for a large part of my adult life i’ve been allergic to my own body heat, which is a real inconvenience to say the least. daily high doses of antihistamines kept it at bay, but recently i wondered if it was still bad, so i stopped taking them and it was okay! until today when i biked into work

half of my footie podcasts are gushing about cape verde’s brave, attacking, un-cowed performance and the other half are also lauding them while talking about how they set up in a low block and i’m like, low block? low block??? you should be fired from your own show, i’m sorry but what #WorldCup

cape verde didn’t fail by any stretch of the imagination but they didn’t win. and i think about jurgen telling the team if you’re going to fail, fail beautifully.

For folks that don't watch football much. It's not that Capo Verde, a tiny nation, managed to make it this far. It's that they made every team work for it. They weren't the classic minnow who played negative football and scraped by. They were equals to Argentina today. Incredible. Bravo. A classic.

i need an ice vest

i let myself get swept away by the fairy tale underdog-ness of cape verde, but they have a player accused of rape and so i should feel ok they didn’t make it through (despite the heroic display of the rest of the team), but i don’t feel the same underdog sympathy for ghana and fucking thomas partey

Don't forget, Cabo Verde women will be in WAFCON at the end of this month. Support this footballing nation.

Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

This is the best game of the tournament thus far and it doesn’t feel particularly close. Absolutely locked in.

heartbreaking, that performance was so worthy of the win

The ref should simply let them play until Cape Verde wins

will no one rid me of this troublesome emi martinez #WorldCup

mac, get up or get off the pitch #WorldCup

a travesty a genuine travesty #WorldCup

Some of you are still posting about politics and I need you to understand that Bluesky is now a Cabo Verde stan platform thank you for your attention

I FUCKING LOVE FOOTBALL #WorldCup

Get goal for goal

my neighbors might think i’m being murdered, the noises i just made #WorldCup

this is simply not real

that was a stunning strike holy shit!!! #WorldCup

oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god

fuuuuuuuuuck. #WorldCup

i desperately want them to hold the ball and give their defense some rest, but they’re gonna go for the win and i love it so much even though i am STRESSED #WorldCup

i do not like all of this pressure #WorldCup

whoooo that save again, they’re playing with fire a little bit here though, they gotta relieve some of this pressure or they’re gonna go a goal down again i fear

millimeter perfect, wow

Vozinha!!!! #WorldCup

Vozinha!!!! #WorldCup

the ratio of argentina fans to cabo verde fans in the stands is the direct inverse of cabo verde fans to argentina fans in my bluesky feed #WorldCup

With a small compass’d cape

I FUCKING LOVE FOOTBALL #WorldCup

i fucking hate the hydration break

my Defector essay on The Omen is a @longreads.com Editor's Pick 😭 longreads.com/2026/06/29/d...

sheesh game’s been a real rough one, eh? #WorldCup

RIP, Louisville, always in our hearts

honestly, and i say this as the certified #1 ronaldo hater, the worst thing about that var call is that i have to see so many of my fellow americans posting the word “offsides." it’s not plural, friends. if someone is on a plane, they’re not “onboards” ffs

Morally onside

If they had left Ronaldo off this team, I would’ve been happy to vaguely support them, especially for Diogo. But with CR, I will cheer against them every day.

to my one friend who wanted portugal to win

annoyingly good goalkeeping there, i have to admit it #WorldCup

"A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.

she's an action movie star!

yes, my love, all i want to do right now is snuggle with you

Being a Horror fan And not being into sports Means many posts I'm seeing tonight Are getting wildly misimagined

wow that was a lovely free kick! #WorldCup

it’d be nice to be able to park the bus now, but america doesn’t have that kind of public transit infrastructure #WorldCup

arghhhh i wish they’d stop showing that bendy wendy ankle in slow mo over and over again, that’s rough #WorldCup

u.s. fans chanting “ty-ler ad-ams!” clap-clap-clapclapclap it’s a weak and embarrassing chant i’d hoped we’d left behind when mi-chael brad-ley retired, but here we are #WorldCup

fun fact: Balogun in Yoruba basically means "general" or "commander" but most literally translates to "war dad"