happy father’s day to my dad*, who taught me a lot of things but most saliently, taught me to love reading — and who I seem to resemble more with each passing year * yes I’ll still call later don’t worry about it** ** yes he reads this account

Did Counting Crows ever give us a total number of crows

the beautiful game

"Welcome to Kansas City, where Ecuador has struggled to score against Curaçao." Meanwhile, across town, Samantha was also struggling with curaçao, and she, too, was trying to score

In the index of Wilson’s book, the two most populous sub-entries under ‘Fifa’ are ‘bribes’ and ‘corruption’. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

you ever just get a weird craving for corn nuts?

so nice that the US sucks less than usual

I am with three people at a bar watching the US game. we all made noises at the same paragraph in this write-up. guess the paragraph bobdahacker.com/blog/fifa-hack

boy the Australians really have the most Australian haircuts don’t they

raucous boos for RFK JR in this bar

Putting a bird you once lost a war to on your badge is crazy

real where’s waldo vibes in the US jerseys

Guys after 10 years of searching thru my files and hard drives and old computers, I finally found it again; the single best Missed Connections listing I've ever seen

I feel bad for Bosnia (not getting out of group) but this is tremendous content

whatever I'm not fixing the typo

ah yes, another moment for my favorite intrusive thought, "structured by cows" www.cnbc.com/2008/10/22/s...

there's no particular place we are going still, we are going #shoegaze

lol feel free to buy me a drink if you see me, I'm gonna need it www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

I love all of my beautiful soccer boyfriends

There’s just one kind of Uzbek soccer player name: Ozmadumanov Mamadonvunov

There’s two kinds of Dutch soccer player names: Matthijs Van Der Kuijpermandoonk (83 syllables) and Jan Ass (2 syllables)

every World Cup I learn about a new Type of Guy. this time it's: fullback with a mouthguard. bsky.app/profile/jm53...

Neil Postman always knocks twice

Technopoly, Neil Postman (1992)

I am being menaced by a Creature

I am being menaced by a Creature

Here in the distant future, what dystopia did we end up with? The Dumb Matrix. www.todayintabs.com/p/the-dumb-m...

nobly doing my job despite the france v senegal game

Hunter Thompson's obituary of Nixon ("He Was a Crook") should be required reading. Open the schools!

imagining someone who thinks that cheetos come from the cloaca of a big fucked up bird

anyway, you should read this important piece about how elon is, in fact, a killer:

no big deal, just elon musk saying he would've killed journalists at @theverge.com if he was, in fact, a killer

ok this is kind of a shot in the dark but: I am looking for a youtube video that's obviously a conference lecture, shitty slides and all, about hormone therapy, the women's health initiative, and what went wrong with the initial publication. does anyone know what I am talking about

I've seen several videos now of Scottish soccer fans attending their first baseball game and all of them are delightful

it is SO annoying that I keep having to miss World Cup matches due to "having a life"

[turns the "days since I have sent someone 'negroni season'" sign back to zero] www.theawl.com/2010/05/negr...

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

Everyone watching the Kennedy Center right now

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

is bluesky just breaking under the pressure from world cup? anyway this game is thrilling

watching world cup soccer has convinced me that europeans simply are not ready for american weather

FIFA spinning a big wheel and ending up with Andrea Bocelli and EJAE singing together

Ready for the World Cup

I strongly feel that if you are going to do a conference called Muscular Christianity, you need to list your 1 rep max on squat and deadlift right next to your name

IDK ABOUT ALL THIS AI STUFF I JUST HAVE MY CAT WRITE ALL THE CODE HES TERRIBLE AT IT BUT HE LOVES DOING IT

a lot of people are comparing adrian to andy rooney and I just want to say: andy rooney could NEVER

he's on a baseball podcast today discussing his love of...The Tampa Bay Rays blogs.fangraphs.com/effectively-...