F*** you FIFA. Pricing out all but the richest football fans is obscene. The final will be packed full of political cronies and the super rich who couldn’t give two hoots about the game. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

This FIFA spectacle is utterly gross in every way possible. How did FIFA manage to find someone worse than Sepp Blatter?

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

We're back from illness!

😂😂😂😂 Perfect!

A pro-Russian UKIP/Brexit Party/Reform politician? Wow, who could have seen that coming. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dutch late night TV has its take

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After two weeks? What a crap headline. Do better BBC.

🚨🚨HERE IT IS: We got Trump’s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the President said doesn’t exist. Trump talks about a “wonderful secret” the two of them shared. What is he hiding? Release the files!

I love the BBC but what the hell is this? Not a word of criticism in the entire article, just a breathless fawning.

Just watched the latest episode of Alien: Earth. Even though I obviously knew the outcome, felt tense throughout, it was masterfully done. Eye octopus is easily my favourite character, now waiting for what the last two alien species can do. Bound to be gruesome!

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Oh god, it’s worse than we could have possible imagined isn’t it?

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This is incredible

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Looks like Tiny Tommeh has let his temper get the better of him yet again. Just lock him up and throw away the key… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

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@explodingheads.bsky.social BBC are stealing your game!

USAID was one of the best things we, America, ever did. There is not really room for dispute on this unless your moral calculus is so different as to be alien.

Nonsense, this is funny, great, and also possibly useful to visitors! Bonus points for the use of "accompanying weapon dogs".

I told you we’d be back

What’s the slowest burn on you realising something? I think with me it’s working out what the “lithic” in Neolithic means which - despite me reading the word at a bare minimum thousands of times *and* me being aware of other connected lith words - just didn’t click until about 18 months back.

It is genuinely unsafe for average people to use Twitter and speak freely. It appears to be this administration's primary intelligence gathering operation.

What the f**k. We all knew this already but holy hell.

23andMe sounds like a dating website run by Leonardo DiCaprio

Since the 1990s, sensitivity to this topic has also increased enormously. Especially with psychological issues, there is often a feedback effect, whereby an increase in diagnoses leads to greater sensitivity, which in turn leads to an additional increase in the number of diagnoses.

We did it before, we’re doing it now, and we’ll do it again. Big thanks to @beaudonelly.bsky.social @conplnk.bsky.social @koltai.bsky.social @charleymaher.bsky.social @merelzoet.bsky.social @galen.reich.me.uk

This is one of the most ridiculous attempts I’ve ever seen by the BBC to inject “balance” into a story. In an article about Trump posting a picture of himself as the pope, they write this:

100%. I remember years ago, in my 20s, thinking “I don’t know about gay marriage…maybe civil unions?” And then at some point it clicked - who gives a shit. Get married, don’t, no bearing on my life. (And it makes you happy is nice bonus).

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Yes, this is a real tweet.

Every divorced dad would like to be able to flash this to the three-margarita divorcee at the bar at TGI Friday’s on a Tuesday night

While most Americans oppose making Canada the 51st state, a majority of Joe Rogan listeners favor it, saying they would like to live in the same country as their girlfriends.

From a fiery article in the Times of London. They shut down the Colosseum so JD could get a private tour. Everyone else who'd gotten tickets in advance was out of luck. So many layers contained in the passage about the irate Trump voter in the second graf. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Yes, absolutely. The claim from the antivax contingent is that the increase has been so big that better diagnosis couldn’t possibly explain it. But that’s clearly not true in these data. Better diagnosis could be the only thing happening.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

Who did this?

The Trump Administration admits to an “oversight” in the deportation to the mega-prison in El Salvador an immigrant who has PROTECTED LEGAL STATUS since 2019… But now claims: “Oops, we can’t bring him back.”

I think so but the Mercator projection exaggerated it so it looked much more lopsided. It also didn’t show that most of the USSR was, and Russia still is, uninhabited forest and tundra.

Not sure I understand this move from the government. Replace trans with Jewish and how harsh would they have been on the uni. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism