IT'S UP! An article about the rain-soaked disaster that was July 4th in Washington DC this year, including all the videos I couldn't upload of the sad and angry crowds, plus details that didn['t make the thread. Please check it out if you would like to!

If trump pretends to care about your team, look out

Was it last time we played Belgium in the World Cup that someone changed Tim Howard’s occupation on Facebook to “U.S. Secretary of Defense” because that was an amazing performance he gave

YAY! Sad Ronaldo!

Academics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sense.”

Pretty sure the west coast of Africa, if not 90% of the continent, is rooting for the meteor over either of these teams

@madgiggler.bsky.social you need to make this

The beauty of sports is you can just decide at any point “I give a shit about this now. Against all reason.” Ten minutes later you hate one of the teams more than life and it’s all downhill from there.

This game is wild in the best way

I guess the boner pills are working for England?

my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up

Man, I love when players run into Haaland and bounce right off him while he remains immobile

"I haven't seen a Belgian this mad since the release of Roger Casement's report into the Congo in 1904'

Me, a week ago: "If the US advances to the quarters or better it'll be tainted, we just don't know specifically how yet" Me, this afternoon: "WELP"

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Watching the fireworks in Williamsburg (Va) on tv because it’s too hot to go outside for fireworks here and I wish VPM would just show a static shot. The jumping around is really distracting.

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

I love how incredulous the Telemundo commentators are about what Paraguay is getting away with

So if that Paraguay player actually got punched it was self-inflicted France never touched you, man

Come on #5, Paraguay is committing enough fouls, you don’t have to dive on a big old nothing

What is up with that little shithead with the buzzed hair on Paraguay

Yes, because I want to know which baseball players are such total fucking wieners that they feel the need to tell me, and people like me, that they do not support my right to exist.

I got this for my husband but stole it to wear today

we are one day away from the funniest VAR offsides graphic ever

It is currently 103 feels like 117 at my house.

Four years ago, a coordinated right-wing smear campaign condemned Monticello for "going woke." Bridget Gillespie was working there at the time, and she gives this revelatory inside account of the harassment staff endured and ultimately how the institution buckled. Amazing piece.

This kind of VAR nonsense is why I don't support removing the human officials from the game, because FFS he hit it in the literal last second, let them play another half hour of soccer. Good lord, don't be a dink

(Whispers: I don’t actually hate the offsides rule, it’s just part of the game)

Welcome to all those just realizing that VAR is the devil.

In the view they just showed I don’t think Croatia touched the ball for an offsides.

Goddammit VAR what is this bullshit

YES CROATIA

Us fans 🤝 Canada fans v Get fucked ronaldo u sex pest

you cannot expect the public library to be ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE because you shuttered all of the other services and public spaces and then get mad when they need money

there is nothing but failure all around us and library workers are doing their fucking best and all that happens is we get MORE work and MORE grief with LESS material support at every turn

i’m gonna repost this picture of my parents’ cat alice because we could all do with a laugh and it might be the funniest picture i’ve ever taken of her

I missed the first 25 minutes of the game but at least the views on Mt Rainier were worth it

CANADIA! drawing by Jessica Borutski

Aww yisss, Last Saskatchewan Pirate!

Was reading a book last night and one of the MCs (from SoCal) called Northern California "Upstate California" and it took me right out. I'm willing to forgive a lot of things, but that is not one of them. It's like when someone has a character from SF call freeways "The 5" or "the 80"

Oh, yay, it's a "heat dome," which always makes me think of Thunderdome instead.  If you're in the Thunderdome and you're on SSRIs, SNRIs, heart meds, or stimulants, please be careful! Your medication can make you very sensitive to the heat.

John Hinckley Jr. in 1981

So, about that DAR vote...

we have a patent medicine in our collection called Dr. Bonker's Pepsin Stomach Bitters and I can't believe they didn't market it in a "with a name this bad you know we're good!" way. Put your trust in Dr. Bonker.

People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory. It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?

One of the major problems with originalism is that lawyers are not historians, and real history is not designed to provide the types of arguments desired by legal reasoning.

Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. The release of the records will cover seven centuries of Irish history and will make over half a million documents free and permanently available to the public