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Cabo Verde has never lost a World Cup match

Shoot that right into my veins Cabo Verde

Every single word in this headline is a surprise

That shot oh my god. Cabo Verde!

Commentators in the US aren’t nearly excited enough for this Curaçao performance. It’s pretty fun to watch.

"I am not a normal president," quite the flex

That was a great goal. Was pulling for Cote d'Ivoire here.

HOW DID HE NOT TAKE THAT SHOT (GER-CIV that is)

As someone who grew up with a special needs sibling (with Down Syndrome) I’ll just say it’s not a surprise that the mouth-breathing douchebags I remember as a kid gravitated toward Trump and MAGA.

"For the second tournament in a row, top-ranked Sabalenka exited with a bagel to-go" is an award winning line here

Fascinating thread

LLMs are perpetuation machines. It’s literally what they’re designed to do.

I mean they can’t kick them all out.

DirecTV does this thing where after like three hours it asks you "Are you still watching" and I feel like it’s really saying shouldn’t you move away from the TV now, son

I had that Fox commercial on mute just now at half time and still low key threw up in my mouth

What are we even doing as a species

I was ok with it until the niacin

I know it’s early but I love this and didn’t expect that I’d ever feel good about the World Cup being here, with this administration, and didn’t think I’d be reminded of how good we can really be. We’re awful but also diverse and open and welcoming. Especially in our big cities.

Typical Mamdani. He’s only saying all this because he believes it and because it’s true.

I am so here for Curaçao in this game.

A very happy 80th & final birthday to our great President!

Brazil underwhelming so far, or Morocco is just good

This makes me think we need to bring back Letterman, not David but the Electric Company superhero who was by several orders of magnitude the greatest superhero. He can single-handedly turn the president into a sad and harmless Rump and a grateful nation will rejoice.

Haiti being told by FIFA to change their uniforms at the last minute because it’s too political to celebrate their independence from French rule is so on brand

Watched Hacks finale last night and loved it even though I was a mess at the end of a 20 hour travel day. Maybe that’s why I loved it.

Here on Lenglen watching Khachanov and a new favorite, Marco Trungelitti. He’s fading a little now in the 4th but first two sets were fun, and I love his shaggy pool guy vibe.

Here at Roland Garros for first time. Excited to watch Monfils tonight. The heat is… something else.

"even though I had nothing to do with it" is such a dick move on multiple levels

One underexplored but quasi-dystopian good thing about hating AI is that "AI enhancements" are going to become the premium features that you just absolutely do not need and can live without.

Trump has whatever is the exact opposite of imposter syndrome

"If you don't care about science, that's okay, because AI is going to touch everything else as well" sounds so much like a warning, and it's not meant as a warning. It's meant to be happy prophecy! And the kids are just not fooled at all.

"I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months" is pretty nice and almost enough to forgive the troubling moustache

I like them doing the cover for non-tennis fans, that's great for the sport. Tennis fans will note that his back is covered in clay, meaning at some point in this imaginary match he also was lying *face-up* on the clay, and it wasn't after winning the match! Unless it was.

there’s a difference between not putting your name on something and not driving it home to voters over and over that what you did worked and your policies are effective. You can’t just do neither and expect it to work out with low information voters.

I think about this all the time. But Mamdani somehow does it by promoting the value of government itself, he’s not slapping his name on things. He’s reminding people of what works in a friendly way and that’s what Dems almost never do.

One of my favorite stories about my mom, who died 16 years ago and was a devout Catholic and a great mom: one time when I was six or seven I went with her to see my older brother play soccer, and a thunderstorm struck so we waited in the car. To pass time, she told me about the Jersey Devil. (1/?)

I may need this

Me too. Also a visual thinker! Also think it would be fun to just turn my notes file into a book. Just wouldn't be writing unless I did the actual word stuff, any more than I'd be a songwriter if I asked chat to write a song based on a cool vibe I had.

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I’m not sure what my posthumous fantasy would be but it would take place between 6 and 7pm on a clear Friday night in May, and also Trump would be dead.

whoever leaked that he’s panicking about leaks is the funniest person in the government

Sitting at a bar in the upper west side with my wife and screaming at the Kentucky derby because our fake bet on Golden Tempo won, then explaining to everyone that it was an imaginary bet.

I love that they seem to have captured him in a tunnel

Keep going. If there’s a way Duke can someday lose to a 64 seed I’m all for it. www.espn.com/mens-college...

Not sure if there’s even a #tennissky but Hailey Baptiste just beat Sabalenka in a third set tiebreaker in Madrid and it was complete madness and the best thing I’ve seen in ages

Plumber: (points vaguely toward everything) You see the problem now, right? Me: (anxious, trying hard, wondering why it has to be a test) maybe that thing there? Plumber: (shakes head sadly) You have failed

This thread, damn. I think she tried typing "wouldn’t let me" and changed it to "wouldn’t cooperate” and the two things together made it sound sinister instead of like a tech complaint.

The person who read Frost’s “Good fences make good neighbors” line and lost the plot

If it’s safety that matters we can keep him behind seven inch thick glass all the time, and there can also be bars