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WE HAVE BEEN RESCUED FROM EXTRA TIME. 🇪🇸

Steve Carell and David Beckham talking about people having Walkers and needing Walkers like each individual crisp is one Walker

The red button should just show a constant stream of fans realising they're being shown on the big screen just as the camera cuts away from them.

There is a World Cup knockout match in (near) Dallas tonight. If the BBC don’t update this clip from 1994, we riot

Chappers: "Wayne, Micah – was it a red?" Wayne and Micah:

HYDRATION BREAK.

Just thinking how nice it'll be when Ronaldo finally retires and we can go back to liking Portugal again.

Off to bed. Night night, English people staying up.

Scotland really did make this Brazil team look a lot better than they are.

Why not just stop the World Cup now and give USA the trophy? It'll save Trump the hassle of having to have a word with FIFA to get them put back into the competition when they get knocked out.

Writing tip: Give your protagonist a pet cat. In the final pages, shift to the cat's point of view. Follow the cat outside, through moonlit woods, to a pasture where cows kneel in worship around a glowing spacecraft. As the cat trots up its gangway, we glimpse in the windows an all-cat crew.

NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 37. Journalist, broadcaster and author @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social joins me on the textcast to discuss her superb new book on the Beatles’ first film, 1964’s A Hard Day’s Night, and chats about some of her cherished music purchases. firstlastanything.co.uk/2026/07/05/f...

Anyone here have much Instagram expertise? I have a highlight I want to add more stories to, but it says I can't because it has 100 stories. So I deleted some stories from the highlight but it still says it's full. Can't find any mention of this issue anywhere online - anyone know a way around it?

Comentator just referred to Claude Makelele as "one of the best number sixes ever", inflaming my bubbling hatred of football people referring to football positions as numbers. Stop it. Just stop it.

How has Mbappe made it this far into his career without fans singing his name to the tune of Mmmbop by Hanson?

Used a coffee stirrer to make a little splint for my poor broken Twix.

After six months of gradually losing weight, I put on half a stone in six days while on holiday. I'm taking that just to mean it was a very, very good holiday.

Oh Bluesky friends…I haven’t told you about this. How exciting? Hope to see some of you there this Christmas 🐻🎹

Seen a few people sharing this Greenpeace post and I totally agree with the point it's making but it feels pretty unlikely to me that Jordan Pickford and Elliot Anderson wouldn't also have immigration somewhere in their family lines? We basically all do if you go back far enough.

It's the last day of our holiday and I'm sad because every day this week we've walked past this hotel sign and I've remarked that the logo looks like a pair of Y-fronts, and I'll never get to do that again.

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for brilliant middle grade fantasy Royal Institute of Magic: The Silver Dwarf by Victor Kloss. Out now from #VinciBooks @edpr.bsky.social #KidlitUK #UKKidlit worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/2026/07/02/b...

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Dropping in on the Discourse to reiterate that British food is a) not bad and b) the way Americans specifically talk about it is completely deranged. Yes Brits eat more processed food than anywhere else in Western Europe and that is Not Good but it’s also doubly true of America!

Made one of my rare trips to Facebook and it's basically turned into one big scrolling feed of horrendous AI-generated event flyers, punctuated with the occasional bit of racism just for some respite.

Me and my other half are a mixed race couple and most of the time I don't even think about it, but occasionally little things happen that make you think you're being treated differently because of it. Yesterday we visited a cafe in a small (but touristy) village in Italy. When we arrived it was ...

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I think one of my favourite paintings is the one where Captain Oates has just been kicked in the balls by a penguin.

The holiday social media break's going well btw.

I'm watching a random music channel on Italian TV and they just played Future Love Paradise by Seal and it struck me that it's a nailed-on banger that seems to have been completely forgotten about.

Incredible humblebrag on the back of Pat Nevin's autobiography.

I ventured outside. 10pm and it's still 30+ degrees. A surreal sight I don't think I've ever seen before: All grass is yellowed, flowers dead. Leaves that were green a few days ago are now orange/brown and so dry they crumble in your hand. It's like a wrong autumn out there. #heatwave

Reminder that if you're able to watch Sky Documentaries, the new film about Rik Mayall is on at 9pm tonight.

☹️ #Pareidolia #Iseefaces #FacesInThings #FacesInPlaces #ThingsWithFaces ©️ (Photographer unknown, source: Facebook)

We spotted that Bryan Adams is playing an acoustic gig near where we're going to be staying on holiday next week, so we bought tickets on a whim and I've now spotted that Mel C's tour schedule has her vaguely in the area too so I'm excited about what might happen.

Going on holiday tomorrow so I'm going to attempt a bit of a social media break while I'm away (which I'll probably fail at but it's the thought that counts).

Anyone else's hayfever been absolutely off the scale these last few days? Antihistamines appear to be doing literally nothing.

Not sure how fair it is to ask a bunch of Scottish footballers to play against actual Brazil in Miami in 30C heat. Let's lobby FIFA for a second leg at Station Park in Forfar in November and we'll see how fancy they are then.

Have to hand it to BBC, their coverage of Scotland at this World Cup has been excellent.

Today our postie said "hiya pal" to me in the exact same tone that Joe Pesci says it to Kevin in Home Alone 2.

Going to stick my neck out here and suggest that murdering animals is not, in fact, an art.

HYDRATION BREAK.

An impressively diverse selection of different reasons to find England fans singing Rule Britannia deeply embarrassing.

HYDRATION BREAK.

Hoping for Guy Mowbray to slip in a Rising Damp or Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em reference tonight, just to see how Shearer reacts.

Aaaaand it's already been cancelled. Which is disappointing.

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They’re calling it the least comprehensible achievement of all time.