The double assumption here — “my kid is entitled to a scholarship / winning this competition” and “if your kid gets it it’s because they’re cheating and stealing it from mine” — is something I’ve heard from parents of v young kids.

Football players were told, very simply, that covering your mouth to say something during a confrontation would be an immediate red card in case they were being racist, homophobic, or otherwise abusive, and still, in the space of three weeks, two of them went ahead and did it anyway.

This is true, tho one of the problems — as someone who has coached under 11s playing community basketball — is that the majority of parents at even under 11 treat it like it *is* about gladiatorial domination. I could write a book about how fucked up our collective psyche is around youth sports.

I can't believe how gross the vibes have been at this World Cup so far. Every little thing sponsored. 5-minute ad breaks in the middle of each half. Every other team seems to have a rapist playing for it. A team's had to fly back to Tijuana in the dead of night after every game.

I feel like I’ve never seen a stutter step penalty actually work.

“Hi, the shitty decor store? I need something with 11 stars to commemorate the Confederacy, but also with a strong Nazi look. But also, like, so tacky it’s eye-watering. It’s for grandpa. The one they found guilty of sexual assault, yeah.”

"Your cynicism isn't wisdom." Loved this, by the always-thought provoking and brilliant @angelicabastien.bsky.social.

A headline beyond dystopian. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

A logline beyond satire.

If you love something, buy a physical copy of it You do not actually own anything that you "bought" that's digital only

The Prairieland 8 are political prisoners. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Procrastinating so hard today that I’m arguing with some random on IG about how no, an AI-generated Michael Caine voice narrating The Odyssey is not “a poetic experience”

It's as bad as you think and getting worse — even the people who, two or three years ago, were saying that they didn't see any evidence of this kind of decline are starting to notice it.

FIFA's crackdown on time wasting at this World Cup has gifted us with some truly glorious fake cramping performances.

Portugal team watching every Messi goal knowing each of them makes their lives harder.

The generous read on Starmer is that he is a weak man who squandered one of the great mandates for progress in UK history. The more realistic one is he’s a liar who was always going to betray the people he claimed to represent. Either way, I hope he has diarrhoea for the rest of his life.

After two games, having played their two toughest games, Cape Verde are in pole position to finish top of their group at a World Cup. Astonishing stuff.

Cape Verde have fucked up scoring their historic first goal against Uruguay of all countries. They're in for 70 minutes of absolutely brutal, leg-breaking violence now.

ICE/Geo drove into a demonstrator today.

Paul Fischer’s book, "The Last Kings of Hollywood" unpacks what aspiring entrepreneurs can learn from how Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas built, broke, and rebuilt the movie business.

Saturday coffee shop hangout.

The Atlanta Dream feel like a really, really well put together team.

Might be a bit unfair of me, but I cannot wait for this US team to get battered by the first good opposition they encounter.

These Qatari players are hacking at the Canadian players like a half-drunk pub team. They're so bad it's actively dangerous.

“I know none of you want this shitty product that’s making everyone’s lives worse, but we’re just gonna have to turn society upside down for it, that’s what it’ll take for me to get even richer” is one hell of a vision apnews.com/article/nvid...

DISCLOSURE DAY in a packed Toronto theatre with my 11 year old (her first Spielberg in theatres). We loved it. Loved its surface simplicity, loved its earnestness, loved its willingness to be cringe, as the kids say. Everyone left the cinema buzzing and debating. Proper old-school evening.

NEW: Meta is testing facial recognition for its smart glasses using software built by a Pentagon and police surveillance vendor with deep ties to the US intelligence community. My latest w/ @dmehro.bsky.social

Went to Tempo v Dream yesterday. There’s a rabid, virulent, braying racism to the way crowds boo Angel Reese from minute one — a racism the fans would deny while being unable to explain why they hate her in the first place — that’s really disturbing in person. And damn she does not back down. #wnba

There have been times I essentially accepted neither the Arsenal nor the Knicks would win a title again. And then they both just go and do it within a month of each other

They’re telling you to be afraid of trans people coming into bathrooms when it’s literally tech bros who wanna spy on you while you shit

Ho. Lee. Fuuuuck.

Oh Josh

I love the Knicks and obviously hope they win this title but I’m also lowkey okay with the universe giving James Dolan this ass-kicking for praising Donald Trump and shit-talking an entertaining dog

Every single word he says is an unhinged lie. It’s insane.

Getting so close to winning that game when the Spurs are hitting on all cylinders, you can’t score in the fourth at all, the refs have been instructed by corporate this can’t be a sweep, *and* Trump’s decaying fascist rapey fart stench hangs over the arena is pretty good actually

reminder that the last time trump was at madison square garden was for a literal nazi rally

The "most inclusive World Cup ever", update on the update of the update.

THE LAST KINGS OF HOLLYWOOD by Paul Fischer is about how the relationship between Spielberg, Coppola and Lucas changed Hollywood forever. Great book. And of the 3, Lucas is the most fascinating. Hated directing movies and yet…

We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.

This is a fascinating project. When you think of the amount of money drug-addled Techtwats are spunking on spaceships and paedo parties, it's a reminder of how much good they could do if they had any decency.

I just finished Jennette McCurdy’s HALF HIS AGE, and even attempting to do a Don Simpson read on it made me feel so gross I almost self-cancelled

1994 1998 2026

The root of a lot of this country's problems is Nigel Farage.

The far-right public school English cunt suddenly talking about George Floyd in the summer of 2026 is all the proof you need that neo-Nazi politics worldwide are connected and aimed at a singular, overly online, borderly-psychotic, disaffected and growing breed of loser men.

This referee’s so bent I half-expect him to call for two free-throws for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (yes I’m so annoyed my moaning is now combining sports, what of it)

I don’t know why I’m still watching. The referee will score for PSG himself if that’s what it takes.

Neves and Ruiz both have resting Moaning to Mommy face.

It’s probably a pen, but also: you make mistakes when you’re penned in your six yard box because the bent referee blows the whistle every time you touch the opposition and lets play go whenever you get fouled

Can anyone check if the ref recently received a gift of a house in Qatar perhaps

PSG doing a lot of moaning and diving and clotheslining and flopping and faking and simulating and cheating. Which is weird, bc I was told the financially doped plastic club with the rapist at right-back were the paragon of pure noble football