Ok this is very good

I like that we had two football matches this week which were each in completely different ways showcases of football tactics, and then the losers of those showcases had a third match in which they rejected the existence of tactics as a concept

There’s no lessons to learn here guys! Just enjoy whatever the fuck that was

Absolutely correct bsky.app/profile/nute...

I would wager that the people watching on Bluesky make up at least 40% of the total audience

The most ridiculously fun World Cup game that literally nobody outside the countries involved is ever going to remember happened

The fact that Saka is still in this game incidentally makes me question Tuchel more than almost anything else

Funniest thing Tuchel could do right now is switch to 6 at the back

There is literally no non funny outcome at this point, incredible

And imagine, if England had played like this on Wednesday then they would lost the game 2-1 to a late Argentine comeback

What’s funny is that when Zidane leads them to the 2030 trophy, they’re gonna use this game as the “look how bad this team was when he took over, truly hopeless” opening to the montage

That fan who wished on the monkey’s paw for England to defeat France in a World Cup final in 2026 with some real mixed emotions right now

Genuinely the funniest possible conditions for England to beat a top team in a non-group stage World Cup match

Time for the 88 minute low block!

IS EVERYONE EXCITED FOR THE ENGLAND / FRANCE FINAL?

Remember everyone, it’s not the Third Place Playoff, it’s the Bronze Final!

The baby has been waking up after 30-40 minutes in every nap for weeks when we want them to be down for ~75-90 minutes. Until their grandparents visit specifically to see them, when they naturally sleep over two hours for the first time in months

It has been very depressing watching so many self styled progressives decide Massie is a great ally actually because he’s also a conspiracist who hates Israel (and all other Jews)

Just like Harry Kane left the golf course where he’d played an enjoyable round with his best friend Donald

Incredible

Lindor is my favourite Met of the last few years, he has absolutely been worth the trade and extension, he gave me some of my best Mets memories ever in 2024, and of course the team should be totally open to trading him

a lot of people are just watching sports or going to church whatever and vaguely aware that all this other shit is happening. for good or ill that's a real way to be in the world, which is hard to remember on here where people are (rightly!) perpetually 1) following and 2) worked up about politics

Remember everyone, it’s not the Third Place Playoff, it’s the Bronze Final!

@revan.eurosky.social congratulations on making it to a wild card spot somehow!?

I mean it’s ~probably The Crimes of Grindelwald

ODYSSEUS: Agamemnon, remember when I came to you with this idea of the horse, and we thought we might curse ourselves for our blasphemy and disregard for the gods? AGAMEMNON: What of it? ODYSSEUS: I believe we did.

9000 likes for a post on Bluesky demanding that a Democratic governor make life easier for Republicans for ??? reasons

Nothing beats a Jet2Odyssey.

Just remembering when the Right got extremely angry at the idea that The Odyssey might depict the Aegean as less than a tranquil paradise

Oppositional Defiant Disorder is basically the defining feature of huge swaths of our politics now

Look, the admin obviously does worse stuff every single day but absolutely nothing sets off my profound sense of second hand embarrassment like basically everything done by Pete Hegseth

Elon Musk trying to sink a Christopher Nolan movie was honestly the funniest and dumbest course of action he could have taken. He’s one of the most popular filmmakers alive and now it proves Elon and his fanboys have no real cultural impact outside of X

"Black Actress plays what was to them the ultimate white role" was to them too much of a hot button to ignore. As with Paris, they simply could not resist even if it doomed them.

In a very real sense, inserting a bunch of ahistorical bullshit is the essence of a faithful adaptation of Homer

Total woke cultural victory. We're bringing pronouns back. It is now illegal to be a white male. We're doing May Day parades just for HR ladies.

This is like a Stewart Lee routine where constantly repeating the joke has gone beyond being tedious to causing gales of laughter again.

The history textbooks of 3026 will explain how primitive ballgames meant so much to some societies of our time that the government was forced to resign after losing a rivalry match

Ah yes, his monk-like silence previously interrupted only by the extensive media interviews he did immediately after the match ended less than 48 hours ago

Trump's speech was nothing. It wasn't a Reichstag Fire moment or the end of democracy or a national emergency or anything. It was a hoarse old man shouting about how wronged he is and how pathetic our country is. Nobody is listening anymore.

… The administration should be glad this isn’t being carried on the networks; I can’t imagine normal people having any idea what he’s even talking about, let alone why he’s talking about it instead of, say, something about which they give a rat’s ass

Fascinating to discover that this event was caused by a time traveler from our present day desperately trying to change the past to allow England to win the 2026 World Cup, but alas fate is inexorable

Oh please oh please oh please

very funny that the Argentines were just like all of us apparently

this administration is so corrupt even the teleprompter guy is making six figures on insider trading

The fact that people have convinced themselves that Dems are being feckless about this is wild. Just tying themselves into knots to come up with some reason Dems are failing.

1) McConnell is not dead 2) He is not in a coma 3) Even if he was in a coma, that doesn't create a vacancy 4) Even if there was a vacancy, Beshear doesn't get to appoint anyone 5) There is no reason to think Dems can win a special election in Kentucky 6) R senator who can't vote is good for Dems

this is more or less what I had guessed, that it was a collective decision by the players to cease playing for possession or a second goal, and Tuchel failed to change this and then steered into the skid with his subs (this is not, to be clear, exonerating for Tuchel) bsky.app/profile/figo...

Thing about yesterday's game is that it feels annoying to just relitigate the Tuchel tactical shift over and over again (is it even litigation if there's no defence?) but it really did just transform the game to the point it feels impossible to know what happens without it

People are determined to believe that Trump has an unusually large, unusually loyal group of strong supporters and the survey data just doesn't show that.