"Can we have ball tracking? Ok, I've made my decision, yes its hit him in the balls"

Ooh new game, which I imagine isn't terribly playable for anyone who didn't study history or archaeology. Anyway, it's fun (if you did).

Someone posted this yesterday, but I can’t remember who.

Clearly AI slop. For a start the Iranian footballer looks more like ex-England Cricket Captain Alistair Cook.

Voters don’t want Diet Hate People who like the bigotry want a fellow traveler who’ll go further with policy and add more venous rhetoric. Trying to appease them does not work. Meanwhile, people who dislike the bigotry get turned off, seeing their supposed party prioritize chasing after bigots.

HAHAHAhaha! they're making the world's biggest synthetic scum pond!!! The coating is a polyurea used inside pipes. It gels in about 3 seconds, making it non self-leveling. The texture is like an orange peel, the perfect substrate for biofilms. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

I watched a YouTube video on Jumping Spiders (which are cool) and now the algorithm keeps recommending videos of *other* spiders that are absolutely not cute or welcome.

the "they're raping our women" thing is about control of women & girls, not concern for them btw musk is part of an international movement led almost exclusively by rapists & pedophiles. the point is those victims are *theirs* in a collective, racial/national sense

Misinformation and radical-right populism: This paper analyses 32 million tweets from parliamentarians in 26 countries, spanning 6 years and several election periods, and finds that “radical-right populism is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation”.

Well this should be fun.

President Trump announced he may hold a press conference to read the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding aloud. https://t.co/dN8ddfucuS

I'm sorry, a very distinct "OK" sign was an "involuntary, subconscious twitch" was it? Ridiculous. Either he was making a political statement, something FIFA attacks players for, or signalling someone else, which raises questions of sports betting. Fuck FIFA. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Kinda figures that this shit show of a World Cup would see someone making White Supremacist gestures, but have to say I was expecting it to come from a player not a referee.

OnlyFans managers = pimps. They behave like fucking pimps. Doesn't take much to imagine the types of men doing this "job". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We should probably all be glad that the World Cup opening ceremony is in Mexico City because fuck knows that it'd have looked like if it had been in the US. Trump would have made it all about himself and feature dancers in KKK costumes or look like something out of The Producers.

Someone needs to make a zombie film that's set during an Olympic games and features the athletes using their skills to escape zombified fellow competitors. Kinda imagining marathon runners and walkers being chased by zombie versions across the city, whilst javelin, shotput and hammer throwers fight.

Hi! I'm Bret Rhett Chet, here to tell you why you should buy and hodl SpaceX stonk. For a mere $135/share, you get pro forma tangible book value of $7.85/share, an immediate 94% dilution. New investors are putting up 48% of all capital ever invested in SpaceX in exchange for 4.2% of the shares. /1

What are the Government, police and security services doing about the people who are quite clearly in the pay of a hostile foreign state, and using their platforms to whip up actual pogroms on our streets? This is a major national security issue and absolutely nothing seems to be happening about it

"I first left legacy media when a new, disturbing consensus emerged in the press: that I was bad at my job. So I did what any rational journalism-averse person would do. I blamed everything on woke. On cancel. On not listening enough to diverse voices, like fascists."

Obviously, FIFA are unfit to organise a tournament and the US is unfit to host it. But can't they give him a game in Canada or Mexico to officiate?

I'm imagining what would happen if train companies in the UK did something like that. I think there'd be a riot.

Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

So Mandelson tried to introduce Starmer to Peter Thiel. Blue Labour Maurice Glasman meets Thiel and Bannon and Vance at the same time, and consults with Farage. Both feeding their confidences, and confidence back to Morgan McSweeney Anyone remember how Labour reacted to Militant 'entryism'?

Yes! Fuck you Sabalenka. Granted it's a Russian who goes through to the semi-final, but the Polish qualifier Maja Chwalinska *could* feasibly beat her in the next match. Just need to avoid the horror final of Schnaider v Andreeva. Fuck the Russians.

My latest piece for @theguardian.com Ukraine's accession to the EU will arguably benefit the EU even more than Ukraine

Oh look, it's racist Doctor Who.

Sounds awfully familiar to us in the UK.

Just gonna assume the Ayatollah is now a head in a jar.

ALBANIA — Seems like it should be a bigger deal that Ivanka Trump & Kushner’s luxury resort project is being massively protested, with the people demanding the PM’s resignation and firebombing homes over the corruption of their project partners.🤷🏼 The Trump grift is endless.

Osaka needs to beat Sabalenka to salvage this day.

The notion Trump has "perfect" health is an obvious lie to anyone with two eyes and basic sense. And yet, he pushes it because MAGA eats it up. It's not just that theyr'e stupid. (Though there is that.) It's because they need to believe he's a god. www.salon.com/2026/06/01/w...

Keep fapping those wings about and you’ll spill your seed.

I'd buy that on a t-shirt.

I think Guy Montgomery Spelling Bee is my new favourite in the Taskmaster vein of comedians sort of doing a gameshow. Praise the YouTube algorithm for alerting me to this bounty.

My elderly father had the spring COVID booster yesterday and bloody hell is he knocked out. So much so I'm honestly not sure whether it's the jab or something else. Is being absolutely knackered normal?

Quite tellingly, the latest Blair screed also reads as if it was drafted by AI

If that's what Tony Blair looks like now, I hate to think what his portrait looks like. The man now looks appropriately like a fucking ghoul.

Since I had to see...er listen to this, so should everyone else. Wonder if they do a miaow version of Golden?

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)

I gotta say, I think maybe it’s time for us to be concerned about these time travelers who keep getting killed around the White House

Bought some of those one cup disposable filter coffee things that Rombouts make for a few days away from home and anywhere decent to get coffee. And they absolutely sucked. Bland, stale, *burnt* tasting filth despite being supposedly a medium roast. However, brewed over ice...actually drinkable.

"At long last, I am a stone-cold seven, the kind of guy who could win a Jacob Elordi lookalike contest in a farm town with a population of 200." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/at-...

What a coincidence that as Trump lifts sanctions on Russian oil and the oil price surges in response to his idiotic war in Iran and the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, suddenly sporting bodies, Eurovision etc are all keen to readmit Russia. I'm sure there's an innocent explanation for the timing.

Your job is to pick the *worst actor to play James Bond : *I actually think this could work

Greece's entry looked inspired by...Tigger.

Really Wes, you're going to go door knocking to help elect the man who would then contest the leadership election against you? This level of disingenuity is exactly why everyone fucking hates him. He's a fucking weasel.

I'm sorry, isn't Streeting the guy who handed our health data over to Peter Thiel? Who the hell does he think he's kidding?