Denmark. Why is it always Denmark.

CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”

Probably says something about me that with some exceptions, I actively dislike history books which read this way. I do not want a history book that moves like a novel or movie! It’s not what I’m there for

Now that we have plenty of real data, seems extremely conclusive that the idea the way the shutdown ended would lead people to feel better about Trump or less likely to support Democrats was pretty much nonsense

Zack Snyder made bad superhero movies audiences hated, got cut off before his future ideas could destroy the brand any further, went to Netflix where he made ugly-looking movies that nobody watched, and now he's engaged in basically a shadow war in hopes his Saudi allies install him back at DC.

Genuinely one of the most incredible campaigns ever waged in American political history, a privilege to witness

“If the president is horrifically unpopular, things tend to go very poorly for his party” isn’t a perfect indicator (2022) but it remains a pretty useful and weirdly underestimated one

Kemi fulfils a very important constitutional function by letting a failing PM whose government is imploding around him have a bit of scheduled easy fun each week as a treat

Kemi Badenoch with the ball at her feet 2 yards out from an open goal:

so where we're at is that it would be cool for NI to qualify but not if Ireland don't

HAHAHAHA

England dull as dishwater while the other nations of the isles show how to put on a proper show: same as it ever was

what a week for Celtic football in extra time

WOW Scotland

ok Grisham accepting the QO is a pretty funny fuck-up by the Yankees

Oh going for Williams would be *such* a Stearns move I’ll immediately be more surprised if it doesn’t happen

The two for one of emboldened racists under Keir Starmer - the racists he doesn't condemn go 'that's alright then', while the ones he does go 'well, clearly I didn't do anything wrong!'

To be clear, if you think that 'objecting to someone who looks at this mural and goes "can't see the problem" is some kind of smear, congratulations, you are a racist!

i did NOT expect this ending

it's very simple; They Have Always Been Or: inertia is a powerful factor, four teams make a more exciting spectacle than two, and you can come up with all sorts of retroactive elaborate theories about them mirroring the four seasons and the four elements and such

I do at least appreciate the effort to provide consistent comic relief amidst the broader grim pointlessness of Labour these days

If this really is what is being proposed, I think adding the jewellery confiscation policy + the 20 year policy could kick off the kind of PLP revolt that (without rapid u-turn) could entirely destabilise a struggling government that risks falling over on every front www.thesun.co.uk/news/3734007...

Me reading X-Men: X-Cutioner’s Song

I do not actually own an Ireland kit but today was a great day for the “Roma third kit which seriously look like an Ireland one”

Possibly the platonic ideal of a Bluesky post is a Canadian commenting on a Twitter screencap and pivoting to attacking Dems from the future he made up to get mad at.

This weekend has been an interesting approach to winning over the Parliamentary Labour Party for a leader on the verge of being dumped.

If Italy can continue their early pace of one goal per ten minutes then they will do exactly enough to get the automatic qualifying spot

Troy Parrott scored 5️⃣ goals vs Portugal and Hungary to send Ireland through to the play-offs 🤩🇮🇪

I can’t believe we pulled that off after losing to Armenia

Troy Parrott in tears on RTE - very emotional.

Caoimhin Kelleher the man that you are, incredible stuff to keep us in it, and TROY FUCKING PARROTT

WE ARE GOING TO THE WORLD CUP playoff qualifier round

What incredible spirit from Ireland, absolutely sensational.

😳 someone's having a rather good day

Incredible!

Dad just sent me this, we are go, the Portugal match has given us permission to actually be disappointed again if it doesn’t happen #COYBIG

never in doubt

h my gooooooooooooood

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

Dad just sent me this, we are go, the Portugal match has given us permission to actually be disappointed again if it doesn’t happen #COYBIG

It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"

this is so embarrassing I feel physically uncomfortable

I hadn’t clocked that, it’s almost like New Labour uniquely had some sort of catastrophic shift in public image to replace a raw charisma it managed in 1997 with something utterly unappealing by 2010. Hard to know what that could be

It’s just not very hard, or shouldn’t be, to say republicans are too busy covering up that the president is a pedophile to focus on bringing down costs for everyday Americans.

Democrats should do what Zohran would do, which is to absolutely talk about it and use it to divide Republicans but absolutely not make it their only message or let it detract from a focus on affordability

So the thing about Billy Madison is that Josh from the West Wing *obviously* deserves the company more than Adam Sandler, an unqualified failson

I’m actually sympathetic to the fact the British public consistently say they want lower immigration & ultimately govts have to account for that. But they *also* say they want growth, functional public services etc, and these are legitimately in tension which the govt can’t just wish away?

A year and a half after far right riots stoked by anti-immigration rhetoric, the government has moved from "process cases quickly" to "refugees will never obtain permanent status" and the opposition is arguing for mass deportations, despite immigration figures collapsing in the same time.

Christendom (2022) by Peter Heather