I said earlier that the best thing for team USA's credibility would be if they lost this match decisively to Belgium and it looks like they're going to achieve that. Really taking the hit for the sake of international relations.

Avignon FIFA

SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM EVERYWHERE SCHISM ALL THE TIME

Having been previously (I must admit it) put off by Harry Kane's flat-eyed stare, I am now suddenly 100% all in for this team and my beautiful son Jude Bellingham

the school, knowing the answer: why is your 17yo not in this morning? the nation: do you just want me to lie to you or...?

Adam Sandler officiated Taylor Swift's wedding??? what a time to be alive

I’m okay with plot in movies but only if it advances the sex scenes

Quietly judging work acquaintances who respond to professional emails with heart emojis.

Oooh how pleasing

This also is part of why I'm interested. Never expected to see real potential for an AntiPope in my lifetime.

That's amateur stuff. As a pro, I believe he can take bigger

Good morning only to the hipster gentleman in the coffee shop this morning sprawled legs akimbo at the table across from me wearing very short shorts and NO underwear

*everyone on Bsky banging tables* SCHISM, SCHISM, SCHISM!

I think more people need to see this new 85 foot statue of Lionel Messi with unfortunately placed world cup trophy sports.yahoo.com/articles/gia...

I really enjoyed Annalee Newitz's novella Automatic Noodle. Sweet post-apocalypse story in which a group of robots set up a noodle restaurant.

Elis and John are on a real run of form right now but yesterday's ep was an all-timer.

Today me and #hw made a rube goldberg machine for the first time in ages and I forgot it involves a lot of him yelling things like, "We need a trigger, an elevator, and a button! I'll get some useful things!" and then coming back with three pillows.

I completed Pharaoh, built all the pyramids, and now I've started Cleopatra, the add-on, and WHAT, CAVE TOMBS, PAINT SHOPS, OIL AND LAMP MAKERS?? THIS IS THE BEST

My absolute favorite, my eternal love, the giant turkey library

Cesare passed away. I remember her from SGA, she was great fun. I know a few friends of mine were close with her still - I'm so sorry for your loss.

My sincere compassion to everyone in the UK dealing with this heat. We're going in July and I'm dreading our trip coinciding with a heatwave. It is just the absolute pits. Mental health in the can. And I've never done it with a 6yo. Fingers crossed it rains the whole time we're there.

There is ONE thing I am looking forward to this heatwave: Pictures of paschal candles that have melted in churches. Here's an example from a few years ago. It's my favourite phenomenon. Because, well... Look at it.

So, on one of my favorite podcasts, the Worst Idea of All Time, Tim Batt just announced that he was booked for a new podcast where guests have to write erotic fiction, & he wrote RPF about himself and his cohost of TWIAT, Guy Montgomery. THAT is how you make comedy out of RPF without punching down.

Me when I see a bald eagle: [delight at seeing a cool bird, slight stirring of patriotism, pride that we banned DDT and their numbers have recovered so well] Me when I see a bald eagle getting harassed by a bunch of crows: HELL YEAH! GET HIS ASS, COMRADES!!! AMERICA BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE!!!!!

I've got to admit, a woman sports commentator calling childbirth a "disgusting moment" at which the father "has no place" re: a football player who's leaving the world cup to attend the birth of his first child is pretty funny.

If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed

This is absolutely the funniest piece of journalism to come out of the world cup coverage so far. Scorched earth on Fox's football pundit Alexi Lalas. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I fell over on my return from the school run today. I scooted into a bin. Big graze on my leg and a bit shaken but otherwise fine. First time I've taken a tumble in ages.

#hw now has his pokemon cards organized into a binder and no child has ever been so proud. However I fear his insatiable greed for pokemon cards can never be slaked.

No thunderstorm 🙁

Very much become That Mum as I email the teacher to try to assist #hw in a pokemon trade gone sour

This is a VERY GOOD COMIC and I'm so pleased LWC saw it and thought of me

So important, worth watching video

I love these giant warrior and tiny monk stories

I don't really like paprika.

I dunno, maybe been absolutely uncompromising and kind of rude about something I didn't want to do.

I felt very cynical and sad about this #worldcup but I really love football and I'm enjoying watching it on telemundo in Spanish since that's what we have access to. I'm going to learn Spanish footballing words! My aim for this tournament is to get #hw accustomed to watching games.

You will not regret taking some time out of your day to read this excellent scientific paper, I promise you!

SURELY someone has made a Shane/Ilya vid to 'Free' from the Kpop demon hunters soundtrack

Proud of myself for hitting my deadlines this year.

I've now read 2 in the Fantasy Ancient Greece Service Kink For Teens series, aka Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief, and imagine my annoyance when I started what I thought was book 3 only to discover it was book 6.

Bad brain today. Bees.

I'm reading a Nero Wolfe and I think it might be the gayest one I've read yet. Archie is very attached to the leather wallet that Wolfe gave him with orchids on it and when it's stolen and he thinks Wolfe is dead he has a total breakdown. Then when he collapses, Wolfe keeps his head on his lap.

tradcath (calling in favors from your brother, the pope)

“Oh, sorry pope.”

Help I may need to watch Heated Rivalry again

As @caroladlam.bsky.social isn't on here much these days, I feel like I need to blow the trumpet about her brilliant graphic novel about the life of Eliza Raine (the first lover of Anne Lister, but also so much more than that), forthcoming with Virago! www.thebookseller.com/rights/graph...

So, #hw and his friend were making signs to Big Butt Land (because they are six), and I (naturally) said, "I like big butts and I cannot lie," and they made this, the best picture of me that exists.

Of interest to many of you, I would think!