The deciding goal being an own goal shows us the truth that Argentina could not defeat Cabo Verde -- only Cabo Verde could defeat Cabo Verde.

Important updates from the couch (per my spouse).

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

NYC is so diverse that there is a center for preserving endangered languages in there because it is sometimes one of the last places they are found with more than a handful of speakers. www.rossperlin.com/language-city

A fair amount of my professional background has been focused on predictive grammar systems for augmentative communication. No joke, there is a straight line from my love of drawing syntax trees in undergrad through my entire career. Maybe I can make them fun for other people too? Try it out!

Ray Ratto delivering a masterclass here. defector.com/alexi-lalas-...

Perfect use of alt text.

I've been watching the World Cup on Telemundo but holy shit this is 10 seconds of the Fox coverage that is absolutely worth watching, with Zlatan responding to Alexi Lalas describing France as "arrogant."

🏳️‍🌈 This Pride month & always, remember the T in LGBTQ. 🏳️‍⚧️ From laws restricting care to messages denying their right to exist, trans youth are under attack. They deserve love & support. There is no Pride without trans people; attacks on them harm everyone. 🏳️‍⚧️TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS🏳️‍⚧️

Rough read, but this fits in pretty well with what I've been hearing from my professor friends. A lot of their students seem to feel pushed on every side to use AI, find themselves increasingly doing so to keep up, and feel extremely guilty and bitter about doing so

Happy Bloomsday. Here's a stupid thing I made back in April while rereading Ulysses and came across the phrase "aurora borealis" in the Circe chapter.

Saw a sticker on a water bottle that said AL UM NI and I spent a good two minutes figuring out how to make the word "aluminum" out of it and wondering at the design choices before realizing it is an "alumni" sticker.

It’s not hyperbole that part of what kept the queer liberation movement going in the Reagan era was the partying part of the “bury your friends in the morning, protest in the afternoon, and dance at night” schedule. Without joy there is no air left to fight

Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.

Mamdani on the viral "my mayor's Muslim" Knicks fan: "Thanks to him, there are a lot of people who have just been running up to me over the last few weeks just shouting, 'My Mayor's Muslim!' I said, 'It's true. I am.'"

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

Radius, by Helen Frankenthaler, 1993, 📈 by Paul Carr

Pochettino with the B-tier Bond villain look tonight.

McCarthy: "When he [Rincones Jr] was in Scotland, they didn't have baseball so he played cricket." Kruk: "Well they better not pitch him low."

The receptionist at the vet just said “Snack Falcon. Snack Falcon! I love that name! It makes me laugh every time I see it. Can I meet him?” Thanks to @bombsfall.bsky.social for creating such a memorable setting that, years later, we named our food-motivated cats after the bodega and supermarket.

Tried to type "gift link," my clumsy thumbs made it "gift kink," and autocorrect tried to make it "gift oink." Going on a journey here.

Trump ruins everything.

I Have Been Olivia Miles-Pilled defector.com/i-have-been-...

Pochettino looks like someone who got through customs at O'Hare and bought the first shirt he saw in the gift shop that said "USA" on it.

RIP to my all time favorite TV dad, and blessed be Anthony Stewart Head.

happy pride, bird heads!

Refreshing. Tired of the worst men alive defining what it means to "be a man."

conservative pundits (sneering): actually our christianity is more a set of ideological views about race and gender than anything resembling faith or observance everyone else: yes we know, it's not a secret

This is such a good and infuriating read. "Republicans have long organized themselves around the principle that government sucks, and that public services inevitably, invariably suck, too. Confronted with evidence to the contrary, they had no choice but to bury the proof in the backyard."

🎨 I liked this so much I had to draw it

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

Fun backstory here. Sabs blogged about how much they hated those Grammarly commercials. The actor, Jude, turned out to be a Defector reader and was down to make this ad happen. defector.com/vindicated-a...

But I was E. Bloom Richard Hell, Joe Strummer, and John Doe

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

The MLB app decided to highlight the best thing about tonight's Phillies game.

Spending my prep period listening to Wu Tang Clan and reading journal articles about James Joyce that lead off with recaps of The Simpsons.

The other day, my students were talking about playing Clue and I asked if they knew there was a movie version. They did not, and I said, "Oh, there is. I'm not going to tell you it's an objectively great movie, but it is an extremely fun movie." Happy 80th, Mr. Curry!

Tim Curry, in every role: Here mr. director, I made it real extra sexy like you wanted mr. director: hey what

CHANGE MY MIND! Quimby’s Bookstore in Chicago has the world’s largest retail collection of zines. You can’t get this sh!t at Barnes & Noble! 🤘🏽

It’s Saturday now so if you’re emotionally prepared to review the news from this extremely stupid week, I can help. www.todayintabs.com/p/5-6-millio...

The MLB TV app doing the good work of saving is from watching the end of turn Phillies game.

This is a great retelling with good links to the present day. Wish I'd heard more about it from my grandfather when I was a kid.

22 Short Films About Springfield first aired on 14th April 1996, making Steamed Hams thirty years old today.

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.

I would l to have a president in the mode of NYC’s mayor who celebrates the common good that governance can promote. Clean air, clean water, safe food, healthy & educated kids, support in times of crisis. We deserve to have the government we pay for.

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

I love donuts, I love making things, and I love this post. "Making is an act of sharing, it’s an act of using our joy, our labor, or expertise, in the service of adding to what’s here...We make things so that we can bond with others." buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...