logging off now

"i wish people would tell the truth about the US" the US,having built a system where it can punish anyone who acts up: okay thats fine, banking is over for you and your friends

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

every day someone comes on this retirement home for millennial forum posters and gets my ass

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

The US is pretty clearly a chaotic neutral dual class paladin-thief. Don't know why this is complicated.

i feel like my entire online life now is resisting the temptation to watch some ig reel whose thumbnail is clearly calculated to grab my attention. and i resent it. i resent this extra emotional step that meta has put between ‘me’ and ‘not watching a thing i KNOW i have no actual interest in’

A couple of years ago I started wondering why I was spending so much time on hobbies cosplaying obsolete jobs. This is a go at an answer: I'm in the grips of *skill nostalgia*, and the problem is to avoid it becoming reactionary. It turns out John Ruskin (??) has the answer aeon.co/essays/the-r...

Previously unreleased early version of Anti-Hero just dropped

Fascinating insights from Victor Campenaerts youtube.com/shorts/TfCtR...

screenshots of people on bluesky histrionically losing their shit about a goofy joke are a thousand times more entertaining than a screencap of right wing pseudo-journalists saying heinous cynical shit on twitter. food for thought

I hadn't heard much about direct US–Iran fighting for a few weeks, and had been wondering if it had stopped, but if so it has started again www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

When a tweet starts like this, I am DEFINITELY reading the rest. I am clearly the intended audience, and eager to learn

The article claims (unless I've misunderstood it) that as the sun moves south after the solstice the days get longer in the Philippines (which is in the northern half of the tropics); afaict this is not true www.timeanddate.com/sun/philippi...

I am unofficially in the camp of VAR exists solely to overturn calls that everyone watching on TV can see were wrong, but I am open to the possibility that I'm not being cynical enough about this

Colombia v Switzerland being referred to as Charlie v The Chocolate Factory.

On my way, Clacton.

an Egyptian player committed a foul in middle school academy soccer which led to his pro career and thus to his call up to the national team so VAR review confirms a foul in the buildup. no goal

Farage is going to come out as a Tau player. Most people will shrug but to his base this will be devastating. Could be the end of Reform imo.

I put on BBC News hoping to see a bunch of talking heads speculating about what Farage's statement is going to be about but it's just some dull coverage of Trump visiting Turkey

Nigel Farage is joining BuzzFeed UK

My prediction for today's Tour de France stage is that Pogačar will strategically ship twenty minutes so he can go all-out for stage wins and the green jersey while riding as a super-duper domestique for Del Toro in the mountains

Well this is exciting

In 2002 FIFA selected an all-time World Cup dream team that went on to win all its matches 10-6 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_Wo...

So is there a social media site where people don't misunderstand strangers' jokes and write angry replies to them or is this just another example of Bluesky exceptionalism

I actually think my neckbeard is rather fetching

In better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW

Man got Chotiner’d without even agreeing to an interview. Astounding

haven't been surprised by a single thing ive heard about this dude since we found out about the totenkopf

Well well well

Lmao announcers going ‘some people think Portugal shouldn’t start Ronaldo. But he’s in really good shape for a 41 year old’. Persuasive!

So rude leaving Gonçalo Ramos on the bench for old man Ronaldo every time

Clearly the only solution is for Balogun to wear a shirt that says "I regret benefiting from corruption" tonight, then score 4 goals but look really conflicted after each one

I know I said I wasn't picking the Tour stage winners this year but my pick for today is Bernal

Apparently it's about ten degrees hotter in London today than it is here in Leeds; stay safe out there

Didn’t stay up for the football but I’m a big fan of anything that temporarily harms productivity, there’s not enough slacking off nowadays

Did Mexico refuse to let the England trumpet guy into the country or did the Azteca just drown him out. Either way, maximum respect to the great nation of Mexico. Imagine that occasion with the Great Escape stinking it up

As in 1066 England will prevail against the Norwegians before tragically losing to the French a couple of weeks later.

Honestly thought this was Žižek

🫡 to a fallen soldier in the Food Discourse Wars

Grateful to @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social for livetweeting the replay of ENG-MEX so I dont have to get up and watch it.

Good morning everyone! Time to watch the Mexico/England game! Nobody tell me who won

I can't believe taking the mexican chicken baguette off the greggs menu worked

Children’s Games (detail), by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1560, 📸 by @kgmadeit1

had to mute a post because a bunch of people decided my saying americans don't know a lot about belgium as a form of genocide denial? kind of adds a new layer to the "so you hate waffles" joke

Neymar rn

This is how Great Gatsby ended in the timeline where F Scott Fitzgerald wasn't a coward

I've got Norway in a sweepstake that includes a golden boot prize so here's hoping Haaland scores at least five tonight