Well at least we all learnt something about each other

Very funny side plot right now is that SV people are blasting every substance known to man because they think that AI will invent drugs that will undo the long term damage within the next decade

The enduring image of their tournament is Rafael Leão's face here: bsky.app/profile/nath...

by the way, it is absolutely shameful that it took a month and this woman going public with more details than she wanted to share when the behaviour she had already described, alongside that described by several others, was extremely clearly disqualifying. screenshot from the early June NYT piece:

There was 29 of them I heard. Rounding up.

Mainstream US pundit here

Farage isn't going to make it another three years...

Thought that was the poshest cunt ever at the end then I realised he’s in it the whole way through

The "family" in this case being George Cottrell, who calls Farage "Daddy", so probably counts.

The Times has wrongly attributed all 2025 dependent visas (180) to people joining thousands of past arrivals from Cameroon to a tiny number (12) new arrivals, who are not connected to those dependents, to claim they bought a "ratio" of 15 each. bsky.app/profile/jdpo...

Thank fuck it can end now

*watching Spain-Portugal and a breaking story on this app* well I think rapists should lose things they’re trying to win

perhaps we should view nazi tattoos as disqualifying from here on out. i kind of assumed we'd already view them as disqualifying but was unpleasantly surprised so maybe from here we could all agree not to downplay nazi tattoos since they seem pretty indicative of broad disregard for human dignity

Fuck this campaign. What a bunch of disgusting mercenary monsters.

Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory."

This sort of behaviour: send out your MPs to defend you, knowing the line is unlikely to last the day, is a persistent death knell for both party management and political careers.

So any decision can be overturned by threatening to file an appeal to CAS? Not fucking likely - didn’t happen to Senegal

Tapping the sign open.substack.com/pub/smotus/p...

mitch mcconnell, mojtaba khamenei, iran and america have much more in common than they realize

The Celeste Amarilla stuff is pretty fucking disgusting, but this response from Mbappé is absolutely fantastic

correction on this post, Norway didn’t spend any GPFG money for the first 20 years of its existence, but they did tap it in 2016 for the first time, and repeatedly since then due to the pandemic and rearmament post-2022 www.ipe.com/norway-takes...

Ominous

The AIPAC thing has really transformed into “any association with that Jew money makes you evil” which doesn’t seem great

Weapons (2025)

This is like the 5th time they’ve announced this scam

I cannot imagine seeking legal advice from a man writing a book called How To Launder Money

OpenAI employee: "How did the obvious and inevitable result everyone predicted happen?!?!"

Yeah same actually

there is a very real risk, should football finally "come home" - as has oft been prophesised - at the same time, or even around the same time, that Andrew Burnham ascends the steps of no. 10 Downing Street to become prime minister, that we could see the dawn of the Second Age of Britpop

Pleased to see everyone is getting hyped about Belgium winning as they’re the last team I have left in my sweepstakes

Dot is still troubled by her decision to let Nick die of a Heroin overdose.

Can’t believe them withdrawing the Mexican chicken sandwich actually worked.

literally incapable of conceiving of global relationships (this is Meloni, an ideological ally he has managed to completely alienate in recent weeks) in any terms other than those of a rapist.

Oh my god, the influencers are trying to rehabilitate Kaliningrad Oblast now. The place is usually so nightmarish that Russian state media is forced to use footage of Polish or Lithuanian cities to make it seem appealing.

fully do not understand why people are getting mad at this, kids love staying up for naughty reasons, most adults will end up having to work through a hangover or a silly late night at some point, genuinely what is the problem here

We should start Dan Burn to give the fans longer to do his chant to the tune of Pretty Green Eyes

Glad the whole country got to experience getting behind Big Dan Burn.

I, Jordan Henderson, got a yellow card and a terrible injury in the legendary 2026 match against Mexico at the Azteca While playing, right?

Bring on the megafauna finale of Haaland versus Dan Burn

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

Neymar laughing and pointing at himself while his team loses. A personality in a moment.

The last time Brazil won the World Cup was so long ago Celtic’s manager was Martin O’Neill

We'll have the Roberts Supreme Court overruling VAR judgements before this World Cup is out. Sotomayor writing the dissent explaining how it was offside.

Again he fucking stopped in his run up - is that not a rule anymore then?

Is this the end of an era for Neymar at the World Cup? He had one good tournament

Well now

Promoting 'your' Substack on a website that *suppresses links* and whose algorithm *punishes content with politics anywhere to the left of Rishi Sunak*, and whose writing bears a cursory relationship to your voice. The whole thing is just sad, really.

My favourite fact about the Star Spangled Banner is that Francis Scott Key was watching the Bombardment of Fort McHenry from a British warship because he has come on board to try and get contraband (escaped slaves!) back from the Brithsh