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Gisele Bündchen! Paul Coelho! Jair Bolsonaro! all the usually super noisy Brazilians who live in my neighbourhood and prevented me from sleeping during Brazil games earlier in this tournament! Jair Bolsonaro can you hear me!

Your reminder that despite being a gigantic terminator dork, Haaland is also a sound lad.

I hope Brazil enjoy the dinner that Norway have given them.

Everyone else: Play it cool. Don’t mention the celebrities in the crowd, okay? Everybody? Yes? Matterface: LOOK! THERES LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND, AND . . . THE OLD SPIDER-MAN!

FIFA has announced that Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe will be eligible to play for the USA team against Belgium.

Hosts who actively cheated to win a World Cup. Italy 1934 Argentina 1978 (v Peru to make the final) Trump joins Mussolini & general Videla He has over-ridden the red card rules but the USA are prob not going to the semifinal

The Guardian understands that the White House did lobby Fifa to rescind Folarin Balogun's one-game ban v Belgium: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

HOLY SHIT. FIFA President Gianni Infantino is at the USA game, sitting with Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce AND CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN. Disgusting.

Sycofantino has allowed crying spoilt baby Trump to have his bottle.

Infantino: “Today - I feel corruption”

I see this year's Worst Person In The World competition is down to the final three

Kudos #BookSky

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#CatchThePhrase #MusicChallenge | 334 Kevin Rowland I Am A Wanderer youtu.be/SKWhYrRchM0?...

Guy Mowbray has yet to discover any form of authority before which he won’t bend the knee.

Along with a bunch of other writers (including @stephengrahamjones.com ) I got to blab about a great American novel. I chose Vonnegut’s SH5 “‘So it goes’ is a call to art, a demand for peace, and a quintessentially human cry of dissent and unacceptance.” www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/our-fav...

@joebankswriter.bsky.social Just finished this magnificent book. Had to stop for a few minutes at a time while I searched online for some connected piece of music you mentioned, or look up an author or a book. A lot of learning took place while reading this.

It’s cooled down a bit - perfect book buying conditions! Sally

And a big fuck you to Sam Matterface who can go and shit in his hat this morning. I get up at 2:50am to take my daughter to the airport and he comes out with one of his well-prepared ‘jokes’ (it says here) on ITV when the camera shows Ed Norton in the crowd. 🔔end.

If you think that you have embarrassing parents please bear in mind that Simon Jordan and Michelle Dewberry have offspring.

Is there anything he wouldn't steal, from music to a 12-year-old's virginity? ================

More Hawkwind for me today.

All of the gaslit Reform voters and Yaxley-Lennon fancreatures, ‘No football at 9pm tonight! Starmer must g-, oh.’

I already knew that Wayne Rooney was an awful pundit (no idea why the BBC have hung their hat on him) but his fawning defence of a way over the hill Ronaldo is beyond embarrassing.

Directed by Sean Penn

Added bonus of watching France vs Senegal with the iplayer option of having the 5Live commentary. Not only do you not have to listen Mowbray and Alan ‘and rightly so’ Shearer but you don’t get Wayne ‘erm’ Rooney et al at half time either. Joy.

Had a mini/micro Hawkwind binge yesterday.

My two least favourite commentators today: Sam Matterface with his rehearsed lines and Guy Mowbray who never tires of stating the obvious. The latter is a thin-skinned 🔔 end who blocked me on Twitter for next to bugger all.

Nevermind the Guardian list, how many of the 93 books cited at one time or another by Mark E. Smith have you read

Next season’s kits for Scottish VAR officials have been revealed.

Steve Crossman on 5Live: (calls out Celtic fans attacking Hearts players) Conor McNamara: but . . . but . . . Celtic . . . What a one eyed douche.

No matter who Americans vote for as President they always end up with Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Incrementalism - Pushing the Envelope - Pedolf Testing the Boundaries to See What He Can Away With. But Then Hey Presto You Wake Up in a De Facto Authoritarian Fascist State

Tom Morello opening speech in Minneapolis 🔥

A man went to adopt a cat, but it refused to be separated from its companion, so he ended up taking them both home. Original post

I can tell already that Pochettino’s mantra for this World Cup is ‘We are American’. It’s his ‘strong and stable’.

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate

I played all of these Yes albums on Friday. It was a great day.

One of the most subtle, brilliantly crafted and superbly performed horror films I’ve ever seen (I’ve seen a lot). Frightening too.

Everything is terrible and horrible. So here is Ann-Margaret and Desi Arnez Jr. on the “Here’s Lucy” show in 1970 doing a dance number that’s been remixed to Prince’s “Kiss”. Ann-Margaret was hip AF! 🔥

Mick Hucknall, who blocked me on his personal account, but later followed me on the Simply Red Official account, to tell me he loved my Ken Dodd book.