I do hope it turns into a cursed 52:48 result for Count Binface. (Does he go straight to the House of Lords, as a count and all?)

Currently wearing like 48 watches up to my armpit and enough necklaces to look like white Mr T and marching up and down the cylce path in Easton yelling "MUG ME YOU COWARDS", and no one will come me because they think I'm mental but I guess I'm just built different. 💪

Gonna need to do a wellness check on him

what a depressing day.

Sometimes I think I might not really be autistic. But then it throws me off for DAYS that my regular breakfast place suddenly closed down...

no, really, I only stayed up all night to take the boyfriend to hospital for his surgery at 6.15 a.m. - didn't have nothing to do with watching the game!

“Yeah Ma, I’m not loving the carpentry thing but I’m kinda killing it as an influencer…. A shirt? Yeah of course I’m wearing a shirt.”

Was würdet ihr tun, wenn ihr mutiger wärt?

one of my favorite accounts is @acarsdrama.bsky.social when a game is one.

Before arriving in HAM, I was just tired. Now I'm tired and angry because Germans can't queue, and it's pissing down. I would like to return this ... this... everything.

ah yes, of course I should go down a rabbit hole of the flight 232 accident in 1989 3hrs before getting on a plane!

my next holiday will be in Chad or Mauretania or something - my track record of bringing cold and rain this year with me wherever I go continues.

I will be making decisions about what upcoming games I'll watch on the basis of this thread

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

I can neatly sum up why I feel more at home in London than in Germany: when Paraguay plays against Germany, British people make jokes about Stroessner's hospitality to Nazis. Germans just talk about the football.

given how often I have made fun of people being interested in a performance because of some TV star or other, it's only fair that the _one_ time I'm booking a play because of the lead actress, she doesn't show up.

just to have it out there: if I ever crack and commit some terrible crime, please tell the media that I was radicalized by "influencers" filming tiktok videos in book stores.

could someone send Rashford to get his eyes tested before the next game?

could anyone recommend an ethnography of national football teams during major tournaments? (I'm actually serious, I bet that'd be interesting reading)

is it time for the moisturizer break again?

my favorite part of watching football is when they start wheeling out random statistics: "in the last three games, England scored only when Saka was fouled twice on the right side of the field in the first 56 minutes of the match"

do goal keepers have to be a bit weird from the start, or do they become nutters over time?

hydration break actually sounds sensible, I bet the players will appreciate having time for their skin care regime in between all the running around outside.

I don't know anything about football, but I can tell you that England is playing better than Germany against Ecuador - the name mentioned most oftened by the commentators is *not* a defence player.

teacher in work seminar "if your self and your role don't align, people will perceive you as inauthentic, and you can't keep that up for long, maybe a few months at most" me who only got diagnosed as autistic in my mid-30s because I masked too well: *laughs bitterly*

am I okay with a formerly "female-coded" job (honey trap for espionage purposes) is now being done by men? yes, yes I am.

no, actually, get on with it, tiny particle, quickly, erase the universe RIGHT NOW (yes I have a meeting tomorrow at 9am that I ... just cannot.)

don't have anything against Burnham personally, I just think that people who want to be PM so bad that they'll try again and again, waiting for decades for "their" chance, actually should never get the job.

America vs Europe: Two Ways to Build a City. "European space is shaped on purpose: American open space is what's left over. Small blocks make more corners, more routes, more street life." [kottke.org]

anyone wanna take the other side of the bet that andy burnham is gonna have the same or worse popularity ratings as Keir Starmer in 23 months?

And I’m sorry, I’m not convinced by Burnham. This scepticism goes back at least 15 years. Ok, he’s a better communicator than Starmer, might have better political instincts. A bit. But anointing the guy as leader, no test, no challenge, this isn’t going to end well.

Lagos Damascus Baghdad Tokyo Tehran Addis Abeba

one upside of Hamburg over London: public underground transport is actually still cooler than outside. I do not want to imagine going on the Toasty Line (any of them...) right now.

Political parties play a big part in this - the classic blue collar working class as foundation for labour politics doesn't exist anymore. Accepting that, & building new parties for new majorities is HARD.

Quite how did we end up with European and North American politics dominated by unrealistic promises to bring back manufacturing jobs? Just a huge failure to adjust to reality on so many levels.

summer days like right now, today when it's midsummer, it's light until after 10pm, and it's 30 degrees until much later, are the best days.

plan for the day: wfh because I need to recover from social overload from a weekend full of people and previous two weeks of enforced office attendance. no people! reality today: 7.30am doorbell, builders need access all day and make a lot of noise and we need the windows kept open. it's 15°C.

didn't get anything done for the last 9 working days, so out of pure annoyance at myself I spent the last 90mins of the day today writing a user/how-to guide that no one will actually need, but fuck it, at least I did ONE single thing

considering how seemingly every podcast is now doing a "our normal topic, but for world cup participating nations", how about someone doing a series with "our normal topic, but for nations that have NEVER been to a football world cup"?

what a monster capitalism has made of us all

evaluating options to fly to Chad or Niger, as my current track record of attracting cold and rainy weather wherever I go implies I might actually have some fans there...

today was a good day at work, massively helped by seeing a Beluga and this delightful colleague who decided at the exakt right moment that she needed belly rubs, and she needed them from me!

wow, I'm unable to decide if I hate SAP more, or Tableau

doing things that I couldn't do in London: taking a metro train for 30mins and walk 2hrs in a moor-forest-swamp situation outside of Hamburg. also, ponies.

*puts on list as potential future places to live

don't you hate it when you - for reasons - go with a medical-adjacent topic to a woowoo-energy-homeopathie guy (with a freaking buddha statue outside his door) and the fucker does something and it actually helps?!?!

an extrovert at work was kind and invited the bf and me to have dinner with him & husband earlier this year. he didn't know that we're both autistic introverts, and he has basically accidentally adopted us. so far, he doesn't seem to mind that I'm already planning a second dinner soon.

the only man excluded from being punched is Janan Ganesh by virtue of having written this article: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

if I hear one more guy talking about birth rate decline, I'm gonna punch someone. instead of worrying about women's choices, we should spend that time building our economies into functioning without a steady supply of babies.

went walking in a big park because the city was steessing me out a bit. it helped.