Remember, it could happen at any time. The time to stash a bottle of champagne or some nice little shelf stable treat is now.

Love this! Found your new funny but sweet go-to gift for parents! #kidlit #picturebooks

Things nobody wants. A 30 minute half time break in the world cup final.

July 14 was Shark Awareness Day! 🦈 And the little mermaid from my picture book knows all about taking care of and protecting sharks! Illustrated by the amazing Nici Gregory and published by Tundra Books. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623867... #sharks #kidlit #picturebooks

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

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I love this book so much!

Anne Ursu w a kitty cat constellation picture book!!! 😻😻😻😻😻 @anneursu.bsky.social 🫶

I have been watching most of the games at my house, but today I’m in a bar and the pacing and standing and yelling in different languages and the world cup is really the best and so stressful.

Have you seen these ChatGPT ahh flyers? Well, we at 404 Media see them everywhere. “It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.”

no World Cup games today but I'm handling it fine, mentally. in fact, you wouldn't believe what my Zlatan Ibrahimovic puppet just said to my Alexi Lalas puppet! PUPPET ZLATAN: Zlatan angry Zlatan still have to see soccer Carrot Top on Zlatan's day off! hahaha! oh Zlatan, what won't you say!

Finally watching the Egypt and Argentina game and reversing Egypts second goal is absolutely bullshit. Var must by stopped.

Belgium’s goalkeeper said his team was shown a “lack of respect” while captain Tielemans suggested the controversy motivated them to “do our talking on the pitch.”

I wrote about the lads

My favorite World Cup speech from Michael Sheen to the Welsh football team before they went to the 2022 World Cup. If you have had fun and would like to feel inspired after that v uninspiring match, plz enjoy: youtu.be/1fpV0OFC0vc

We are not good at defense ☹️

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waiting for the insider trading polymaket/kalshi reveal of fifa reversing the 1-game suspension like who bet on that in trumps inner circle before fifa publicly announced that balogun could play?

If the England FA were cunning they would write to FIFA today asking whether Quansah can play in the next game or does the exception only apply to American players. And publish the letter.

It never should have been a red. But the rule change reeks of FIFA corruption nonsense, Trump involved like triples that. Insane fuel for the Belgium team or any other team that plays USA and has a call go against them. Sports are never fair, but pulling strings automatically ruins the vibes.

When I was an art student, my printmaking teacher told me my piece reminded her of the art of the insane.

I like how FIFA says "this is in line with Article 27 of our disciplinary code" and you expect it to be something about the specific reasons when they can undo improper VAR decisions or a review of the specific play but its just "we can undo suspensions if we decide to undo suspensions" lmao

let’s fucking go

Okay this game is out of control. Thank goodness for the whistle.

Yells:

Almost screwed up the meringue but managed to salvage it! Chocolate chiffon let’s gooooo!

EVERY 70 YD KEEPER RUN FOR A CROSS

Vozinha!! 🦈 Soccer is so beautiful and insane— I love it so much. Blackwing pencil sketch, scanned, and digitally colored for an illustration from photo reference during Vozinha’s and Cabo Verde’s incredible run. #vozinha #caboverde #woldcup #illustration #kidlitart

Best game of the World Cup so far.

Soccer is the best and an absolutely insane sport. CABO VERDE LETS GOOOOO

CABO VERDE a thing of beauty!! Let’s gooooo!! 🦈🦈🦈

VOZINHA WITH ALL THE SAUCE YOU LOVE TO SEE IT

V rude of Button sleeping thru Egypt making it to the round of 16 for the first time ever.

with authority Egypt, let’s gooooo!!! Jean-Ralphio voice: PKs are the woooorst

Drawing iconic players in what is likely their last World Cup as their teams are knocked out like it’s a hunger games recap ☹️😭 Luka Modrić, you’re a real one. #worldcup #lukamodric #kidlitart

COME ON EGYPT!!

Now that I’m paying attention, I’ve gotta say: soccer is wild. That ball just be going everywhere.

OH MY GOD

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Reading thru marketing email scams I have received and sad to have missed the opportunity for my ~mermaid story with zero eagles and no men or father figures in the pages~ to be featured for American Eagle Day and Fathers Day double whammy marketing push. #kidlit

Happy kidlit postcard day!! Mostly I’m just practicing lately, but love brush ink work and am trying to sketch more. Watching World Cup soccer all the time, and using it as inspiration for morning drawings. Pencil sketch with photo reference, digitally colored. #kidlitartpostcard #kidlit

LFG!!!!!!!!!!

Booooooooooo, Claus. What the heck.

Took a half time break to find this incredible YA memoir by Amra Sabica-El-Rayess set in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Should’ve made a World Cup reading list like weeks ago, but (not during a game) I’ll see what else I can find on my shelves! #worldcupreads #worldcup #kidlit

BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP IS HERE TO STAY

This whole thread! Thank you, Courtney!

Me, everytime a lower ranked team scores in the World Cup.

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant