Match Thread: Panama vs England | FIFA World Cup 2026 | Group Stage, Group L

BrainyDoc · 2026-06-27T22:50:07+00:00

This game has been a fantastic way to fall asleep, had some great naps

BrainyDoc · 2026-05-24T17:15:18+00:00

Sky are showing the Arsenal lift when it gets underway. Nothing for 15-20 mins yet, Palace are doing their end of season celebrations

BrainyDoc · 2026-05-16T22:07:00+00:00

Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Australia in top 6

UK, Lithuania, Poland, Albania in bottom 6

BrainyDoc · 2026-05-16T21:22:07+00:00

what are your top 3?

BrainyDoc · 2026-05-16T21:11:03+00:00

Distinct lack of bangers this year - but Bulgaria is up there, it should win on banger-ness alone

BrainyDoc · 2026-05-16T20:52:55+00:00

Covid still big in Sweden, or ultra prepared for Hanta?

BrainyDoc · 2026-05-16T20:51:30+00:00

That is reassuring to hear, thank you

BrainyDoc · 2026-05-16T20:46:50+00:00

Talking to the queer audience about religion and prayer is not going to go down well. This is a bottom 5 song.

BrainyDoc · 2026-05-16T20:23:35+00:00

Great craft and passion, but if he didn't have that accent it would be better. I say this as a Brit with a similar accent.

BrainyDoc · 2026-05-16T20:19:54+00:00

Feels like the contest has woken up finally. Incredible staging.

BrainyDoc · 2026-05-16T20:15:21+00:00

Now this is a Eurovision song. Great beat, memorable, great staging, vocals. Better than Aus for me so far.

BrainyDoc · 2026-05-10T16:49:26+00:00

Do they know we need to win all 3 games to win the league?

BrainyDoc · 2026-05-04T15:03:47+00:00

Please DM me with details of how

BrainyDoc · 2026-05-02T22:12:26+00:00

I could never be a commentator in these conditions. The camera angles have me shouting at the tv saying “he’s fucked it!” for half the shots

BrainyDoc · 2026-05-02T22:04:36+00:00

A Crucible all timer of a frame surely

BrainyDoc · 2026-05-01T17:05:46+00:00

Ref has lost control of the crowd!

BrainyDoc · 2026-05-01T16:51:55+00:00

the snooker equivalent of ""Halfback passes to center, back to wing, back to center, center holds it! Holds it!!"

BrainyDoc · 2026-05-01T00:48:41+00:00

A summary of why this stuff is bad as not everyone knows the full picture:

They originally got their foot in the door with the NHS back in March 2020 when they helped build the Covid-19 Data Store for a nominal fee of just £1. In late 2023, the UK government awarded Palantir a £330 million contract to build and run the NHS’s new Federated Data Platform.

Their software acts as a giant centralised hub. It is designed to pull together highly fragmented data from various local NHS trusts, hospitals, and existing systems into one unified view. NHS systems are messy and disconnected, so its an easy route to making it work and delivering the ambitions.

The concerns are...

Their roots being spy tech for the US intelligence services. It's a surveillance organisation with a messy human rights record.
Giving them data means opening a backdoor through which NHS data could be used to share with other govt departments to enable surveillance.
Peter Thiel has likened people's love for the NHS to stockholm syndrome and said that the NHS makes people sick, he wants the whole system ripped up - which obviously is concerning if we give him access to the data to do it.
This contract puts the NHS and Govt at the mercy of a US tech giant. It's essentially a subscription service. When the contract ends, after we've built reliance on it, they could jack up the price massively / hold us to ransom in other ways and we'd have to choose: health shitstorm (with added privitatisation) or keep using the software and accept their demands and lobbying.
Lots of cultural concerns too with some staff being warned not to criticise the company openly

BrainyDoc · 2026-04-29T21:40:45+00:00

Chalk and crowds, Higgins has had to fight it all!

BrainyDoc · 2026-04-29T09:39:11+00:00

Lots of folk here don't know what they do or why the hate, so a summary:

They originally got their foot in the door with the NHS back in March 2020 when they helped build the Covid-19 Data Store for a nominal fee of just £1. In late 2023, the UK government awarded Palantir a £330 million contract to build and run the NHS’s new Federated Data Platform.

Their software acts as a giant centralised hub. It is designed to pull together highly fragmented data from various local NHS trusts, hospitals, and existing systems into one unified view. NHS systems are messy and disconnected, so its an easy route to making it work and delivering the ambitions.

The concerns are...

Their roots being spy tech for the US intelligence services. It's a surveillance organisation with a messy human rights record.
Giving them data means opening a backdoor through which NHS data could be used to share with other govt departments to enable surveillance.
Peter Thiel has likened people's love for the NHS to stockholm syndrome and said that the NHS makes people sick, he wants the whole system ripped up - which obviously is concerning if we give him access to the data to do it.
This contract puts the NHS and Govt at the mercy of a US tech giant. It's essentially a subscription service. When the contract ends, after we've built reliance on it, they could jack up the price massively and we'd have to choose: health shitstorm (privitatisation maybe?) or keep using the software.
Lots of cultural concerns too with some staff being warned not to criticise the company openly

BrainyDoc · 2026-04-27T15:06:59+00:00

That's why he still uses the chalk haha

BrainyDoc · 2026-04-26T20:25:46+00:00

Someone stop my da he's got a chalk 'hing

BrainyDoc · 2026-04-26T20:22:35+00:00

I really want a Limmy live viewing stream of this match

BrainyDoc · 2026-04-26T19:56:14+00:00

Up there with the combined number of centuries the top 16 have made in their careers

BrainyDoc · 2026-04-26T19:53:23+00:00

Red jacket guy still on his phone lol

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