It’s always funny and no bad thing that future leaders have to stand on stages like this. 🗑️🦊

FIFA takes away Iranian flags at the US stadiums

3 of the 6 World Cup favourites have drawn their opening match France and Argentina won. England to play shortly.

The Scottish fans have won the World Cup and it’s not even close. Tough for Japan after such a dominant spell, but the gulf in quality across different areas has been undeniable.

Tired - Leave no trace Wired - Act as if you are a travelling fan of the Japanese football team.

What an absolute disgrace. A FIFA-certified referee being denied entry to the United States purely because he is Somali. The World Cup is meant to bring people together. This is racism, plain and simple. Shameful. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

The River Wye has just made UK history. For the first time, an entire river catchment has been formally recognised as a living ecosystem with rights - including the right to flow, thrive, regenerate, and be free from pollution. It's a major victory for nature.

Every time data centers are brought up, I'm reminded of a recent meeting I had with a person working in that sector who mentioned how important power demand modeling was, because they projected if the grid were to go down in Phoenix during peak summer, 30,000 people would die in the first 24 hours

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Welp there’s no unseeing this

NEW: Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account.

As much as I love the World Cup, I hope that all matches in the US are a disaster from the point of view of poor attendance. I hope it all backfires spectacularly

Israel now occupies more of Lebanon than Russia occupies of Ukraine. But of course that's a 'good' invasion. So there is silence.

I really would love an entire TV gameshow series centered around putting random men against professional women's sport athletes and it absolutely must include before and after interviews

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This is great news.

It's all kicking off in Canterbury.

Somewhat incredibly, Tony Blair has chosen the week that the UK's temperature record for May has been smashed by more than 2C to reiterate his hot take on net-zero Job done, though, as all the UK media is now leading with him saying "drill, baby, drill" rather than the exceptionally extreme weather

Interview with the vampire 2nd interview with the vampire Just circling back with the vampire Final interview with the vampire Hiring the vampire Probation period with the vampire Everyone’s going in on a card for Geoff, it’s his birthday on Saturday but we’ll do a party on Friday with the Vampire

Westminster council folds on Oxford Street pedestrianisation. New Conservative council had pledged to launch a legal case against Sadiq Khan. After commissioning advice from a KC, conclusion was judicial review would fail and it's too late. No barriers now. www.londoncentric.media/i/198932075/...

The UX of the @mirror.co.uk mobile site remains absolutely dreadful, a real disservice to its journalists and readers. Appreciate they need ads, but what is the logic of burying the content under SO many ads and pop ups?

oh golly gee i wonder if that's coz the previous government, Reform, and the current government all push the idea that we're being invaded by swarms of our fellow human beings

The craziest thing about Southampton being expelled from the playoffs is that Man City STILL have 115 financial misconduct charges outstanding, going back over 15 years 😑

I got a phishing email to my work Outlook inbox, under the name of the org's director. I have blocked and reported the email address. However, Microsoft Word now keeps offering the phishing email as an option whenever I try to share a file with the Director! Ridiculous company 😑

The other half of this optics piece is Labour saying “we have 403 MPs right now - none of them are good enough to lead the party or be Prime Minister”.

Feel a bit like the optics of Labour playing the people of Makerfield like a political football, an MP abandoning them, etc will go down really badly on the doorstep. Ngl, it’s a bit gross

If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

🎵 In the Essex Sen-ior League, we’re in heaven 🎵 ..?

Labour leadership challenge from Wes Streeting

Insane dystopian shit here, totally unacceptable. I expect politicians and commentators to be outraged by it, regardless of their opinion of the crimes these people were convicted of.

I would say Jess Phillips going is a sign that the far-right of the Labour Party is preparing to move, but she's so ludicrously self-interested that I fully believe she was just jealous of other MPs getting on the news.

Recession indicator

The UK is now in the same category as fascist Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary & Russia, which have no legal framework for changing gender. Yet government transphobes Starmer & Phillipson drone on about “dignity & respect” but the most basic element of “dignity & respect” is legal gender recognition.

This country might be about to have its 6th Prime Minister in 7 years. Why? Because they’ve all failed to take on a rigged economic system that enriches the few at the expense of us all. People want a society where children don’t go hungry. That is really not too much to ask.

The Republic of Ecotopia has now annexed the former borough of Hackney.

It took a two-year screaming all-channels hate campaign and a secret internal wrecking operation funded via illegal donations from a zillionaire, to hammer Sir Keir’s predecessor to a far better position than the one these geniuses achieved just by being themselves and doing what they think is good.

First order of business is to merge with Haringey and form the new Republic of Ecotopia 💚

The elections in the UK yesterday are so far showing Two Englands with a gulf between them - and maybe by the end Four Britains. A Disunited Kingdom. In areas that voted heavily for Brexit, Reform got 41%. Everywhere else they got an average of 10%.

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My previously v. Labour echo chamber are all voting Green.

Another day, another national newspaper publishing a cartoon with Zack Polanski with a massive hook nose. Another day of silence from mainstream politicians self-proclaimed great antisemitism fighters on the antisemitism faced by Zack. Solidarity with Zack and ALL the victims of antisemitism.

Reform, Labour and the Tories all take money from oil & gas giants and private healthcare interests. That tells you who they’re really working for. The Green Party doesn’t take that money. We answer to you - and to the future of our planet. Vote Green on Thursday. 💚

Let’s goooooooo

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I’m fucking horrified that folk 100s of years from now are going to refer to this period as the Trumpian Age or some shit and I’m gonna be lumped in with all the dumb extremist dicks. Solidarity with dead people from the 19th century who thought empire was for arseholes and now get called Victorians

I can't believe they got this interview with the walrus

This is the kind of story that feels historic but I don't know enough to clearly say why. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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