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England soccer fans went to the Braves game after their World Cup match and formed a Michael Harris II cheering section

I choose to have faith in humanity, but sometimes that impulse is badly tested

Quite something seeing all the complaints about the red card for Balogun, to say nothing of listening to commentary from people who should know better. A red card offence is if the player commits a serious or dangerous foul, NOT if he does something on purpose.

They will have a WHAT

Ah, the Church of the Latter Day Ain’ts

There's a pending sale on our neighbour's house, which means hopefully new neighbours who don't have a TV out of their deck, which faces our deck. Said TV, incidentally, was left on all night, although thankfully without sound. I need more than earbuds.

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell, 1984

Surveyor Alex Colville 2001

As this is largely about girls in school sports they should write a new law and name it Title IX and III/IV in honour of JK Rowling. Because nothing would make her happier than men peeking down girls' shorts to ensure they're safe.

Art appreciation

My own Napier’s Bones came out the same year, and when I got the call that it was nominated for an Aurora (Canada’s kinda-Hugo) I asked about the other nominees. Among Others wasn’t on the list, and they wouldn’t let me refuse my nomination to be replaced by Jo’s book.

Heatmap News has just created a new genre of obituaries. And note the headline. heatmap.news/daily/lee-ra...

Jesus. Two dogs humping would draw a bigger crowd.

No disrespect to Morocco, but that goal is tremendously unhelpful for my cartoon deadline.

happy pride, any excuse to post my favorite poem

Anxious? Stressed? Unsure About Your Career?

A crowd so small you could say "less people" instead of "fewer people" and pedants would just shrug and say "Works for me."

The Tree Monica Morrill n.d.

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

The movie ends with Armie Hammer literally murdering an entire Syrian immigrant family, including the murderer AND his sister, mother and father who apparently were all fine with his criminal actions and are such guilty and worthy of execution.

A tie game with just over 15 minutes left? Put on Neymar, you cowards.* #BRAJPN #WorldCup *And live life on the edge for the sake of nostalgia

This is a super good read even if you're not a theatre nerd!

I'll be taking every opportunity (that fits) to plug the new and slightly-updated edition of Napier's Bones. Seeing how the new Globe Theatre plays a role in a big scene near the end of the book, read the thread and buy the novel. bookshop.newestpress.com/collections/...

Shocking to learn Scott Moe is lying to me about carbon capture.

Dad died just over a month ago and this (hilariously) is a signal that the weirdest things will remind me of him.

It’s the 413th anniversary of the day William Shakespeare burnt his beloved Globe Theatre to the ground. In his defence, this was (a) by accident, and (b) with help from the stage crew (although they didn’t mean to either)

The Great American State Fyre

The first offer I ever got for AMMONITE, the editor said, You have to change the title title. No one knows what it means. I said, They can look it up! And found another publisher (who paid twice as much 😄).

Guys has anyone actually read this article?

I've spent years wondering what happened to the guy who flipped the house we ended up buying in a crazy seller's market (knowing we were going to do our own, real, fixes as opposed to the half-assed crap he did). I think we've found his latest piece of work.

A famous anecdote about the bibliographer ANL Munby has it that when he encountered car trouble, he had no choice but to fix the gasket using the parchment leaf from a medieval Antiphonal. When asked how old his classic Bugatti was, he answered, “parts of it date back to the 15th century.”

Today I learned that volunteers on an island near Vancouver decide to just buy tons of efficient heat pumps, unlocking big bulk discounts, and help their neighbors install them. They've done 1,100 of the 3,000 homes on Gabriola Island, BC! How cool is that?! 🤯🔥👠

The fact that this movie has a 50% casualty rate among Hemsworths is all the more tragic when you realize only a tiny fraction of hatchling Hemsworths survive the journey from the beach where their eggs were laid to the sea. The bulk are devoured by seagulls.

I honestly think it was cool how for the Freedom 250 concert they symbolically had one attendee from every state

Jo figured she was good for one cocktail today, so I invented the Pirate’s Pancake: 2oz white rum, 1oz each cranberry juice and maple brown sugar oat milk liqueur, dash Peychaud’s bitters. Muddle 1/4 cup fresh blueberries with the mix, shake with ice, garnish with blueberries. Pour into coupe.

How bad was the Venezuelan quake? It lifted my country's - Trinidad and Tobago - coastline in some areas by 20 feet. We are many miles from the epicenter, though only a few miles from the Venezuelan coastline. And yes, we felt it. trinidadexpress.com/news/local/q...

A friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding at the Great American State Fair bc he knows no one is there.

WE. ARE. CANADA. 🇨🇦 #CanMNT | QUOTED by Visa

I found out that the sea drone the Houthis used is called the Blowfish. Come on. Houthis and the Blowfish

The last few minutes of this Algeria/Austria game are like a heist movie trope where they splice a repeating sequence into the surveillance system, Algeria just knocking it around the middle of the field. Just grim, after such a great period of exciting play.

These Lumineers songs get worse with every go-round.

What she said.

A reminder that the release date of the new and slightly updated edition of my Prix Aurora Award-nominated novel Napier's Bones is October, and it is available for preorder at the NeWest Press website. bookshop.newestpress.com/collections/...

Judging by England's performance against Ghana and right now against Panama, It's Not Coming Home. #WorldCup

I already know what I'm doing for the sequel, but if I decide to turn Napier's Bones into a series, I'll for sure think about poaching some or all of these titles.