrote that he had never seen anything like it.

The product sold over one million copies. Borland became a serious company almost overnight, and Hejlsberg was the reason.

He kept building. He became chief architect of Delphi in 1995, Borland's rapid application development environment built on Object Pascal. Delphi let Windows developers build full graphical applications faster than anything else available.

It dominated enterprise Windows development through the mid-1990s. Teams that used it could ship in weeks what their competitors took months to build.

Microsoft noticed. In 1996 they made him an offer. He left Borland and joined Microsoft, and the project they handed him was the one that would define the next decade of enterprise software.

He designed C#.

Released in 2000 alongside the .NET Framework, C# was built to be modern in ways Java was not. Clean object orientation. Garbage collection. Strong typing.

A syntax familiar enough that Java and C++ developers could pick it up quickly but designed without the legacy decisions those languages had accumulated over decades. Hejlsberg later said one of his goals was to make the language feel inevitable, as if every decision was the only sensible one.

It worked. C# became the primary language of Microsoft's entire development platform. It powers enterprise applications, game development through Unity, cloud services on Azure, and Windows applications across hundreds of millions of machines. Around 6.2 million developers write C# professionally today.

Then he did it again.

By 2010, JavaScript had become unavoidable. Every web application ran on it. But JavaScript had been designed in ten days in 1995 for simple browser scripting, not for building complex systems with large teams. As codebases grew to hundreds of thousands of lines, the lack of a type system meant bugs that a compiler would have caught in any other language were only discovered in production.

Hejlsberg saw the problem clearly and spent two years designing a solution.

TypeScript launched in 2012 as an open-source typed superset of JavaScript. You write TypeScript, and it compiles down to plain JavaScript. The type system catches errors before the code runs. Large teams can work on the same codebase without breaking each other's code. Every major JavaScript framework adopted it. Google, Airbnb, Slack, and Microsoft all moved their codebases to TypeScript.

In August 2025, TypeScript overtook Python and JavaScript to become the number one language on GitHub by monthly contributors.

He is 65 years old. He is still at Microsoft as a Technical Fellow. He is still working on TypeScript.

Four languages. Four decades. Turbo Pascal made developer tools affordable and fast. Delphi made Windows application development accessible. C# became the backbone of enterprise software. TypeScript became the dominant language of the modern web.

Most of the developers using his work right now are too young to know what Turbo Pascal was. They learned to code in languages that borrowed from C#. They write TypeScript every day without knowing who designed it.

He dropped out of university in 1979 to build a compiler.

He has not stopped since.

[Ty Bracey @TyBracey]

@RakAVFC Mate there’s more limbs in our pre season game against Walsall 😂😂

[Stef @avfc_stef]

Increasing 30,000 season tickets by ~£50 nets the club an additional £1.5m

The excuse used is to “support ongoing investment in the playing squad”

Achieving UCL and winning Europa will earn villa ~£85m

Harvey Elliott’s wages for the duration of his loan cost ~£3.4m

Jadon Sancho’s wages for the duration of his loan cost ~£7.2m

Abraham and Alysson signings cost £30m+ in fees alone only to barely play

Aston Villa spent £38.4m on agent fees between Feb 2025 and Feb 2026

Price hikes exist to help the commercial teams achieve arbitrary year-on-year internal target increases rather than having any material impact on “supporting ongoing investment in the playing squad”.

If it had a meaningful impact - why is our manager dealing with the same core of a squad he took over 4 years ago despite hikes every year?

You don’t NEED to increase ticket prices. You WANT to.

Stop meaninglessly punishing match-going fans and get your act together commercially. And stop lying to us about why.

Pocket pinching loyal fans WILL NOT help Aston Villa compete.

#AVFC

[Aston Villa @AstonVilla]

Top-four finish ✅
Europa League winners 🏆

Unsustainable FC 😤

[adidas Football @adidasfootball]

⁠if Villans can’t be heroes, they can at least be royalty 🏆

@AVFCOfficial