As children many soccer supporters would get a Panini World Cup sticker book. This became a tradition for many. Trading and swapping stickers was community building and great fun. Football grounds often had swap days for kids as events. It was all relatively simple, buy packs of stickers...

The timing of Vancouver on the eve of hosting eye wateringly expensive World Cup 2026 games whilst the reality of its MLS franchise being sold to Las Vegas is crystallizing paints such an amazingly gross encapsulation of modern football. The "people's" sport has lost the plot. #VWFC #MLS #WC26

kinda wild how voice assistants were so bad for so long it collectively lowered people's expectations of software that "works" enough to prepare the soil for an incredibly inconsistent but sometimes useful new technology to gain enough adoption to get good

How the cost of playing hockey increasing at an eye watering pace has cost Canada part of its identity. Soccer/football is taking over because it's financially accessible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oca_...

i believe

cross-stitchers: you can download a free cross stitch guide for this pixel art i made of the heart-eyes-cat! ko-fi.com/s/ca948bc097 pls enjoy and feel free to tag me if you make it <3 :-3

@robwarner.bsky.social Galatasaray third, instant sponsor-less classic or is it a real marmite kit? "featuring a special pattern inspired by the historic gate of Galatasaray High School."

It's absolutely absurd that the Vancouver Whitecaps are potentially missing 18 of their 25 man squad yet are still lined up to play the Seattle Sounders in an MLS competitive match this evening.

People are rightly tearing this apart, but it seems to me that the bigger picture is that it's the next step in a chain of logic that leads to "a war will help revitalise both our depressed economy and our aimless young men."

@roncarterbassist.bsky.social fantastic to see you on bluesky! Thank you for your inspirational work on bass. I first encountered your playing on A Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory. When I could finally afford an upright it was the first thing I learned! Wishing you all the best!

Read this declaration. A professional soccer player has been imprisoned in El Salvador and forced into hard labor on the basis of soccer-related tattoos and a single, innocent hand gesture. This is why the administration is withholding due process. It knows its targets could prove their innocence.

My god

It looks like the cover of a cheap 1970s sci-fi paperback called something like The Vanguard Projection, about a crazy emperor who's ravaged his entire planet to build a psychic machine that can send evil thoughts to everyone in the whole universe at once.

Don’t let Elon Musk use this as an excuse to attack Ukraine #DarkStorm is not affiliated with Ukraine if you know our history.

538 getting shut down on the day when they show that Trump's approval rating has now fallen into negative territory is suspicious timing. With 538 gone, it will be easier for Trump to pretend that he's popular and what he's doing is popular.

So it basically took a month for the U.S. to go from guardian of the western world to the guy you wouldn’t trust to cat-sit Impressive

The golden gear is from the German Labour Party, a unit of the NSDAP, which was the only legal “union” left after 1934 when the SA ransacked Weimar union offices and dissolved them all. This isn’t a dogwhistle, it’s a slap in the face, a dare. We need to get this Nazi out of our government.

What do you notice about Elon Musk’s DOGE logo? Can’t quite put a finger on it. It’s a mystery what’s going on here.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz (@zezvaz.bsky.social):

ok this one is pretty good

I have been trying to tell y'all. www.vcinfodocs.com.

Please read and familiarize yourself on how to spot agent provocateurs

This, in addition to conflating pleasure of consumption with difficulty of production. Of course engaging art—even if challenging —is tied to pleasure. Creating art? Is labor. Pleasure may not even factor into it at times. That process can be arduous at times. So ppl give up when it’s frustrating.

Rage Against The Machine to update lyrics to, “Fuck you, I’ll probably do what you tell me”

Today in true crime: some guys ripped off my work and are trying to pretend they didn't. theuglygame.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/p...

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

happy first birthday to Bluesky, and what a year it's been! with every day, the need for an open network that puts people first becomes increasingly clear. we're glad to be building this with you. after all, the heart of a social network is the people.

Congrats, President Trump. 82% of Canadians now agree we should raise the price of US gasoline the next time you screw with us. 🇨🇦

Torquay United supporter Lee Payne has made a cork board map of England & Wales for his son’s birthday. Titled ‘Away Days with Torquay United FC’, he’s started filling the map with pin badges from the various clubs the two have visited on their travels. What a terrific idea 💛💙

i have been tracking tech extremism for 12 FUCKING YEARS. i called this coup in *2022*. let me give you everything i know. i helped work on this with a lot of other people who deeply know and give a fuck. read this shit and tell EVERYONE www.vcinfodocs.com

Remember when your team flogged Socios fan tokens claiming you’d get a say in how the club was run? Of the seven English clubs who signed up, none are currently running a poll. Leeds and Arsenal haven’t run a poll all season and only one club (City) have run a poll this calendar year. 1/

A boycott of American products should include Post Media and other American-owned media in Canada. It's time to properly fund and expand the CBC, our public broadcaster, central forum of Canadian culture, and preserver of our history.

A U.S. hedge fund owns most of the newspapers in Canada.

Maybe it's time to share our cheapest recipes? I'm sure you've all got some good ones.

The US tariff/trade war has unified Canada in a way many thought unimaginable after the divisive rhetoric throughout the pandemic. The future seems to now hold removal/improvement of inter provincial trade barriers. Find light in the moments of darkness.

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

Having fired a long-serving volunteer for criticising the club on social media, last night Crawley Town's co-chair confirmed he believed co-owners of club are behind a Tommy Robinson-supporting Twitter account... 1/ theuglygame.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/t...

Flamengo's fan club in the United States has cancelled its Super Cup watch party because of fears of being targeted by Trump's raids.

“It’s because of the woke”

White House budget office has officially rescinded the order authorizing a federal freeze on grants That’s a win, don’t be quiet and keep making noise

An interesting deeper dive into Deepseek R1 by Dave's Garage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Tp...