Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.

Well, final aside, that was an incredibly enjoyable World Cup. Some amazing games, superb stadiums, the 48 team expansion was fantastic. Some minor tweaks needed (get rid of var obvs, throw Infantino down a well, permanently ban half time “entertainment” etc etc) but a wonderful spectacle. Bravo!

Argentina staying classy after the final whistle

I see the Trump curse lives on, The chain is unbroken. Congrats Spain. 🏆

The Metal Machine Music of World Cup finals.

That final was like a band who Wants To Be Taken Seriously but made it big with two pop records and now just wants to alienate its pop audience with a triple album of minimalist noise. “Ha! Casual fans, you seem to be enjoying football too much - take THIS turgid crap and see how it can be!”

Ok bed time. This was an awful game, the better team are winning and should be 2-0 up. Let’s end it!

I wonder how many of those kids had their parents deported while they were singing at halftime

I hope Trump is incredibly bored. He probably ordered the murder of a few Venezuelan fisherman just to cheer himself up.

Please score and release us from this awful game.

Absurd foul. Laporte stationary.

And this is why I don’t like Spanish football! A game whose main objective is possession and not what to do with the possession. Refusal to be brave and take risks. Fundamentally negative football. Immensely skilled, super athletic - but negative in intent.

Can we award England the World Cup now since this is so appalling now that they should all be sent off and told not to come back next time.

Rooney says it “I like a lot of those artists but I thought it was crap”

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70:30 Spain so far, pretty positive match I think

Wow that FIFA anthem really captures the joy and passion of soccer huh? 40bpm and hushed breathy voices. Christ FIFA+America can really make a vomit fest for all the family. And now they’re wheeling out some weird dwarf…can we see the football please?

WTAF is the American anthem doing here? For real, YOU GUYS ARENT PLAYING SO STFU and be decent hosts. Jesus.

Girl, are you a Ukrainian medium-range drone program? Because you are striking in ways that I didn't anticipate.

Also, I'm not a vegetarian but insane these articles are coming out around AI over and over but not cows or parrots. Both of which have a far better claim to consciousness. If you're willing to consider AI conscious but not concerned about saving the rain forests you do not have a serious position

This is a superb piece. I started off nodding, and ended almost yelling “YES!!”. I fervently hope that we preserve surprise as a critical element in science and fear that AI writing and reviewing (eg qed fails here) gravitate to “field says A so paper saying A is good and paper saying B is bad”

Really glad that England saved their best for this critical match and didn’t waste any attacking flair and risk-taking in that meaningless semifinal.

Tara National Park - a quick swim with Max, just us on the lake, before a storm sweeps in. So beautiful! Time for a rakija and watch the storm come in.

Sometimes I wonder if running the entire of UK government policy to appeal to the 0.01% of the population that is a coked-up skinhead who thinks furriners are wot stole his job and that we need to “take are cuntry bak” is a good idea.

'Patriot News' reporter Chris Atkins (scatatkins.bsky.social) was just kicked out of Liz Truss' CPAC conference for asking the wrong questions. So much for free speech.

I'm just learning today that Carney's new consul general to New York City is the former President of Shell Canada, and y'all, if this were more on the nose it would be lodged up there like a toddler's crayon

Iranian media reports two disabled brothers were killed in a US strike on the unfinished Khamir Bridge, Iran.

One resignation shouldn’t make all of this go away. The only ones who claimed this perk were PC MPPs. “Mr. Cho and more than a dozen others in the PC caucus charged more than $120,000 since 2023 on hotels, according to public disclosure documents.” “No opposition MPPs charged for hotels.”

FFS Ford refused to issue evacuation orders! This is shameful and downright monstrous! We decry his dangerous and terrible leadership on The OShow and I call on Ford to RESIGN 🤬🤬🤬 youtu.be/8Aqpoz_7B4Q?...

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

What a graphic. @cnn.com #$NVDA #$TSLA #$AEO

Insider trading subscription service run by the president. America cmon man, wtf?? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber

Should Andy Burnham select Mahmood, Labour’s Priti Patel, as chancellor? Well on one hand she has absolutely no background in any kind of economics and as Home Secretary has drawn up policies that are more xenophobic and awful than Reform policies and on the other hand, no.

I find this is a really odd story - why should world class biomedical research improve life expectancy in UK? What is keep life expectancy flat are a range of structural issues - not access to the latest medical treatments. 1/4 news.sky.com/story/world-...

Hopeful… www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nature research paper: A queen odour mediates reproductive suppression in a eusocial mammal go.nature.com/4fiVIzv

A group of TO civil society leaders (in a sea of people who aren't saying a peep) have created TO Reality Check to oppose the Island Airport expansion. Give them some time + share where you can. They've made it easy to send a letter to Liberal MPs who could stop all this today. torealitycheck.ca

When I pull faces in the mirror, my reflection is capable of THE EXACT SAME GESTURES!! My mirror has achieved consciousness, such technology, wow!

If you're out there today ride safe. If you're delivering food by bike and need a N95 mask, we got a ton of free ones, so come by the Biking Lawyer LLP office at 158 Sterling Rd. Suite 703. This applies to all our @thebikebrigade friends out delivering food to our neighbours in need today too!

How is it possible that the Ontario Liberals and NDP and Greens aren’t blanketing Ontario right now with ads saying that Doug Ford made massive cuts to the firefighting budget - that this smoke is directly his fault? What are these politicians even doing - all on vacation??

If you live in Toronto and don’t smoke weed yet, today would be a good day to start - fill your lungs with the clean healthy smoke before choking on the “fresh air”. And of course a huge thank you to the fossil fuel lobbyists and the politicians that led us to this - bravo guys!!!

FFS! Since 2019 Ford has cut 184 million from forest fire budget while spending 452 million on advertising?! Don’t buy his bullshit that he’ll ‘spare no expense’ fighting these fires his track record shows where his true priorities are! More on tonight’s OShow Scandal Panel. #ON

I was born and raised in Northern Ontario and I am absolutely boiling with rage at the ways in which people elsewhere are talking about the forest fires there as though this is a common occurrence. The air thick with smoke for kilometers, entire communities wiped out - this shit is not normal.

England played voluntarily for 30+ minutes like a hockey team trying to kill a penalty. Just a mad depressing strategy, doomed to failure. So so stupid and a shameful way to lose.

Rivals on the road, respect off it 🤝

Why did they put one of Planet Of The Apes on a coin?

Who could have possibly foreseen that the strategy of “here Argentina, walk the ball up with no resistance and then have infinity shots on goal” would be a problem? If only there had been some sign like them hitting the post twice and having tons of clear shots and headers…

Is giving up the ball every few seconds and letting Argentina walk the ball to our penalty area a good plan? Hard to say.