Dark Machine

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Some thing on the internet. He/him. Tokyo. LFC. Red Sox. Yakult Swallows (sometimes). Football. Baseball. Sports. Politics. Music. Lefty. Scouser. EN/JP 英・日

A photo of graffiti on a grey wall in Brooklyn New York. There is roughly painted pure white rectangular background, and these words in black atop it: “Football without Origi is nothing”
Quote from Szbozlai interview post Man City: On trying to bounce back in the Champions League in the last bid for a trophy this season: "We have to forget as much as we can and as soon as we can and just keep on fighting all the time. "I always say when we do it and we are winning, when we don't do it we are losing. You have to fight, work hard, be there for each other and that's what we are missing sometimes."
A picture of Marvel villain “Mr. Sinister”. Red eyes, white skin, red glowing diamond on his forehead, goatee, and smirking severe expression. He has his hands clasped in front of him in a pensive manner.
Scottish Premiership Game Stats Page Dundee United 2 - 1 Celtic (Glasgow) Possession 26.3% - 73.7% Shots 16 - 17 Shots on Target 7 - 2 Expected Goals 1 - 2.8 Actual Goals 2 - 1 Basically, football is a weird sport vulnerable to wild statistical variance because it is low scoring and full of random events. Which is part of why we love it! In this case, Celtic should've won by 3 or 4 goals. But they just, missed. Dundee United didn't miss, and won. Somehow this is all the new Celtic manager's fault, obviously. The one who's been in charge 14 days. He's making the players miss the goal from 5 meters.
Text of rule one of Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny” 1. Do not obey in advance Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
Pope Leo “singing” into a microphone while his entourage mills around behind him.
A painting of Jesus and his followers at the scene of the feeding of the five thousand (loaves and fishes). Jesus is gesturing to the crowd while talking with another follower. Overlaying text reads: “We can’t feed all these people. That would only create dependency.”
DJ live event. Big screen in background. DJ truck, big crowd in the foreground.
Liverpool player Luis Garcia celebrates just after scoring against Chelsea in the 2004-05 UEFA Champions League semifinal. Three Chelsea players are in the background, including captain John Terry, appealing that the ball did not cross the goal line. It did. Liverpool won the game 1-0 and went on to the final in Istanbul. Where something even more miraculous happened. But that’s a story for another time.
Karl-Heinz Riedle playing football for Liverpool.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Mega Drive EU box art.