"The Spotify model is like saying your favorite restaurant should just be giving you free food until you decide to buy a t-shirt." New interview with me in this great deep-dive into 2000s music piracy, how we adapted with NIN, and the failures of streaming: www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-p...

It used to be that the Home Run Derby was a bloated, boring pseudo-spectacle, and the All-Star Game was fun. Now the Home Run Derby kicks ass, and the All-Star Game is boring pageantry. Circle O'Life.

There's something deeply funny about the US leading a multinational anti-piracy operation and calling it "Operation Offsides" when the US is the only country that erroneously calls it "offsides." gizmodo.com/doj-shuts-do...

J-WALK.

Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but it's impossible for Lindsey Graham to have experienced cardiac arrest, as his "heart" only consisted of twigs and other various salvaged materials

During the group stage, Fox had at least some intelligent insights in their coverage. Now they're comparing Haaland and Harry Kane to Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes for the sTuPiD aMeRiCaNs who don't understand soccer 🙄

Give this man an Emmy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtpH...

As an Everton fan, I'm not surprised at all by Pickford's fortitude here. Seen it time and time again. Dude's a gamer.

Chicanery in penalty-taking is a sign of lack of confidence. Just yeet that shit.

As someone of both English and Irish ancestry, I have very mixed feelings about supporting the Three Lions. But I will never root for Mexico as long as they have the homophobic chant.

From the Telemundo broadcast just now by the commentary team during a slow-mo replay of the goal and a shot of Haaland with his hair down: "This is a perfect goal. The ball didn't touch anything." In exaggerated, gravely, dramatic voice: "TERMINATOR"

He scøres when he wants!

In the usual tradition:

Paraguay's brand of shithousery would likely make them pretty good at ice hockey.

Result be damned - they're gonna make a movie about this game.

Soccer needs blue lines, like hockey I am deadly serious

Why even have VAR

Still one of the best things written about him but really about corruption in sports generally, puts so many pieces together in brilliant ways.

Friendly reminder that Cristiano Ronaldo is a rapist

If minions were actual corporeal beings, I would beat every one of them to death on sight. I believe in the sanctity of life, both human and animal, but they are the spawn of Satan

All respect to a solid Sweden team, but these France goals look like the ones I net playing FIFA with the sliders on easy. It's just not something you often see at this level.

Exit light Enter night Take my hand Morocco beat the Netherlands

Everyone's got the yips!

Free footy is best footy. Eatin' GOOD today.

There's still plenty of soccer left, but I never want to hear "La donna è mobile" ever again because of that car commercial

Untergang Deutschlands!

How can you not be romantic about soccer?

dog shit country, truly

Damn, DRC has a banger of a national anthem.

Good riddance to Panama! I feel like 5% CONCACAF camaraderie, 95% spite toward them.

I hope Egypt aladeen against Iran

Brilliant from Cape Verde. Good riddance to Uruguay - they've been difficult to like ever since Luis Suarez's bitefest.

The next few days are perhaps the primary use case for having two televisions in your living room. We used to live like animals... with *shudder* picture-in-picture.

Oh god, is USA really gonna play Bosnia in the round of 32? South city is gonna eat itself. Gravois will be the DMZ

from my own perspective this is one of the greatest harms done by this government and plotting a course to reverse this damage is must be a very priority in our speech and our activism

Eric Andre couldn't dream of making an interview this awkward

same tbh

The World Cup is drunk, and I am here for it. I blame Scotland's influence.

Aaah the live broadcast from Cape Verde being interrupted by the goal

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

our long national nightmare is over

Wawawewaaaaaa Uzbekistan!

Considering the current state of CBS, I'm a little surprised that The Regime didn't strongarm them into showing the fights on network. It's a real silver lining that 0.0003 million people will see them on paramount plus.

It will never cease to amaze me how much non-Americans absolutely love "Take Me Home, Country Roads." Start singing that at any rowdy pub in Europe and you will quickly have some new best friends.

I love listening to police scanners after big sports wins (riots, etc.), so shoot me a link if there is a good one for NYC

Group C - STOP THE COUNT

Scotland will be lucky to get out of Group C, but at least they've got this absolute screamer www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvcx...

World cup and NBA finals is too much at once. Next basket wins, we are switching to the soccer unit tomorrow

Does anyone have any good soccer tactics blogs/sites to recommend for the World Cup? I used to really enjoy Zonal Marking and miss it - the analysis wasn't always spot-on, but at least it gave me things to look for in formations/systems I wasn't necessarily used to seeing.