OK so is it safe to say that "something is happening" ?!

FIFA announced that it is disappointed and will raise the issue with President Trump when they give him their inaugural World Leadership Award

meta last week: how dare u mention this totally innocuous code in our smart glasses app that is not even activated yet u are making a big deal about absolutely nothing we have nothing to hide meta this week: wat code

Last week, researchers identified code in Meta AI's smart glasses app that could convert faces into unique biometric signatures to identify strangers in public. Just as quietly as they embedded this code, the app’s 6/5 update appears to have quietly removed them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Whole list of classic matches on ITV X is here... www.itv.com/watch/collec...

I think conspiracy may be a bad frame for right wing election denial because what they’re really expressing is a belief in is the idea that non-white people shouldn’t be able to vote.

From this to not even being able to take a plastic water bottle in. RETVRN.

Even Hitler in 1936 didn't stop black athletes and officials from travelling to Berlin to take part in the Olympics The US on its own sent 18 African-American athletes to those Games Congratulations, Murica. You're officially more racist than the Third Reich. USA!

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

Most of the great distance runners and other athletes are going to be blocked from the Olympics because it's being held in a shit hole country.

This will go down as a major stain on FIFA and its World Cup before a ball has even been kicked. Infantino has been banging on about the most inclusive World Cup and Africa’s top referee can’t even get into the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...

The prime minister of the UK often goes to football matches in London and nobody has to go through this nonsense.

The photos in this article are wonderfully pointed.

can strongly, strongly recommend a game of 'sit in the pub with your friends and try to guess the price of an item on Peter Murrell's Embezzlement List' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Did the thick cow miss their track record of treating women like shit? She doesn't deserve to be trusted with safety scissors.

All referees should refuse to officiate at the World Cup until he's reinstated.

‘Luckily I play with my feet’: Spence talks up World Cup hopes despite broken jaw

The Yanks could redeem their shithole of a country hugely if someone treated Infantino to a direct demonstration of their second amendment rights.

FIFA is a truly disgusting organisation, run by an entirely repellant man.

Enjoy the World Cup everyone!

Call me an idealist, but I think that a prerequisite for hosting an international sport event should be that you're willing to host an international sport event.

Refs could do something simple and honourable here. Can't hold the tournament without them.

FIFA are fucking pathetic. Racist, corrupt scum.

FIFA has now confirmed that Artan will no longer be able to officiate at the World Cup, which like for players, is the biggest moment in the lives of referees. FIFA has said it is nothing to do with them, but a decision made by US authorities and that the decision is not likely to be changed.

Confirmation from US border authorities that Omar Artan was denied entry after arriving because of what are unspecified “vetting concerns” after “processing” required to verify information. And still no comment from FIFA.

Musa - it musn't be mentioned! This was the closest I, a white man, experienced of what people whose skin is darker than mine have to live through every day of their lives in Europe. That "look". I'd never encountered it before. I think I can recognise it now, instantly.

So...It sounds like this documentary doesn’t really look at the brutal levels of xenophobia that immediately preceded the Brexit vote? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

A reminder that Infantino said in 2017 that all qualified teams, their fans and officials, need to have access to a host country, otherwise it can't host. There are already numerous (predictable) US visa issues with the World Cup about to kick off and likely more to come.

Ooooh, ITVX has a load of classic World Cup games in their entirety.

1/ What if you put all the ways that Jared Kushner is selling out America while lining his pockets into one place? In our new cover story, @cjcmichel.bsky.social did just that www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Some advice to Knicks fans attending the game tonight from an English football fan, acknowledged as world leaders in crowd abuse. A simple relentless chant of "Wanker" directed at Trump, accompanied by pointing, is very effective. Sometimes less is more.

Another newly elected Reform UK councillor has been suspended. What a chaos. https://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/news/26169132.reform-uk-suspends-trafford-councillor-weapon-charge/

The books abide. "Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time."

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

Some people are calling it the most racist World Cup ever...

Glorious third from Olise for his hat trick.

Oooof, Olise absolutely belted that.

this will typically be something like "Labour COUNCILLOR wants to TAKE your money - while THEY live in a HALF MILLION POUND HOUSE' you can see a variation in stuff like the Post being like 'Mamdani eats $300 meal with wife' and it'll be 'moderately nice NYC restaurant with wine'

this very good thread also made me think of a couple of nasty little media tricks. One is painting somebody as rich because of living in say "500,000 pound house' which a) relies mostly on an older audience not remembering what house prices are b) can be somebody renting or mortgaged to the hilt

In case you missed it, here's FIFA president and all-round mega-twat Gianni Infantino trying to take a corner during a World Cup promo match

Playtime

Discworld QOTD, from Interesting Times

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Hero

It is quite difficult to know how to react to the stories here. The problem being it was all open and public. Men were actively buying and cheering on 15 year old girls posing in sexualised images counting down to their legality. We wonder how these times ever happened. /1

They should do a UK edition of MapTap. "Tap as close as you can to Gussage All Saints."

Floor mosaic from Rome with the head of Medusa at the centre. Dating to the 1st to 2nd century AD, the mosaic is part of the National Roman Museum Collection, and on display at the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme in Rome. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #Rome

The packet of sweets, wink and a smile chant is right there, FFS. Easy to sing, and adaptable.

BREAKING: A 43-year-old has died in ICE custody, marking the 19th death in immigration detention this year and at a pace on track to exceed last year’s deaths in detention.

The Yanks thought she'd get cannoli, macarons and a huge dollop of cream on top of her gelato free? They should have charged her €100, dozy mare.