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The NYT is counting down their best books of the 21st century. Here's my top 10.

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My best ever finish after 15 straight years doing this, taking the crown in our first Farcaster Fantasy League. Thank you to Salah and Saliba who I both had in from GW1, and the irrepressible Cole Palmer who came in in GW16 with nearly 200 points still ahead of him. Til next year!

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Picked up this beauty today — this puts me at 7 in total, which means I'll have to bump one from the party.

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apparently De Ligt is unsettled at Bayern, Tuchel started Dier over him against Leverkusen on the weekend. Would love to see Liverpool throw a bid their way to get him in as the successor to van Dijk

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If you like shorts because they're comfy and easy to wear, then this entry-level Gen 1 Pokemon ENS might be the one for you

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pretty remarkable stat, and one that lots of people still overlook when considering either TAA’s individual defending experiences, or Liverpool’s defence at any given moment. These are comfortably the most prolific full backs ever in the EPL, and that will have an impact on the defence

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anyone here got any experience with Emerald’s battle frontier? i’ve got one gold and one silver, really struggling to get my Battle Dome silver up to a gold

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sometimes i think back to some people i went to school with and think “surely they don’t pay taxes now”

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i was thinking today about the 115 pending charges against Man City for financial shenanigans from 09-18, and realised if they get their titles stripped and they get re-awarded to second place, then it kind of changes how we think about the tenures of Rodgers (Liverpool) and Mourinho (Man U).

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keen to hear how Australia stacks up in the US vs Europe comparison

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I'm currently reading Middlemarch and found a nice progenitor of what would later become "Shakespeare or hip-hop?" online quizzes

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books read in 2023

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i usually exclusively read literary fiction, but a good mate is making me read this. about 10% through and the prose is pretty ugly (translation caveat) but it’s been interesting enough so far.

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Aussies are freaking out right now (+ AOC tweeted about it) because a rich property developer said (admittedly crudely) that unemployment still needs to rise, and it's really brought to mind that Henry Ford quote that if people actually understood the banking/monetary system then there'd be a revolution in the morning

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Interesting debate starting about the Ballon d'Or (player of the season). Should Messi get it for the World Cup, or Mbappe for his WC efforts + a stronger Ligue Un showing, or Haaland for his superhuman PL + UCL showing? Personally I think I prefer Mbappe, but interested to hear people's thoughts (Counts last season)

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This was a seriously interesting thread recently about Russian translations. I've read Anna Karenina multiples times in multiples translations, and it shocked me how lifeless the tr. Pevear/Volokhonsky version seemed. https://twitter.com/mualphaxi/status/1696277443412140263

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new Zadie Smith takedown just dropped, essentially criticising her for her interest in humanity over politics. pretty boring stuff in the end, though quite well-written. personally i rate On Beauty over White Teeth, but both are great. https://www.vulture.com/article/zadie-smith-the-fraud-review.html

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one of the bigger issues with FFP is that it incentivises clubs to sell off their homegrown players because they count as pure profit. having a homegrown base is good and should not be disincentivised. a clear example of a rule brought in to address an issue that only creates another issue

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Farcaster will have truly broken through when @sassal.eth uses it to announce that he woke up feeling bullish

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Just read this spy classic for the first time and loved it. Short and instantly sharp, it kept me gripped across the two days it took to finish it, dealing with both big ideas and individuals.

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