Michael Smyth

[Matt Gallagher @MattP1Gallagher]

Bring back V8’s

Fuck this shit

[Michael Smyth @mdsmythy]

@MattP1Tommy At the cost of seeming reactionary…championship over?

[mcdiesel @mcdiesel88]

Blindboy had a post on Instagram yesterday where he addressed this.

[Michael Smyth @mdsmythy]

@MattP1Tommy I understand why Mercedes would ask to switch the cars - but why on Earth did George agree and just let Kimi by???

[Michael Smyth @mdsmythy]

@TomP1Bellingham Why on Earth would he give that up - he’s in a championship fight ffs!

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[J.M. Goodwin @jmgwritten]

Consider the contrast to how we normally write heroes and villains:

Syril is loyal, dedicated, diligent, eager, earnest, honest, unashamed of his beliefs, totally committed to justice, and willing to bear tragedy without giving up.

He works for the evil Empire

Cassian is paranoid, shiftless, disloyal, unreliable, selfish, jaded, ruthless, and compulsively deceitful.

He's the hero

That Andor not only pulls this off but makes it obvious to the viewer who's side we're on (and why) is an unparalleled feat of character framing, and we should all be taking notes

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Someone asked my opinion on this claim, quote:

"In Fingal a non-national is 1.4 times MORE likely to get a house or apartment than an Irish person is."

My main opinion is ignoring these people has got to be better for your sanity.

I'll go through a bunch of statistics. /1

[Brad Bain @thebradbain]

ok, sure why not

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: I demand you stand down in Clacton. I will be a unity candidate and pledge to build at least one affordable house.

Nigel Farage says he wants The People versus the Establishment. So be it.

Leave him to me.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Game on, Nige.

[dro 🇲🇽 @FutbolFax]

These Argentine players don’t give a fuck about club footy / the UCL, but once they’re within a 50 meter radius of the midget they start playing peak ball & it’s a must watch. Incredible stuff

[Otto Von Tweetmarck @OVTweetmarck]

Extremely funny that Norway just suddenly was like “here’s our most stereotypical man, he is unreal at soccer.”

[Ruth Buscombe @RuthBuscombe]

Three things had to line up for the stewards to overturn this.

1. The rule never says the timing system is the final word. The speeding rule (Article B1.6.3a) just says there's a speed limit, 60 km/h at Monaco. It doesn't say "speed as measured by the official timing system". Compare the false start rule (B5.11.1), which spells out exactly which system decides whether you jumped the start. Because the speeding rule names no source, the only question the stewards had to answer was: was the car actually going faster than 60? Not: did the screen say so.

2. The timekeeper proved its own number wrong. Pit lane speed is calculated as distance divided by time, and the official distance for that zone was 77 cm too long, because the barriers moved this year and opened a shorter line. The timekeeper found this itself with a laser scan after the race. Redo the maths with the correct distance and Gasly was doing 58.7 and 58.8 km/h. Under the limit, both times. The stewards actually rejected all of Alpine's own evidence; what convinced them was the official system contradicting itself.

3. The penalty could still be undone. Gasly never served his penalties during the race they were added to his finishing time afterwards, and that's the only kind the stewards have the power to erase. A penalty served at a pit stop is gone forever; nobody can give you back time you spent stationary. Alpine then filed for a review within the 96-hour deadline (Article 14 of the Sporting Code), with the new evidence the rules require. They were the only team that did.

That's why Gasly got his podium back and the other four drivers caught by the same faulty zone got nothing: all three conditions held for him, and only him.

[Michael Smyth @mdsmythy]

@ChrisMedlandF1 Gasly has multiple 5 second penalties no?

[Mahir 🇹🇷🇬🇧 @ScrewderiaF1]

Verstappen vs Leclerc and Hamilton

[David W. Higgins @higginsdavidw]

Some crucial observations by @gavreilly. A shame he isn't on this platform anymore.

[AnSealgaire @AnSealgaire]

Hi -
To everyone defending these protests, this man is Christopher Duffy.
Here is a sample of his posts -