Bluesky rn

Scotland subreddit an absolute state this morning

How many wins have we had at the world cup? 5? Maybe 6. Ma boys are doing alright. Stevie C u smooth mf

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What bliss it is to be alive

reckon so Robbo, reckon so

Bits and Pieces being played over the stadium PA, now *that's* soft power

Scott Brown going "you're about 70% there" to Joe Hart there class

Shankland obviously in there to lull their defence into complacency before sending Dykes in to smash everyone's cheekbones to atoms

Glad everyone is enjoying seeing Timmy Chalamet courtside or whatever, I’m watching a guy named Martin Experience run directly into several heavily sunburned Scotsmen

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Absolutely HAMMERING the sign

VIBES OFF THE SCALE!

Handsome lads

VIBES OFF THE SCALE!

Two one Hibs #Hibs

lmao perfect

BBC: “So what advice did David Hockney give to you?” BBC Guest: “Fuck everyone.”

Borders are ... Good?

Me, pretending to be Tommy Coyne when I was 12

Huge cut scene vibe off this opening ceremony

Some time around the turn of the century the worst aspects of jock and nerd were fused, creating a new type of guy, who ruined everything

Group B must be one of the lowest-quality groups in World Cup history, mind. Truly the group of life.

Somehow the lion, the witch and the wardrobe simultaneously

Mood

Just been along the Walk. Not entirely sure Scotland can withstand the level and intensity of the vibes of the next 48 hours but it feels like everycunt's willing to die trying.

the spacex ipo is a perfect representation of where global resources actually go. like spacex makes and does things which are useful to basically nobody on earth. it just absorbs astronomical (lol) quantities of state and investor funding and never pays a penny in tax

Former military man resigns from ministerial post in ailing regime calls for a "new way of governing"

Yesss

Called it

Don't want to get ahead of myself here but Mexico are *definitely* going to win the World Cup

If they got rid of basketball from this quote, it would then be a multifunctional quote

Recommended obliquely by @kneelbeforeclom.bsky.social and the line "it was pissing down with snow" delights me every time. They're a bit hard to explain as they'd be treated as gods if they'd played shows with Minor Threat in '83 but they're from Sunderland in '88 & ignored youtu.be/JG0xJ7q-60w?...

Jonathan Hall KC, absolutely on the glue.

Fewer than three days before Scotland has to make the most important decision it's faced in recent years...what time to start drinking before the fitba.

Caught the tail end of this interview in the morning and it was genuinely cheering to hear someone go in two footed on these chumps. Bizarre decision from Martin Geissler at the end deciding to speak for other political parties (who weren't taking part in the interview).

So glad that Luqman Saeed - an academic at Ulster University - has written this piece about the Belfast riots. I hope I could write this clearly and perceptively were I under similar pressure right now. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

The British *state* pension is a barely-over-destitution pittance, but many older people in Britain have considerable returns from housing wealth and private pensions accumulated before the crash and resultant austerity squeeze. Making the pittance less won't fix anything.

Somewhere, in oak lined school corridors, Oxbridge JCRs and the institutions and think tanks they feed, people are agreeing that that the people outside of those circles have jolly well had too much for too long and it can’t be afforded any more

Establishment consensus is taking over all institutions afaict even nominally progressive ones

Guardian runs into its second day of videos of decontextualised interpersonal violence auto playing on their landing page. The UKPubFightsification of British news media continues.

additionally, when will "flat screen tv" stop being used as an accusation of undeserved luxury when owned by someone on benefits or installed in a jail cell, given it's been over 20 years since you could last buy a CRT telly

I don't know how to make it any clearer. Every contributor to Britain's ongoing decline from the late-20th c. onwards has been the right realising precisely the political programme they've wanted: Thatcherism & free market supremacy; then austerity; then Brexit; now rising authoritarianism.

This is going to be in sharp contrast with Starmer inevitably and immediately equivocating on the Common Travel Area (that is, if he can even be arsed making a statement)

As well as the rampage in Glasgow a large group of masked men marched up Princes Street last night and more than 100 gathered in Ayr, these people were incited, mobilised and legitimised to these actions by avowed racists and islamophobes.