Even if you don’t agree that it should have been a red card, it is undeniable that the president of a country pressuring the FIFA president to go against a rule it hasn’t broken in 64 years is a baseline example of political corruption in sports. trib.al/FUMCzNS

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Messi's shorts seem very very big

This person has made literally billions by airing her personal life to millions. My wish for everybody this July 4 is say whatever you want. The wealthy will be fine

Absolute beast

Would you please look at this bird

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If you owe a woman $5 million for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.

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“Calamari is a clam. They live together. Actually I don’t think that’s true. I’m just asking you to lean into it.” —Mom

Paging #italy: if a single lash of spaghetti is a spaghetto, is a single stromboli a strombolo? What about tortellini? Is one a tortellino? My whole knowledge of the world is at stake here

Obsessed with this tiny Burmese glass pig whimsy.

ok it is time for a thread of MERMAID PARADE photos

My dad can beat up your dad and also my dad can make a self portrait out of pie dough

Bad news: recovering from eye surgery, can’t see all that great Good news: Wolf Worm by @tkingfisher.com is in audio format

Damn, that's crazy Anyway y'all seen this store.steampowered.com/app/1118520/...

"Phase"

I am way too invested in this stranger baby.

God I miss real, honest-to-god movie critics.

Deer god, it's finally here! (Sorry, @jamielackey.bsky.social, I'm not even a dad, IDK how that dad joke happened.) Jamie Lackey's new horror anthology, everybody. Fun fact: Look directly at the cover and your face turns into a pagan leather death mask that never. Comes. Off. a.co/d/0i2cKnlK

Each worker gets a letter which they alone must bury in an unknown area of the world, passing the secret of the letter's location to their heir. Together, they will form an order sworn to prevent a great evil from arising again.

OH MY GOD IT'S GONE THEY JUST DROPPED THE TARP THE WHOLE KENNEDY CENTER HAS VANISHED

If you’re watching Widow’s Bay, you may wonder where episode 9 went. That’s because Dale Dickey just picked it up and walked away with it.

I’m claiming Kate O’Flynn for the United States.

Guys I don’t normally do this but the Academy Museum is showing a FREE screening of Friday at 7pm July 10 and daaaaaammmmnnn there are still tix www.academymuseum.org/programs/det...

Agreed. Women have been asked in this country to forgive too much. Women's intuition about these kinds of men has also been ignored or gaslit for too many centuries to count. The women I know are DONE with this platforming of men who take advantage of "forgiveness" in "the spirit of moving on."

Graham Platner trying to explain away his behavior as *living a regular life* really evokes *locker room talk* for me. The normalization of men’s abuse of women has to stop. Abusing women is not regular or normal or in any way okay. I hope this gets called out by lots and lots of people.

One day the number of hot dogs I have in my fridge will precisely equal the number of buns I have in my freezer and I shall declare that day a national holiday

This stopped my heart in less than three minutes

I think it's time we bring back wearing black armbands to signify grief.

Oh my god look at these potatoes

Ok this made me crack up

Katie O'Flynn is rapidly becoming the Stephen Root of Shea Wighams

Best replacement for Audible is your local library and the LIBBY or Hoopla apps. Borrowing books are FREE. It is the best.

I can never top this plot and must leave the fiction-writing business immediately

I’m watching Widow’s Bay, possibly for Stephen Root alone. I’d watch Stephen Root read a CVS receipt

SIR

This is likely one of the best nonfiction books you’ll ever read.

Oh you sweet summer child

It’s insane that a large majority of people believe that Trump is mentally unfit for office and the media literally talks about it never

We have always lived in the slush pile.

Where are the other guilds? The thieves? The mages? The bards? A city this size can support many adventuring parties.

ALWAYS

creators get better by finishing projects no project ever comes out as good as it is in your imagination but that’s ok, the next one will be better also it’s ok if projects fail, taking risks and big swings is an important part of growing as a creator

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So many people urge us to vote if we are dissatisfied with our democracy. And yes voting matters. But as today’s Supreme Court ruling tells us, it’s not that simple. Not everyone who should have the right to vote can exercise that right.

Freelance writers following up on old invoices

Oh my god what

Like imagine going from Data doing poetry night about his cat immediately into the Riker jazz ensemble and he’s just going DOOT DOO DOOOO DOOO HONK

Or you could not go