Ronaldo's World Cup goal record genuinely not that impressive, he's just been around forever and Portugal qualify every time.

i can't believe the events of volodymyr zelenskyys life happened/are happening to a real person. i'd wake up every day like gregor samsa "oh my god it's still going"

wtf is going on with the autotranslate on my browser

Everything else aside I do find it weird the way people refer to ChatGPT just as "Chat". No, no, Mr. GPT was my father.

Political ideology is the strongest predictor of Messi-Ronaldo preference. Authoritarians who like short-form video are more likely to think Ronaldo is the GOAT.

Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff. In earlier incarnation, he supported the Iraq invasion; was chairman of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants. What next?

I'm an early riser these days but the early breakfast means I'm always famished by at least 11 if not earlier. trying to stick to a routine but I just don't think I'm cut out for a 12pm+ lunch break. but if I break and eat an early lunch then I end up hungry again by like 4pm. it's never ending!

Morgan Rogers at north of £80m is a no from me I'm afraid, more chaos merchants in the frontline who can't keep the ball. But the manager has made his vision quite clear. And Tuchel is playing a variation on it as well (including with several Arsenal players). Coaches seem to think it's the future.

I keep thinking there HAS to be a point of digital literacy where this stops happening and/or all of the people doing it have been sacked. maybe that's too optimistic. but law firms aren't going to keep employing people who make them look like morons and clients will stop retaining them.

I count 14 different people quoted in this, *literally every single one of them* anonymous. Funny.

Find it weird that the post-match analysis seems to be asking about Palmer and Foden (fair enough) but suggesting Madueke as the replacement, who held the width and did his job, rather than Bellingham (ill-disciplined game, should have been sent off, created very little).

Keir Starmer operating the weather machine

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Madueke did look really good in the CL final, maybe he's just hitting form at the weirdest time. good against Croatia and good again here, looks like the only England attacker likely to create anything.

pundits have been saying that teams need to "up the tempo" since I started watching football and it's just as stupid today as it was then. might as well just put an animatronic in a pair of tight trousers and save whatever you're paying Wayne Rooney.

How has Bellingham got 50 caps, I remember about 12 of them at most

you wouldn't wet a bulb

Genuinely quite annoying that Ronaldo gets to stat pad against the weakest team in the tournament and act like the big man about it

I'm a lucky man married with my bisexual nympho perverted slutty slave wife of 72 . Together we have all kind of transsexual girlfriends, with special fetishes here in Nederland, België & Deutschland. Who are always welcome having a place to sleep & stay during the weekends, so enjoy yourself Hannah

It really is nuts how oppressive the heat in the UK is. It has me second guessing myself, like it must be psychological somehow. I've been to actually hot places now but the UK is still awful in the heat! How does it feel worse at 8-10 degrees cooler than Mexico. Mad.

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have a real pet peeve with people misusing the phrase "self-proclaimed". there is very rarely a formal body for these things. most things are self-proclaimed really. it's just a meaningless phrase you add to make someone sound self-involved.

thank you for finally giving me permission Costa, up until this point all of my sips have been sordid shameful backalley affairs

www.unlaced.uk/poetryandpro... re-reading this after sending it to someone and with a little bit of distance from it, I'm quite proud of it. so I'm going to share it again.

www.yahoo.com/news/science... yeah fuck it. crack it open. why not.

No single rake knocked Sideshow Bob out, therefore Sideshow Bob did not step on any rakes.

Is it because she also shares many of the values of the far-right?

the british 'state' does not exist, cannot fund anything, cannot fix anything and certainly cannot create anything for the future and the prime minister's main job is to be a sin eater to absorb the public's hate while the ruling class rip more copper from the walls and ban complaining about it

I know he's disgusting to look at but I can't hate Haaland. He's a funny guy.

Danke fürs Man und whitesplaining...

still think Argentina will struggle up against anyone decent. I suppose Austria are decent in theory, I missed everything before the goal.

do the ppl in the mentions who are are claiming "oc" is a totally suitable catch-all term for any fictional character ever watch a movie and then say "wow, i loved the ocs"

why is he playing in the MLS ffs. and why is nobody marking him! I know he's made a career out of not being marked but you're seriously telling me nobody's gone "that's Lionel Messi jogging into space"?

people spend so much of their life getting jostled about on designated laptop tables in hip cafés, guilt tripped into spending an arm and a leg on coffee to justify taking up the space. it's like they have never considered the possibilities inherent in The Pub.

My strongest memory of Starmer will be his 2024 conference speech, where he said "every child deserves respect", a young activist said "does that include the children of Gaza?", and he laughed and said "he's obviously got a pass to the 2019 conference".

this polling is interesting to be honest because though 8 (transphobia) and 10 (Gaza) percent aren't small numbers and a lot of those will be from the activist base who Labour actually need, I think it would be wrong to say they were the main drivers of his unpopularity

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... and all it took to turn around his fortunes was to....decline substantially from his last Chelsea season but now he's got a medal. He is usually good for England to be fair. I can see why Tuchel likes him.

Here's the CCC's @elpinchbeck.bsky.social speaking today in front of the Met Office's new "future forecast" for a... ..."plausible 2056 heatwave". Yes, that's showing 45C (113F) in the Bristol area! With exquisite timing, the UK's all-time June temp record is due to be broken this week.

i suspect because if you were trans or a migrant the government spent every day calling you untermenschen

think there's actually more dignity in just embezzling £400,000 than taking part in this with these people

big Will Stancil reading hundreds of diverse reasons why people hate Keir Starmer and concluding this must mean he was Good:

the thing that's most telling is that no-one on the right has an actual policy they hate starmer for, it's all just "he's a liar" and "immigration" whereas everyone on the left has a detailed, dated list of his crimes. One of these reactions was inevitable, the other completely avoidable.

I've almost finished London Falling, I should probably finish it before jumping to conclusions, but it's very spooky isn't it. The narrative seems to be leading towards a kind of corrupt Russian money angle but even for the Met that would be quite extreme. Leaned on by spooks, however...

I'm the 2% of Reform voters who left Labour because Starmer was too right wing

ironic that Keir Starmer is being replaced by Andy Burnham, when he himself looks like his face has been burned into a piece of ham

britain still observes its beautiful ancient traditions; on the day of the solstice, a sacrifice is made that is sure to bring a ripe harvest in the coming year

andy "andrew" burnham, gleefully walking on to a big trap door with a too-small rug sitting atop it. enjoy!

having some quite high grade parent problems and it has given me a new respect for people who manage to deal with this shit when they're children rather than in their 30s

If you haven't seen it recently, I recommend going back and watching how Keir Starmer pitched himself in the 2020 leadership contest. To go from this to his actual tenure in power surely marks him out as one of the most hollow and craven human beings to ever live. m.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Yr...