one thing I’ll never really get my head around in professional football/soccer is the seemingly completely random enforcement of how hands are used - it’s weird to me how much jersey grabbing etc is allowed

ngl crystal city is getting a little urbanist with it lately

be so fr

forcing jd vance to do a humiliating appearance on the view is pretty funny

my polling station is an elementary school and the school set up a exorbitantly priced bake sale outside the door that I got conned into. can’t exactly tell them to put the pain au chocolat down after hearing it’s $5

me during every single world cup game

kind of loved how this place decided on a firm “Euro 2002” design aesthetic and then never changed anything

11:35 PM is an insane time for a loud fighter jet flyover in DC right now. loudest I’ve heard in my life

thunder right on cue there

🙏🇺🇦 More footage of the burning Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, as a result of the Russian attack.

Kyiv 💔

this game is absolute cinema

locking in for Haiti

this doesn’t shock me given our house is **bombarded** by mailers from the two strongly labor-backed candidates for mayor and council www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

trvth nvke

so many empty seats at QAT v SUI

certain smart people are very good at taking the conventional wisdom of the moment and making it seem common sense; this is a good example

I remember listening to richard florida on bbc news in 2020 telling me how covid was the end of urban life as we know it and thinking hmmmmmmmm

the minute this got announced I knew it would happen

ossoff fans check in, we’re getting in on the ground floor www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/o...

woodward and bernstein famously published articles about the scandal they were uncovering as they did it instead of saving it for a book published a year after the event, so,

⚡️ 'We're modern people' — Zelensky backs open discussion of LGBTQ+ rights in Ukraine. "We are all here together, we are defending the state, we are the same and we have absolutely the same rights, regardless of any prejudices held by people from the 15th century," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

we are at war btw

I genuinely never thought I would live through a period where the U.S. government was so erratic and unstable that even the basic fundamental communications over something as consequential as "are we in active combat or not" were impossible to parse as being entirely fabricated or not.

it’s as humid as miami, horrible people keep starting USA chants,,,,

I’m in the fifth circle of hell (congressional baseball game)

the pope just accused some of you of not knowing ball

A clear illustration (if one were still needed) of the real, functioning, and increasingly open anti-democratic alliance beween capitalist oligarchs, authoritarian powers, and right-wing populist ethnonationalism

Elon egging on migrant’s houses being burned down while his dad has a drink with Tommy Robinson in Moscow hotel bar talking about how Russia is the UK’s ally, at this point I don’t think you can deny that social media has been a net boon both to authoritarian regimes & authoritarians in democracies.

aaaaaand scene

the ukrainian railways app has randomly very cute copy - “no seats are available in this car right now, but there’s always hope”

we did the thing on june 6 2026 💖💍 @dougklain.bsky.social

the concept of thinking that this generation is the first one ever to have a late 20s identity crisis

as someone who is firmly in this box, you can either think like this and be miserable, and accept that life has swings and roundabouts and move on

reps on the house floor speaking about the flaws of HR 2913 - only ukraine legislation to make it on the floor in like a year AS IF THERE WAS AN ALTERNATIVE BILL. they had to use a DISCHARGE PETITION to get this one against all leadership opposition

I don’t want to hear anything more about That Guy

main vote is tomorrow but a good sign!!

A failed op-ed writer bankrolled by billionaires purging a universally liked and credible straight news journalist from 60 Minutes really has to be the height of the complete slide of American news media into a complete death spiral.

There's just a certain fin de siecle absurdity of someone whose only achievement in life is having opinions on the internet ending the career of someone who managed to get into Kyiv in 2022 in the middle of the initial Russian invasion to interview Zelensky.

This will truly become a nightmare at scale and we already went through this with Uber and Lyft. The great promise was that ridesharing would reduce the need for personal car ownership. In reality, it led to increased traffic congestion due to all the deadheading.

ditto if you go there regularly for work, and double ditto if you’re trying to go during the holiday season or UNGA, it is beyond the pale

This piece by Jack Watling is as good as many of my colleagues are saying it is. And a signal that policymakers in the EU need to start considering how Putin's potential strategic failure could affect Russia's long term trajectory www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukra...

journalists acting like discourse is just a thing that happens outside their influence will never not be funny to me

youtu.be/CqrhzNmD4Vk “artists that made one banging album in the 70s/80s/90s and were completely forgotten” is one of my favorite niche genres of music

people used to be nervous for weddings because it would mean the new phase of life but nowadays they’re nervous for weddings because they’ve spent One Billion Dollars on them and can’t have anything go wrong

wedding in exactly one week

this has all kind of amended my priors about dems getting into the gerrymandering game - the floodgates opening up, plus courts putting their thumbs on the scale, has ended up creating kind of disastrous consequences

Months after Ukraine’s morale hit a nadir and its allies despaired, the country’s turnaround has challenged the long-held conventional wisdom that Russia’s bigger army can outlast Kyiv’s — boosting Ukrainians’ self-assurance to a level not seen in years. My story with comrade @maxseddon.bsky.social.

Ukraine is winning the war pass it on www.ft.com/content/7bee...

lived in europe as an adult for 4ish years. travel extensively most years. still can’t really grasp the 12 to 24 hour time conversion