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Finally started watching the Werder documentary about our season in 2. Liga. Good stuff...

A massive stampede in Seoul during a Halloween event; as of now, 59 dead and 150 injured

St. Pauli fans celebrating the 20th birthday of Ultrà Sankt Pauli in Hamburg port yesterday. Fantastic display.

Geschäftsführer Sport, apparently. The way I understand it, Eberl is interested in having an additional Sportdirektor to share responsibilities with.

So apparently he's a top candidate for a sporting director at RB next season... If true, that's a very dodgy way to get out of contract with Schalke for "personal reasons".

So in short, they overspent by £1,864,000 (1.6%), but also didn't include the national tax credit in their financial reports for some reason which would have pretty much balanced their books, so essentially this means that the actual overspend was just £432,652 (0.37%). Seems like they need better accountants, tbh. Glad this story is now over.

Accidentally found out that the PES6 modding scene is still alive, so I re-installed the game after years and got the Firebird 2023 patch with all the latest updates. So much fun

I actually put it in there just for you...

I may be in the minority here, but I actually love Twitter as a platform. It's by far the best social network for me to follow news, research and people in specific areas I'm interested in. That said, I stay clear of everything else and avoid the popular interests and events discussions between regular plebs, so that might cloud my judgement. As for the latest developments, I do wonder if anything will change now that Musk acquired it. The only thing I gathered so far is that he'll want to focus on targeted advertising on the platform.

I'm extremely ashamed of myself for reacting with a laughing emoji to a humorous post by a football satire magazine. Outrageous

Don't ask For some reason, last season he started calling 3 points a Dreierlachs, and now does it after every win Maybe he just really likes salmon or something

Bittencourt signed a contract extension good news!

Oh wow, so no manager and no sporting director as of this moment. No money, either. Must be fun times to be a Schalke fan...

Wow, now that's an impressive reply! Fallout 3 is free on Epic Games Store now, so I just went ahead and claimed it...

Should I?

Should I play Fallout?

Just watched the first two episodes. It is really, really good. And very weird, but in a good way.

Just read it too. Didn't know he was seriously sick RIP.

Kodak is now looking for hundreds of new film technicians due to increased demand. Not too bad for a company that declared bankruptcy a decade ago... Guess we could pitch the idea to them. I personally have a soft spot for Ilford though, the idea would work well given their experience with B&W.

As a proof of concept, we could probably just take an existing film scanner and modify the software... Then hit the Dragons' Den

Even better, build an actual slide & negative scanner with this algorithm built-in for automatic, almost-instant colorisation right upon scanning. Film photography is making a comeback as it is already, this would be such a great tool.

Wow, this is truly impressive. I took a quick snap of ca. 60 year old, worn-out, low-quality b&w photo with my phone, and uploaded it to the site. The results are incredible. Not only did it colourise the people in the photo right; the most impressive part is how accurately it recreated the colours in an extremely cluttered background - a Christmas tree, and old TV, floral wallpapers, etc. I'm well and truly stunned.

Incredible. Looks even better than the real Amsterdam

After Flamengo won the Cup a few days ago, Diego invited the stadium's cleaning staff to celebrate with him. What a legend.

Sadly not. Inter-island travel was strictly restricted when I was there due to COVID...