Mitch McConnell for Maine

It’s how you win.

I despise GoaT narratives because they’re self-reinforcing. Fox can’t shut the F up about Messi, Ronaldo, etc etc which makes you wonder, why am I watching this if you know the ending? Let people play. I don’t need the heroic arc.

Welcome to the traditional shithousery round.

Stephen King for Senate

I guess Beshear—and the press—are going to chump this one out. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...

Normal service has resumed.

Going to bed now. You know what to do.

Bruno coming on to shut things down with shenanigans.

Vitinha, in particular, hasn’t slept in 3 years.

Interesting to compare: some of the players in the POR-ESP match right now are closing in on 70+ matches this year, while a US player is reaching 40 or 50. Rough estimates but notable difference.

Only in Spain do we have halftime ads where the team are eating jamon in the lock room. Fact: in a typical half of football, your body loses 40% of its tasty pork reserves.

Posting with nothing in particular in mind. youtu.be/P9Zn_CgOrRk?...

I demand UEFA pull out of NATO

"I guess you never expected the World Cup to become corrupt?"

We picked a bad time to give up manners. open.substack.com/pub/thecutti...

This FT op-ed on why America needs data centers is…not even trying? “Sure you’ll go broke paying for your electricity and not have water, but you’ll get a fewer jobs than an Arby’s over five years or so.”

Jesse Marsch has big SecDef energy

Not sure Canada came to play as much as to collide.

To celebrate the day, I will be rewatching my favorite rewatching movie. youtu.be/QLCoNhGo7C0?...

I wonder what its like for the England fans to taste actual guacamole for the first time in their lives? Will they be the same after?

Most of the chitchat about the Viking row seems to have erased the earlier Iceland clap. The internet (media) has a short memory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jdp...

Is this a World Cup match or a LinkedIn post?

Cape Verde, give us another surprise 🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻

"but they can’t use ‘posh’ terms like ‘mezze’ or ‘canapés’ or ‘tapas’ because that would seem like trying too hard" Could also have to do with a pathological aversion to local pronunciation. As in TACK-OHS or JOE-SAY. (*runs and hides in glass house*) martinrobbins.substack.com/p/on-picky-b...

I guess the Times never heard of Steinbeck. I recently upgraded it. www.collisiondetector.com/temporarily-...

Clattenberg is probably America’s first exposure to Pitmatic.

Welcome to VAR, my countryfolk. Exceptionalism stops at the review monitor. Also, the NFL-style reporting can't end soon enough. www.wsj.com/sports/socce...

Respect.

I was just about to type "how long til Kane dives?" and...

Cheering for this guy today.

Woke up smelling burning wood. Thought it was a fire in the park next door. Turns out its 300km away. 😬

Don't talk to me unless you're giving me MCP access

Noting today is June 30, so if you have any education euros to spend, today would be a good day to sign up to join us in September for Horizon Scanning & Sensing in a Complex World for EMEA timezones. pretix.eu/changeist/se...

One thing the World Cup is doing is reminding a broad swath of Americans what happy people look like. I say this because I see post after post of Americans remarking how much fun other countries' supporters are having. It's possible to support something without it becoming zero sum crush-o-rama.

Wake up hun, the Times is Timesing this morning.

Just assume no one elects you to maintain a watery, diffused focus cloud or deliver lower-echelon results. Even if that’s what you’ll probably do.

Can we please f-ing retire “laser focus” from every politician’s vocabulary? And throw “world class” down the k-hole behind it.

At some horrible point in the very near future, the crypto grifters and the election denial grifters are going to converge to use this junk as a way to fuzz an election outcome, using prediction markets as a stick to beat the electorate with. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/b...

Chatting with my offspring about her favorite movie, FORBIDDEN PLANET, I’m reminded of this amazing earlier work by Bebe and Louis Barron, BELLS OF ATLANTIS, narrated by Anaïs Nin. youtu.be/fNodsrQhQ28?...

Kind of a jolt to go from Robin Redbreast to a care dot com ad. boxd.it/6SbS

Early: Peter, Paul & Mary, Laura Nyro, 5th Dimension Later: Eagles, Glen Campbell, Mac Davis

Folk horror is another term or genre that has been ridiculously misapplied to mean anything scary you like. Fools on IMDB have Gremlins, Evil Dead and Nosferatu listed in this category. Come the f*** on people.

One critical difference is that Nixon ultimately found his sense of shame. Vance never will. Never mind the willful destruction of oversight and criminal justice. This isn't on the public. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/u...

You’ve just blackened your last flag.

Like, why take internet breaks if you don’t already swim in the muck? No need.

Add to that a regretful use of LI, a limited number of IG follows, and shouting into this void. Never done Reddit or other chat/fora. I can actually see the end of my internet and it’s just fine.

Every year since about 2006 or so I look at less and less of the internet. I’m now down to a 7-8 international news sites, a few places to shop and a small handful of book reviews. I can almost imagine it reaching zero.